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Announcing Purse Palooza 2013!!

I am happy to be participating in Purse Palooza this year with a special bag sewing pattern review! Here’s how the event works:

1. Every weekday from September 30th – October 25th, there are at least 2 amazing guest bloggers on the Sew Sweetness site scheduled to share with you a purse sewing pattern review. None of the purses reviewed from the event last year are being reviewed again, so these will be fresh sewing pattern reviews! Each review will contain detailed information about what the reviewer thought about the sewing pattern, modifications made, what kind of interfacing used, and more! There are a few technique and product review posts sprinkled in as well.

This is a great way to get inspired to make the bag you have always wanted to make. Having a buddy really helps. Remember when Pam and I did the Petrillo Bag-Aong?

Aeroplane Bags

2. Even more exciting…THERE WILL BE A GIVEAWAY EVERY WEEKDAY DURING THE EVENT! That’s right, 20 GIVEAWAYS! 

3. At the end of the event, you will get a chance to show me your purse in order to win some amazing prizes! Of course, international entries are welcome too!

Dot Dot Dash Bag

 

Pattern Review Schedule

All About Bag Interfacing

September 30

October 1

October 2

October 3

October 4

October 7

October 8

October 9

October 10

October 11

  • Sara – Sew Sweetness (Serendipity Studio – Media Frenzy Camera Bag)
  • Kerry – very kerry berry (Carolyn Friedlander/Noodlehead Social Tote)

October 14

October 15

  • DeeAnn (Rebecca Lambert Corduroy Patchwork Bag)
  • R0ssie – Fresh Modern Quilts (Lotta Jansdotter Gardening Tote)

October 16

October 17

October 18

October 21

October 22

October 23

October 24

October 25

Lapin Noir Bag

Contest Rules

1. Check out all the purse pattern reviews throughout the month and get inspired to sew up a purse of your own!

2. Link up your completed purse on the Purse Palooza 2013 page BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 30th AND NOVEMBER 11th. Your purse must be created and photographed between those dates; purses made prior to September 30, 2013 will be disqualified. The purse may be of your own design, or made from a sewing pattern. You can link from Flickr, your blog post, or wherever else you host your photos.

3. There is no limit to how many purses you may enter, as long as they were made between September 30th and November 11th. Only one link-up per purse please.

*Note: Besides bags and purses, for this event also acceptable are clutches, backpacks, wallets, etc.

Greenbacks Wallet Trio

Prizes

This year, there will be 1st-4th prize winners chosen from all those that submit a purse during the event. There will also be a randomly-drawn winner out of everyone who enters!

1st prize – 4th prize will receive an AWESOME prize pack courtesy of Pat Bravo, genius fabric designer extraordinaire! The prize packs will each include 3 Pat Bravo sewing patterns (La Boheme Skirt, Barcelona Bag, and Capri Bag), a pack of Pat Bravo Aurifil Threads (thread pack may vary, as there are 3 different packs), and 10 Pat Bravo fat quarters (fat quarters may vary).

In addition, the 1st prize – 4th prize winners will also receive a copy of Sara Lawson’s new book, Big-City Bags!! The book releases November 5th, and you can pre-order your book now!

Retail value of each prize pack: $127.

 

There will also be one randomly-drawn winner out of all purses entered, and this winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to Sara’s publisher, Martingale (as well as a copy of her new, not-yet-released book, Big-City Bags!).

Retail value of prize pack: $77.

Judging

Purse Palooza will be judged this year by Kay Whitt of Serendipity Studio. Kay writes the most stylish and fun-to-sew clothing patterns and bag patterns out there.

Thank you to all of the wonderful sponsors that are supporting this event!

Pat Bravo  //  Bari J.  //  Emmaline Bags  //   V. and Co.  //

Chris W. Designs  //  Betz White  //  Amy Butler  //  

Dog Under My Desk  //    By Annie’s  //  Studio Kat  //  

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Creative Prompt #227: Blossom

TV Series

vegan restaurant in NYC

apple blossoms

Statistical software

Blossom magazine by Amy Butler

Blossom Music Center – Ohio

floral design studio in Brooklyn, NY

Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery

Lulu Blossom skincare

Burning Blossom (item in World of Warcraft)

Blossom is a non profit charity organization that empowers youth by providing important and meaningful volunteer opportunities.

The Blossom by William Blake
Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.

watching someone blossom

National Cherry Blossom Festival

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The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to  post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.

Definition: “In botany, blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach (including nectarine) blossoms, most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink. Plum blossoms, apple blossoms, orange blossoms, some cherry blossoms, and most almond blossoms are white.

Blossoms provide pollen to pollinators such as bees, and initiate cross-pollination necessary for the trees to reproduce by producing fruit.

Blossom trees have a tendency to lose their flower petals in wind-blown cascades, often covering the surrounding ground in petals. This attribute tends to distinguish blossom trees from other flowering trees.” (Wikipedia)

Sketching #199

CPP Response #199: touch
CPP Response #199: touch

You are probably wondering why this is on yellow paper. Well, I am almost at the end of my drawing book and in the back they have “conveniently” placed different types of paper. There is a sheet of lined paper, there are some other sheets and this piece of yellow paper. I was drawing at Starbuck’s and the lighting wasn’t good, so I didn’t realize the paper was yellow until I had started. I actually realized that the pens weren’t dealing well with the paper before I noticed the color. Derrrr, as the Young Man would say.

I was thinking Touchdown for this response.

What did you think when you saw the prompt?

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Sketching #198

CPP Response #198: Wash
CPP Response #198: Wash

When I lived in Austria I first started seeing the washer in the kitchen. I thought it was weird.Now that I do a bunch of laundry every weekend, I think it would be very convenient. Of course, now, I don’t want to give up any counter space or cupboard space to a washer.

I am not as behind in drawing the responses as I am in posting them. I might post a few this week just to catch up a little bit.

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Creative Prompt #226: Picture

A picture is worth a thousand words.

“Picture a Girl” – song Phi Mus sing at certain events, including notification ceremonies that some is getting engaged.

Seeing the Big Picture

Paramount Pictures

picture book

dynamic picture

Picture window

digital photos

Motion Picture Association of America

The Picture Show (NPR)

moving picture

Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences

picture perfect

Rocky Horror Picture Show

picture this…

The Last Picture Show

get the picture?

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

picture dictionary

Universal Pictures

Compliments of the Young Man “framed picture of a pickle on a plate”

HTML5 <picture> element -Responsive design techniques are a way for developers to adapt a site layout to a wide range of devices, from desktops to iPhones, and have it consistently look sharp and load quickly. And no responsive design solution is complete without an adequate technique for dealing with images.

images

school picture

picture gallery

This Week in Pictures

photo

hang a picture

formulate a picture

draw a picture

This Year in Pictures

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Definition: “An image (from Latin: imago) is an artifact that depicts or records visual perception, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject – usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.” (Wikipedia)

Creative Prompt #225: Hurricane

I am thinking the drink and not the storm.

Hurricane High Gravity Lager, a malt liquor by Anheuser-Busch

Definition: “A tropical cyclone is a rapidly-rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. Tropical cyclones typically form over large bodies of relatively warm water. They derive their energy from the evaporation of water from the ocean surface, which ultimately recondenses into clouds and rain when moist air rises and cools to saturation. This energy source differs from that of mid-latitude cyclonic storms, such as nor’easters and European windstorms, which are fueled primarily by horizontal temperature contrasts. The strong rotating winds of a tropical cyclone are a result of the (partial) conservation of angular momentum imparted by the Earth’s rotation as air flows inwards toward the axis of rotation. As a result, they rarely form within 5° of the equator.[1] Tropical cyclones are typically between 100 and 4,000 km (62 and 2,500 mi) in diameter.

The term “tropical” refers to the geographical origin of these systems, which usually form over the tropical oceans. The term “cyclone” refers to their cyclonic nature, with wind blowing counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The opposite direction of circulation is due to the Coriolis force. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by names such as hurricane (/?h?r?ke?n/ or /?h?r?k?n/), typhoon /ta??fu?n/, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone.

In addition to strong winds and rain, tropical cyclones are capable of generating high waves, damaging storm surge, and tornadoes. They typically weaken rapidly over land where they are cut off from their primary energy source. For this reason, coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to damage from a tropical cyclone as compared to inland regions. Heavy rains, however, can cause significant flooding inland, and storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the coastline. Though their effects on human populations are often devastating, tropical cyclones can relieve drought conditions. They also carry heat energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which may play an important role in modulating regional and global climate.” (Wikipedia)

National Hurricane Center

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See a lot more about hurricanes – all types — on Wikipedia

Creative Prompt #224: Fleet

7th Fleet

The Fleet may refer to:

Definition: “to cause (time) to pass usually quickly or imperceptibly.”

The Lost Fleet series of books by Jack Campbell

Fleet Week

Blue & Gold Fleet

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Red & White Fleet

Band: Fleet Foxes

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, California

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A fleet is a collection of ships or vehicles, with many specific connotations:

  • Fleet vehicles, two or more vehicles
  • Fishing fleet
  • Naval fleet, substantial group of warships
  • A group of small ships or flotilla
  • A group of racing sailboats. A superset whose subsets are called “classes”. Classes may be non-identical boat types grouped into handicap rating bands or ranges, or classes may be groups of (“one-design“) boat types, identical within their respective class. A class may be further subdivided into “divisions” and/or “flights”.
  • Starfleet, fictional military, diplomatic, and exploration force in Star Trek
  • Ugs fleet, a collection of military ground sensors.

A fleet is a saline waterway found in river marshes:

  • Fleet, Kent, a waterway in the Thames marshes, England

Fleet is found in place names:

Hexies Return

Flower Sugar Hexagon in progress
Flower Sugar Hexagon in progress

The last time I seemed to have written about this Flower Sugar Hexagon project was way back in 2011. I didn’t think that much time had flown by, but Pam has made two hexagons, so I guess it has.

My design walls have been empty for several weeks while I work on small projects; the 3D items not needing much design wall space. I also love piecing so much that I didn’t want to be tempted away from the small projects that have been on my list for awhile.

My mom came over for a visit with the Young Man after being on vacation and down with Grama for several weeks. When I arrived home from work she told me that she had raced upstairs to see what was on the design wall and was so disappointed to see NOTHING. She looked a little worried as well. I felt bad.

This hexie project has been on my mind and it occurred to me that I could put it up on the design wall and see what I saw.

The only other photos I have of this quilt is laying on the floor. Laying on the floor is different, for me, than hanging on the wall. I seem to be able to see so much more when pieces are vertical. It must be the perspective or the angle.

I found the piece and put it up on the portable design wall. Looking at it after not having seen it for awhile, I noticed some interesting things:

  1. My balance of different fabrics is pretty good.
  2. The piece is tiny. It is less than half the size of the Swoon. I have a lot of hexies to cut
  3. This piece does cheer up the room.

As I said in one of the previous posts,Adrianne of Little Bluebell, introduced me to the cutting technique I used for these hexies. You can find the cutting instructions on her blog.

I hope I won’t think too much about sewing more pieces together. I still need to work on small projects.

Hexagon Related Posts:
November 13, 2012- Blue Chair Blog Hexagon Sewing tutorial
October 20, 2011- Hexagons Return
June 28, 2013- Hexagon Clarification
June 9, 2011 – Hexagons tutorial
June 7, 2011 – Attack of the Hexies
Little Bluebell’s Cutting Instructions

Creative Prompt #223: Glass

Drinkware

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Glassdoor – inside look at jobs and companies

fiberglass

Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art

 

window glass

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

glass heart

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

stained glass

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

leaded glass

sea glass (also a book by Anita Shreve)

spy glass

glass coffee table

glass recycling

The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy

Bullseye Glass Co

Ira Glass (This American Life)

glass blowing

glass slumping

Definition: “Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material that exhibits a glass transition, which is the reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle state into a molten or rubber-like state. Glasses are typically brittle and can be optically transparent. The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica (SiO2) plus sodium oxide (Na2O) from soda ash, lime (CaO), and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use.

From the 19th century, various types of fancy glass started to become significant branches of the decorative arts. Objects made out of glass include not only traditional objects such as vessels (bowls, vases, bottles, and other containers), paperweights, marbles, beads, but an endless range of sculpture and installation art as well. Colored glass is often used, though sometimes the glass is painted, innumerable examples exist of the use of stained glass.

In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e. amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses.” (Wikipedia)

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a surname

psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs

Creative Prompt #222: Hollow

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Definition: “A low, wooded area, such as a copse, A term meaning a small vee-shaped riverine type of valley,Tree hollow, a void in a branch or trunk, which may provide habitat for animals”

Godric’s Hollow, a fictional village in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a short story by Washington Irving (1783-1859)

The Hollow, a 1946 detective novel by Agatha Christie

series of books by Jessica Verday

The Hollow (Sign of Seven #2) by Nora Roberts

The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart

hollow of her neck

Hollow Coffee Shop, Sunset District, San Francisc0.

The Hollow Kingdom series of books by Clare B Dunkle

pixie hollow

Sand Hollow State Park, Utah

Tennessee Hollow watershed

Briar Hollow comic

Frog Hollow Farm

Hollow Flashlight -project was to create a flashlight that runs solely on the heat of the human hand.

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose provides an affordable, sustainable, conservation-centered outdoor adventure for families with children

My Hollow Drum is a collective of dj’s/musicians/artists/friends devoted to their fixation of art & sounds alike.

 

Creative Prompt #221: Velvet

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Velvet TV movie, 1984

Velvet Underground

Velvet magazine

Velvet Light Trap – A journal of film and media studies, edited by graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Velvet Taco

Definition: “Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive feel.

The word ‘velvety’ is used as an adjective to mean “smooth like velvet.” Velvet can be either synthetic or natural.

Traditionally, velvet is associated with nobility. Velvet was introduced to Baghdad during the rule of Harun al-Rashid by Kashmiri merchants and to Al-Andalus by Ziryab. In the Mamluk era, Cairo was the world’s largest producer of velvet. Much of it was exported to Venice, Al-Andalus and the Mali Empire. Musa I of Mali, the ruler of the Mali Empire, visited Cairo on his pilgrimage to Mecca. Many Arab velvet makers accompanied him back to Timbuktu. Later Ibn Battuta mentions how Suleyman (mansa) the ruler of Mali wore a locally produced complete crimson Velvet caftan on Eid. During the reign of Mehmed II, assistant cooks wore blue-coloured dresses (câme-i kebûd), conical hats (külâh) and baggy trousers (çaksir) made from Bursa velvet.[citation needed]

from Wikipedia

Velvet with Medici Arms, Florence or Venice, 1440–1500

King Richard II of England directed in his will that his body should be clothed in velveto in 1399.[1]

The earliest sources of European artistic velvets were Lucca, Genoa, Florence and Venice, which continued to send out rich velvet textures. Somewhat later the art was taken up by Flemish weavers, and in the sixteenth century, Bruges attained a reputation for velvets that were not inferior to those of the great Italian cities.”

Velvetpop.com

Red Velvet Cake

Velvet Elvis Painting

 

 

Round Robin

I didn’t know what category to put this post in, so I hope it works for those of you who are category-crazed.

The last time I really thought about this piece was back in June and I really wasn’t thinking about this particular piece, but the Round Robin in general and my piece specifically.

Where did you say July went?

I haven’t been to a BAM meeting in forever, sadly, but Kelly has been a great sherpa for me. Yesterday, I sent off my round robin work along with some cat beds and she will, once again, kindly, sherpa them to the meeting this Saturday.  Someday I will see the BAMQGers again.

I wasn’t able to finish the orange and grey donation quilt yet. I didn’t really work on it last weekend. I’ll get back to that as soon as I pick out a blue for the sashing. Apparently, that is the hold up in my brain.

Round Robin
Round Robin

I did make some time last weekend, in the midst of the quantity to do some quality.

This is Chris’ piece and when I first saw it, my impression was that it needed some space. I used the white to give it some space, but didn’t want to just put white strips on, thus the corners.

I also varied the width of strips a little bit so it would have a bit of movement, or viewer’s eyes would move around.

Now that I look at it, it kind of looks like a tulip.

I tried to make the white the same white as in the flowery black/white/yellow print so neither would look dirty. The black on white I added is pretty bright. I think it works. I hope it works, at least. Chris makes art quilts, so she can paint over the white, if she doesn’t like it.

This project definitely involves muscles that are atrophied in me. I am committed to working through all of the pieces, but I am not sure about the project. I am anxious about doing a good. My technique will be good. I hope the design will be, too. I am not sure if my design work fits the piece. It certainly isn’t terrible.

Creative Prompt #220: Luck

pure luck

hard luck

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
Bill Watterson

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Luck of the Irish

Lady Luck

What’s luck got to do with it?

Andrew Luck

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”

? Thomas Jefferson

Lucky Chances

good luck

Lucky (grocery store)

Luck, Wisconsin (I wonder if you are automatically lucky if you live there?)

Jason Mraz – Lucky

Lucky Strikes

stroke of luck!

“Do ya’ feel lucky, punk?”? Clint Eastwood

good luck charms

Lucky magazine – shopping and style

Definition: “Luck or chance is an event which occurs beyond one’s control, without regard to one’s will, intention, or desired result. There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense. In the prescriptive sense, luck is a supernatural and deterministic concept that there are forces (e.g. gods or spirits) which prescribe that certain events occur very much the way laws of physics will prescribe that certain events occur. It is the prescriptive sense that people mean when they say they “do not believe in luck“. In the descriptive sense, luck is a word people give after the occurrence of events which they find to be fortuitous or unfortuitous, and maybe improbable.

Good Luck Charlie

“Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
? Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

The Joy Luck Club (book) by Amy Tan

Cultural views of luck vary from perceiving luck as a matter of random chance to attributing to such explanations of faith or superstition. For example, the Romans believed in the embodiment of luck as the goddess Fortuna,[1] while the philosopher Daniel Dennett believes that “luck is mere luck” rather than a property of a person or thing.[2] Carl Jung viewed luck as synchronicity, which he described as “a meaningful coincidence”.

Lucky symbols are popular worldwide and take many forms.”

bad luck

Gin & Luck, Los Angeles

You’re in luck!

On 21 February 2008, [UN] Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Edward Luck as Special Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ”
? Anne Tyler

Creative Prompt #219: Bow

Bow and arrow

Rob Bowman (director of Castle episodes)

Take a bow

Clara Bow (have you listened to the History chicks podcast on her? If not, you should. It is very interesting)

Bow Street (Have you read Anne Perry’s Victorian mystery series about Thomas and Charlotte Pitt? He works at Bow Street)

tie a bow

compound bow

bow wow

recurve bow

Bow Bow Cocktail Lounge, Chinatown, San Francisco

bow tie

bow down

Minnie’s Bow-Toons

Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck

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  • Bow and arrow /?bo?/, a weapon system that uses elasticity to propel arrows, its use is archery
  • Bowing /?ba?/, to lower the head or upper body as a social gesture
  • Bow (ship) /?ba?/, the foremost point of the hull of a ship or boat
  • Bow (rowing), a term which has multiple meanings within the sport of rowing
  • Bow knot, a shoelace knot or a rosette
  • Hair bow, a hair accessory of hair or a ribbon tied in a bow knot
  • Bow tie, a type of necktie and ribbon fashion accessory tied in a bow knot
  • An ornamental knot made of ribbon
  • Bow (music), a device used to play a stringed instrument
  • Musical bow, a musical instrument resembling an archer’s bow
  • EBow, a hand-held electronic device for playing the electric guitar
  • Bows (band), a band from the UK

United Kingdom

United States
Canada

Sketching # 205

image

I gave myself permission to just draw a starfish. I gave myself permission not to put it into my little city vignettes. I looked on the web for inspiration and was inspired by this picture of a starfish.

You will notice that my rendition is very different from the picture. I had trouble with the symmetry and, as usual, would like to work it over again.

Susan wrote after I posted this on Twitter “Looks like a happy starfish with a red bathing suit ready for some sun or perhaps the moon?” which makes me smile.

 

Have your own fun by looking at the original prompt and creating your own response.

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.

We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to  post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.