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Hello, and welcome to my new home in the blogosphere. If you have found me because you are a reader of Not Just for Kids, or because you are interested in the topic (or, perhaps, lost,) thanks for stopping by.
This blog has its roots in the fact that in 11 months' time I will be standing before the Massachusetts region of the Jane Austen Society of North America, delivering a talk. The general theme of my talk will be about the trend towards Jane Austen adaptations in current Young Adult literature. I have been a childrens librarian for over ten years now, but four years ago my scope of attention widened to include young adult literature as well. In those four years I have seen titles such as Prom and Prejudice, Prada and Prejudice and Sass and Serendipity, pass before my eyes. I couldn't help but notice them, being a JASNA life member.
It's no secret that the number of Austen adaptations, sequels, and mash-ups has mushroomed to nuclear proportions in the past 15-20 years. So why should a few more teen titles catch my eye? They caught my eye and have given me food for thought for the simple reason that I don't think YA readers are necessarily an obvious audience for Austen adaptations. It makes sense to write prequels and sequels and alternate reality regencies for the adult Austen fan base; the readers who already know her and love her and simply cannot reconcile themselves to the fact that six novels and a handful of letters is IT. We create more Austen to fill the gap of not-enough-Austen. Young adult readers, on the other hand, are at the stage where they might just be discovering Austen, and reading the words "It is a truth universally acknowledged" for the very first time. Surely, if one wants to share a love of Austen with a young reader, wouldn't it simply make sense to give them…. you know….actual Austen?
Still, there is something to be said about being inspired by a master. Zadie Smith basically reworked Howards End, and nobody called her out on it. So how are these books enriching young adult literature? Are they substantial enough to stand on their own without the helping hand provided by the original. Will they actually introduce readers to Jane Austen? And is anyone writer enough to put Pride and Prejudice aside and tackle Mansfield Park?
I intend to use this blog as a sort of open notebook to help me keep track of the books I am reading, ideas I am developing, theories I'm trashing–and maybe even indulge in some panic–as I prepare for my talk. Comments are always appreciated, and I would love readers who know of teen Austen adaptations to point me in their general direction. Here is my reading list so far:
- Enthusiasm (Polly Shulman)
- Prom and Prejudice (Elizabeth Eulberg)
- The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love (Rosie Rushton)
- Prada and Prejudice (MandyHubbard)
- Cassandra's Sister (Veronica Bennett)–Cheeky title, by the way!
- Pies and Prejudice (Heather Vogel Frederick)
- I was Jane Austen's Best Friend (Cora Harrison)
- Epic Fail (Clair LaZebnik)
- Sass and Serendipity (Jennifer Ziegler)
- The Jane Austen Diaries (Jenni James)
- Jane Austen in the 21st Century (Rosie Rushton)
- Jane Austen: a Life Revealed (Catherine Reef)
The last title is not an adaptation, but an actual biography. However, when it was published last year, it claimed to be the first biography about Austen written specifically for young adults. All those adaptations, and then someone finally decided to write about Austen herself. For reals. Interesting.


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Something new for this year's Christmas card:
my very first (and a very simple) stop motion trial!
Shot with a DSLR on a tripod, and several pieces of our Christmas decoration,
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Here are some shots of "the making of":
This is already the fifth card that I make. Here's an overview of the four previous ones (all digital drawings/paintings):
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This is a bit off-topic, but I was recently contacted by David Ferro, whose grandfather, Edward Ferro, worked in Taiwan during the early 1960s, managing the construction of an artillery factory.
David is seeking any information about his grandfather or the work he did there, and he sent along several photographs of his grandfather. Here's a portion of his message:
He spent 2 years in Formosa ( Taiwan ) where he over saw the development of a artillery factory. It was completed approximately around the early 60's. The name of the project was the 61st.? I think. I was looking for any information about this project and my grandfather.
My grandfather recently died at the 97. He shared many great stories and pictures with me of his time in Taiwan . Any information would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone has information about Mr. Edward Ferro, please comment below or drop me a note and I'll forward it on to David.


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One of our best customers asked me to embellish a very pretty angel that we sold at the store. She wanted it to go from pretty to gorgeous! She had also purchased an antique lion toy during our Christmas Open House that she wanted me to decorate as a Christmas display for her husband's office ( who just happens to be a Leo!) Yesterday afternoon, I finally had the time to get out my trusty glue gun and my stash of embellishments. The angel acquired feather and rhinestone wings, a crushed velvet wrap and a crown. The crown was made by gluing a metallic braid to a curtain ring and adding the front detail from an old dress. Rhinestones were inset into the bodice, along with a beautiful pin and ribbon at the base.
Leo, the lion, got a new saddle for Christmas, made from a zebra fabric scrap, metallic fringe and more decorative details from an old dress. He also was crowned for the season! A Mark Roberts animal inspired Santa will ride him through the Holiday Season.


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The challenge rules are posted at the bottom of this blog post if you don't remember from my other posts about this challenge. Kay is a former art teacher and an artist in her own right as well. She painted/drew the wonderful grasshopper block. It is just fabulous, don't you think?Janet added the pinwheel blocks to border two sides before getting it to me to add another border. After looking at it on my flannel board for a while I came up with an idea…..circles again. I love the circles on the original block and wanted to repeat that motif if I could and satisfy another requirement or two for the challenge.
I had a piece of gradated fabric in the perfect shades of green to use as my background for the circles. I drew double circles on paper and cut them out to try out arrangements to see what I liked best. I first settled on just having them float upward and had the papers pinned onto the strip of fabric for several days while I evaluated it. As I was thinking and studying the block I pulled these batiks from my stash as candidates for the circles. One day as I walked by it occurred to me to have the circles make a path similar to the ones in the original block.Here are the circles made of fabric with fusible on the back and arranged on a diagonal – so much better than just floating straight upward.In this photo they are fused down and then stitched with a machine blanket stitch with it's mirror image using several orange, yellow and green threads I pulled from my thread stash. Not sure that is the right term for the stitch but it looks like a blanket stitch going both ways out from the straight stitch that runs next to the applique.
Ready to send off to Fay. One block left to work on but I am wondering if I will be doing circles on that one too!
Until Later,
Challenge rules -It is a round robin challenge with a team of 4-5 quilters of your choice. Each quilt will start with a 9" finished center block. You will build around the center block using borders with the following shapes—pinwheels, circles, diamonds, applique, and some embellishment. The front of the quilt must have at least one of each shape listed but you may use more of these shapes if you wish. Each quilt cannot exceed 120 total inches around. It must be quilted, bound and a label sewn on the back.


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In the year 986, by reason of certain dissensions, Egelred, king of the English, laid siege to the city of Rochester, but perceiving the difficulty of taking it, departed in anger, and laid waste the lands* of Saint Andrew the Apostle. Alfric, the duke of the Mercians, son of duke ARer, was this year banished from England.
In the year 987, there occurred two plagues, unknown to the English nation in preceding ages, namely, a fever affecting the people, and a murrain among animals, which, in the English language, is called " Scitha," being a flnx of the bowels; these greatly ravaged the whole of England, and affected both men and animals with great devastation, and, consuming the inner parts of the body, raged in an indescribable manner throughout all the territories of England.
In the year 988, "Wesedport9* was ravaged by the Danish pirates, by whom, also, Goda, earl of Devon, and Stremewold, a very brave warrior, were slain ; but a considerable number of the enemy having been killed, the English became masters of the place.87
In the first year of the indiction, on the fourteenth day before the calends of June, it being the Sabbath, Saint Dunstan the archbishop departed this life, and attained a heavenly kingdom ; in his stead Ethelgar, bishop of Selsey,98 received the archbishopric, and held it one year and three months.
In the year 989, archbishop Aldred" died, and was succeeded by Aldune.
In the year 991, Gippeswic1 was ravaged by the Danes. Their leaders were Justin, and Guthmund, the son of Steitan ; with them, not long after this, Brithnoth, the brave duke of the East Saxons, engaged in battle near Meldun ;2 but, after a multitude on both sides had fallen, the duke himseR was slain, ani. the Danish fortunes prevailed. Moreover, in this year, by the advice of Sirie, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the dukes Ethelward and Alfric,- a tribute, which consisted of ten
*5 Belonging to the bishopric of Rochester. 95 Probably Watchet, in Somersetshire.
91 " Loco fluininis" in the original ; " fluminis" being probably an error for some other word. 88 In Sussex.
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The only things we knew about Split were that it was a) in Croatia, and b) home to Diocletian's Palace (queue Matt's commentary on Roman history). It was a short port of call, but it turned out to be ok because it was a pretty small historic core to explore.
The old town itself was fascinating to look at. Ancient ruins ran right up against new(er) buildings, all being lived in and used. There was no "do not touch the ruins" here. The old palace walls were largely intact, and the main city streets were old ancient cobbles surrounded by old stone buildings. We climbed the bell tower (VERY steep climb), saw the Cathedral of St. Domnius, and eventually made our way out to the public market. We looked for bakery and found two local pastries to try – one savory cheese and the other cherry. We really liked seeing the differences between this market and the ones in Turkey. In Turkey the markets were vendors selling many tables of goods (crops, nuts, spices etc). At this market, each vendor was only at one table, clearly selling just what they had produced at their home farm. Some tables were piled high with peppers and fruit, while others only had a few items for sale. We bought some raspberries to snack on with our pastries.
My day ended early in Split when my tummy stopped feeling well. It is not fun to walk around when your insides are rebelling. I went back and laid down while Matt explored some more.
That night we finished packing, had one last meal, and started planning what to do in Venice before heading home.


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Monday, March 14, 2011
My Life Art Journaled: Pages for March 12 & 13
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- MelissaMarch 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM
I got the same thing and thought to do something like it. Good for you to do it! Mine still sitting on desk.ReplyDelete
I love your journals. :)ReplyDelete
Melissa....Thanks! Mine sat in the envelope on my desk for a while too, then made its way onto my fridge before I finally added it to my journal where I knew nothing would happen to it!♥ReplyDelete
Debi....Thank you so much my friend!♥
Lovely pages and your penmanship is sooo beautiful! Wow!ReplyDelete
Thank you Linda!♥ReplyDelete
Superb! What pens, pencils, etc. do you use. Would love to see what they are. I really want to do this someday. So pretty, love how they so fit the day and its happenings. Will be wonderful to look back on.ReplyDelete
Thank you Gloria! I am using a combination of Tombow and Copic markers. I really enjoy documenting what I'm thinking and/or feeling and little things that influence me and inspire me each day.♥ReplyDelete
Lovely work as always.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much Clare!♥ReplyDelete
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U.S. Plans to Sell Bombs to Counter Iran
The Obama Administration has drawn up plans to provide the United Arab Emirates with thousands of advanced "bunker-buster"bombs in order to build a regional coalition to counter Iran. Julian Barnes reports from Washington.
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After learning and experimenting with the couching stitch for the January Feeling Stitchy Stitch Along (whew that's a lot of words!) I was inspired to try my hand at another one. This one was inspired by a tiny valentine's card I saw pinned a while back. I used black boucle yarn and black embroidery floss to outline the letters. Then I cut out a tiny wool felt heart and hand appliqued it on. This is stitched onto a stiff cotton duck fabric that is heavenly to sew on.
I'm still doing some experimenting with framing options for my embroideries. This time I used an 8×8 black square frame I found at Michael's Arts and Crafts. This one was actually a true frame, so I removed the glass and had to fiddle around with how to attach and stretch the fabric on the inside so that I could put all the accoutrements back inside. Now that it's all done and hanging on my newly painted wall, I absolutely love it and kind of didn't even want to list it for sale...but I guess I could just make myself another one 🙂


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It seemed like a steal of a deal: Two tickets from England to the Caribbean for 800 British pounds, or about $1,300.
Kevin Jones and his friend, both from the Birmingham, U.K. area, booked the tickets and headed to the airport recently. Their trip stopped at the check-in counter, according to The Daily Mail.
"The girl at the information desk broke the news with a very sympathetic look that our flight was leaving over 2,000 miles away," Jones, 55, told British media.
More precisely, the plane was taking off more than 4,200 miles away at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.
The couple booked their tickets from the wrong airport and the wrong country. Only one letter differs in the two airports' three-letter identification codes which are used for reservations: BHM is Birmingham-Shuttlesworth and BHX is the U.K.'s Birmingham Airport.
The couple salvaged their vacation by booking a trip to Spain instead, according to reports.
Kevin Jones' mistake is similar to others. Confusion is not unheard of between Alabama's largest city and its larger, much older British cousin northwest of London.
The Daily Mail reports that in 2008, Birmingham, U.K.'s city council spent about $27,000 to print 720,000 flyers about recycling that instead featured a photo of downtown Birmingham, Alabama's skyline.