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Can IBM become a business leader and a software leader?
When I first started as an industry analyst in the 1980s IBM software was in dire straits. It was the era where IBM was making the transition from the mainframe to a new generation of distributed computing. It didn't go really well. Even with thousands of smart developers working their hearts out the first three foresees into a new generation of software were an abysmal failure. IBM's new architectural framework called SAA(Systems Application Architecture) didn't work; neither did the first application built on top of that called OfficeVision. It's first development framework called Application Development Cycle (AD/Cycle) also ended up on the cutting room floor. Now fast forward 20 years and a lot has changed for IBM and its software strategy. While it is easy to sit back and laugh at these failures, it was also a signal to the market that things were changing faster than anyone could have expected. In the 1980s, the world looked very different — programming was procedural, architectures were rigid, and there were no standards except in basic networking.
My perspective on business is that embracing failure and learning from them is the only way to really have success for the future. Plenty of companies that I have worked with over my decades in the industry have made incredible mistakes in trying to lead the world. Most of them make those mistakes and keep making them until they crawl into a hole and die quietly. The companies I admire of the ones that make the mistakes, learn from them and keep pushing. I'd put both IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle in that space.
But I promised that this piece would be about IBM. I won't bore you with more IBM history. Let's just say that over the next 20 years IBM did not give up on distributed computing. So, where is IBM Software today? Since it isn't time to write the book yet, I will tease you with the five most important observations that I have on where IBM is in its software journey:
1. Common components. If you look under the covers of the technology that is embedded in everything from Tivoli to Information Management and software development you will see common software components. There is one database engine; there is a single development framework, and a single analytics backbone. There are common interfaces between elements across a very big software portfolio. So, any management capabilities needed to manage an analytics engine will use Tivoli components, etc.
2. Analytics rules. No matter what you are doing, being able to analyze the information inside a management environment or a packaged application can make the difference between success and failure. IBM has pushed information management to the top of stack across its software portfolio. Since we are seeing increasing levels of automation in everything from cars to factory floors to healthcare equipment, collecting and analyzing this data is becoming the norm. This is where Information Management and Service Management come together.
3. Solutions don't have to be packaged software. More than 10 years ago IBM made the decision that it would not be in the packaged software business. Even as SAP and Oracle continued to build their empires, IBM took a different path. IBM (like HP) is building solution frameworks that over time incorporate more and more best practices and software patterns. These frameworks are intended to work in partnership with packaged software. What's the difference? Treat the packages like ERP as the underlying commodity engine and focus on the business value add.
4. Going cloud. Over the past few years, IBM has been making a major investment in cloud computing and has begun to release some public cloud offerings for software testing and development as a starting point. IBM is investing a lot in security and overall cloud management. It's Cloud Burst appliance and packaged offerings are intended to be the opening salvo. In addition, and probably even more important are the private clouds that IBM is building for its largest customers. Ironically, the growing importance of the cloud may actually be the salvation of the Lotus brand.
5. The appliance lives. Even as we look towards the cloud to wean us off of hardware, IBM is putting big bets on hardware appliances. It is actually a good strategy. Packaging all the piece parts onto an appliance that can be remotely upgraded and managed is a good sales strategy for companies cutting back on staff but still requiring capabilities.
There is a lot more that is important about this stage in IBM's evolution as a company. If I had to sum up what I took away from this annual analyst software event is that IBM is focused at winning the hearts, minds, and dollars of the business leader looking for ways to innovate. That's what Smarter Planet is about. Will IBM be able to juggle its place as a software leader with its push into business leadership? It is a complicated task that will take years to accomplish and even longer to assess its success.
What are the Unanticipated consequences of the cloud – part II
As I was pointing out yesterday, there are many unintended consequences from any emerging technology platform — the cloud will be no exception. So, here are my next three picks for unintended consequences from the evolution of cloud computing:
4. The cloud will disrupt traditional computing sales models. I think that Larry Ellison is right to rant about Cloud Computing. He is clearly aware that if cloud computing becomes the preferred way for customers to purchase software the traditional model of paying maintenance on applications will change dramatically. Clearly, vendors can simply roll in the maintenance stream into the per user per month pricing. However, as I pointed out in Part I, prices will inevitably go down as competition for customers expands. There there will come a time when the vast sums of money collected to maintain software versions will seem a bit old fashioned. In fact, that will be one of the most important unintended consequences and will have a very disruptive effect on the economic models of computing. It has the potential to change the power dynamics of the entire hardware and software industries.The winners will be the customers and smart vendors who figure out how to make money without direct maintenance revenue. Like every other unintended consequence there will be new models emerging that will emerge that will make some really cleaver vendors very successful. But don't ask me what they are. It is just too early to know.
5. The market for managing cloud services will boom. While service management vendors do pretty well today managing data center based systems, the cloud environment will make these vendors king of the hill. Think about it like this. You are a company that is moving to the cloud. You have seven different software as a service offerings from seven different vendors. You also have a small private cloud that you use to provision critical customer data. You also use a public cloud for some large scale testing. In addition, any new software development is done with a public cloud and then moved into the private cloud when it is completed. Existing workloads like ERP systems and legacy systems of record remain in the data center. All of these components put together are the enterprise computing environment. So, what is the service level of this composite environment? How do you ensure that you are compliant across these environment? Can you ensure security and performance standards? A new generation of products and maybe a new generation of vendors will rake in a lot of cash solving this one.
6. What will processes look like in the cloud. Like data, processes will have to be decoupled from the applications that they are an integral part of the applications of record. Now I don't expect that we will rip processes out of every system of record. In fact, static systems such as ERP, HR, etc. will have tightly integrated processes. However, the dynamic processes that need to change as the business changes will have to be designed without these constraints. They will become trusted processes — sort of like business services that are codified but can be reconfigured when the business model changes. This will probably happen anyway with the emergence of Service Oriented Architectures. However, with the flexibility of cloud environment, this trend will accelerate. The need to have independent process and process models may have the potential of creating a brand new market.
I am happy to add more unintended consequences to my top six. Send me your comments and we can start a part III reflecting your ideas.
My Top Eleven Predictions for 2009 (I bet you thought there would be only ten)
What a difference a year makes. The past year was filled with a lot of interesting innovations and market shifts. For example, Software as a Service went from being something for small companies or departments within large ones to a mainstream option. Real customers are beginning to solve real business problems with service oriented architecture. The latest hype is around Cloud Computing – afterall, the software industry seems to need hype to survive. As we look forward into 2009, it is going to be a very different and difficult year but one that will be full of some surprising twists and turns. Here are my top predictions for the coming year.
One. Software as a Service (SaaS) goes mainstream. It isn't just for small companies anymore. While this has been happening slowly and steadily, it is rapidly becoming mainstream because with the dramatic cuts in capital budgets companies are going to fulfill their needs with SaaS. While companies like SalesForce.com have been the successful pioneers, the big guys (like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and HP) are going to make a major push for dominance and strong partner ecosystems.
Two. Tough economic times favor the big and stable technology companies. Yes, these companies will trim expenses and cut back like everyone else. However, customers will be less willing to bet the farm on emerging startups with cool technology. The only way emerging companies will survive is to do what I call "follow the pain". In other words, come up with compelling technology that solves really tough problems that others can't do. They need to fill the white space that the big vendors have not filled yet. The best option for emerging companies is to use this time when people will be hiding under their beds to get aggressive and show value to customers and prospects. It is best to shout when everyone else is quiet. You will be heard!
Three. The Service Oriented Architecture market enters the post hype phase. This is actually good news. We have had in-depth discussions with almost 30 companies for the second edition of SOA for Dummies (coming out December 19th). They are all finding business benefit from the transition. They are all view SOA as a journey – not a project. So, there will be less noise in the market but more good work getting done.
Four. Service Management gets hot. This has long been an important area whether companies were looking at automating data centers or managing process tied to business metrics. So, what is different? Companies are starting to seriously plan a service management strategy tied both to customer experience and satisfaction. They are tying this objective to their physical assets, their IT environment, and their business process across the company. There will be vendor consolidation and a lot of innovation in this area.
Five. The desktop takes a beating in a tough economy. When times get tough companies look for ways to cut back and I expect that the desktop will be an area where companies will delay replacement of existing PCs. They will make do with what they have or they will expand their virtualization implementation.
Six. The Cloud grows more serious. Cloud computing has actually been around since early time sharing days if we are to be honest with each other. However, there is a difference is the emerging technologies like multi-tenancy that make this approach to shared resources different. Just as companies are moving to SaaS because of economic reasons, companies will move to Clouds with the same goal – decreasing capital expenditures. Companies will start to have to gain an understanding of the impact of trusting a third party provider. Performance, scalability, predictability, and security are not guaranteed just because some company offers a cloud. Service management of the cloud will become a key success factors. And there will be plenty of problems to go around next year.
Seven. There will be tech companies that fail in 2009. Not all companies will make it through this financial crisis. Even large companies with cash will be potentially on the failure list. I predict that Sun Microsystems, for example, will fail to remain intact. I expect that company will be broken apart. It could be that the hardware assets could be sold to its partner Fujitsu while pieces of software could be sold off as well. It is hard to see how a company without a well-crafted software strategy and execution model can remain financially viable. Similarly, companies without a focus on the consumer market will have a tough time in the coming year.
Eight. Open Source will soar in this tight market. Open Source companies are in a good position in this type of market—with a caveat. There is a danger for customers to simply adopt an open source solution unless there is a strong commercial support structure behind it. Companies that offer commercial open source will emerge as strong players.
Nine. Software goes vertical. I am not talking about packaged software. I anticipate that more and more companies will begin to package everything based on a solutions focus. Even middleware, data management, security, and process management will be packaged so that customers will spend less time building and more time configuring. This will have an impact in the next decade on the way systems integrators will make (or not make) money.
Ten. Appliances become a software platform of choice for customers. Hardware appliances have been around for a number of years and are growing in acceptance and capability. This trend will accelerate in the coming year. The most common solutions used with appliances include security, storage, and data warehousing. The appliance platform will expand dramatically this coming year. More software solutions will be sold with prepackaged solutions to make the acceptance rate for complex enterprise software easier.
Eleven. Companies will spend money on anticipation management. Companies must be able to use their information resources to understand where things are going. Being able to anticipate trends and customer needs is critical. Therefore, one of the bright spots this coming year will be the need to spend money getting a handle on data. Companies will need to understand not just what happened last year but where they should invest for the future. They cannot do this without understanding their data.
The bottom line is that 2009 will be a complicated year for software. There will be many companies without a compelling solution to customer pain will and should fail. The market favors safe companies. As in any down market, some companies will focus on avoiding any risk and waiting. The smart companies – both providers and users of software will take advantage of the rough market to plan for innovation and success when things improve – and they always do.
Is there beef behind SalesForce.Com?
I have been following Salesforce.com since its founding in the mid-1990s. Initially the company started by creating a contact management system which evolved into the sales force platform it offers today. Last month I attended a small dinner meeting in Boston hosted by Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of SalesForce.com, for some partners and customers. I met the Steve Pugh, CEO of CODA Financials, a subsidiary of Coda, a UK based developer of accounting software. I was intrigued that the company had built its new generation financial application on top of Salesforce.com's infrastructure. In my next post, I'll talk about Coda and why they made this decision. But before that I wanted to take a look at the Salesforce platform.
What is most interesting about Salesforce is that it intended to build a platform from day one. In my discussions with Marc in the early days he focused not specifically on the benefits of CRM but rather on "No Software". If you think about it that was a radical concept ten years ago.
Therefore, It goes without saying that Salesforce has been a Software as a Service pioneer. For example, in June 2003 launched sforce, one of the first web services based SaaS platforms. It offered partners a published SOAP-based API. Rather than viewing Salesforce as an application, it views it as a "database in the sky." It interprets this database as an integration platform. Likewise, from a customer perspective, Salesforce has designed its environment to "look like a block". What does that mean? I would probably use a different term maybe a infrastructure blackbox.
Salesforce's approach to creating its ecosystem has been incremental. It began, for example, by allowing customers to change tabs and create their own database objects. Next, the company added what it called the AppExchange which added published APIs so that third party software providers could integrate their applications into the Salesforce platform. Most of the applications on AppExchange are more like utilities than full fledged packaged applications. Many of the packages sold through the AppExchange are "tracking applications" for example, there is an application that tracks information about commercial and residential properties; another application is designed to optimize the sales process for media/advertising companies; still another package is intended to help analyze sales data.
But this is just the beginning of what Salesforce has planned. The company is bringing in expertise from traditional infrastructure companies like Oracle and BEA — among others. It's head of engineering came from eBay. Bringing in experienced management that understands enterprise scalability will be important — especially because of Salesforce's vast ambitions. I have been reading blogs by various Salesforce.com followers and critics. Josh Greenbaum, whom I have known for more than 20 years has been quite critical of Salesforce and has predicted its demise (within 18 months). He makes the comparison between Salesforce.com and Siebel. While any company that has risen as fast as Salesforce.com has will be a target, I do not believe that Salesforce.com is in trouble. There are two reasons I believe that they have a good chance for sustainability: their underlying SOA architecture and the indications that ISVs are beginning to see the company as a viable infrastructure.
So, what is the path that Salesforce is following on its quest for infrastructuredom (is that a real word — probably not). One of the primary reasons for my optimism is that Salesforce.com has a combination of traditional development through a procedural language it calls Apex that is intended to help developers write stored procedures or SQL statements. While this may disappoint some, it is a pragmatic move. But more important than Apex is the development of a standard XML based stylesheet interfaces to a service designed for use with Salesforce applications. This allows a developer to change the way the application looks. It is, in essence, the interface as a service. A third capability that I like is the technique that Salesforce has designed for creating common objects. In essence, this is a basic packaging that allows a third party to create their own version of Salesforce for its customers. For example, this has enabled Accenture to create a version of Salesforce for its customers in the health care.
But what is behind the curtain of Salesforce? First, Salesforce uses the Oracle database as a technique for serving up file pages (not as a relational database). But the core Intellectual Property that sits on top of Oracle is a metadata architecture. It is designed as a multi-tenancy service. Salesforce considers this metadata stack as the core of its differentiation in the market. The metadata layer is complex and includes an application server called Resin. The Resin Application Server is a high-performance XML application server for use with JSPs, servlets, JavaBeans, XML, and a host of other technologies. On top of this metadata layers is an authorization server. The metadata layer is structured so that each organization has a unique access to the stack. Therefore, two companies could be physically connected to the same server but there would be no way for them to access each other's data. The metadata layer will only point to the data that is specific to a user. The environment is designed so that each organization (i.e., customer) has a specific WSDL-based API. In fact, the architecture includes the approach of access APIs through the WSDL interface. There are two versions of WSDL — one general and one for a specific customer implementation. If a customer wants to share data, for example, they have to go through the general WSDL interface.
Salesforce's approach is to use XML based interfaces as an integration approach. It has used this to integrate with Google Apps. Salesforce has already begun partnering with Google around Adwords. This move simply deepened the relationship since both companies are faced with competitive threats.
The bottom line is that I think that Salesforce.com is well positioned in the market. It has an underlying architecture that is well conceived based on a SOA approach. It has created an ecosystem of partners that leverage its APIs and rely on its network to build their businesses. Most importantly, SalesForce.com has created an application that is approachable to mortals (as opposed to software gods). Companies like Siebel, in contract, created a platform that was complicated for customers to use — and therefore many purchased the software and never used it.
Salesforce.com is not without challenges. It needs to continue to innovate on its platform so that it does not get caught off guard by large (Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle) players who aren't happy with an upstart in a market they feel entitled to own. They are also at risk from upstarts like Zoho and open source CRM players like SugarCRM. If Salesforce.com can collect more packaged software vendors like Coda to build their next generation applications on top of Salesforce's environment, they may be able to weather the inevitable threats.
Has IBM Changed its Partner Strategy? The Hunt for OEMs
Partners are getting more and more important to the major software players. IBM announced a very interesting relationship with Kana, a $60 million solution provider of multi-channel customer service software. This is indeed a growing area in the market. Kana sells its software to about 60% of the Fortune 100. The company started in 1996 and has managed to survive some rough times and come out strong.
While IBM, like other major industry players rely on their partner ecosystem as an important go to market strategy. Some partnerships work better than others. What I thought was particularly interesting about the Kana partnership is its depth. Kana has decided to embed IBM's DB2, WebSphere (including the WebSphere Process Server) into its solutions. SOA is an important new direction for Kana and the two companies plan to do some joint development in this area. Relationships like this don't just happen. More than half of Kana's customers are also IBM customers. This is important because increasingly the customers that I am talking to are looking to buy solutions from one trusted provider rather than trying to get a bunch of individual vendors to work together.
IBM has had a strategy for more than a decade of partnering with packaged software providers rather than being in that business. On one level, this can be viewed as a risky strategy. One only has to look at the roles of Oracle and SAP in the market to wonder if these packaged offerings will swallow up the entire ISV partner ecosystem like a black hole. I guess that my conclusion is that it just isn't that simple. Customers that I have spent time with look at software packages from a different vantage point than infrastructure software. Because Oracle or SAP provides an excellent package for supply chain management or accounting management does not necessarily mean that they are the right choice for middleware or SOA infrastructure.
IBM's partner strategy with ISVs has evolved over the past several years. I see a change from the desire to have lots of partners who will enable their software to run one or more IBM software offerings to deeper more strategic relationships. The Kana relationship is an OEM relationship — not a simple membership in a partner program. In fact, IBM has more than 30 of these OEM partnerships with vendors including Fair Issacs, Cisco, Nortel, and PTC — to name a couple. I expect that OEM partners are going to became an important center focus of IBM's partnering strategy in the coming year.
Packaging SOA: What serves the customer?
I was talking to a CIO the other day about the whole area of Service Oriented Architectures. It was one of those interesting probing discussions around key players, emerging technologies and the like. One of the interesting topics that came up was around packaged software. This CIO was confused about a major issue. What is the benefit and danger of implementing a package software offering that has all the industry best practices, business process, and middleware integrated together. What are the opportunities and risks of this approach? Likewise, what are the risks of buying piece parts and integrating them together?
This is an important question and one that I have obvious opinions about. I think that it can be dangerous for companies to buy a too well integrated SOA environment from a single vendor. While it might seem like the path of least resistance might be to just buy an entire software suite from a company like SAP or Oracle and be done with it. While this may seem like a pretty straight forward question it actually is much more complicated. On the plus side, a customer could get a head start by using a SOA model where everything is designed to work together. On the other hand, I would submit that this approach is antithetical to the reason companies are approaching SOA in the first place. Companies are moving to SOA in order to create a flexible, modular environment where it is easier to add or subtract components based on either a new business initiative or a new innovative technology. If the SOA platform is too well integrated, change becomes hard.
So, what did I suggest to my CIO friend? I told him that it is better to look at packaged software as components in an overall SOA strategy rather than the lynch pin of that strategy. It is better to begin with the overall business strategy and an Enterprise Architecture and select technologies that are designed with standardized interfaces. The foundation should be based on loose coupling of services.
A packaged offering can work if customers finds a package that is standards based and extensible does not lock them into one perspective on the world. I think we'd all like to have a world where you just buy what you need off the shelf and life is good. But unless you are buying a commodity, I think the world is still too complicated for packaged SOA. Are there SOA commodities? Of course, for example, a set of best practices that are well understood across a broad spectrum of customers can be packaged as a business service and used broadly. Even a large service such as those offered by ADP is an example of a service offering that is well understood and not differentiated. Who would want to write their own service for managing payroll.
I do think that there will be a time when the SOA software market has matured to the point where building blocks are mature and well structured enough to be able to link together services smoothly and easily. But I don't think we are there yet…do you? Let me know what you think.


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The Grand Central Market has been a cultural landmark in Los Angeles for the past one century, and it celebrated its 100th-anniversary last week. The property was recently sold to a Beverly Hills-based real estate investor who has promised to maintain all its historic features. The tycoon also purchased the Million Dollar Theater, which is a 12-story building that is next to the market. Grand Central Market is a bustling place, and it is often visited by locals and tourists who wish to buy the food, spices, and many other commodities. The market is open every day, and it attracts approximately 2 million people per annum. It has gates on Broadway and Hill Street.
The owner of the property is Adam Daneshgar, who serves as the president of Langdon Street Capital. He believes that the market will be safe and nothing will be changed. Deneshgar has not informed the public the amount of money that his company paid to acquire the two buildings that have been owned by Yellin Co. since the 1980s. The Million Dollar Theater and Grand Central Market were established by the late Ira Yellin who was among the first downtown investors.
According to Daneshgar, millions of dollars will be invested to maintain the market. The funds will be used to repaint the walls and renovating lights. He also said that the company plans to add a few more stalls to the existing 40. The people who have currently rented the place reflect is its history of being a place where resident buy inexpensive foods. Eateries that have been established at the Grand Central Market include the China Café, which has been open since the 1950s. It is also home to the Sari-Sari Store, which is the renowned for selling Filipino food that is prepared by a nominee of the James Beard Award.

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A good friend of mine delivered a truck load of branches for the Tree of Life in DAK's Avatar Land and sent me pictures of some of the construction. They let me share them with you so here they are.
If they end up doing any more runs down there I will get some more photos as I am curious how the place is going to turn out.
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Kelly Gneiting is a 40-year-old hospital statistician from from Arizona who wrestled when he was younger until he started gaining weight and didn't meet weight requirements (265 lbs. max) for American wrestling. So the 6-foot-tall man with the 60-inch waist moved on to another type of wresting -- sumo.
Gneiting is a three-time U.S. sumo champion and wrestled for the U.S. at the world championships, according to a pre-marathon report in the Daily Telegraph. While he completed the marathon in 2008, he was dubbed out of contention for the world record because his run wasn't filmed and he was not weighed before and after the marathon.
"I'm going to run as fast as I can ... So I can show all my critics," the Telegraph reported him as saying prior to the second race.
On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Gneiting finished the L.A. marathon in 9 hours, 48 minutes, and 52 seconds weighing in at 400 lbs, and beating his previous time of 11 hours, 52 minutes and 11 seconds. He jogged the first eight miles of the marathon and walked the remaining 18. Guiness Book representatives need to verify the performance before dubbing him the new record holder, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In the Daily Telegraph, Gneiting noted he wanted to inspire overweight people who have low self-esteem and "think they can't achieve things."
In addition to friction on his thighs and armpits and weight on his feet, rain, wind, and blisters all added to the already-challenging marathon run.
It should be noted that despite the extra weight, sumo wrestlers need to be in good shape for their sport. While not any overweight individual can just up and decide he or she should enter a marathon, hopefully Geiting's experience and new possible world record will show critics -- his and those of all overweight people everywhere -- that achievement is possible for overweight individuals, possibly even for a change that gets those people to a healthy weight.
I mean, the man just completed a marathon at 400 lbs. Imagine what he could do at even half that weight.


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Fall is my absolute favorite time of year. We don't do the Halloween thing, but we love pumpkins and everything Autumn. My husband and I try to go all out for a romantic Columbus Day celebration (long story) and this was my Columbus Day present-on-a-budget to him this year. Some pumpkin
pie pi!
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Oh, Palindrome!
We're studying palindromes today, thanks to some great free posters shared by Katie Jensen. I'm using the posters to introduce a new word to our morning board each day. My boys don't generally join us for morning board, being a bit old for skip counting and calendar activities, but they'll be helping us finish off those morning lessons with some fun vocabulary words.
Wrapping up today's lesson about palindromes, we watched this Weird Al video to deeply embed their new vocabulary word into their brains. Enjoy!
Wrapping up today's lesson about palindromes, we watched this Weird Al video to deeply embed their new vocabulary word into their brains. Enjoy!
Brainy Balls
Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Horse Apple, Bodock, or even Maclura pomifera if you're so inclined...my kids always called these "brainy balls". And if you hate spiders, they're your new best friend.
We discovered it years ago, just as we were beginning to see brown recluse spiders in the house (hello, ozarks). With a baby in the house, this was particularly scary to me. Hiring an exterminator was expensive, but we saw no choice. Thankfully, we had an awful time getting him to return our calls and in the meantime, someone shared this tip with us and it worked beautifully. Two weeks later, when the exterminator finally called back, we were able to say , "Nevermind. We no longer have spiders."
As these beauties decay, they get sticky and apparently stinky, though I've never smelled them myself. We toss them under the house, spaced out about every 10 ft. This stuff is so effective, someone was even awarded a patent this year for an osage orange insect repellent. A chemical in them is supposed to be good for repelling mosquitos, though I have no idea how you'd go about making an extract.
The trees themselves were commonly planted as wind-breaks and used as hedges, hence the name Hedge Apples. The wood from the tree is supposed to be a superior bow-making wood.
Brainy balls are all over the ground RIGHT NOW, so hunt some up and toss them under your house for a spider-free autumn!
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The City Where The East Peters Out is grumbling about the gonzo salary paid to Jennifer Sprague, the new communications chief at Dallas Independent School District.
DISD and other school districts have been slashing jobs, freezing salaries, and shuttering schools while struggling to teach kids how to read, write, add, and subtract.
Taxpayers spewed Coke through their noses upon learning that Dallas' new school Superintendent Mike Miles elected to pay Sprague $185,000 a year to, like, communicate and stuff.
That's about $100,000 more than she earned at her previous communications job at a Colorado school.
It's more than the White House press secretary earns. It's about five times higher than the median income in Texas. It's about time I consider switching from journalism to public relations.
Over here in the City Where The West Begins, six-figure salaries are also dispersed among Fort Worth Independent School District's top brass. But they're not as high as in Dallas.
Sprague's counterpart at FWISD is Barbara Griffith.
I emailed Griffith to ask for her annual income, and included a crack about it feeling strange to ask about someone's salary.
"Not strange at all — my salary is public information," she responded.
Griffith earns $129,531 in base salary, along with $3,510 for her automobile and $600 for a cellphone, for a total of $133,641. That's nothing to sneeze at, but $50,000 less than Sprague earns.
So what does Griffith do to earn all that cheese?
Let us count the ways, according to this FWISD position description for senior communications and media relations officer:
1. Serves as the primary media spokesperson for the district and the Superintendent.
2. Develops and oversees the communications strategic plan for the district for both internal and external communications.
3. Manages the activities of an aggressive, proactive, and creative communications operation providing a district media connection for both internal and external communications.
4. Approves all written materials generated and released to the public by the district staff.
5. Responds to requests for information from the general public, news media, and staff and coordinates requests for speakers from community organizations and other groups.
6. Plans and oversees the development and communication of information designed to keep the public and school district staff informed of the district's educational agenda in a systematic fashion.
7. Manages the review and editing of publications and website content and the development and editing of letters, correspondence, and speeches for the Superintendent.
8. Prepares and disseminates news releases, brochures, newsletters, videos, and fact sheets on school district activities, events, initiatives, and programs.
9. Prepares the district's annual report, highlighting achievements, initiatives, and important statistics.
10. Manages the crisis communications management plan, ensuring awareness and sensitivity to the adverse impact of inappropriate actions and those that may be perceived as inappropriate.
11. Conducts communications workshop and training sessions for district employees to enhance their skills in effective media communication.
12. Plans multi-media events that promote a positive image of the school system.
13. Develops and maintains good working relationships with local and regional media representatives.
14. Produces scripts for Board meetings, special events, public service announcements, and district videos.
15. Provides a variety of administrative services related to special projects, programs and community forums, including planning special events and activities and preparing background information and special materials.
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[JVM] How to know about JVM defaults settings and supported flags
Each JVM implementation had a different set of default and choose default settings based on the environment it runs in. It's always good to know the default. Let's see how to get the default. Using -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags
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At first it was police, confronting and detaining reporters trying to cover events in Ferguson. More than a dozen reportedly detained for a variety of reasons. But, as the coverage has hit saturation point, the tide is starting to turn a bit. Frustration among demonstrators with commercial media outlets, which have been criticized for boiling down the issues to black and white, literally, and in some cases getting it totally wrong — like when a CNN web report accused the police commanding officer of throwing gang signs.
"Absolutely, there's been some irresponsible reporting and that's the frustration. A lot of people have been trying to sensationalize this, nor deal with facts," said Sen. Cory Booker. "We need to be prudent and focus on facts and try to get to a point where the press is helping us to get to those higher ideals of justice, fairness and equality that we wanna get to."
That's a high ideal indeed, when cable news networks are focused on appealing to a specific audience, and the ranks of "news" gatherers have been swollen by everyday citizens with cell phone cameras, resulting in more opportunities for those in front of all these cameras to act out.
"It is part of the job and [journalists] have covered the violence that is there and I think, by and large, they have covered what they have been seeing, that is I don't think they have as some have criticized sort of agitated," said Charlton Mcilwain, a media professor at NYU, speaking to WNET's MetroFocus, in an interview that will air next week. "There is something about, I think, the spectacle of it all and the cameras that are there that amplifies the violence and actions going on because people know that they are being watched and that they're being seen."
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Dear Average Boy,
Do you plant flowers in the spring? What types of flowers are your favorites? Do you have any pets? Do they stay in the house or out?
Joanna S.
Hey, Joanna S.,
No, I don't plant flowers in the spring. I plant them in the dirt. In fact, I don't even have a spring. I had a slinky once, but I learned quickly that it's not a good toy to dangle out of a moving car.
Anyway, my favorite flower is the weed. You don't really have to work hard to keep them blooming.Yes, I do have a dog, and he can stay in the house if he wants. Unfortunately, because of a few bad wrestling practices, he chooses not to stay inside when I'm home. In fact, he's so skittish that when I get off the bus, he usually tries to hitchhike to visit relatives. Of course, no one picks him up. I think it's because he doesn't have a thumb, so the cars passing by don't really know what he's doing.
Anyway, got to go water my weeds. Have a great day!
Your Friend and Mine,
Average Boy
Hi, Average Boy!
I love your adventures! They remind me of myself. Do you have lots of cousins? I have a ton (or 2,240 pounds or something like that)! Have you ever been to Disneyland? I haven't. I don't see what the big deal is. All you do is pay a big furry rodent $500 so you can stand in line all day.
I'm from Canada! One thing I don't understand is why everybody thinks it's cold up here. Well, I gotta go. My dad's yelling something about helping our neighbor build his igloo.
Hey, Caleb,
I built an igloo once! It was a small one because we only had two ice trays in our freezer, but it looked really cool. Of course, I live in Texas so it melted the second I took it outside. (Unfortunately, it wasn't during the week of winter we have here.)
I haven't been to Disneyland, but I did go to a smaller theme park once. I think we only paid $20 to stand in line.
And finally, I do have a bunch of cousins. They don't visit much; for some reason they are afraid of my dog.
Your friend and mine,
Have you ever tried to fly a kite? Every time I try, the brand new kite ends up in shreds somewhere in a tree, and I have to chase it for miles. Has that ever happened to you? And by the way, since you said you were much better at kickball than softball, I was wondering if you ever played soccer.
Hey Megan,
Wow. That is a problem. I don't think I've ever seen a running tree with a shredded kite in it before — much less anyone chasing it. I did try to fly a kite once, but I could never run fast enough to make the kite go up in the air. The kite just drug behind me as if to say: "Ouch! Gravel Burns! What are you doing? Why don't you give me to a running tree!" It didn't actually say that, but I'll bet that's what it was thinking.
Oh, and I'm a great soccer player! Well, I'm not good at the running part or the kicking part, and I've never scored a basket-goal-point-thing — but other than that, I'm a great soccer player. Anyway, I'm off to see if any of the trees in my yard want to play tag.


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Somebody had a birthday!
Angelina is 10 years old as of 8:43pm EST Aug 22, 2013.
Here's how the day went:
Went to the school at lunch time only to find out there will actually be two aides who will be taking turns helping Ang in the clinic. Normally, the more the merrier, but with Ang and her specific case I do not like not having just ONE person who is in charge of things at the school. I think having 2 people will likely lead to some confusion, and possibly a delay in treatment if they have to scramble to figure out who to call to come to her in an emergency since neither of the aides full time job is in the clinic. They are both aides helping other disabled or special needs kids in their classrooms and are pulled out if/when Ang comes to the office. I'm very frustrated about this situation because IF there is an emergency with her every second counts and precious minutes could be wasted while office staff try to figure out who to call and the amount of time it takes for that person to respond and get there. Both aides are in classrooms literally across the school from where Angelina's classroom is, and the office is halfway between both.
I was able to get the living room and kitchen cleaned in the afternoon after picking up her cake (which was beautifully done and she loved it!). David got home around 4:30, so only 30 minutes later than planned, but he bought her a rose bouquet on his way home so I think that makes up for it. She decided she wanted to order pizza in for dinner and we ate around 5:45pm. Pizza is a particularly hard food to dose insulin for because of the very high fat content it has a nasty habit of being slow to digest which means that it usually really effects blood sugars a while after her insulin has already done it's job. She decided to only eat 1 piece though so that definitely helped.
She loved her presents, most of them she already knew about or helped pick out, so I did have a couple surprises in there, including the movie "Epic" which I picked up when I got her cake. She got Minecraft (game) on her phone and got pretty absorbed in that most of the night. I asked her what she wanted to do and did we want to do some family time but she was content playing her game so we just all had a low key kind of night. After cupcakes we put on her new movie and when it was over it was time for bed. There was no fighting/bickering. The only thing that even stands out is she insisted on lighting the candles on her cake and kept holding the match/candle downward and burning her finger and getting wax everywhere so David started to help by lighting candles on the other side and she had a mini-fit about it but recovered quickly and was happy again.
Now for the technical stuff about how things went with her diabetes:
I checked her blood sugar shortly after David got home and she was around 250, her target range being 100-150, so we did a correction to get her closer to target before we even ordered the pizza. By the time we got the pizza and went to eat she was around 175, which is not a bad starting point. At 2 hours post-pizza she was 213 and we went ahead and did cupcakes. She got insulin for 1 cupcake and then a separate dose with her 2nd cupcake and a glass of milk. The second dose we did as a "dual wave" which means she got a small amount up front (since she already had some insulin going to cover the first cupcake and what was left of the pizza) and the rest of her dose slowly over 3 hours to help combat the likely spike from fat content. That was around 8:00. I checked her at 11:30 again, 30 minutes after the insulin dose was done and she was 201 with a small amount of insulin that was still working. This morning she woke up at 162, which is pretty close to her target range and is a perfectly acceptable number to me.
Here is how a type 1 diabetic celebrates their birthday: The same as anyone else – with CAKE!!! And a side of glucose meter and insulin.
Related articles
- She Can't Eat That…She Has Diabetes! (chasinglows.wordpress.com)
- First Day of the 5th Grade (chasinglows.wordpress.com)
- Differentiating between Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and Type 2 (epicahealth.com)


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Catherine Burn
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Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn is a career police officer having joined the Police Force at the age of 19. Her career has covered all areas across the NSW Police Force including general duties, detectives, homicide, major crime, internal affairs, counter terrorism and corporate areas.
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In 2011 Deputy Commissioner Burn was announced as the Telstra Australian Business Woman of the year in recognition of her leadership in strategic, business and commercial management across the NSW Police Force.
In 2013 she was honoured with a Doctor of Letters, Macquarie University in recognition of contributions to the NSW community and in 2014 completed the FBI National Executive Institute program.
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It is with great pleasure I extend to you this invitation to join us for the fourth Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Brisbane from 9th-11th September, 2015.
APAC15 is jointly hosted by Autism Queensland, the State's leading and most experienced agency in the provision of targeted services to people with ASD, and the Australian Advisory Board on Autism Spectrum Disorders, the national peak body providing advice to the Australian Government on issues affecting people with autism and their families.
The theme of APAC15, "Transforming Futures" reflects the ways in which research, education and specialist early intervention are generating successful and increasingly positive outcomes for individuals and families living with ASD.
The APAC conference series is a recognised forum in which to present and learn about the newest research and practices within the field of ASD. APAC15 is the fourth of these events, following on from Sydney, Perth and most recently Adelaide. APAC15 will feature keynote addresses from international and Australian experts in ASD alongside a diverse range of symposia sessions, workshops and poster presentations.
Australian research will be a major focus for the conference as a result of the establishment of the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Brisbane in 2013 that is now leading research at institutions across Australia. APAC15 will be the first opportunity for insight into key updates on research coming out of the Autism CRC.
We look forward to welcoming you to APAC15 and Brisbane in 2015 for an exciting three days of expert learning and networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world.
Rod Cameron
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I'm moving!
February 18, 2011
Update your links! I am moving to Blogger (thanks, Cat, and others who gave advice)! My new blog will (hopefully) reflect the new approach I am taking to my quilting and sewing. Please join me at Stripes & Solids, where my first post is a Spiderweb block tutorial!
Let's try this again
February 15, 2011
Well, it hasn't been quite as long since I blogged as I thought: only about five months (if you're counting). But it feels like forever, and I've missed it! The fall was very hectic for me, and (for those of you who don't know) I spent about five weeks in December and January volunteering at an orphanage in Uganda…during which time I did not really sew at all (of course), although I did crochet and knit every day with the kids and mended more clothing than I will for the rest of my life!
Kids really love crochet–who knew? I left my apartment with about a dozen sets of knitting needles, three crochet hooks, and a suitcase full of yarn, and all of it was gone within three days. I had to troll through the markets of Kampala in search of more supplies for the kids, eventually coming up with only five more crochet hooks and four skeins of white and brown yarn. Not too exciting, but they loved it anyway.
You can see more pictures of my trip here if you're interested! The one thing I forgot was probably one of the most important things to remember: the battery charger for my camera. I had only one battery bar in the camera when I left, and I made it last as long as I could…which wasn't long at all, but I did capture a few good images.
So anyway, back to normal life I went at the end of January. I couldn't even look at my sewing machine when I came back. I felt uncreative and unproductive, and I was out of good ideas for quilts. I was completely uninspired. I realized that blogging had actually helped me stay productive and inspired, even if obsessively reading blogs didn't. So I trimmed my reader down to a few favorites, as well as the blogs of my good friends, and started to get back into the swing of it.
I traveled to DC for a grad school visit last weekend and snapped an inspiration photo of the wall of the burrito place at Logan Airport. I hope at least some of you know what I'm talking about so I don't feel completely nuts. If you don't, there's a small shot of it on this website. It's on the left side of the image. When I came home from DC, I turned my inspiration photo into this pillow, which I love:
I used only scraps for this one. There is a wide range of neutrals in many different shades and fabrics. The lightest value is Kona Bone, and the darkest is Essex Linen in Putty (I think…I last used that fabric quite a while ago, in one of my first quilt projects).
(I continue to have issues reorienting my photos in WordPress, sorry!)
Here's a shot of the back:
I wish I knew what Kona colors I used, but I don't. I need one of those color cards desperately!
Anyway, I moved in September into a place that has made it much more difficult for me to photograph my quilts. Yall may have noticed that I used to take pictures in the big park that was right behind my apartment building…now, there is nothing behind me but an area where people bring their dogs to go to the bathroom and a storage area for the garbage bins, so I am going to have to get creative! That was a major reason I stopped blogging, but now I really regret not taking pictures of some quilts I made and loved. The quilting on one of them was so intensive that it actually broke my machine, and yet I have no photographic record of it!
I'm also thinking of moving to a self-hosted blogging platform so I have more control over the appearance and layout of my blog (and I do want a new blog name), but it's actually much more complicated than I anticipated. For those of you who do that…do you like it better? Are you happy you chose it over a traditional blog platform? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
FOs and honesty
August 31, 2010
Remember this quilt top? I managed to turn it into a real, live quilt! I just don't remember when…
I tied it using some very nice wool I bought at Rhinebeck '09, in squares that were six to eight inches apart. The ties disappear into the quilt in all but a few places (you can make them out in the solid red spaces).
I bordered the pieced part with a solid red linen, which I don't advise using for a border because it is slippery, hard to control, and, like all linen, distorts easily. I bound it in Kona cotton, which I believe is the shade called Ocean. And I pieced the back, which I love:
Unfortunately, it is sitting on top of a pile of other quilts I don't use (eep). That's not to say I'm not happy I made it: it's soft and I really enjoyed the process! But it's a useless size, at about 50″ by 55″. Fine for a newborn baby, but I'm not a newborn baby. I know the clear solution here is to give it to my friend who is about to have twins, but I have already started a zigzag quilt for her (in addition to the courthouse steps quilt I've already made), so I'm plowing through. But I don't know. Maybe I should just give it to her.
Anyway, on that note, I've been going through all of my stuff because I'm moving, and I've discovered that I've fallen into a trap that I dreaded falling into: never using or wearing anything I make (yes, I hear your collective gasp and the choir of angels weeping). I gave every garment I've made except two to charity. My finished quilts are in a pile on my shelf, and I do not feel compelled to finish the tops I've made. The one thing I use most often is my sewing apron, which I made in a couple of hours last month out of some leftover fabric and which, of course, I've never photographed.
So I need to ask: Does this happen to anyone else? Do y'all use what you make? Do you like what you make when you're finished, or do you stand back and wonder why you spent so much time and money on it? I'm wondering how common this is…and if it fades with experience, or if it's just a personality flaw of mine.
P.S. Please check out Molly's burdastyle page, where she posted photos of the absolutely gorgeous skirt she made with the fabric she won from me.
P.P.S. If you want some other "quilty goodness" (a lot of people use this term, so much so that I think it has been incorporated into our vernacular), I posted on the NEMQG blog about our trip to the Lowell Quilt Festival!
I do actually finish projects.
August 26, 2010
I need to tell you this as much as I need to tell myself. I am working on twin quilts for one of my good friends right now, and she informed me recently that twins can come pretty much any day starting about a month before their actual due date, which is October 3. You can imagine my enthusiasm given that I have only one top completed and I am moving next week. Sewing is S-L-O-W.
In other news, I am going to share a doll quilt that I made for the NEMQG doll quilt swap recently. My doll quilt generated the least enthusiasm in the group (just being honest), but I am still happy with it:
I did one double wedding ring block. It took me an entire week.
To be honest, I really loved it and was so proud of it. The DWR block is monstrously difficult and does require hand-piecing, which I did. I took it to my grandmother's house that weekend to baste it. My aunt, who has advanced lung cancer, was staying with my grandmother at the time. She was also a quilter in her youth, and I was lamenting the difficulty of this project one evening. She hobbled over to me with her walker, stood right next to it, and said in an extremely raspy voice tinged with a hard-core Boston accent: "Monet, that's a quilt ya make when ya retiahed. That's a quilt ya make when ya got absolutely nothin' else to do," and hobbled away.
So, I won't be making another one for a while.
Rhea was my recipient, and she did seem to like it despite a few VERY OBVIOUS (and not just to me) imperfections. I was glad to have her as a partner, even though I was a bit nervous because she is such a good quilter and has a real eye for fabric and design!
Here are some of the other doll quilts (see the full lineup here):
Made by Laurie
Made by Katie
Made by Meaghan (incidentally, also the name of her blog [and mine])
Happy sewing, y'all…
Hello, world! (And a tutorial.)
August 18, 2010
I know I have been gone for…well, a very long time. I didn't even realize how long until my pal Yahaira pointed it out (thanks!). There are a million reasons for this, which I will NOT bore you with here. Instead, I will provide the tutorial I promised a LONG time ago. I can't even bring myself to look and determine how long ago it was. But I hope y'all know how much I have missed you!
Without further ado…THE FAST AND FUN WAY TO MAKE FLYING GEESE!
Someone in my guild pointed out when I did the demo at our July meeting that it wastes a lot of fabric. She was right; it does. But once you get the hang of it, you can just choose what parts of the fabric you want to focus on, and let the rest go by the wayside. And I would choose fun over fabric conservation any day, as y'all know, since I am more improvisational than most people. But I would urge you to try this and a different method at the same time and see which you prefer. I will be surprised if you ever look back after you try this!
I would like to note that the picture quality is sub-par and that there is text on some of the images because I used them in a handout, but this should not impede your ability to make fabulous FGs from this tutorial.
Step 1: Start with three pieces of fabric: two squares and one rectangle. Your rectangle should be the exact size that your two squares would be if sewn together. This means that, for example, you could use a 4″ by 7.5″ rectangle with two 4″ squares (that is what I use in this tutorial).
Other good sizes are: 5″ by 9.5″ rectangle with two 5″ squares, 3″ by 5.5″ rectangle and two 3″ squares…you get the point. Don't think about the math too much. You wouldn't really want blocks any bigger or smaller than these anyway.
Step 2: Fold your rectangle in half:
Step 3: Place it on top of one of your squares. Then place the other square on top of that. This is called "making a sandwich" (cheesy, I know).
Step 4: Pin them together near the four raw edges.
Step 5: With the raw edges closest to you, sew along the right side of the sandwich with a 1/4″ seam.
Step 6: Open up your sandwich
Step 7: Iron down one side (I do the right side because I am right-handed)
Step 8: OPEN and watch the magic happen.
Step 9: Iron and reflect upon the ease with which you created this.
This will be a little weird at first. Do it once, carefully, and you will have the hang of it already! And you will easily be able to make a top like this one:
Be careful when you sew the blocks together, though. They sit on top of the background fabric (as you can see in the bottom photo), and you don't want them to pouch out. You want them to lay flat to make it easier for you to quilt it.
I would like to note that I have not progressed very far past where I was when this photo was taken…I have only added one of the two borders I plan to add. But I love it as much as the day I took this photo!
GOOD LUCK and if you do this, please e-mail me or comment here and tell me what you think of this technique! And also, please e-mail or comment if you have questions!
I've missed all of you very much!
Winners and "American Woman" mini-review!
June 30, 2010
Thank you so much for all of your amazing comments…I have just come back from my weekend away and am in the middle of responding to each of you. It meant so much to me to read all of your kind words. I have been feeling less than confident about my sewing this week because I have attempted the Double Wedding Ring block, and it is slow moving…I've spent almost a week on a single block. Yikes! Y'all are raising my sewing self-esteem.
Anyway, the winners were Molly (blogless–garment items) and Yahaira (quilting items). I am delighted to send each of them their packages! Thanks to all who entered, and hopefully I will have another giveaway soon.
I did go to the exhibit at the Met, as promised. I admit that I am not as passionate about the fashions of the 1900s-1930s as, well, any other era, but I really couldn't wait to see the American Woman exhibit. I feel guilty saying this, but I was a bit disappointed. The trip was worth it because the Met reopened its American wing and created visual storage. I went to see the American Woman exhibit on the tail end of my visit because I got sucked in by the period rooms in the American wing. I thought I may not have enough time (an hour), but I was wrong.
I think the experience would be very different if you did not sew and were able to appreciate it overall, instead of fixating on the minor details. The collection was good, but not great. Each room featured about eight to ten mannequins wearing different outfits of the era, as well as sparkly and sequiny wigs that did not correspond to most of the exhibits or the outfits overall. The wigs themselves were interesting, but they were confusing in conjunction with the styles (particularly the House of Worth gowns).
The exhibit was organized thematically as well as chronologically, which left out some important pieces from each designer. The manner in which the models were placed made it difficult for them to display larger pieces as well. They were each on a raised platform, which you could stand relatively close to. The House of Worth had only four or five dresses in the 1890s section, and they were all "typical" House of Worth: sequins, lace, etc.
I would have liked to see some of their statement pieces, such as the following:
They were all very monochromatic in the 1890s section, and a couple of the more detailed dresses were black. The lighting was low, and it was difficult to make out the details (again, I think that is a sewer's issue!).
The second part was the Gibson Girl, and I wish I could tell you about it, but I was being knocked over by crowds of rowdy teens, so I strode on through. The women's suffrage movement was next, and they had videos about the movement playing in the background. The clothes weren't beautiful, but they revealed a lot about social concerns and attitudes about femininity at the time. The videos were projected all around the room…I'm still not sure how I felt about them. They were powerful, but distracting.
The flapper movement followed, and I enjoyed that very much. I think you would appreciate it less if you did not sew and did not understand how much handwork went into these dresses, but they were absolutely gorgeous, if not very fragile. The dresses were in remarkably good condition considering their fragility and delicate beadwork. The exhibit did a good job of highlighting both the enormous range of details and the similarity of the silhouettes. The glittery wigs also worked nicely with these mannequins. The room was simpler to navigate and digest than the others.
Finally, they did something about movie stars, and I honestly forget the name of the section. Sorry! This section displayed what many people would consider the highlights of the exhibit: the drapey dresses of Madeleine Vionnet and her 20s-30s contemporaries, which you would see worn by starlets in early movies. Like some of the other rooms, this one played movies on the walls. They showed the dresses in their original form, which I liked…context is always good. But my biggest issue with the entire exhibit was in this room, because they showed one of Vionnet's dresses on a seated model. Vionnet is known for her draping…her work certainly does not belong on a seated model. It bothered me more than it should have, though.
Finally, they had you walk through a room with a video montage displayed on some gray walls into a rather annoying gift shop. The montage contained such "American women" as Candice Bergen, Janet Jackson, and Jennifer Lopez. They had, of course, 30 million copies of the book High Style, which is actually a very nice book that records their collection. I wanted to buy it, but I was being kicked out, and I had already been yelled at by a security guard for trying to take a FLASH-FREE photo, so I was sad. I made myself feel better by going and taking this photograph (legally) of my namesake:
Most important, though, the exhibit did NOT make me want to run home and sew a new dress, which was not a good sign.
I am so sad to be negative about it! I don't want to say it was wholly not worth going because I am happy that the museum is exploring material culture and the history of dress. I am actually happy that there were a million angsty teens there, because I hope it will encourage them to learn more about the context of fashion and perhaps develop an interest in garment-sewing or textiles as well (even though they kept knocking me over like I was a frail, 90-year-old lady with a cane, rather than a relatively fit person in her 20s). To this end, the museum did a fantastic job of providing a great deal of historical and social context for each era…and everyone was reading and discussing the explanations. I do commend them on that.
Final verdict: If you are already in NYC, go to it, but go to the new American wing first.
*all photos were taken from the website of The Costume Institute
It's my sew-iversary!
June 25, 2010
Dear friends,
June 26th is my six-month sew-iversary, and I want to share this momentous event with you by having a small giveaway. But first, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the first half of 2010.
I can't believe I have only been sewing for six months. Truth told, I did own a sewing machine (a 1940s-era Singer) back in '08, and then it broke after about three months (and I still need to have that fixed). I made a dress with my mom once, long ago, and then I incorrectly took in an area of a nightgown that had a gap in the bust sometime last year. I sewed it wrong sides together, and pinched it outward, instead of in…and I STILL wear it that way, partly out of laziness and partly as a reminder of everything I've learned. Those were really the only two things I had ever done before Christmas 2009.
I have, however, been exposed to the language and practice of sewing for my entire life. My mom sewed clothes and home goods while I was growing up (and now she makes a living doing it), my grandmother sewed, and my great-grandmother and great-aunt quilted, as you can see in the photo below (thanks, as always, to Caro):
I followed sewing and quilting blogs for a while, but I mostly knitted and crocheted; I always saw sewing as my mom's "thing," and I never thought I could be as good as she is, so I just never picked it up. And I think I took it for granted when I was growing up, too. She had tried to teach me to sew at some point by drawing shapes on paper plates and making me sew along the lines–my earliest exposure to paper-piecing! 🙂 I had also looked at a lot of quilting and textile traditions, taking a more studied and less practical approach to them through 08 and 09.
But I became obsessed with owning a sewing machine in October of last year, and my parents gave me one as a Christmas present. I bought myself a copy of Joelle Hoverson's Last-Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts in anticipation of the event. I got my machine and made this Amy Butler bag I have actually never posted about the next day:
My mom and her quilting friend Beth took me to the local quilt shop the day after that, and I bought up a bunch of Civil War repro fabrics. This was my first quilt:
From there, quilting kind of took over my life, and then garment sewing did, too. A month or so later, I posted on Alissa's blog that I would definitely join a modern quilt guild in the New England area if one existed, and she e-mailed me and two others and asked us to create one. The other two people had a lot going on in their lives at the time, and even though I knew basically nothing about quilting, I did know a thing or two about creating groups, so I just plowed forward. Starting and then running NEMQG has been an absolutely incredible experience, and I can't say how proud I am to be a part of an organization full of such beautiful, kind, and inspiring people.
Along the way, I've made so many amazing blog friends, and I've learned more than I ever thought possible in six months. I've also completed all of this (and thrown away several ugly things I made, but never photographed):
Including all of the trashed FOs y'all have never seen, it's an average of five FOs a month (and I always complain about not having time to sew!). It's very clear to me that I slowly developed an aesthetic that is true to who I am over the last six months. My preferences in both quilting and garment sewing lean heavily toward vintage and traditional, but with more modern/ brighter color schemes. After trying out a few of the quilting trends (wonky, red/ gray, etc.), I can safely say that I am more drawn to traditional patterns and vintage/ thrifted or vintage-look fabrics. Obviously, the same goes for garments, as I sew almost exclusively from vintage and vintage-inspired patterns, despite their difficulty (and oh, how difficult they have been at times!). My craft bookshelf consists mostly of books that describe old quilting traditions and established quilting communities, as well as late 40s to early 60s fashion.
Looking back makes me very emotional. So much has changed for me since I started sewing and the guild. I feel like I have established a true connection with a community, and created a stronger bond with my family as well. I want to thank each and every one of you for reading my blog, for your support and inspiration, and for being a part of my life.
Now for the giveaway!!! There are two. One is for garment sewers. I have two vintage patterns, Simplicity 3358 and Simplicity 5054:
I'm also offering about 1 3/4 yards of the fabric I used to make this skirt:
It has vivid color, good drape, and is very wearable.
For all you quilters out there, I have quarter-yard cuts of these fabrics (from Paula Prass' Woodland Delight and Denyse Schmidt's Hope Valley):
A full yard from Amy Butler's Lotus:
…AND a surprise from this line:
All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what your favorite hobby is! I don't care if it's quilting, sewing, or tatting lace. Actually, I'd love to see someone say that tatting lace is their favorite hobby. I'll draw a winner on Tuesday, June 29 when I return from seeing the new exhibit at the Costume Institute in NYC (and stopping at Purl).
Thanks for entering…and for reading all the way to the end! If you're here, I commend you on your stamina.


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Thursday after my last day of work for the next 3 weeks my friend Marline and I took off to Montreal for an overnight trip. We took the opportunity to celebrate the opening of the London Summer Olympics in our own little way.... we visited the site of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. We thought we were both definately Gold Medal material!
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