Halfway out of the dark ...

"It’s either kiss her or go back to your room making a new kind of screwdriver. Don’t make my mistakes."

-- Matt Smith as The Doctor

Thank you to Spacecast.com for streaming "Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol"!




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rerun: Merry Christmas

[Download the PDF for this Christmas Tree Maze.]

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rerun: Dec 24 ...

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Heads or ....

From Joey deVilla's blog:

A Psychological Tip

Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
and you’re hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No — not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you’re passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you’re hoping.

Holiday treat round-up

Icebox cookies

I like to make the dough and keep at least one or two rolled dough sticks in the freezer over the holidays. The cookies can easily and quickly be baked should you find yourself hosting unexpected company, or find yourself craving fresh baked cookies!

Spicy Almonds

Holiday Peppermint Bark

Spice drop cookies

Christmas craft round-up, part three

Salt-dough ornaments

Reindeer antler headband

Handprint angel

Santa mask

[Cross-posted at CraftDay]

Christmas craft round-up, part deux

Woven heart pockets

Although, I typically make these around Valentine's Day, they are traditional Christmas decorations in some cultures.

Gingerbread man

Plate for Santa

Paper Plate Santa

Christmas craft round-up

Six pointed snowflakes

Christmas hand print tree

Reindeer treats

Notes to self: building better gingerbread houses

Some free seasonal promotional colouring sheets and colouring cards.

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Click on an image below to download the colouring sheet of your choice (PDF).

Excercise: need vs want

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Tonight’s show is a little different

The funniest thing I've seen in a long time: the cold open from the Doctor Who night on The Late Show With Craig Ferguson.




[h/t: dwin.org]

Unhappy customers

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Mabel's Labels Cyber Monday sale!

To kick off the holiday shopping season Mabel’s Labels – Labels for the stuff kids lose!® is having a BIG sale on some great gift-giving items. The sale ends December 1st at 3:00pm EST. Shop now!

Sale Items:

• The Essentials Combo is 35% off* An ideal stocking stuffer or personalized gift for anyone on your list.

• Curbsides are 30% off* A holiday housewarming gift for the person that has everything!
  
  
• Mama Cards are 60% off* A great personalized gift for teachers, sisters, best friends, aunts and grandparents.
  
  
• Holiday Address Labels are 30% off* A limited-time product to put an extra special touch on your holiday cards!
  
  
• Label Out Loud™ colourful Tag Mates™ are 40% off*

*Offers not valid with any other discounts. While supplies last.


* Read all the fine print at Mabel’s Labels – Labels for the stuff kids lose!®!





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Fuzzy wuzzy

Overheard on the playground:

Fuzzy Wuzzy
Was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Wasn't really fuzzy,
Wuzzy?

Line drawing

Back at the line drawings again. (Er, line drawing, at any rate.)


Prophet? Really?

I can't speak to that, but he is a very entertaining mind reader!

Bolero pattern

If you're looking for a pattern from which to sew a Bolero, have a look at Bolero Patterns and Shrug Patterns for some free ideas.

I recently completed the Simple Bolero and the pattern was easy to follow. (It took me longer to make it than the estimated completion time. However, I expect that speaks to my sewing skills more than anything else.)

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

I can't speak to the content, but I found the animation to be very compelling.

The content was taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson.

Lest we forget

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Well being

Based on TEDMED wisdom tweeted by @DeepakChopra and retweeted by @AnnDouglas.

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Mabel's mentioned at Forbes.com!

A big shout out to the Canadian moms behind Mabel’s Labels – Labels for the stuff kids lose!®for their mention on Forbes.com!

Way to go ladies!




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Missing teeth

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For magic. For life.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
-- Doug Henning

A tribute to Doug Henning

The tribute to Doug Henning for his 2010 induction into Canada's Walk of Fame!



[h/t: The Magic Newswire]

The shoe math

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Happy 42 day!

It's 101010 today, which is 42 in binary!

Have a look at what the geeks among us are doing today at FortyTwoDay.com !

AMBER Alert Ontario

From their website:

The Ontario AMBER Alert is a warning system that quickly alerts the public of abducted children who are in imminent danger.

The participation of the public is essential to the success of AMBER Alert. The information you provide to police may help an abducted child before it is too late.

We can take action together to protect and safely recover abducted children.

From the CTV.ca website:

OPP say information posted on the social networking website could reach millions of users who can help in the search for abducted children.

Authorities hope Canada's 15 million Facebook users, including seven million in Ontario, can help them in the first crucial three to five hours after a child is abducted.

Sir Patrick Stewart in Macbeth

From the PBS website:

Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and a subsequent eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert Goold’s gripping stage production of Macbeth was filmed for television at the end of 2009.

The co-production between WNET.ORG and Illuminations Television, in association with the BBC, stars Sir Patrick Stewart in his triumphant, Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife.

The production, though retaining the Goold’s exciting concept of relocating the bloody action to a nameless 20th-century militaristic society, has been rethought in vivid filmic terms. The movie, marking Goold’s cinematic debut, will be presented on PBS as part of the Great Performances series Wednesday, October 6, at 9 p.m. (check local listings).

If this is anywhere near as good as the performance of Hamlet they ran earlier this year, we're in for a real treat!






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Good vs suck

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