Feeling a Little Abstract Today??? TGIFF!!!

Here is your opportunity to create art like a Master!

Mr.PicassoHead
(developed by Ruder Finn Interactive) is a fun, interactive game with plenty of options to explore.

You can save, send or post your creations.

If you need some inspiration check out the Gallery!

Go a little crazy today & have fun!

Local Bus Trip to the National Book Festival!

For local folks who would like to go to the National Book Festival on Saturday, September 26, 2009:

(If you can't make it to the festival don't worry....go to the website where all the author talks are archived and viewable since the first event in 2001!)

Delta Kappa Gamma is running a bus trip to the Festival if you need a ride.

An ELITE motorcoach will pick up on the K-Mart parking lot in Lebanon at 6:30 AM and return at 9:00 PM with a brief stop each way at a fast food restaurant.

In DC the bus will drop off and later pick up on the Mall where the festival takes place. Round trip fee is $30.

For reservvtions, send check to: Barbara Tobias, 2165 Long Lane, Lebanon, PA 17046.

Checks should be made to Delta Kappa Gamma and sent on or before 9/1/09.

Please include:

Name
Address
Phone Number
Number in Group
Amount of check ($30 per person)

Questions? Contact Priscilla Swanger, 272-0239 or Gloria Wentling, 876-2202

Library Geek Wants to Know What You Are Passionate About!

Love your library? Get your geek on by going to this site to take in the message, enjoy the visuals, show your support, and check out the resources!

GeektheLibrary.Org wants you to know that:

(from their About page)

"It's All About You. Turn your passions into support.

No matter who you are, there are things you are passionate about—things you geek. Maybe you geek engineering or hip hop. Maybe you are passionate about composting, schooners or vampires. Or maybe you just geek the weather.

Whatever you geek, serious or fun, the public library supports you.

The Geek the Library project is a community-based public awareness campaign aimed at spreading the word about the vital and growing role of your public library, and to raise awareness about the critical funding issues many U.S. public libraries face.

The Goal

The campaign hopes to inspire a conversation about our incredible public libraries and their urgent need for increased support. We hope you tell people what you geek, how the public library supports you and your community, and that everyone in your community benefits from the services your local library provides.

The Rule

The campaign will not support or oppose any candidate for public office, nor attempt to influence legislation.

The Sponsors

The campaign is sponsored by OCLC, a nonprofit library cooperative that has provided services to help libraries deliver more to their users for four decades. Supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OCLC partnered with Chicago-based marketing communications agency Leo Burnett USA to create the campaign."

Libraries to Die For . . .

What an amazing site! And this entry titled The Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries is just stunning! (So stunning, in fact, that Miss Bun has been afflicted with the vapors since viewing it!)

Curious Expeditions is a travel/history site with a distinctive and appealing Victorian flavor brought to you by D and M, intrepid explorers who "are devoted to unearthing and documenting the wondrous, the macabre and the obscure from around the globe." (D & M evidently abide in Brooklyn, NY.)

You will find engaging narrative as well as interesting photography here. Be sure to take some time to explore the categories on the lower right hand side of the site.

I especially encourage you to click on the Pennsylvania link under Geographic Particulars for a look at some of our state's more curious and intriguing places and artifacts.


Enjoy!

Papercrafting = Folding Trees....

I'm not sure why (Hmmm....what would Sigmund say?) but many "book people" I know also love paper crafts.

If you fall into that category you will love this site: Folding Trees - the best tutorials and paper creations online!

Here you will find all kinds of creative things to do with paper from bookmarks to boxes, to books & journals, to paper models, origami, papercutting, & tons more!

This obvious labor of love is a collaboration between two women: Eve in New Zealand and June in Canada who "aim ... to collect the best tutorials we have found on the net, inspire you by highlighting amazing paper creations from talented artists and crafters, and share our own paper crafts and tutorials."

Be sure to check out today's entry: Altered Book Art to see some totally amazing things some folks are doing with old books.

Find yourself in desperate need of some really cute bookmarks? Fire up your printer and go here: Chick Bookmark.



Well, Peeps, that should get you started. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Papercrafting!

P.S. If you really just must run with scissors at least put point guards on them first....ok?

TGIFF! Introducing the "Fast-Paced Time-Wasting Word Game". . .

DeepLeap!

The object of the game is to get the highest score possible in a round.

You do this by making words of the 75 letter tiles dropped onto the screen (one at a time) & the game calculates your points earned per word.

It's important to be quick and accurate because points are taken away for words not in the dictionary (Like misspellings! Woe to the clumsy typist!) and letters not used.

Miss Bun has been enchanted with this game for the past week. She is certain you will like it too!

Enjoy!

P.S. The site claims this game is still in the demo stage but we have not noticed any glitches.

Hey, Bibliophiles! Start A New Collection!

The Bookmark Collector is very cool blog about bookmarks by Alan Irwin (who is professionally a senior software engineer for a company in Santa Barbara, CA.)

What can you blog about bookmarks, you may ask?

Miss Bun says to keep reading and find out...

In each blog entry there are links to bookmarks in the news, links on making your own bookmarks, bookmarks for sale, and online bookmark collections.

There is also a Collecting Bookmarks Group in Yahoo groups you can join.


Mr. Irwin seems like a very interesting, well traveled, talented guy so also check out his other blog: Alan Irwin's Blog.

You'll be glad you did!