some of my favorite links:

http://www.turtlemoon.com/  web site for Susan Shie and James Acord, art quilt artist and leather artist

http://shopgoodwill.com   another great source for vintage items

http://www.quiltingarts.com   my favorite magazine

http://quiltart.com   the place for art quilts

http://lallyschool.rpi.edu  my day job as manager for the MBA program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

http://www.bolandschool.com  my son, Kyle, is an Irish step dancer, and this is his school.  We travel all over the Northeast to feisanna, dancing competitions.

http://www.somersetstudio.com/html/somerset_studio_magazine.html Somerset Studio magazine

http://www.meinketoy.com/     Meinke Toy, source of embellishment supplies

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus - helps creativity

http://www.dimensional.com/~jthomas/oblique/ Oblique Strategies, a virtual card deck to help you with strategy

http://www.thebeachcomber.com/beach/       the Atlantic Ocean web cam site

http://www.darkpassage.com/gate.htm  a good place to find out about urban exploration

michele's favorites:

favorite music:       any  Irish music, especially Danu, Solas, Gaelic Storm, Eileen Ivers, Riverdance,

                              Lord of the Dance. 

                              Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

                              Byzantine Chant

                                                  October Project

                                                  Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kate Bush, Madonna

favorite color     blue, teal, turquoise, aquamarine cobalt, turquoise, cerulean.... & periwinkle! 

                         and of course acid chartreuse green, maybe a coral fuchsia... i just like the color names.

favorite sea shell     abalone

favorite places   Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

                          Waterford and surrounding areas, Ireland

                          Chenango Valley State Park, Chenango Forks, NY

                                  Columbus, Ohio and Lowell, MA, where I have good times with artist friends

                           Binghamton, Johnson City, Vestal, Endicott, NY, where I grew up

                           Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY near where I live now

favorite clothing     jeans, clogs, and a soft fleece shirt in the winter

                                                  jeans, teva sandals, and a soft cotton shirt in the summer

                                                  although i am learning to like tencel, it's soft too

favorite people    my three cats, and the rest of you know who you are

favorite dumb joke          why did the spider cross the road?  because it was stapled to the chicken.

to be continued..
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