For those of you who are craving a real life bite of the Book It nostalgia, you may have a Pizza Hut Classics location near you…
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Yay, a new tracking page! Thank you so much! 
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Prompt: Tea-riffic (March)
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: LL journal page
Project Link: A Sampling of Whatever Journal Pages
Brief Description: This is my book fair project. It’s loosely inspired by some of the lettering Meg does in Love Lettering. (Prompt justification admin: The background is brown.)
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Prompt: Be berry proud (March)
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: Thing-a-Day scraps page
Project Link: A Sampling of Whatever Journal Pages
Brief Description: This has a bunch of small bits from my February daily life.
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Prompt: Zap 2
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: Back page
Project Link: A Sampling of Whatever Journal Pages
Brief Description: This is one of the last pages in the journal.
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Prompt: Shell-ibration (March)
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: Quotes journal page
Project Link: A Sampling of Whatever Journal Pages
Brief Description: These quotes and divider doodles are on a white, striped (lined) page.
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Pin Event: Reading Rainbow (Green…I’ve abandoned rainbows and am chasing individual colors instead, I know I can’t mix and match)
Prompt: You’re a big dill (green and bumpy)
Team: Veggie Vigilantes
Project Name: Welted fingerless gloves - going green
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Brief Description: My son wanted their own pair of mitts after seeing their sister’s. They chose the green yarn. They reminded me of pickles even before I saw the prompt (especially the light green cuffs).
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Pin Event: Reading Rainbow (Yellow…I’ve abandoned full rainbows and am chasing individual colors instead, I know I can’t mix and match)
Prompt: You butter believe it (the top quilt is bound in a buttery yellow)
Team: Veggie Vigilantes
Project Name: Re-binding the couch quilts
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: We have some lap quilts on the couch that have been well loved over the past two decades. The binding on both was falling to bits, it was shredded and constantly losing pieces. Despite not having any experience with quilting, I took it upon myself to mend them. I picked some coordinating fabrics from my stash, and got to work. I sewed the first yellow binding by machine. The blue quilt was in worse shape, so I hand sewed it. It took ages, but they are both lovely and functional once more.
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Prompt: March Battle: Personal
Team: Cheese Trustees
Project Name: Custom Paint AlphaSmart
Project Link: Word Processor Repaint
Brief Description: Even though it could be used for professional purposes, I shall be using it for personal projects.
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Pin Event: Reading Rainbow (Orange)
Prompt: Big Time (even a small embroidery takes so. much. time. I had no idea.)
Team: Veggie Vigilantes
Project Name: California Poppy Embroidery
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Brief Description: My son and I took a free embroidery class together and were sent home with this project. I finally finished it!
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Those are lovely!
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Prompt: March - Shell-ibration
Team: Cheese Trustees
Project Name & Page Link: Wonder Woman Donation Quilt
Brief Description: This simple kids quilt features stripes of Wonder Woman fabrics gifted to me by Smmart, and is quilted with swirly loop patterns.
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Prompt: Zap #1
Team: Cheese Trustees
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Brief Description: I don’t often go anywhere that earrings really matter, so I don’t wear them often. But I don’t want my holes to close either so I made some simple earrings that can pretty much go with everything and are comfortable to wear consistently until I’m dressing up and want a change.
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Prompt: You butter believe it (March)
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: Marvel calendar page envelopes
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: These are used on top of mail. Sort of.
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Prompt: Personal (March Battle)
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: MLP calendar page envelopes
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: I wouldn’t advise using these for professional correspondence…
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Sneaking in my Craftlympics project ahead of the deadline!
Prompt: Big Time 1
Team: Pepperoni Posse
Project Name: Curling ATC trio
Project Link: Curling ATeeCs
Brief Description: I went with curling for my sport. These have a loose interpretation of the house and T line.
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Book Fair Event Part 1…
Here’s my list of books! I feel like my favorites and perspectives are always shifting, so no guarantees these will be the same if you ask me later. 
Books I loved in childhood:
Crockett Johnson: Harold and the Purple Crayon - I just loved the very simple illustrations and it always got my imagination going, because Harold is drawing the world around him.
Ezra Jack Keats: The Snowy Day - I remember having this book completely memorized so I could “read” it to other people before I could actually read. Ezra Jack Keats’ illustrations are so captivating.
Gertrude Chandler Warner: The Boxcar Children series - basically all of them, because I loved a good kids’ mystery… but I especially loved The Mystery Behind the Wall where they found an old notebook in between a double wall that sent them on an adventure. I was always obsessed (and maybe still am) with hoping I’d find treasures or mysteries stashed in secret places in the wall, haha!
A.A. Milne: The World of Pooh - I found this thick hardcover edition in my grandparents’ basement when I was pretty young. I ended up keeping it and carrying it around everywhere for a long time, and I loved to read all those old familiar stories and see those original little drawings. I still have this old, tattered book!
Books I’ve loved as an adult:
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince - I was somehow never introduced to The Little Prince until college, so I didn’t experience it as a child, and I have never thought of it as a children’s book; rather, a book to remind us to look at the world with childlike wonder, and to be thoughtful with our actions.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Gathering Moss - Oh my gosh, she is such a magical human who can weave together stories and history snf culture and science. I know that Braiding Sweetgrass is her big popular book, but this book grabbed my heart and inspired me to carry a hand lens everywhere in case I wanted a better look at the tiny things all around us.
Ashley Shew: Against Techo-ableism - I tend to read a lot more non-fiction than fiction, and there have been a whole bunch of new books on disability written by disabled authors in the past several years that are fantastic. If I could only recommend one book on ableism, I think it might be this one, as it is fairly concise but brings up a lot of specific issues and situations that I haven’t heard many others discussing.
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hopping back in for my CRAFTLYMPICS event submission!
Prompt: Big Time Project #1
Team: Cheese Trustees
Project Name: Spiffed-up ParaBiathlon Target
Project Link: Colorful Dot Mandala (acrylic on canvas)
Brief Description: I love the biathlon and parabiathlon, and I honestly think the paralympics are a lot more interesting and exciting to watch. In the parabiathlon, the targets are actually smaller than in the traditional olympic event, but they are placed closer to the firing range. One of the adaptations for visually-impaired athletes is a slightly bigger version of the smaller target (that is still oy 21mm in diameter). This target is even a little bit bigger than that, haha.
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Event: Craftlympics
Prompt: Big Time
Team: Veggie Vigilantes
Project Name: Shane Hollander’s Fleece Jacket
Project Link: Shane Hollander's Fleece Jacket Repro
Brief Description: For the Craftlympics challenge I made a reproduction of fictional hockey player Shane Hollander’s fleece jacket from the Sochi Olympics in Heated Rivalry.
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Library Visit 7: Due March 21
You filled your bag with books this week, from all different sections. Variety is the spice of life, after all! This week, do something outside of your usual routine, or choose something different than your usual choice.
Did you mix it up?
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sneaking in just under the wire to submit my project for the BOOK FAIR EVENT
Inspired by one of my favorite books, Gathering Moss
Prompt: March - Tea-rific
Team: Cheese Trustees
Project Name: Mini Moss Painting
Project Link: Rainy Sunday Mini Painting
Brief Description: This little painting used some liquid (paint), and is also nature-based/inspired!
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Also just wanted to remind everyone that TODAY is the deadline to enter the BOOK FAIR EVENT GIVEAWAY!
The gift certificate prize can be for ANY bookseller of your choosing (except A-zon, sorry) as long as I am able to purchase it online and email to you! (I do also have a small list of stores/sellers if you’re stuck trying to come up with one!)
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Prompt: research project
Team: cheese trustees
Project Name: Bear blanket
Project Link: Starry bear blanket
Brief Description: I designed and crocheted this blanket
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Prompt: research project
Team: cheese trustees
Project Name: blue forest blanket
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Brief Description: I started this blanket a few years ago. I finally got around to finishing it!
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OOHMYGOSH Holy cannoli both of those blankets are so beautiful! I’m so impressed by your design skills on that first one, it’s so magical. And the second one is so cozy and I love those colors!
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