The past three days have been kind of a whirlwind here at 10kH Central.  The vast majority of it’s been spent on a very special project (which I’ll talk about here in a second) and another in-depth project with words (that I’ll talk about later next week), and neither were quite ready for primetime when it came to figgerin’ up the hours on the bloggybits.

Today, though, being Wednesday, and being the day that I usually have about four seconds of free time to rub together anyway, I figured I needed to get something up here so nobody thought I was going AWOL.  (Life’s nuts on Wednesdays.  L&V LIVE! days are inSANE around here…go figure!)

The drawing above is of the Bew-Tee Shoppe and Le Petit Chou, both a part of Oak River’s main street (these are in the Shoppes On Baffington, btw.), which is now about half-done.  I’m working on the scent part of it tomorrow, now that the back-end coding and drawing and such are done, and by tomorrow, the entries will be much, much more exciting, I promise. :)

All in all, the past three days have had 12:48:40 of “official” digital design work (next kit’s almost done), and 9:43:09 of scent/oak river stuff.  It’s been a busy couple days.  :)

Part of the reason I’ve been so busy is because of this:

See, my friend Dani had a dream.  She’s going to school for this highly-technical thing involving sociology and ethnography, and the other day, she said what she really wanted to do was to travel the world, interviewing knitters and spinners (primarily), to compile the data into some kind of book or project that would examine the cultural and ethnographic significance of modern handcrafts.

Now, despite the fact that my own answer would probably just be “BECAUSE THE YARN IS THE PRETTY, duh…”, I asked Dani why she wasn’t out travelling already.  She said she had to wait until she graduated.  Or until she had the money.  Or until she didn’t have anything else planned for the summer.  Essentially, every single excuse I’ve ever used to NOT do something I look back on now and think Whoa, I totally should have done that.

So I challenged that idea.  Why couldn’t she start living out the dream now?  Why shouldn’t you start amassing this data, this experience right now??   What are you WAITING FOR, WOMAN?

And now, she’s not waiting.

July 1 – 24th, Dani will be travelling the entire eastern side of the USA — nine cities ranging from Las Vegas (where she’s at) to right here in Greensboro, NC, and points inbetween.  She’s going to knitting groups and yarn shops and prayer shawl ministries.  She’s talking to knitters at events at local stores and famous designers, knitters, and yarn professionals, all across the country.

(I made her little graphicbits.)

This is where you come in.  Help Dani put this project together and make this dream a reality.  Help her publish this examination of how fiber arts and crafts have affected modern culture, and how they’re both different in every region and the same.  It’d rock to see academia take note of the way what we do has meaning.

Every dollar counts.  She’s looking for some corporate/business sponsorship (with related advertising benefits available to donators), but also for contributions from folks like you.  Even $5 helps, and if you have it, $25 will get you not only 2 oz. of a super-exclusive blend of Goddess Tea that’s just for contributors, but you’re also thrown into a drawing to have a blend custom made for you, named after you, with a custom label.  (Whether you’re on the label or not is up to you. :>)

And here’s what else I’ll do:  If you donate $25, and send me a copy of the receipt with a note, I’ll send you a download link for EVERYTHING I’VE DONE SO FAR, digitally, plus the third Tiny Art Journal, which hasn’t even been released yet.  So three tiny art journal kits and two digital art kits, in *addition* to what you’re already getting from Dani.

I really want to see this happen, see.  There’s nothing better than watching someone’s dreams come true, except maybe for cheering actively from the sidelines while it’s happening.

::shakes the pom-poms::

Now go make a difference! I’ll have some eyecandy up here tomorrow for you, I’m sure.  :)