some magazines for sale or trade

I have some fiber arts and crafts magazines that I'd like to trade. Make me an offer. :) I'm interested in yarn, especially sock yarn (even small amounts, since I'm working on babette blankets right now) but pretty much anything basic, knitting or crochet books (my collection is very small, so again, make me an offer) other magazines, your zine, your artwork, etc... Cash would be OK, too- $5 each which would also cover shipping to the USA. For International, we'll have to look it up to work it out.

All are used but in good condition, from a non smoking home:

Fiberarts Magazine September/October 1997 (out of print)
Fiberarts Magazine March/April 1998 (out of print)
Fiberarts Magazine November/December 1997 -out of print
Fiberarts Magazine Summer 1998 (out of print)
Piecework Magazine March/April 1998
Ornament Magazine Summer 1998
Ornament Magazine Spring 1997
Craft Feb/March 1998
Craft June/July 1998
Craft August/September 1998
American Craft August/September 1996
American Craft April/May 1996

Leave me a comment if you're interested. If you want the whole lot in a big flat rate priority mail box, I would love you and send you extra goodies. :)

magazines for sale

I have some magazines, some out of print, for sale on ebay this week. Anyone interested?

Bus Stops I Have Known -- Bus Stop #8

MLK Way and Rainier Ave, South Seattle

I'm a little behind in my bus stop postings, because I was pretty sick this week. So, this bus stop was actually visited a couple of weeks ago.

Overall Bus Stop Ratings (out of 5 stars)

***** User Friendliness. Look at those shelters! Look at the bus stop sign, clearly marked, with schedules! Look, a trash can, newspaper stands, benches! Yes, it looks pretty nice... at first.

**** Interest of Surroundings. This bus stop is very close to a high school, so usually there are a few kids waiting for the bus. Highschool kids are always interesting and amazing to me. They can text message without looking, while talking to another friend and also listening to their ipod. Such multitasking! Plus, I love their dramas, which they are usually very vocal about. They also lack subtleness. Someone is their worst enemy forever or their soulmate. Not a lot of gray areas of friendship in between.

* Architecture of Surroundings. Actually, pretty boring.

*** Personal Safety. It seems pretty safe... at first. But then, a woman was sitting inside the bus shelter, and started yelling at me because where I was standing was blocking her view of... something. The street? Her anger at me degraded into an anger at society in general, which is being corrupted by the government. The president is listening to every conversation through traffic lights. When the light is red, the recorder goes on, and it picks up conversations up to 100 feet away. They also have conversation recorders in cigarettes, so a smoking teenager was her next target of verbal abuse. Luckily for teenager, he casually walked away before she could stand up and get physical. But I wonder if the cigarette recorders have the same range? I'm sure he wasn't 100 feet away from her.

****Creepy Factor. I'm giving it four stars for creepiness, because of the hidden dangers of the wild woman sitting inside the bus shelter. Also, because the whole visit left me thinking about how much work it must be to listen to all of the conversations all over the country happening at red lights. Maybe the president is working harder than we think, if he has to listen to all of that? Wow.

Weird of the Week

Sorry, Internet

Double sorry, because I learned how to put a utube video into my blog. There will be an annoying number of videos now, probably. Forgive me in advance.