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Saturday Snapshot: Quasimodo’s View of Paris

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I’ve been reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo this week, so naturally I have the cathedral on the brain.  I already shared some photos in a previous Saturday Snapshot, though, so I had to come up with a new angle…like the view.

Notre Dame Views (2)The Seine and the Eiffel Tower, from one of Notre Dame’s towers.  I got lots of pictures of the Eiffel Tower and walked under it–I didn’t go up in it, because I was already planning to get the view from Notre Dame.

Notre Dame Views (3)This may look like a complete muddle of rooftops, but look for the gold statues near the center, with the blue dome behind them.  That’s the Opera Garnier, and what photography doesn’t manage to capture is how gloriously those statues seem to shine, even from a distance, even on a cloudy day.

Notre Dame Views (1)And this is not a view from the towers, but it is on a street a block away…  I wonder what Victor Hugo would think?

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Saturday Snapshot: Knitting Cables

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I don’t plan to share every knitting project, but this one is particularly fun visually…  Now that I’m better at knitting and purling, I’m working on cables.  Most recently, I’ve tried knitting cable bracelets.

Knitting CablesI can still only knit rectangles, and it’s amazing what you can do with rectangles!  I watched this video for the pattern.  This is a pretty quick project, more complicated than a scarf but not TOO tough.  I have to actually keep track of rows and count a few stitches for this one, so it’s not as relaxing–but it keeps me from getting bored too!

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Saturday Snapshots: Researching the Phantom

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I’m currently waist-deep in research for a retelling I’m writing of The Phantom of the Opera, and thought I’d share a couple of recent book purchases–which were for research, of course!  They’re very visual so they seemed appropriate for sharing in photos…

Phantom Photos (1)The Paris Opera has some good information about the building…but mostly I bought it because it’s full of gorgeous pictures!  I actually got a copy out of the library, and then decided to buy my own.  How could I resist a giant coffee table book with photos of the Opera Garnier?

Phantom Photos (2)As for Leroux’s Phantom, well, of course I already had a copy (three, in fact–one in French, one good translation, and one bad translation that I highlighted all over–for research) but you see…this one is illustrated!  And it was only four dollars at a used bookstore.  I don’t think either of these points convinced the friend I was with that I’m not crazy…

Phantom Photos (3)I don’t generally buy books for the pictures…though I do have a gorgeously-illustrated copy of Peter Pan.  Hmm, perhaps something to share another Saturday!  Do you have any beautiful books you bought for their illustrations?

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Saturday Snapshot: Botanical Gardens

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Today, a few more pictures from my Vancouver trip.  These are from the botanical gardens, and if you’re ever going to Vancouver, I recommend it!  My camera battery died halfway through the gardens, but I managed a few pretty pictures…

Vancouver Garden (1) Vancouver Garden (2)Vancouver Garden (3)This hedge-maze labyrinth was amazing.  So much fun–big enough to feel like a challenge, but not so big that it got frustrating.  And it amuses me that there’s a “monkey puzzle tree” in the middle!

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Saturday Snapshot: Fingerless Gloves

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I’ve posted a time or two about my knitting projects…  Well, I recently decided I didn’t want to knit another scarf, and I had a somewhat inexplicable hankering for fingerless gloves.

So what did I do?  Naturally I Googled “how to knit easy fingerless gloves” (and I’m pretty sure I landed on this video).  Here’s the result:

Fingerless GlovesThey’re comfy too, even if it’s too warm to really wear them yet…  And they’re my best project yet for sounding complicated when they really weren’t!  It turns out you can knit fingerless gloves even if you can only knit rectangles…

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