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From one of my favorite web comics, Toothpaste For Dinner.

Come craft away with me.

If you're anything like me, from time to time you get these grand ideas about projects and crafts that will be oh-so-trendy yet oh-so-easy. 

If you're anything like me, these projects rarely work out. 

Since attending the craft festival this weekend in Cave Spring, Ga., the itch to craft has become … itchier.

Here are a couple interesting ideas from Readymade magazine, a bimonthly do-it-yourself instructional handbook. It's a crafter's dream. And who's to stop me from dreaming?

This updated suitcase lookes delighfully retro with just a small addition. 

This inventive bookcase is way too complicated for my pitiful crafting skills, but I'm drawn to it's eclectic, home-y and geometric look. 

I'm currently working on re-covering four chairs that live on our backporch with a nice printed fabric and sewing a matching tablecloth. I'll let you know how the crafting goes. 

Random Newsroom Outbursts, Vol. 1

One of the things I love about my new job is working in an environment where you are constantly interacting with others.

No, there's never a dull moment in the newsroom.

Because a career in journalism requires a certain amount of – how shall I put it? – loquaciousness, it is only natural that newsroom conversation be thoroughly saturated with sarcasm, hilarity and the delightfully absurd.

Here are just a few tidbits from my growing Post-it note collection of newsroom absurdities.

• On my very first day, someone sang Poison's greatest ballad. "Eeeevry roooose has it's thooooorn." But why? The world may never know, but every cowboy has his sad, sad song.

• "Oh yeah, that sounds like an interesting story...NOT."


• The Web editor's ringtone is the theme song to "The Golden Girls."


• "Steve, wanna go to the strip club? Go ahead!"


• (singing) "The Looooooooove Boooooooat!"


• I passed an isolated desk in the Past Times section (not in the newsroom and therefore much more dull) and heard a person snoring behind his computer.

• "Ugh, I am so behind the times. Do you know how many recreational drugs I need to be trying?"

• "Who's the floozy on the train?!"

• In my first week, I was drafted to judge a Play-Doh sculpture contest between the Features Editor and one of the primary photographers. They were making tigers. I chose the editor's because his had stripes.

• "Oh, so what was your Boy Scout troop called? The shimmering dragonflies?"

Some of these don't even make sense to me, I'll admit.

If you're worried that my coworkers' obvious mental complications might rub off on me, be comforted in knowing that I am extremely resilient when it comes to avoiding unwanted influences. It's become hard in the past weeks, what with the high concentration of crazy and all. But you know how it goes …

… all in a day's work.

For future reference…

People know when you link to their blogs. Or at least Aunt Carol does.

I didn't realize this little tidbit of information and thought that no one knew about this blog yet. Silly me. This is a lesson many people should learn about the internet: someone aaaaaalways knoooows. Dum, dum, dummm.

Well, now that you know, Welcome!

If you (like someone I know) are confused about the name, LilyPutty is supposed to bring to mind that wonderful, sticky, gooey, play-doughy concoction Silly Putty.

I hope this blog will be equally delightful, though the chances are small.

I should be getting ready for my new job as ace reporter (read: intern) for the local newspaper. In case you haven't heard the big news, old people did stuff at Berry College. I was on the scene to investigate.

Look, Ma! I'm a real reporter!

I got a job with the Rome News-Tribune, the local paper in my town. I'm so excited; I feel like a real, honest-to-goodness newspaper woman. It'll definitely be a lot different working for a daily newspaper, unlike The Cluster (the student newspaper of Mercer University, of which I am the Editor In Chief) which is a biweekly publication. I have to arrive on the job in a mere 10 hours, so I should probably get some sleep. I'll definitely keep you (meaning cyberspace, since I haven't told anyone about this here blog thingy) updated on my adventures in the newsroom.

In other news, I'm planning on shooting a movie with my friends Molly and Emma Hatch. Molly wrote a screenplay for one of classes at SCAD, and let me tell you, it's a real gem. I won't give away any of the tantalizing plot details, but you should know that it involves a talking apple, Jesus, and Bonnie Tyler's 80's hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Yeah, it's that good.