The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

The Quiet Book Revealed!

The Quiet Book Revealed!

So a few of you have been asking about this quiet book. On Christmas eve, I finally got it done! Lots of photos ahead...
I made two of these, one for my niece and one for my son (What was I thinking making 2?!). It was fabulously fun, but time consuming. Far more than I thought!
They were basically the same, except my niece's one had a girlier cover and a few different pages that I forgot to photograph. I generally just made 2 of everything as I went. Here is the cover on hers:, using one of my fav Cath Kidston fabrics! (and crappy phone camera).

The process:

• Has excited me.
• Hogged my time.
• Cost me (lots) of money (mainly because I bought tools I didn't yet have, like an eyelet punch and snap punch etc).
• Bored me.
• Frazzled me
• Expanded my skills
• Satisfied me.

But its done and I am very pleased with it. Josiah loves it! And it works! (The keeping him quiet bit!).
It definitely needs supervision at this age though (20 months). The pieces go flying lost all over the room if you're not there to guide and coach :)

For those of you that like templates and tutorials, sorry but I don't have any. I have mentioned a few links along the way to some templates I used... but mainly I just made it up and cut out pieces as I went, or printed a clip-art template on paper and traced around it and cut. Its pretty easy.

Materials:

• Felt (a tonne! Maybe 40 sheets of colour?)
• Stiff felt for page base.
• Velcro
• Snap studs
• Eyelets
• giant Scrapbooking rings
• Hot glue
• Goggle eyes
• Sewing machine and thread
• Printable fabric
• Zipper
• Other random bits and bobs, fabric scraps :)

I got a lot of inspiration by compiling a Pinterest board. Here is mine if you want to look: http://pinterest.com/jaclynlk/qb/
Also, this blog is a good one! How to Make a Quiet Book

And now for photos...

 The cover. Fabric from a local quilting store... cotton ...not sure who by but so cool!
I couldn't decide what to do for the cover for ages. I originally thought a title would be nice, "Josiah's quiet book', but then the thought of making each of my consecutive children a quiet book each daunted me so much so that I thought I'd rather keep it multi-child user friendly! Hence the fabric being fairly gender neutral as well.

 The button closure is a fake! Button is for cuteness, but Velcro is easier for little hands.

 Noah's ark Page. My zipper was too long really, but didn't have any more in my craft stash and was impatient to get the pages finished NOW (how unusual of me ;p)
Rainbow and portholes made on printable fabric. Dolphins are iron on appliqués I had lying around in my stash from when I was about 14. Hence their dorkiness. I don't love them, I'll be honest. But now they're ironed on securely :( !

 Finger puppets inside the ark, bought from eBay for a few dollars delivered. Pack of 10.

 Token mailbox page. You gotta do it. Its so cute! Paper and pen on opposite page for writing their own letters to 'post' (perhaps in a few years!).
Think I used a template from Serving Pink Lemonade for my basic layout.

 Fabric envelopes addressed to my boy.

 Fabric letter written to him.

Bagi komputer yang terhubung dengan internet, biasanya windows secara default akan melakukan update sendiri yang dikenal dengan Automatic Windows Update. Untuk internet dengan koneksi broadband saya rasa ada baiknya Update ini selalu dijalankan untuk tetap menjaga security update dan agar komputer kita tidak rentan terhadap malware yang menggangu kestabilan komputer. Namun bagi yang menggunakan koneksi dial up (seperti saya ), automatic update ini ternyata dapat memperlambat koneksi internet kita. Karena diam-diam proses update ini dapat mengambil jatah koneksi internet sampai 20%, dengan melakukan download file update-an yang menyebabkan koneksi internet kita “lambreta”. Nah, supaya tidak terjadi demikian kita dapat mengembalikan kecepatan koneksi internet dengan mengurangi jatah bandwidth proses update tersebut. Berikut tahapannya:

1. Klik Start – Run masukan ”gpedit.msc maka akan muncul windows policy.
2. Setelah itu pilih : Local Computer Policy – Computer Configuration – Administrative Templates – Network – QOS Packet Schedule.
3. Lalu pada kolom sebelah kanan klik Limit Reservable Bandwidth, disitu tertulis Not Configured – maka double klik sampai muncul tampilan baru, Limit reservable bandwidth Properties.
4. Pilih Enabled dan turunkan nilainya menjadi 10%, 5% atau Nol kalau perlu, lalu klik OK.

Namun mengingat keamanan komputer kita juga adalah hal yg penting, kita dapat melakukan update secara manual. Caranya dapat dilihat pada cara update manual pada windows. Adapun bagi sobat yang menggunakan windows yang bukan asli alias bajakan maka sebaiknya dinon-aktifkan saja update ini, silahkan baca caranya pada 3 Cara Mendisable atau Menon-aktifkan Automatic Updates pada Windows. Karena sebetulnya percuma saja melakukan update, karena proses update itu sendiri tidak akan sempurna jika dideteksi bahwa PC yang kita gunakan adalah tiruan.

gembira bagi netter dan pecinta download, teknologi masa depan sudah di depan mata. Koneksi internet super cepat hingga 1 Gigabit per detik kini sudah hadir. Baru-baru ini Google telah mengungkap layanan koneksi internet tercepatnya itu di Kansas, Missouri. Layanan internet milik Google ini menggunanakan fiber optik dalam layanan Google Fiber guna memberikan kecepatan koneksi internet yang jauh lebih baik dan menawarkan kecepatan transfer data yang paling cepat dari layanan internet manapun di dunia ini.
Raja pencarian web ini mengungkap layanan internet ultra-cepat google fiber miliknya ini di Kansas, Missouri. Layanan milik Google ini adalah sebuah terobosan baru dan pelopor sejak adanya koneksi internet tercepat, broadband sejak tahun 2000-an. Menurut exsekutifnya, akan mulai melakukan proyek instalasinya pada bulan September dan akan meneruskan proyeknya ke kota-kota lain setelahnya. Berikut gambar ilustrasi masterplan proyek Google ini:

Koneksi Google Fiber sementara ini diaplikasikan pada koneksi internet fiber optik itu sendiri dan televisi (web). Dengan layanan ini para pengguna dapat mencari channel TV dengan tayangan live (langsung), Netflix, streaming Youtube dengan cepat tentunya layaknya TV kabel. Google Fiber juga dilengkapi dengan lebih dari 100 Networks dan berharga $120 per bulannya untuk paket TV, 1 Gigabit per detik kecepatan internet dan tempat penyimpanan data (cloud storage) sebesar 1 terabyte atau seribu Gigabyte. Paket layanan dalam Google fiber ini juga dilengkapi dengan jaringan-jaringan multimedia populer seperti Comcast Corp’s NBC Universal, Discovery Communications dan Viacom Inc. Dan menurut pihak google sendiri jaringan dalam layanan google fiber ini sendiri masih akan ditambah dan sedang melakukan negosiasi dengan penguasa-penguasa multimedia lainnya.
Namun sayangnya layanan Google Fiber ini belum bisa dinikmati secara gratis atau minimal dengan harga yang murah. Dan menurut saya sendiri memang sangat wajar, karena bukan rahasia lagi layanan internet di negeri inipun sungguh menyedihkan. Jadi fair-fair saja Google mematok harga yang “lumayan” untuk sebuah layanan yang “super”. Selain paket di atas, google juga menawarkan paket internet saja dengan biaya $70/mo dengan kecepatan 1 gigabit per detik itu sendiri.
Untuk terminologi 1 gigabit dapat dipahami di sini.