Home   About   Blog   Tutorials   Buy my beginner's embroidery e-book "Small Stitches" Subscribe in a reader that twitter thing

  Please note that this blog has moved to carinascraftblog.wardi.dk
  Got a question about something on the blog? Need help with something? Please email me: carinascraftblog AT googlemail DOT com

About

  • Hello! Thank you very much for visiting. My name is Carina and I am a Danish girl living in Essex, England. I am happily married to a sweet and funny English guy.

    I spend as much time as I can making things: crocheting, drawing, sewing, painting, embroidery + more. You will find lots of colour, plenty of crochet and the occasional tutorial. I hope you enjoy your visit - it is lovely to have you here. More...

Contact me:

  • carinascraftblog at googlemail dot com
  • I very much appreciate all comments and emails, so don't be shy! I do read every comment and email, but can be a bit slow to reply. My apologies!

Copyright
+ Fair Use

  • All content copyright 2006-2010 Carina Envoldsen-Harris. All rights reserved.

    Please don't use my images and/or words without permission. If you are nice enough to ask, I will probably be nice too and let you use it. Please read this

Happy shopping

Labels

  • Clicking on the links in this dropdown menu will take you to the page of the chosen label on the new version of this blog.

Archives

  • Clicking on the links in this dropdown menu will take you to the page of the chosen month on the new version of this blog.

Nuts'n'bolts




Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Let's hope it's not hypergolic

Some more favourite words from Wordsmith.org

Acidulous. Somewhat sour in taste or in manner.
Caustic. 1. Capable of burning or corroding. 2. Highly critical; sarcastic.
Vitriolic. Extremely caustic; bitterly scathing.
Senectitude. Old age.
Transpontine. 1. Across the bridge. 2. Situated on the south side of the Thames River in London. 3. Melodramatic (alluding to the type of dramas once performed in theaters south of the Thames).
Facetiae. Witty or humorous remarks or writings.
Hypergolic. Igniting on contact.
Nonce. 1. The present or immediate occasion. 2. The time being.
Fustian. Bombastic: marked by pretentiousness or pomposity.
Abderian. Given to excessive or incessant laughter.
Nosism. The use of 'we' in referring to oneself.
Aliterate. One who is capable of reading but not interested in it.

Labels:

Bookmark and Share

scribbled by Carina 3/26/2008 09:22:00 AM


Please note: as of December 2009 this blog has moved to carinascraftblog.wardi.dk, and commenting has been disabled on this version of the blog. If you would like to leave a comment please follow the link and use the archive or label links to find the post in its new place. Also, if you have followed a link or bookmark to this post, please update it as this 'old' version may not stay live forever. Thank you.






Older posts (by month)

Clicking on the links in this dropdown menu will take you to the page of the chosen month on the new version of this blog.