Crafty, after a fashion

While thinking about rubylou's thread about the Church of Craft, and whether or not I do anything "craft"-y, I remembered something. Something I see almost every day, and certainly every post to LJ:

My notebook.

Here, let me show you:



I got the idea to start making my ThinkPad look like an old, 1930's steamer trunk about a year ago. Ulrika and I were in a stationery and gift store called Raku in Claremont, Calif. (where my alma mater, Pomona College is). And they had these cool hotel stickers.

What's interesting is that all four of those old hotels are still in business. Three have websites:

The Dolder Grand, in Zurich.
The Hotel Excelsior, in Napoli.
The Hotel Majapahit, in Surabaya, Indonesia. (This one's changed its name from the sticker. On the sticker, it's the Orange Hotel, in Makassar. The Dutch didn't fare well when they were kicked out of Indonesia, and many names changed under the first independent president, Sukarno. Go read C.J. Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously. As relatively good as the movie by Peter Weir is, the book is better.)

(But I digress. {cough})

Nonetheless, if I'm in a business meeting with a whole bunch of like-a-look black IBM ThinkPads (think about Legally Blonde here), there ain't gonna be too much question which one is mine. :)