We Have Thumbs

Ohmygosh, this is my website! It’s far from finished, please excuse the dust as I kick things around and play with my settings and make up logos and generally get things pretty; around here.

But hi! I’m Emily, and this is the blog and website to go with my podcast which will be appearing here very soon.

“We have thumbs?” I hear you saying cautiously, “What are you ON about?” Well, uh, I’m kinda ridiculous sometimes. I amuse myself, that’s the main thing. The point of the show is that I know a lot of really cool people. They make things, and I make things, and it’s pretty much always cool stuff. I don’t remember where I got the idea for the name, I was probably sleep deprived at the time (I think I was at a con), and I was thinking about how awesome my thumbs are, and how it’s opposable thumbs that separate us from most animals, and how I use my thumbs to threaten my computer when it’s misbehaving. Granted, this is more difficult with my laptop than with my PC, but if I pull that plug the laptop will run out of juice eventually! So from there it was a short step to “We make cool things ’cause we have THUMBS!” And I thought; I was just being goofy, but everybody I told seemed to like it, and lo and behold, it was pretty much the first thing I came up with that actually had an available domain, so here we are. Nice, eh?

Right, so, the show. Like I said, I have a lot of people in my life who make very cool things. Each episode I’ll be talking to one or more of these people about the things they do, and how, and why, and so on. I’m plannign to cover topics like crafting for production, talk to married couples who are both makers, makers with kids, just lots of things. I’m going to start putting previews up soon, but just as a teaser the people I’ll be talking to involve writers, musicians, artists of many stripes, crafters, leatherworks, fiber artists, and some REALLY weird stuff. This isn’t another knitting podcast, but it will be discussed a lot since I’m a knitter and a spinner, but I’m hoping there will be something for everyone here.

So welcome! I’ll be putting up more information later this week and working on the website, and there will be an announcement once I get a schedule together.

Thanks for reading!