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Denmark has selected the historical drama "The Promised Land", starring Mads Mikkelsen, as its official Oscar entry for Best International Feature. The film has been making the rounds on the festival circuit. It will be released in US theaters on February 2nd, 2024. The trailer is online with English subtitles.

"The Promised Land" is directed by Nikolaj Arcel, who worked with Mikkelsen on the 2012 film "A Royal Affair". Also based on real events, you can read my review on the Drama Movies site. A Royal Affair Film Review

The end of summer nears as a breath of autumn meanders by whispering to trees it is time to reveal hidden brilliant gold and red hues, for gardens to hurry the last of their bounty and nudging our thoughts to cooler days ahead. Time for flannel and warmer clothing to make an appearance. Time to sew!

Sewing with Flannel

To finish our Color Palette eBook, we will add the details to the cover template. You will want to use your own cover graphic, which will work in the Picture Frame that we added to the cover template.

Customize the Color Palette eBook Cover

Now we will add the first graphic that we will use to generate the first color palette, using the Create Palette From Image feature. This could be your own photograph or try one of the royalty free graphic websites such as Pixabay.com.

Populate the Color Palette eBook Pages

In the previous tutorials, we built the Affinity Publisher two-page spread master page for our color palette eBook template. Now we will build a new Master for the eBook Cover.

Color Palette Book Template Cover Master

Now that we have all the design elements on the master page for our color palette eBook template, we are ready to add the other swatches to the canvas.

Color Palette Book Template Master Spread

We set up the new document for the color palette eBook in Affinity Publisher. Now we will start building the master pages for the cover and two-page spread. We will work on the left side of the two-page spread and duplicate that for the other page. Finally, we will build the cover master page.

Color Palette Book Template Design Details

The timeless expression - practice makes perfect, is never truer than when applying a machine-made buttonhole to a carefully sewn garment. The best way to ensure a machine-made buttonhole comes out the way it is expected to look is to make a test buttonhole using a fabric scrap from the project.

Machine-made Buttonhole Tips

Today is her feast day.

https://www.simplycatholic.com/st-teresa-of-calcutta/

I was listening to a book and author talk and the author had written a book about Mother Teresa. It sounds very interesting.
This is the book by Jim Towey about Mother Teresa: To Love and Be Loved