And lo, there was bias binding in adequate amounts produced! And it has been attached to the entire front of the Decade Quilt! Yeah, note to self: when one is stopped in the middle of making bias binding from two pieces of fabric by the implosion of the second piece of fabric, make a note […]
It’s January in Maine, so what’s a girl to do? Read gardening books, and lust after activities I cannot possible for several more months. Sigh… The Edible Front Yard – Ivette Soler This book is all about changing your front yard from a typical lawn into an edible plant garden, but doing it in such
In this second book of the Sally Lockhart mysteries, Sally is now settled into life in London. While she works with the photography studio that she founded with Fred and his uncle, she’s also struck out on her own, and does financial advising, mostly for other women. When one of those women comes to her
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Humanity has been taken over by a race called the Souls – parasites that insert themselves into a human’s body, and then live their lives. The original memories of the body are intact, but the person is gone. The Souls have been on Earth for a while, so there are very few ‘wild’ humans left.
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Giannine received a gift certificate for her birthday to the local virtual reality video game center. When she got there, there were protesters outside – something about exposing minors to too much violence. She ran through the crowd anyway, and picked the game Heir Apparent. And just when the game was starting to get somewhere,
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Now, I’ve decided to mostly opt of out reading challenges this year, but I still do have a project in mind. The above is what I’ve labelled as the Tote of Shame in my LibraryThing catalog, because it used to be a tote, but I outgrew that early last year. This is a pretty deep
For New Year’s, we headed over to Vermont, to visit the BF’s family. They’re smack in the middle of the region that was badly effected by Hurricane Irene. Their town (Bennington), was only minorly effected – mostly by the temporary loss of the water supply coming out of the mountains, but the route we take
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I’ve been away from Pern for a while – it was one of my favorite series when I was a teenager, and I’d left off with The Dolphins of Pern – where Thread was seemingly eradicated, and Pern was learning to live with that reality. It seemed a natural enough stopping point, but there were
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Much like the cookbook I just read, I don’t normally read knitting books all the way through. This is also one of the few authors that I will automatically get her next book, even if I haven’t previewed it first. The first part of this book breaks down exactly why socks are different than many
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I had some quality knitting time during our long weekend in Vermont, and I managed to get through charts 1 and 2 in my Galadriel’s Mirror shawl. I’m really enjoying this pattern. I think I’d class it as intermediate level. It’s actually pretty repetitious, so I have a certain amount of it memorized, but there’s