Around the Neighborhood: Shade and Shaders Edition
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Booking Through Thursday
Book Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you have
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The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
Read for the It’s the End of the World II and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. In the city of Ember, the only sources of light are gigantic floodlights over the city, which go out at night, leaving the city in complete darkness. Outside of the city is the Unknown Region, where no one ever goes,
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Knitting Notes
I was on a bit of a roll yesterday and finished off part two of the mystery sock. It definitely helps that the gusset went a heck of a lot quicker then the rest of the foot. I did manage to fudge the largest part of the cable on one side, but I was able
Knitting Notes
I haven’t had a ton of knitting time this week, so I’ve spent it working on my Sockdown socks. I’m definitely enjoying Eunice. The pattern is interesting, but not too difficult. And I love, love, love this Malabrigo yarn. I can’t even begin to describe how nice it is to work with. (And how much
Spiral Hunt – Margaret Ronald
Read for the Once Upon a Time III Reading Challenge. Evie Scelan works days as a courier in Boston, but she has the magical ability to scent out missing people and objects, and also occasionally takes jobs finding things. It’s a balancing act – using her ability to help people, but not bring herself to
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Knitting Notes
I went on a bit of a yarn winding spree on Sunday night (a good activity to do after a long day of driving). All this was with the intent of starting the following projects: For May Sockdown #1, I cast on the Eunice socks from the new Cookie A book, out of my brand
Weekend
I’m back from a rather whirl wind trip Downeast for the weekend. The main reason for the trip was so that my father and I could attend a workshop at the Woodlawn Museum where we learned to make our own painted canvas floorclothes. Since I have pretty much no native artist ability, I chose to
The Nibelungenlied
Read for the Once Upon a Time III and TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenges. The Nibelungenlied is an epic German poem written in approximately 1200 AD. If you’ve taken any music history, you’ve likely heard of it through the lens of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, though this is only one source for the
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