I don’t know what’s up with my tomatoes this year. My mother was just telling me how hers were pretty slow this year. Meanwhile, I’ve had to add a second tier to the cages to contain mine, and I pulled out the Swiss chard from between them because it was getting too shaded out (bearing […]
Pattern: Little Coffee Bean Cardigan by Elizabeth SmithYarn: Quince and Co Lark in the Bark colorway, Cascade 220 Heathers 9489 (red) and Quince and Co Osprey in the Peacock colorwayNeedles: Size 7 DPNs and Circs and Size 8 DPNs and Circs Here’s the Coffee Bean Cardi – all done. I’m pretty happy with it. I
Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding, but no money. When her father died, she was forced to live with her uncle, a cruel man who wants nothing to do with her, and whose sole efforts on her behalf are to engage her to a local mill owner. Lucy can’t see any ways
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This is the second book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, where we find Mendanbar, the King of the Enchanted Forest, in a bit of a pickle with the local wizards. In an attempt to enlist the help of the King of the Dragons, Mendanbar mets Kazul’s Princess, Cimorene, who is just about to go looking
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I was almost done with the Hermione Hearts Ron hat when I realized there was no way I had enough yarn. However, I had gone up a needle size to compensate for my tight knitting, and I was able to determine that the hat was plenty stretchy, so I went ahead and ripped it out,
I’d collected a number of Jane Austen knocks off a few years back, when they were especially popular, and I’m still working my way through that back log. While most were of Pride and Prejudice, this one is a take off of my second favorite Austen book – Persuasion. Set in the modern day, Annie
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Due to an ill timed tornado watch on Thursday evening, despite it being a holiday, I got up at my regular work time on the 4th so I could be at Maxwell’s Farm when they open at 8:00. The above was the fruits (pun intended, hardy har) of my labors. 13 pounds later. I was
So, what do you follow a deep, dark dystopian treatise on the human condition with? Soft core fantasy porn. I’ve decided that’s really the best way to characterize the Black Jewels books. They’re completely written from a women’s point of view, and are totally a guilty pleasure. It does help that they have a unique
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In this book, Britain has been divided into four separate countries, based on the old theory of body humors and the personalities associated with them – sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic. There is no interaction between the new countries – you’re considered contaminated if you do. When the country is divided, every single person is
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