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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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
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
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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Pattern: Waving Lace Socks by Evelyn A. Clark from Favorite SocksYarn: Knitpicks Risata in the Woodland Sage colorwayNeedles: 1 1/2 DPNs My Waving Lace socks are done, pretty much just under the wire for March’s Sockdown challenge. This was a fairly easy pattern, and actually a pretty quick knit, when I was working on it.
Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. The Historian begins in Amsterdam in 1972 when a teenage girl discovers a mysterious book in her father’s library. The entire contents of the book are a woodcut dragon and the word Drakulya. From here, the story weaves backward and forward in time, as the girl’s father reluctantly relates
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Pattern: Undulating Waves Scarf by Heather NelkinYarn: Schaefer Heather in the Eleanor Roosevelt colorwayNeedles: size 6 I’d had grander knitting plans for this weekend, but the throat plague of doom put the kibosh on most of that. I did however, finish the Undulating Waves scarf I started back in January for the class I took
Read for the Patricia A McKillip Challenge and the Once Upon a Time III Challenge. This is the story of Sybel, daughter of a line of wizards that live on Eld Mountain. The wizards have called the fantastic animals of the world to them, and Sybel grows up in the company of these magical beasts,
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