I don’t think I’ve done a state of the Tote of Shame post in a while. You’ll notice it’s a bookcase. Why call it the Tote of Shame, then? Because it started out a long time ago as a tote. And when I bought a new bedside table, and this became available, the tote was […]
Thanks to a spectacularly awesome Kindle Daily deal last week, between the Tote of Shame (3), and my Kindle (8), I’m sitting on a number of Georgette Heyer books I have yet to read. So when this challenge came through my Feedly feed, I had to jump on it. The idea is to read at
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With my last project squeaking in just under the wire today, here’s what I’ve managed to do this year. The Evenstar shawl was definitely my favorite project. I also made some pretty good headway in using up old yarn – hopefully I can continue in that vein next year.
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Pattern: Hunter Cowl by Diana BurkYarn: Lion Brand Woolease Thick and Quick in the Oatmeal colorwayNeedles: Size 13 and 35 circs and 11 DPNs I think I need more commissions. This pattern was nothing I would have ever made for myself, but it was a lot of fun to do. The needles were
Had a bit of a lull this year – definitely didn’t read any books as I normally do. There were definitely some bigger books in this list that took me longer to get through than normal, so I think that was part of that. Other than that, not sure why things slowed
Once Upon a Time VII 3/21/13 – 6/21/13 – finished 6/7/13 RIP VIII Reading Challange 9/1/13 – 10/31/13 – finished 10/22/13
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Here’s the total of what I have after making this year’s hexipuffs. Still not enough to make a blanket, but I’m getting there, slowly by surely.
In this prequel to the City of Ember, a girl named Nickie has come to the small North Carolina town of Yonwood with her aunt so that they can get her great-grandfather’s house ready to sell. At the same time, the United States is teetering at the end of war with an unnamed enemy (it’s
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Lady Diana Furnaval’s husband, William, is the last in the line of gatekeepers. It turns out the family estate has a gate into another realm on it, and William’s family has kept the worst of what can come from the gate from effecting other people. There are of course other gates, and when William is
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Miss Buncle is a spinster in the little English village of Silverstream – the kind of person that everyone knows, and secretly pities, because she seems to have such a drab life. But Miss Buncle has a secret – she’s written a book, recasting Silverstream as the village of Copperfield, and showcasing all of the
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