I’m back to loving Robin McKinley unconditionally again. I’d been a little leery after her last book Dragonhaven, but Chalice has won me back over. The book has definitely overtones of Beauty and the Beast, but isn’t a strict retelling. Mirasol is the new Chalice to the Willowlands, the second most powerful person in the […]
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Swiss chard and kielbasa pasta. The swiss chard stained the penne a lovely shade of pink in places. About the only thing that could have made the dish more fun was if I could have gotten my hands on some Northern Lights swiss chard (veggie 5063 I plan to have in my hypothetical garden) and
So this was the status of my Susanna socks last night, when I decided to try them on and found that I couldn’t even get them on my foot well enough to even tell if the heel would fit. And this after I was all proud of myself for navigating through rejoining to knit in
I clearly have an addiction to the color blue. Granted, I’d been planning on buying some of this yarn in blue the next time I went stopped by Seaport Yarn (which I ended up going to yesterday in my quest to fill out my swap package), but still. That now give me 11 blue items
I love Ravelry. I’ve been trading yarn lately like a fiend. A while ago, I decided to put everything I didn’t have immediate plans for in the trade/sell category of my stash. Several of the things in there are one ball only, but I figure if you just need that one ball… (And in fact,
Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. Leave it to me to manage to request the second book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels before the first. And to decide to read it for a challenge so that I don’t really have time to send it back and get the actual first book. So, I was
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So I gave myself permission to procrastinate on picking a Sockdown sock, and then decided I really wanted to work on a sock that wasn’t a Jaywalker, so on Monday, I cast on Steffi van der Linden’s Susanna socks in some Fibre Company Canopy sport I had in my stash. And then I almost immediately
The back of the Brocade Leaves sweater is done. (No picture, but there’s really no good way to make it look much different than the pictures I’ve taken before.) It looks a little on the long side, but it’s definitely to gauge, and it’s still just the back, which is a little hard to judge
My Maelstrom socks are done! I’d really wanted to finish them entirely in the month of September (I know it’s not a challenge rule, but I have so much other stuff I want to make it seemed like a good idea), but I didn’t manage it. So, I went on a bit of a bender
Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. So, as far as I can tell, a colony ship landed on a planet. Somehow, the crew got some sort of control over the passengers. They managed to gain power, and taking on the aspects of the Hindu pantheon, ruled over the planet and made sure that the
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