Pattern: Citadel by Beata Jezek Yarn: Knit Picks Capra in the Pesto colorway and Reywa Fibers Embrace in the Festival colorway Needles: Size 5 circs and DPNs This hat promises to be warm – it’s a cashmere and yak hybrid, and the double layering seems promising. Here’s hoping I’ve finally found an airtight hat […]
The about the author section in this book owns to the fact that the author wrote it as an answer to what if there were fantastical elements underlying the social conventions that restrained woman in Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte books. Ivy Lockwell is the oldest of three sisters. Their father was once
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I didn’t think I’d get this book. I won it through EarlyReviewers back in November. I was totally psyched – I have very warm memories of my mother reading the Little House books to my sister and me when we were little. You generally don’t get those books for at least a month
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Aren’t those just the cutest mutant carrots ever? And I have beets! (And really, beet greens!) I harvested both of these containers because they were really getting in the way of me getting to the tomato pots. Plus, since I’m not the kind of person willing to start my carrot bed
Pattern: Arianrhod by Sue Lazenby Yarn: Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud in Blossom Heather Needles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking my sister’s shawl this weekend. (It’s an ideal activity while waiting for a coworker to drive in and pick up our old couch to go to the dump.) I’m really
I’ve been rereading the Elenium and the Tamuli, which I won’t do a full write up by book. But I wanted to say a few things. First: the Belgariad and the Mallorean are still Eddings’ better works, but these two series are very readable. Second, and I don’t know if it’s because a friend recently started
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This the Citadel hat by Beata Jezek, using KnitPicks Capra in the Pesto colorway, and Reywa Fibers Yak in the Festival colorway. (Yak! I got it half off!!) Is it weird that winter hats make good summer projects?
This series is set about twenty five years before Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate books, with the same zany steampunk atmosphere and sense of fun. In this case, it’s set at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Sophronia is sent there when her mother despairs of ever turning her into a lady.
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Another cool thing about the new camera? I can take evening shots, and reasonably expect the picture to come out in a usable format. I actually finished this about two weeks ago, but had been hoping to block it before I wrote about it. That hasn’t happened yet, so since it’s the last
I used to read the Ask the Pilot column on Salon, so when this book came up on the Kindle Daily Deal list, I jumped on it. I’d always enjoyed the author’s columns, so figured I’d enjoy this too. It’s basically a primer in all things commercial aviation – from how pilots train, to
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