A few more hexipuffs to finish off the Tess’ Designer sock yarn. There are few more here than I usually like to make from one color, but it’s so much lighter than a lot of what I already have, that it seemed like the contrast would be a good thing.
Here’s a slight twist on the Regency romance – in this world, some people are gifted with the abilities of glamour – the magical ability to manipulate light. At its most basic form, it’s considered womanly magic, something used to make the home brighter and more comfortable. Where the regular Regency romance comes in is
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Garden clean up continues. This time, it was the annoying variegated bush in the front yard. Notice how it’s poking through a hole in the shutter? Well, it’s under much better control now. It’s really amazing what a week of 70 degree weather will do. I left for Florida on Sunday.
Up until now, I’ve read Heyer’s Regency romances, but she wrote some historical novels as well. (What I didn’t know about this one until I read the forward is that it’s unfinished – she never had the concentrated time to devote to it that she wanted to.) This is the story of John of Bedford,
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I really like how this book picks up a few centuries after the action of the Mistborn novels – society has changed and evolved due to what happened in those books – it’s really cool to see how that has changed, and what was brought forward from that older time. The setting is part Old
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Kate and her sister Alicia are both ladies in waiting to the Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) when her sister Mary is still Queen. Since Alicia is the sweet, innocent one, an imprudent remark of hers is blamed on Kate, and Kate
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The daffodils are fully out. It is Spring! So here’s the status of the seed starts. I have two kale. The beets are so bad. Swiss chard is a bit of a bust. I’m going to have to thin the carrots and sorrel. The cilantro and nasturtiums were a
Librarything Early Reviewers book. So I was introduced to Mamrie Hart by way of “@Midnight”, after which we tracked down “Hey USA” online, and have added “Camp Takota” to our Netflix watchlist. Which I guess means I’m probably not anywhere near a Mamrie Hart superfan, but I really do love her on what I’ve
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My yard is so close to being snow free!! So last weekend, my big project was to prune out the poor, winter blasted hollies. You can see all the sticks I got out, and the final result above. This week, I invested in some holly food, and also mulched them
Calder is a Fetch – the chosen dead that guide most souls to Heaven. They’re specially chosen, but Calder has always wondered if his being chosen was a mistake. One day, he arrives at the death bed of a baby, and falls in love with the baby’s nanny. This
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