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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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I do love these books. I’ve read two of the three in this series so far, and both have made me cry. (Which is a high compliment. I don’t cry for books.) In the Dells, there are monsters – varieties of animals
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Firethorn had grown up as the servant of a woman of the Blood, but when the Dame died, and her nephew inherited her property, Firethorn fled to the King’s Forest, where she lived for a year. In that time, she was forced to eat
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. What I really like about Brandon Sanderson’s work is that he comes up with fresh, incredibly different systems of magic for all of his separate worlds. Figuring out how things work is half the fun of his novels. This particular book is slanted
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So in the depths of February, in the worst of the cold, I got a Burpee’s enewsletter with free seed shipping. You can imagine what happened next. I mean, I pretty much had SAD at that point. I’ve not done seed starting before because of space considerations, and what light I have available.
This is a neat little book – it’s got pictures of all the known stable elements. (Well, he’s stretching a bit for a few at the far end of stability, but there are also little write ups with each element to tell you why.) So I’ve really been enjoying having the Kindle app on
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Here’s as much of the sky scarf as I’ve completed in March – I know I won’t be doing any more blog posts before 3/31. It’s a little more blue this month, at least. In other projects, I’ve cast on Susan Lazenby’s Arianrhod shawl. This is for my sister, who’s getting
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Atrix Wolfe is the foremost mage of Chamenuard, and finds himself on battleground in neighboring Pelucir. The prince of Kardeth is laying seige to the King of Pelucir, and if Pelucir falls, Chamenuard will be next. Mages are not meant to
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Pattern: Craic Socks by Hannah SixYarn: Tess’ Designer Yarn Super Socks and BabyNeedles: Size 3 DPNs I do love cables. They look so complicated, but are usually pretty simple. This was a cool pattern – very easy to memorize (well, sort of. I knew what was coming, but usually did
