Have I mentioned I can be an obsessive completist? I read The Summer Country last year, and I thought it was mainly ok. So, on the way to Thanksgiving at my father’s, I stopped at the Big Chicken Barn, and managed to find The Winter Oak. Hey, it was used, and cheapish, and I do […]
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So, I’m a little, ok, massively late with this, but I really wanted to answer the 2/14 Booking Through Thursday question. Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could
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So it’s February. And it’s snowed. Again. And there isn’t enough tea in this world to keep my hands and insides warm. So, in honor of Project Spectrum, I took a leisurely stroll through last summer’s flower pictures and put together a Fire themed collage. Can Spring get here just a little quicker so I
I’m very nearly done with the Lil’ Devil Baby Hat. Just need to weave in the current ends, and then make the horns. I confess to a certain level of trepidation for the horns, as it involves picking up stitches in a triangular shape, supposedly above the ear flaps, but doing this in a hat
I had a rather lovely, fairly productive weekend. Saturday was my mother’s birthday, and we did a little girl’s afternoon out to the Skillin’s annual open house at their Falmouth greenhouse. Mom found a really cool Greenman to replace the eagle decoration that came with her garage, and I bought a new oxalis to replace
Read for the Graphic Novels Challenge This graphic novel was written in the 80s, and was set in a dystopian near future in the 90s, where there’d been a terrible war, and a fascist government has taken over Great Britain. The only person standing against this government is a shadowy figure codenamed V, who turns
I actually finished my Fetching mitts on Sunday. I think the lovely warmth I was getting from one mitt spurred me on, because they were done in near record time. They’re keeping my hands warm in my chilly house as I type this. No picture, since I haven’t had the time to monkey with posing
Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge. This book was a double young adult selection, both by intended audience and by the fact that the author was thirteen when she completed it. Considering the age the author, this is quite a decent book. The plot is extremely quick; it centers around the vampire Risika and
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I was finally able to spend some quality time working on my Sunset Quilt, one of the two projects I have planned for the Fire element for Project Spectrum. I had the idea for this quilt after seeing a picture of a stick silhouetted against a red and orange streaked sunset sky (it’s barely visible
I went on a bit a bender on Thursday night (coincidently while on a bender watching Michael Palin’s Full Circle), and finished the left Fetching mitt redux. I added five rows above the thumb before knitting the cable row, which added the length I needed to get it to hit my knuckles where I wanted