My Grammie begonia (so named because the original slip came to us from my mother’s mother), is actually blooming. It’s a foliage begonia, and I’ve only had one bloom one other year for me (in the ten years I’ve had one in the house – this one is a slip of the older one that […]
This weekend’s project is a bit different and experimental for me. I’ll preface this by saying, I’m not much of a jewelry girl. I have stuff I wear, but it quite nicely fits in my (not so huge) jewelry box, and I can’t say I own anything of any real and impressive
I once tried to describe this series as the Northeast equivalent of the Sookie Stackhouse books – there’s lots of supernatural people right under the nose of the heroine that she had no idea were there until she somewhat accidentally stumbles upon their world, but Jane swears like a sailor, which Sookie would never do.
Tempest’s Legacy – Nicole Peeler Read More »
I really wasn’t sure what to expect from this book – with the words “diet dropout” in the title, I wasn’t sure how much it would talk about food, and if not, what else it could possible talk about. It did turn out to not talk a lot about food – other than some pretty
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Project: Quest by Laura NelkinYarn: Quince and Co. Osprey in the Peacock colorwayNeedles: Sizes 5, 6 and 7 circs, and Size 6 DPNs My Quest hat is done. Again. This time, I did the medium size, and it fits! I really liked the pattern – the linen stitch was an interesting new stitch,
For the first book I actually started reading in the new year, I decided I really needed to pull the oldest book out of the Tote (er, Bookcase) of Shame – made very easy by the sorting ability of LibraryThing in the Collections view. I picked this book up in my used book store travels
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One skein of Quince and Co. Osprey yarn is exactly enough to make the large size of the women’s Quest hat. I know this because I bound one off last night, and tried it on, and promptly looked like a three year old playing dress up with her mother’s clothes. I guess I really should
Pattern: Annis shawl by Susanna ICYarn: Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud in the Tidepool Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 8 and 10 circs It’s fairly hilarious how bad this shawl looks unblocked. And, I’ll be honest, I think I need to block it again, because it still doesn’t look like much. But I also think I’m a
This is the very first of the Other Tales of Valdemar series, where Mercedes Lackey opened up the world to other authors, and once I started it, I remembered I had in fact read it before, so it is a reread, though I had no memory of some of the stories, while remembering others. Like
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84 books – pretty good, I’d say. I managed to tackle a number of older books in the Tote of Shame (not that it’s gone down very much, but the dates at least looks better), and I only started one book I wasn’t able to finish (view that here).
