Pattern: Chrissy Gardener’s Moonflower socksYarn: Three Irish Girl’s Carys BFL sockNeedles: 1.5 DPNs I finally finished my Moonflower socks! The only modification I made to the pattern was to user larger needles, since I wanted to give them to someone other than a toddler or midget. It’s a lovely pattern, but I think it’s cemented […]
When I initially saw a link to Becky’s It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge, I thought it looked interesting, and saved a link for future reference. Well, it’s future time. My Paperspine queue is going deep – seriously, I’ve got 16 books on top for challenges, and they’re apparently all checked out to
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I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms books. They’re an interesting take on the form of fairy tales. The Fairy Godmother (the first one) is still my favorite, but The Snow Queen has just taken its place as second in that line. The Snow Queen is the story of Aleksia, the Godmother of the
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I checked my garden when I got home yesterday to see the status of my bulbs, but all I really had was a bit of frondy crocus foliage. Fast forward to this afternoon, and I have budding crocus! And below, the beginnings of daffodils. Happy, happy Spring!
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve read a number of de Lint’s books (mostly of the Newford persuasion), but this the first young adult book of his that I’ve read. Coincidentally, it was the first young adult book that he wrote. Nina and Ash are cousins, and have been sharing a room since
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Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. When 13-year-old Briony witnesses the flirtation between her older sister Cecelia, and Robbie, the son of their housekeeper, she thinks that by witnessing this act, she’s finally crossed over in the world of adulthood. Unfortunately, her lack of adult understanding of what she has seen causes her to commit
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I finally finished my first Moonflower sock. I really do like the pattern, and it’s really easy to remember, but man, it takes forever! I really like patterns with longer repeats. I feel like I’m getting more accomplished with a longer repeat, and the forward motion actually helps me go faster. I’m taking way longer
The premise of this book is best explained with the author’s own words: “ Some people collect matchbox cars or comic books. Others collect more obviously valuable things, such as rare paintings or cars. Most of these collections are made up of tangible objects, things to which one can assign some sort of monetary value.I
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In Inkheart, Mo and his daughter Meggie had the ability to read characters out of books, most notably the book Inkheart. So in the first part of this trilogy, we dealt with characters from a story being brought into the real world. In Inkspell, the roles are reversed,
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