This is a lovely book of botanical illustration with interesting little anecdotes about the various flowers portrayed. It covers the whole of the US (and a good chunk of Canada), so it’s necessarily a little broad, but does have an interesting variety of flowers included. It’s a lovely little survey of what’s around in our […]
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I have two fairly small square frames that I had old sun and moon cross stitch patterns I’d done ages ago in, and I wanted to refresh those. I found two patterns I liked in Punochka’s Etsy shop (Russians really do have fantastic embroidery patterns). This is the Halloween moth – started it on Monday.
I pulled this out of the garden on Monday. It’s the large tomato plant, the remaining pumpkin, two delicata squash, and most of the gem marigolds, which I didn’t set out to pull, but accidently came up with little effort. I’m mostly down to the herbs and flowers now – we’re on death watch for
This is as far as I got with the Josaqan socks. I actually got a little further into the toe, and definitely didn’t have enough yarn. I briefly considered doing a totally different colored toe, but I also did not love how huge these socks were looking, so ultimately, I decided I need to go
I’m always so happy when I find a free book I really enjoy. Ridley’s life changed forever the day magic went rogue. Not only did her mother die in the upheaval, and her father lose his business, but she’s forced to hide her own magical power when the backlash is to outlaw magic entirely. It’s
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I have really enjoyed these stories, because they are so very different than most of what I’ve read before, and I’m so glad that different voices are being brought into the Sci-Fi and fantasy genres. All that said, I’m having a really hard time trying to summarize what happened in this book, because it’s like
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The knitting of the Seaspray shawl is done. (Blocking still to come, when I can get the guest bed cleared off.) A lovely Raveler gifted me a partial skein of the yarn I needed to finish it off, and even sent some more yarn to fill up the box. What a wonderful community!
This is a lovely little compilation of stories, arranged seasonally. There are some stories you might recognize, spun a little differently. The author mentioned how she often listened to the stories of other cultures (like the Coyote stories of North America), and wanted to make sure that the similar stories of Britain and Ireland weren’t
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There’s a lot happening in this book – fallout from the events of the last book (where Adam was forced to kill a witch they thought was their friend), Adam’s ex-wife Christy still being an issue, and a mysterious door from Underhill parked in the backyard, which ends up unleashing an enemy they have to
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Trying it again – these are Joshaqan socks by Hunter Hammersen, in Koigu Painter’s Premium Palette. Which it turns out I had tried with this exact pattern and yarn last Fall when trying to make socks for my MIL. Now, I’m working on socks for the Dads, and oddly, making these for one of them
