My Grammie begonia is blooming! We call it the Grammie begonia because the myriad versions of it spread out between my father, mother and I all came from a single cutting my grandmother gifted to my father back when I was wee, and my parents were still married. It’s a foliage begonia (I think it’s […]
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Since I’m no longer working to a deadline, I’ve also started a new stitching project – Night Walked Down, from the Blue Flower. I saw the pattern on the cross stitch thread in the knitting forum I lurk in, and just had to have it. I ended up buying myself some hand dyed Aida cloth
My test knit is done. The release date is 3/9, so I’ll be posting pictures of that once I’m able to. In the meantime, in an effort to work down my Knitpicks Palette stash (from the Sky Scarf and Temperature Scarves), I started Wendy D. Johnson’s Leftover Cowl. It’s meant to use up scrap quantities
It’s been interesting reading this series, which runs parallel to the Mercy Thompson series – it’s been nice to fill in some of the additional detail of things that influence Mercy’s story. In this case, it’s the events leading up to the Fae retreating to their reservations and refusing to deal with human laws. Anna
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I had the worst time finishing this book. I can’t even remember when I started it – last Fall at least, but maybe the summer? It’s told from many different viewpoints (which I knew about ahead of time from reading the reviews), and that made it hard for me to read. Time is split between
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In this last book of the trilogy, Selene (Artemis) is out on her own with Flint (Hephestus), trying to track down their grandfather Saturn/Kronos. They’ve left NYC behind and are in their old European stomping grounds. The all too mortal Theo, believing Selene to be dead, is plotting how to get her back. But it
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This is a fun book, all about what happens when fairy tales are over. Princess Danielle (often called Cinderwench by her stepsisters) is settling into life at the palace when her stepsisters hatch a plot to kill her, and kidnap her husband. She’s rescued by Talia, who at first seems to be a servant, but
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Our first home improvement project is done – we’ve had the house completely reinsulated. It was perhaps a bit crazy to get that done in January, but it made a noticeable difference even as they were just doing some of the preliminary sealing work before they got really serious about the actual insulation. (We got
My William Morris Snakeshead cross stitch is done. I thought this was going to take me a year. I’m pretty familiar with how much time I’ll spend doing things on the side at home. As with many other things, this was the year I’d be wrong with that estimate. This pattern had no back stitch,
And I’m back to the story of Penric – in this case, he and Desdemona are on the way back from a mission on behalf of the Duke of Orbas, when his ship is captured by pirates. By virtue of him looking like a weak scholar, he gets thrown in with the other vulnerable prisoners
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