This story is a combination of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Mulan (per the blurbs at least – I see where they wanted to go with that, but I don’t agree). It’s an interesting concept. Bristal is an elicromancer – a now rare type of immortal that should be helping the mortals. The other two elicromancers […]
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This is as complete as this garden should be for a while – I’ve planted all the remaining seedlings, and am not missing anything I wanted to get. Here’s the herb garden, and the insane dahlia experiment. The herb garden will not be as big as I planned. I just didn’t get the bed laid
This is the Seaspray shawl, by Andrea Rangel. I’m using JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk yarn in the Ruby colorway. This is for a dear friend – might be a wedding shawl, or might be just a shawl, because I know she’ll love it either way. (The wedding is delayed enough with Covid that no colors have
Li-lin is the daughter of a Daoist priest in 19th century Chinatown in San Francisco. She has the ability the see spirits, and is a priestess herself. She’s also recently widowed. When her husband’s best friend brings another man to her for help, she instantly does, but quickly discovers that they’re trying to get to
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Pattern: Qana hat by Sara Setters Yarn: Quince and Co Owl and Owl Tweet in the Abyssinian, Allagash, and Steppe colorways (the Abyssinian is the Tweet). Needles: Size 7 circs and DPNs I got this yarn through Quince Quarterly, and wasn’t in love with the included pattern, so went out and found one I liked
This is a fun book about mysterious happenings in the town of Berrie-on-the-Wyn. It seems that the town is retreating into Faerie-land, and it’s up to the townsfolk to figure out why. All the while, strange fruit are growing on the trees, and flowers never seen before are appearing everywhere. I did get this book
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Vegetable planting is done. (Other than one delicata squash I need to harden off. One set didn’t sprout in the initial batch, so I replanted.) There will be a little more flower action, but the backyard is pretty much done for now. Just in time for the heat.
I’ve been plugging away with gardening tasks after work this past week. I laid out a second bed, which is going to be for herbs and pollinators. (Eventually, this will be all one long bed, but baby steps to that.) And then, I’m rather ridiculously proud that I set this up all by myself. The
These are the hexipuffs I got out of the Knitpicks Palette yarn – I am now officially depleted of those extras. (Don’t have a problem with the yarn, I just had a lot of it in incomplete amounts. My stash page in Ravelry looks noticeably shorter now.) In the spirit of using more stash –
The contents of the shrubbery next to the driveway became a little clearer over the course of the week. There are at least three distinct chokecherries, and today revealed a dogwood of the Swida persuasion. The cherries will be easy to keep – they’re in pretty distinct chunks. I’m not so sure about the dogwood
