After a summer hiatus while my sewing buddy and I took turns going on vacations, we are back to the Barn Project. We finished two barns, one with a twist: a silo. The Quilt-Along from Lori Holt that we are working on had twelve barns, then seven barns with silos plus a tractor. Each barn has a different 6″ quilt block on the side so there are many blocks to choose from. We approached this project by choosing our favorite twelve quilt blocks and doing roughly one a month. We planned to build all barns at first but then decided we like the barns with silos so much that we will do nine barns and three silos. [Read more…] about Back to building barns
2014 What’s in a Name? wrap-up
I have participated in #2, #3, #5, and #6, so here we go for the seventh version! It was a fun time and I’ve finished it up for 2014. Here are my reads. Thanks to The Worm Hole for hosting this year because it’s a fun challenge.
From January to December, choose a book from each of the following categories:
- A reference to time: A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
- A position of royalty: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Allen Addison
- A number written in letters: The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A forename or names: A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert, The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- A type or element of weather: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
- A book with a school subject in the title: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher
Musings on the value of book clubs
Last night Scott and I saw some people we haven’t seen in real life in several years but who we correspond with annually via Christmas cards. One gentleman said he really enjoyed keeping up with us each year through our letter and thanked us for doing it. Then he asked me what was new with the book club. I was stopped in my tracks and really took a minute to recover. First I wondered, do I talk about it every year in our letter? If so, what do I say? Then I thought for a minute about all the things he could have asked me about in my life and he chose that? I gathered my thoughts and told him what we were reading this month and we talked books for a minute and then went on. [Read more…] about Musings on the value of book clubs
2014 Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies wrap-up
Goal: In 2013 I made Level 2 by April, so I’m going for broke and trying for Level 4 this year!
Level 1 – Snoop – Read at least 6 books
Level 2 – Investigator – Read 7-12 books
Level 3 – Super Sleuth – Read 13 or more books
Level 4 – Sleuth Extraordinaire – Read 20 or more
I made it to Level 4 by July so I am a Sleuth Extraordinaire! Yes, I like cozy mysteries. They are fun to read and quite relaxing, so this is a great challenge for me. Thanks to Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews for hosting. [Read more…] about 2014 Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies wrap-up
2014 Color-Coded wrap-up
This is my second year for this fun challenge and I’ve finished it up. It’s a fun one and thanks to Bev at MyReadersBlock for hosting.
- A book with “Blue” or any shade of Blue: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
- A book with “Red” or any shade of Red: Rose Harbor in Bloom by Debbie Macomber, A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert, The Rose Garden by Susannah Kearsley
- A book with “Yellow” or any shade of Yellow: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, by Padraic Colum
- A book with “Green” or any shade of Green: Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
- A book with “Brown” or any shade of Brown: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- A book with “Black” or any shade of Black: Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
- A book with “White” or any shade of White: Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
- A book with any other color in the title: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
- A book with a word that implies color: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt