We asked last week about what draws you to your favorite kind/genre of book. This week, we want to know:

How often do you depart from that comfort zone? If you love mysteries, do you ever read fantasy? If you primarily read cookbooks, do you ever read a good romance? I enjoy reading so many […]

Dave’s been making noises about moving some of the books around again for several weeks. Then last week our neighbor Bob gave us this bookcase:

Apparently Bob’s wife, Stephanie, only wants new things in their new home. We benefit. Yippee! Obviously, this seven foot tall bookcase couldn’t stay in the garage. It was really in the […]

One of the things I enjoy most about counted cross stitch is watching a design emerge from the fabric; where once there was a blank canvas, now there is a flower… or part of one, anyway. You will see a whole lot more purple on the second sister now. That was intentional. There’s also a […]

I’ve been knitting merrily away on my Mountain Peaks Lace Shawl. I started loving it a whole lot more once I was slightly into the third repeat of chart one, and I realized (doh) that with the exception of the starting and ending stitches, there are only four different rows to knit. Like I said, […]

The final sheep arrived yesterday. Dave thinks it should have been black instead of gray. Every flock needs a black sheep in it. The sad news about the Sheep Club is that it’s over. No more sheep automatically herded to my house each month. That and Katie’s closing down her sheep shop for the time […]

I really don’t know what the designers at Berroco were thinking when they hung all the dolls off of the felted bag this week. If I were the owner of that Doll Bag I’d either accidentally rip all the dolls off by the end of the week, or they’d get caught on things and pull […]