Randomness…………….

 

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Rock climbing with the girls Friday night…….what a blast that was!

 

Am I the ONLY one who REALLY REALLY wants this set?  I want it REALLY bad!  Can’t you tell?

A LOST fan made this……Risk LOST.  How cool is that?  

 Leigh Ann said this was an awesome book.  So I watched the trailer and had to agree it looked good.  So I told Amazon to send me a copy.  Now to finish what I am reading so I can start it! Click this if you want to see what I am talking about!

 

I guess that is it!  I may post some Green Tangerines projects for you tomorrow!

Remember This Card?

I blogged about it here. 

And then I got my Green Tangerines kit club last month and it had this is it:

Would that NOT have been the perfect paper to use for that card?  Do you ever make something and then come across something after the fact that would have been even MORE perfect for it?

And speaking of cassettes……Isn’t this cool?

 

 

And then I have to share this with you….my fortune from Panda:

 

Probably enough random for you for one day…eh?

Lisa’s Book Club…….

So I have told you before how I like to pretend that I am part of Lisa’s book club right?

Well I am SO excited!  The new list is out!  

“The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”
by Diane Setterfield (432 pages)

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (290 pages)

“The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”
by Wally Lamb (768 pages)

“Skylight Confessions”
by Alice Hoffman (288 pages)

“Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”
by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (349 pages)

“Time of My Life: A Novel”
by Allison Winn Scotch (304 pages)

“The Hunger Games”
by Suzanne Collins (384 pages)

“Astrid and Veronika”
by Linda Olsson (288 pages)

“Firefly Lane”
by Kristin Hannah (528 pages)

“The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”
by Garth Stein (336 pages)

Don’t you want to be a pretend member as well?

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #44…….

This week Rebecca got to pick our fun challenge! This is what she had to say:

Reading the Twilight saga books and is what brought us all together .... so this week is really dedicated to books. I hadn't stayed up all night reading anything in a very long time, yet that was exactly what I did with the books - I couldn't put them down! Many of you have shared similar stories with me on that topic. Each of the books have their own sub-theme throughout the series. Wuthering Heights is discussed many times in Eclipse, in fact - bookstores have been reporting that their sales of Wuthering Heights were through the roof after Eclipse came out.
Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on a second Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meyer also states that Orson Scott Card and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series are a big influence on her writing. (quote from Meridian Magazine: http://www.meridianmagazine.com/books/0 ... mpire.html)
Bella discusses some her books (this is from Twilight)

"I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen. Outside in Charlies small, square yard, I folded the guilt in half and laid it out of the reach of trees' shadow on the thick lawn that would always be slightly wet, no matter how long the sun shone. I lay on my stomach, crossing my ankles in the air, flipping through the different novels in the book, trying to decide which would occupy my mind the most thoroughly. My favorites were Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. "

Craft Challenge: Make any project that celebrates your favorite book! It can be a project about a book, for a book, inspired by a book title or cover.
Comment Challenge: Which novel would you put in Bella's hands (classic or contemporary) for her to read? Did Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse or Breaking Dawn inspire you to read (or re-read) any of the classics? Do you compare Edward and Bella to that of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff and Cathy?

Oh my goodness! Great challenge Rebecca……
Well currently I am reading Living LOST {why we are all stuck on the island} by J. Woods. It is really good so far. My favorite author varies- but at the moment I would have to say is Alice Hoffman. I have yet to be disappointed by one of her novels yet. They really HANG with you for days and weeks afterwards…..
I do have a new author and two books I want to brag to you about- but that was planned for another post. So you will have to wait on that one!

This is my project that I came up with:

A bookmark for my favorite books…….. I used the Heidi Swapp stamp to stamp “delight” onto overhead projector clear paper. I also stamped a floral image I had……

Mounted DP to gold thick paper backing, rounded corners, added the tassel, and some bling in the corner…..and there you go!

As always, our Design Team has fantastic projects to display for this week’s challenge – please go and check them out!

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

( Julie, and Beth are on break this week.)

with Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~Erica ~ Jacquie

Spread the Twilight love……..

I LOVE My Friends………….

I got this book and adorable card in the mail from my friend Holli. One of my goals for this summer is to make more time for reading. These last few months it got put on the back burner. And I miss it. I LOVE my goodreads. Are you on goodreads? If you are not- you are missing out! Click here to see what I am reading. Add me as a friend- so I can see what you are reading- have read- or plan to read! (You can click on my side bar to go to my profile.)

Then for no reason at all (LOVE that) Lisa sent me this card……….. It totally made my day!

I have never gotten so many PS’s! How fun is that?

Open me……

Since we can not run to SB’s together…she sent me a gift card to go get one on her – and think of her!!!!! What a sweet RAK huh?

My friend Debby has had a rough week. Her sweet Gram’s passed. I admire Deb more than she knows. She is stronger than she knows. I am blessed to call her my friend.

I put a little something in the mail for these three special BFF’s of mine. Just because…..random acts of kindness are the best things ever! They can turn a bad day good. They are a simple reminder of how precious these friendships are! They say how we value each other – without words- just a simple action! Have you sent someone a RAK lately?

The Book I Am Reading.............

Is really good so far. My friend Oprah recommended it to me. Haha
Anyway- I stayed up REALLY late last night reading it. I read this paragraph three times:

"You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there, you're someplace else where there is blue sky and a road you don't recognize. If you squint your eyes, you think you see him, in the shadows, beyond the trees. You always imagine that you see him, but he's never there. It's only his spirit, that's what's there beneath the bed when you kiss your husband, there when you send your daughter off to school. It's in your coffee cup, your bathwater, your tears. Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done."
— Alice Hoffman (Here on Earth)
Makes you want to read the book huh?

Friday Favorite Five..............

This was so FUN and EASY last week- I got requests to do it again!
So here goes:
Handmade bookmarks my friend Lisa made for her Seattle book club......
(Remember the one I like to pretend I am in from California????) Haha


These have been around for awhile.....but I just got this one. It is a Heidi Swapp mask. Which after you stick it down, tap ink all over it, and then pull off, leaves the negative of the design! I have a project in the works with this...... very pretty results!
Another new book................
Can not live with out this in the morning...........
If you have never tried Seattle's Best.....give it a try. They have them in Borders. Lisa turned us onto this coffee. Hence the name! Anyhoo....it is from the makers of Starbucks I believe. Only it is smooth not bitter like Starbucks! LOVE it!
We got a rain out for our last soccer games this Sat. So the boys are DONE! Now we have three team party's to attend! Looks like Lissa will still have her soccer tournament this Sat!
It has been a good season- and for our first year as soccer parents....we LOVED it!


Please feel free to play along with me and post some of your Friday Favorite Five things on your blog!
Holli did here!

And I loved the comments last week too from:

Lisa
Beth
Leigh Ann

Color Throw Down & Wicked................

Okay- if you know me, you know that Halloween is my FAVORITE! So I could not resist the Color Throw down this week! Click here for all the details.
Here is my take on it:

Okay- onto book talk.....
Am I the only one who is having a hard time with this book?
I never liked Wizard of Oz as a kid- still don't. However I thought I would give this a go.
So I am wondering if I should put it down- or plug on?
Anyone plugged thru this that can tell me to continue on?????

For All My Twilight Friends............

Check out this link. Tonya is doing the coolest thing. She is calling it "Twilight Tuesdays". I am going to play along- who is with me?

My Pretend Book Club......

Okay so this post is from my friend Lisa who lives in Seattle. She belongs to a book club there. She was in a book club when she lives in Utah. She organzied this one in Washington. So I am like their book club want a be- lurker- whatever. She always copies me on their selections. I try to read as many of them as I can. We mail each other books back and forth- and have many a good conversations on the phone about the books we are reading! So I asked if I could post her list. These are the books they picked- and I also included the ones they did not. I have a lot of these on my to-read list, or I have already read some. And the rest I can not wait to read and hash out with Lis! Thank you Lisa!!!!!

Book Club Selections
October 2008 – September 2009


October “Bright Lights, Big Ass….”
by Jen Lancaster (400 pages)

November “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”
by Kris Radish (352 pages)

January “The Time Traveler’s Wife”
by Audrey Niffenegger (560 pages)

February “The Beach House”
by Jane Green (352 pages)

March “The Shack”
by William Paul Young (256 pages)

April “American Wife: A Novel:
by Curtis Sittenfeld (576 pages)

May “Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions”
by Matt Richtel (304 pages)

June “Live a Little”
by Kim Green (384 pages)

August “Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”
by Gregory Maguire (560 pages)

September “Sweet Love”
by Sarah Strohmeyer (320 pages)


Books not selected

The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
Better by Atul Gawande
The Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
Driving Sideways by Jess Riley
Kabul Beauty School Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
The Center of Everything: A Novel by Laura Moriarty
Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Barefoot: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
3 Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Likeness by Tana French
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
March by Geraldine Brooks

Twilight Movie.....

Okay this news just made my day! The Twilight movie is coming out sooner than we all thought!
I doubt that will make the Harry fans very happy though!
Click here for the info.
And oh by the way- if you have not already go to the bottom of my blog and check out what is there for all you Twilight fans!
BTW- who has finished Breaking Dawn? I finished it last week.....LOVED it!

This Week So Far.....

Has been totally crazy! Trying to get into the swing of things again. Meetings....soccer practice every night....Girl Scouts.....Book Fair planning....getting the kids back to school! Jake and I are trying to find our new routine. It is hard for him to wait until after 11am to go to school. I am sure we will figure it out soon!
However in the evening I have been reading my book. I am on page 523- so about 3/4 of the way through. I am dying to talk to someone about it- but everyone I know is either finished or not quite where I am in the book. LOVE it so far. Can't wait to see how it ends!
I will post some layouts in the next couple days- it has been awhile since I have done anything "scrappy" I can see.....

The Midnight Release of Breaking Dawn............

There were vampire books galore............
Apples....Twilight trivia................and games

Brides............(she won 1st place BTW)
There were werewolves...........and Edward look-alikes..................
Music..............
And then at midnight (okay at 12:30) Raimi and I FINALLY got our books!

It was fun and worth the wait! Even though Raimi and I felt a little out of place.... We were two 30-somethings lost in a sea of 7th grade girls! Oh we would see some ladies are age and get hopeful- but then realize they were just there with their daughter! I did see my friend Dana and her daughter Alex! Raimi kept saying "you ready to go to Walmart?" We were cracking up! The time went by quickly and it was fun since I had never been to one of these before! And now when Alissa reads this series when she is of age I will tell her I was there. It would have been fun to do with her if she was that age for sure! I am super tired this morning- and when the new book comes out in the series I may call Raimi up and say..."you ready to go to Walmart?"
Well I am off to read my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!