My Feb bookmark is a little gothy this month… Stamp is a rubber stamp from Jill Penney. Stamped with Stazon onto white cardstock. Then colored with water color pencils, and detailed with Sakura Stardust pens. The base is white cardstock inked and then stamped with Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, and a tiny smidgel of Rich Razzleberry. Alpha is stamped in vintage photo. READ is black Thickers from Amercian Crafts. The tie is black hemp rope, and beaded with 1 beaded black heart bead. 🙂 Oh, the flower stamp…
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In the Woods By: Tana French 0143113496 Published by: Penguin (Non-Classics) Genre: Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://tanafrench.com/ Author’s Twitter: Synopsis {from the author’s site} As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled shoes, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous…
Read MoreOctober 2010 ATCs (finally)
Got an email today asking whatever happened to the ATC card starters I posted back in OCT. It just so happens this was great timing because I just started getting the cards back a week or so ago! “Jamming” usually doesn’t take this long but we had so many going at once and then it was the holidays, that folks are just now getting them sent back to me! So heres what I have back so far… OCT ATC JAM CALL 3 started here with me: then Jay added: and…
Read Moreone two what did you do
Welp, here we are. Another week has passed. Another 7 days taken from the future. Another 168 hours spent idley accomplishing notta. the kids have been out of school so much lately. Snow snow snow. I am sick, coughing and hacking. The kids are home, bored to death. This has not been a great week in the Cates household. Well, that’s not true. I found out this week that I got my promotion at work! I am the newest Territory Assistant for Hallmark! That is kind of awesome. Well, to…
Read MoreBare Bones by Kathy Reichs
Bare Bones : A Novel By: Kathy Reichs 0743233468 Published by: Scribner Genre: Pages: 320 Author’s Website: http://www.kathyreichs.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/kathyreichs Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KathyReichs Recommendable for people who: enjoy mystery, crime drama, suspense, and the tv show BONES. 🙂 Synopsis {from the authors site}: She works with the dead, but she works for the living. “Down time” is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan’s vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a…
Read MoreBeyond the Body Farm by Dr Bill Bass
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science By: Bill Bass 0060875291 Published by: William Morrow Genre: Pages: 304 Author’s Website: http://www.jeffersonbass.com/ Author’s Twitter: n/a Recommendable for people who: are interested in True Crime, “csi type” NON-FICTION, educational, forensics Synopsis {from the authors website}: In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an airplane that disappeared with two people…
Read Morethe three r’s
thats right ladies and gents! This week has been all about: Resting, Reading, and Recuperating! Im still sick. My throat and chest hurts from coughing so much. My head hurts from being so congested. My ear holes even hurt this week. LOL So, how has this affected my week? Well, I’ve done lots of sleeping lots of reading and lots of general laziness. Shoot, it’s taken me all week just to catch up on last weeks laundry. Nice to know when mom is down the rest of the fam will…
Read MoreCreativity Spark 1-19-2011
I was just in a creative FUNK yesterday. I think its because Im a little on the sick side. Im so congested, and my head is KILLING me. Theraflu is not helping either. blah. Anyway, I was in a funk so I posted a “creative spark” over at DSO yesterday… and then I went to bed, so I didn’t even touch it until today. LOL!!!!!!! The spark yesterday was to use the phrase {heart} on a creation. Layout, card, whatever… This is a hybrid card, I created the heart badge…
Read MoreThe Limit by Kristen Landon
Book Received: Jan 11 2011 Book Reviewed: Jan 18 2011 The Limit By: Kristen Landon 1442402717 Published by: Aladdin Genre: Pages: 304 Author’s Website: http://www.kristenlandon.com/ Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristen-Landon/44925881848 Recommendable for: Young readers ages 10-15 who enjoy suspense Synopsis: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . . With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the…
Read MoreButterfly Blues Card
I have some new favorite THINGS people!!! I finally whipped out my new I-Rock Tool and gave it a go, and can I just say… “OMG!!!!!!!!” And then I tried my newest Smooch color: Illuminate, and “OMG OMG!!!” lol!!!!!!! Im 100% totally happy with how this card turned out! This project is a hybrid card. The wonderful Donna Brown aka Tootlebugz Designs was so kind to RAK me with her lovely digital scrapbooking kit called Blue Butterfly Day. It was so easy to work with! I just made my card…
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