*Caution!

Creating the Catnap Cozy can lead to serious snuggle time!

You’ve been warned.

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Current Escapes of the 2D Variety…

BOOKS!!!  😀

Who doesn’t love a good read, right?

Well…for me lately, it seems I’ve been loving them to the extreme, lol.  As I mentioned in the post before, I’ve been lining up books in each room of the house for me to pick up on the go and read a bit here and there.  I feel like I’m exhibiting definite ADD tendencies when it comes to my daily activities.  I hold my crazy long to-do list in my head and then flit from one item on the list to the other, while sneaking little breaks in between with my assorted books.

Here’s the low down: (each picture can be clicked to be taken to a site that contains more information about the publications)

Bedroom Nightstand:

This is an excellent series that wraps fantasy, history and lots of adventure with myths about twins…a subject I’ve always been fascinated with.

Actually, I’ve always kind of secretly desired to be a twin myself, lol!  She would of course be named Stephanie, to rhyme with Bethany and we’d have no end of fun playing practical jokes involving switching places when no one was looking, lol…

Desk:

I do have to say that this is one fabulous book!

It’s stuffed full with all kinds of advice for the knitting designer…

so much of which easily translates to us knitters of the loom variety.

🙂

Living Room:

I just picked this one up from the library this last week.

I usually have my nose in one type of knitting book or another somewhere in the house.  They’re indispensable tools for understanding how to improve on the craft of loom knitting.

This particular one’s got a lot of interesting information…lots of useful how-to’s and advice.

Netbook Laptop:

This is in my little netbook in Audible form and is listened to while I’m in full “no disturbing me so that I can get some serious looming done” mode.

This is the 2nd time I’ve worked my way through this hefty novel.  The first was an actual book held in my hands, and the 2nd I purchased in digital format because I thought that this would be the perfect kind of book to listen to in an English accent, lol.

I was right…it’s wonderfully engaging!  Love this story! 🙂

Just before this one, I finished another Audible selection (and another of my absolute all time favorites) Jane Eyre.  I just can’t get enough of the classics!

Bathroom: (hehehe…you know I couldn’t leave that one out, lol!)

This one sits by the bath for leisurely reading when I can grab the chance.

Lorna Doone is one of my all time favorite books.

It has absolutely everything going for it:  adventure, history, romance, suspense, mystery, intrigue… you name it, it’s got it!

Love it, Love it, Love it!

This is a fun read that is strategically placed by my assortment of home decorator magazines and catalogs…*ahem* 😉

My dad picked this up at garage sale and I recently inherited it.  It’s been pretty entertaining to read in little snippets.  It’s a very humorous and tongue in cheek tableau of what it was like moving from the big city to the newly invented “suburbs”  back in the 40’s and 50’s.  Nothing deep~ just pure comedy.

Well…besides the random books that cross under my eyes occasionally, and magazines that are delivered to my doorstep, that’s just about it for now.  Of course I have a whole stack of books upstairs and orders on hold from the library, all just waiting their turn in the great line up of random reading resources.

I can’t wait to dive in! 🙂

Bethany~

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Sanity Savers…

There are a few things that have kept me from going absolutely bonkers over the last couple of weeks with all this looming, typing, and working out the kinks in patterns that for some reason are just plain kicking my patootie.  I will list them here in no particular order:

  1. Blackberry pie.
  2. 2 wonderful helpers that also just happen to be my daughters 😉
  3. Date nights with hubby…a must have for small escapes from the house!
  4. Chocolate.
  5. Reading Facebook, believe it or not.  It’s like an intriguing, ever-changing novel of people’s lives, lol.
  6. Soaks in a hot bath.  But of course, this is nothing new.
  7. Did I say Chocolate?  This is nothing new either, lol!
  8. Reading multiple books at once…depending on what room of the house I’m in… literally.
  9. Paying someone else to cut my dd #2’s hair for school…which turned out quite super cute, by the way.
  10. Not homeschooling this year…this should probably be at the top of the list, lol!  Nothing against homeschooling, for I think it is perfect in exactly the right circumstances, as we ourselves have proven.  This year my #2 dd is going to be heading back to the ranks of public school, as we found out last year that for her, she is better with more structure and social aspects in her life… she positively blooms.  With me at home… she stews, lol.  ;}  So, this is more to be desired  for all concerned. 
  11. Online shopping!  *see below…

My online shopping excursions have been extremely fun.  I’ve ordered (and received) 2 new looms from Decor Accents:  this one, and that one.  Love.  Them.  🙂

I also ordered some magnets and buttons from here with my own 2 Cool 4 Stix logo…of course for some prizes and giveaways to be talked about at a later date.  😉

BTW:  My Cafe Press shop is having a 20% off sale over the Labor Day Weekend!  Please pop on by to check it out!

The 3rd item I’m excitedly waiting on to arrive is my lusciously warm and carefully chosen new colors of chunky & wool from Knit Pics… 8 balls worth! 😀   The order has been shipped and I’m expecting it to arrive any day now…can’t wait!  

I’m planning on later sharing what interesting reads I’m perusing currently… laid out for your convenience in room by room order, lol.

Has the mail come yet??

Bethany~

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