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My 2016 resolutions.
{Sadly, this picture is from last year. We had a tiny tease of a flurry yesterday, so I have snow on the brain.}Five days into the new year, and I'm finally getting around to writing out my...
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Reading: Steps in Time, by Fred Astaire. It's a little slow at the moment, to be honest. I'm still reading about his time in vaudeville, and I'm much more interested in his years spent in classic...
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Knitting: {long overdue} fall socks.
I started these socks three months ago, around the beginning of October. While I finished the first sock that month, they got set aside during the flurry of craft fair knitting and then Christmas...
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Things to knit.
{Photo credits: Jane Heller, cabinfour, Ysolda Teague, Sylvia Bo Bilvia}I don't generally plan out my knitting in advance (unless it's a gift or something with a deadline). When I finish a project and...
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Reading: Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. I want to see the most recent film adaptation of this book so badly, but I'm determined to read the book first. This is my first Thomas Hardy...
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Pride and Prejudice {Illustrated}
Over the last couple of years, I've been gradually replacing all of my cheap copies of Jane Austen's novels with prettier ones. (I'm a sucker for pretty books.) Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of...
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Knitting: honey mittens.
These mittens had been in my Ravelry queue for over two years, but I've never really had any reason to knit mittens. (Besides a couple pairs of baby and toddler sized ones.) Lately, though, fingerless...
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Reading: I'm still reading Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. I'm glad to say that I'm still enjoying it just as much as I was last week! There has been a lot of drama and while I was sucked...
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Knitting: stripe study shawl.
Why is it that shawls seem to take an incredibly long time to knit? (Especially ones knit from fingering weight yarn!) It feels like I worked on this shawl forever, but really it only took a month, off...
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What I Read: January
January was a pretty good reading month, though I only read four books: two extremely quick reads and two that took me a while to finish. :) As always, click on the title to read my Goodreads...
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Far From the Madding Crowd {Book and Film}
{Note: this post probably contains spoilers!}I'm so excited to have finally read Far From the Madding Crowd and to have seen the newest film adaptation of the story. Of course I had to write about...
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Reading: I'm rereading one of my absolute favorite books, Pride and Prejudice. This time I'm reading it in this illustrated edition (which I wrote about here), and it is so pretty. I didn't think that...
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Spinning: naturally colored American wool.
Last spring, I decided to spin enough yarn to knit a shawl inspired by the Nordic Wind shawl. I wanted to use handspun for the shawl, but I also wanted to use American wool in undyed colors, preferably...
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Happiness.
Songs:Salvation Song, the Avett BrothersYew Piney Mountain, Chance McCoy and the Appalachian String BandThe Way You Look Tonight, Frank SinatraWhere I Belong, SwitchfootTime After Time, Frank SinatraI...
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What I Read: February
Only three books this month! Honestly, I didn't make a lot of time for reading in February. Here's hoping that March is a better reading month! As usual, click on the title for my Goodreads...
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Reading: Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu. This is a middle grade book that's apparently inspired by the fairy tale "The Snow Queen." With the snowy atmosphere and cover, I figured I should try to read it...
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Thoughts on not finishing books.
I know that a lot of readers are perfectly fine with not finishing a book. They say that life is too short to waste time reading something that you're not loving. I do agree with that. There are so...
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Reading: I'm reading The Key to Extraordinary, by Natalie Lloyd. Natalie is such a sweet person, and I loved her first novel, A Snicker of Magic. She writes sweet middle grade stories, with a lot of...
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Mysteries in March.
I like watching bookish videos on YouTube, and one of my favorite channels is Words of a Reader. We seem to like the same sorts of books, and some of my new favorite books were recommendations from her...
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Reading: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, by Morgan Matson. It's been so warm lately that I wanted to read something light and summery, so I picked this up. I've heard nothing but good things about it...
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