Thursday, February 9, 2017

Only Daughter

Only Daughter 

by Anna Snoekstra (Goodreads Author) 


Loved this book, grabs you right from the start. She worked back and forth between past and present but dated chapters. Great characters, fast paced and it gets even better towards the end, which surprised the heck out of me. I couldn't put it down. I won this book from Goodreads.


Sunday, February 5, 2017

Inter woven braid 1 February 2015 Stitch of the Month Crochet

February 2015 Stitch of the Month Crochet
Inter woven braid 1


Row 1: Ch 3, in second chain from hook work 3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc, ch 3, turn.

Row 2: In 3 chain space between the dc's, work 3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc, ch 3 turn.

Repeat row 2 for pattern until desired length.

This would be good a a mile a minute afghan, or using thread, a bookmark.



Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The Bad Season

When Les Campbell buys land and built a cabin on top of a hill, nobody in the small sleepy town of Owenton tells him not to go down in the hollow at night. Never. Not for any reason. Now Les is gone and his friend David has come to town looking for him. 

But what David finds out is Owenton has a secret. No one in the small town will go into the hollow at night, not after dark, not for anything, come dusk, they stay away. They go to the safety of their homes and David wants to know why.

Some kind of big animal, a monster the local sheriff told him and to keep the lights off at night. Always. David told the sheriff animals can't rip a 12 foot high stairs off the back of a cabin. But something did. And Les is still missing.

David found out the thing in the hollow has killed things, animals, people. Two children are missing and now the father and his biker gang have come looking for them.

The bikers, ranchers and sheriff are looking for the thing in the hollow. 

At dusk David goes to the cabin getting his things from his car, he watched two deer dart up the hill, his dog Bo barked, he saw Raccoons run from the hollow, then Bo growled, he can't hear the crickets, he cant hear anything. Bo rubs up against David. Something is coming. Something awful and its mad, very, very mad. 

I have read this before. Great read. Would make a great movie 


Thursday, January 26, 2017

Assault and Pepper (A Spice Shop Mystery #1)


Read from October 06 to 15, 2016
Great book, filled with very interesting characters and an amazing plot. I love the idea of a spice shop murder mystery series.

With each twist and turn the plot just got thicker and better. I never saw the end coming. 

The spices recipes at the end are an added bonus. 

I won the second in the series, Guilty as Cinnamon and want to get the third called Killing Thyme. Great book by a great new author to me.



Review: Masking for Trouble

Masking for Trouble Masking for Trouble by Diane Vallere
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Really cute story idea, Disguise DeLimit, a costume shop. Funny laugh out loud entertaining read, loved the characters and the setting the author Diane Vallere created in this cozy mystery.


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Friday, January 20, 2017

Harper's Wish

Harper's Wish by Cerella Sechrist


The plot of this book surprised me.. a restaurant critic to a waitress in a restaurant owned by a chef whose first restaurant she ruin.

I didn't think I would like the book but Sechrist's wrting, the wonderful characters and the seaside setting she developed won me over. I loved it. Great book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25884714-harper-s-wish?ac=1&from_search=true



Keep the Faith, Ellen McGuire (Stella's Falls #1)

Keep the Faith, Ellen McGuire (Stella's Falls #1)
           
by Donna Walo Clancy



If you read one Christmas story this year, let it be this one. Warm and magic, a great story to read to children. Wonderful book.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22590673-keep-the-faith-ellen-mcguire?ac=1&from_search=true


Dust cover for my sewing machine

 I needed  a new dust cover for my old kenmore sewing machine, I have had this machine since the 1960's, still works good