I wanted to upload some photos from our San Diego trip. Specifically at
Pacific Beach. Hope you like them.
This was for an altered item contest sponsored by Sassafras Lass at AMM.
This is an item that was originally designed for photo storage. I
decided to alter it to do a CKU class I read about called “The
Encyclopedia of my ordinary life.” This is normally a class where you
pick three items with each letter of the alphabet and create a layout
for each letter, so you end up with a full album. It’s based on a
book.
I loved the idea and wanted to do it too but I found the layout format
too confining. For some letters, I had way more than 3 items and for
others I had none. So when I saw this container I thought it was the
perfect idea. This way, I can put 8 under one letter and none under
others if I want. I also included a sample page I made so you can see
the kind of stuff that would go in it.
Sketch number 10 for 1-in-48. Journaling Reads:
We saw this beautiful cat on our walk in the neighborhood today and you
were excited beyond words. You watched it from afar and shrieked with
joy. Even the cat could tell that you were having a lot of fun so it
didn’t run away. David, I love that you love animals as much as I do and
that you’re so kind and gentle around them.
Every night, after we put David in his crib (yes, he is still in a crib
and he will be until he learns to climb out of it!), I read him a book.
Last week, we started reading the Cat in the Hat and it has quickly
become his favorite book. As soon as Jake puts him down, he starts
chanting “Cat, Hat, cat, hat!” until I show up with the book. Then we
both sit down and I read.
Tonight, I switched to another Dr. Seuss book and when we finished he
said, “More Cat in Hat” and so we read another and then he said “more”
and I said “No more tonight my love, we’ll read more tomorrow.” I so
hope he is like that for the rest of his life.
If I am able to pass on my love of reading to David, it will be one of
the best presents I could ever give him.
I absolutely loved Snowflower and the Secret Fan so I was thrilled when I heard about Peony In Love
I couldn’t wait to read more of Lisa See. Yet, it turns out the book is terrible. I mean it was so bad that I put it down 5 times. I told myself that I had to get to page 100 before I made a final decision and then at page 101, I gave up. It was bad and
it got exponentially worse. What a shame it is to see an author, who can obviously do ten times better, write such a mediocre (actually it isn’t even mediocre) book.
I’ve been a fan of Ian McEwan for a few years now and I absolutely loved his previous book, _Saturday_, so when I saw he had a new one, I couldn’t
wait to pick it up. On Chesil Beach is a tiny book
and I read the whole thing in an hour. While the last 5 pages were fantastic, I can’t say that for the rest of the book. It was bleh. It went on and on and about
something I didn’t care too much to read about. I didn’t care about the characters enough to care. It was sweet, elegant and a fast read but it was definitely not up to his potential.
 I had never read a novel by Jane Green before I
picked up Bookends
I picked it up because one of the staff members at Kepler’s recommended it and I dream of starting a book store and so reading a book about that seemed a lot of fun. While
she is a really quick read, I wouldn’t qualify her as pure chicklit. She’s a bit better than that. Her writing is relatively good. Her characters are 2.5 dimensional. I can
definitely see myself reading more of her, especially when I need a mental downtime.
 I have been a huge Murakami fan since I found out about him.
Last year, I went through a phase where I read a bunch of his books back to back. So it should come as no surprise that I wanted to read
After Hours
as soon as it came out. While the book was good and a little weird, it didn’t measure up to typical Murakami at all. He is normally so incredibly fantastical and his
stories are so involved, so amazing, so mind-blowing that you cannot put the book down. This was an easy read but it wasn’t nearly as amazing as most of the other books by him. Yet, I cannot wait for the next one.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked Dot Dead.
I brought it with me along a plane ride and finished that same night. I couldn’t put it down. It wasn’t the best-written book I read but it was certainly enjoyable and sort of surprising at parts. A great book to read on the plane.
It’s a shame I missed him when he visited Google.
I have read Mitchard before but I must say, Twelve
Times Blessed was one of the worst written books I’ve ever read. The
character is not believable. She is annoying and the whole story is
flawed in so many ways that I don’t even know where to begin. To be
fair, I did get strongly affected by the story
and felt deep love for my husband who I swore to appreciate more. I
spose one cannot ask for much more from a book.
Having said all of that, I also read A
Theory of Relativity and I absolutely loved it. Much more realistic,
more interesting. The characters were easier to relate to. The story was
still a bit more melodramatic than I would have liked it to be, which is
annoying cause it didn’t need that extra drama. It was a beautiful
enough story as is.
 I absolutely adore, adore, adore Anne Lamott. So it’s no surprise that when she came out with a new book, I grabbed Grace Eventually: Thoughts on Faith immediately.
I have to admit that this wasn’t one of my very favorites of her, but I still loved it. I swallowed it up and felt an inner peace that only she manages to instill in me. I am definitely not a religious person but I still loved her book. Maybe cause I do have faith. Or maybe cause Anne’s a fantastic writer.
This is for Last Scrapper Standing – Round one. The challenge is to use
8 transparent items on your page.
8 transparencies:
I cut three circles of 5,4, and 2.5 inches.
I stitched the first one, and put a rubon across the seam of the other
two, connected all three with 3 clear buttons and wrote i love you, a
word on each layer. I tried to show the detail on the bottom so you
could see it upclose.
So my 8 items are:
3 circles
3 buttons
1 more circle where the date is written
1 on top of the photo by My Mind’s Eye
Journaling Reads:
Today I came home early from work, so I was able to take you to MyGym’s
open playtime. Normally, you’re in a funky mood and play for a short
while and then get bored. But today, we had a blast. We played, we
laughed, and then we laughed some more. At one point, you kept running
over to me and knocking me over. And then you ran over and gave me a big
hug and said,
“I love you.”
I had a hard pregnancy. I threw up eight times a day for six months. I
was so nauseous that I worked in bed the whole time. When you were born,
you refused to sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time, even when you
were six months old. I still haven’t lost the weight I gained during the
pregnancy. You regularly make messes all over the house and sometimes I
find a half-eaten apple weeks later, hidden behind some furniture or
appliance. There are many moments in the day when you try my patience.
But all of these hard times are for this one moment. For the tight hug.
For the tiny kiss. And for those three little words, uttered unprompted.
They make everything worthwhile.
I love you, too, my son. I love you with all my heart.
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