New Sock Day #2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Suzanne

Shortly after getting up this morning, I needed to go down to the basement for a minute. On the way I happened to get a flash fo something odd through the garage door window, and add to back up for another look.

What’s that I see???

Yippee!!!! It’s my NEW SOCKS!!!!

Thanks Mom!!!!

She started these awhile back, but ran out of yarn as she was nearing the toe of the 2nd sock. I had asked her to make them longer than the first pair (i.e. further up on my leg, the foot part did not need to be any more huge than it already was…). Apparently my gargantuan feet needed more sock yarn than she had initially calculate. So far she’s been very polite about not making fun of how big my feet are.

I had gotten an e-mail from her last week that she’d been to the yarn store and picked up something that she’d be using to finish the one, and to expect a surprise in my garage some morning. She drops things off on her way to work occasionally. Apparently she got to scare the bejeebers out of Mark this morning when she stopped by.

Can you even tell that one sock’s toe is different yarn? I didn’t really even notice at first, and quite frankly, I don’t even care! They are sooooo soft….

I’ll probably be wearing shoes and socks tomorrow (as opposed to flip-flops…) and when I do, I’ll be sure to make sure everyone notices my stripy socks.

Mom had some socks for my Grandma with her the other day (very pretty pink) and asked Will if he’d like a pair like that.

“Oh no!” he said. “Well, maybe if they were camouflage colored socks.”

TTFN-

Suzanne

p.s. And yes, some camouflage colored sock yarn is now on order…..

p.p.s. I was so excited to get a notice from Amazon.com that I’d be receiving my copy of the new Harry Potter on Saturday (the release date). And then I remember I’m going to be out of town all weekend!!! Ack! I’ll have to wait until Monday to read it! Ack! LOL…

Book Meme

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Suzanne

I don’t know where I saw this one: it’s been months since I copied the list and started this post. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m on vacation, but thought I’d store up some stuff to have appear while I’m gone.

Some of these I’ve never heard of. I didn’t bother with the italicizing part, I just marked the ones I’ve read (and finished).

Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
* If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9.Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance(Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)*
53. Ender’s Game* (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)*
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)*
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

One of these days I’ll have to go back and see if I can fill in the gaps for some of these books that are classics. But there are some that I’m sure I’ll just not bother with…..LOL!

My nose is stuck in a book

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Suzanne

Nothing much to see here, just been doing some hand applique, but am now going to be occupied by my part of my birthday present from my sister. Thanks to an Amazon.com gift cert, the newest book by my absolute favoritest author in the whole world landed on my doorstep today.

The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold

I hoping for a really awesome mail call today, too, so after the mailman is here, I may drag my nose out of the book and post some more later…..

Suzanne

Books are all gone

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Suzanne

Well, I did manage to get rid of the machine quilting books that were on my Quilt Book Garage Sale list, and 2 of the quilt piecing books were claimed. I got tired of looking at the pile of books, so I took them all to the library yesterday.

When I dropped them off, my sister-in-law happened to be there working and asked if I was making room for new books. LOL. In truth, the answer is more like: making room for what I already have.

I did manage to pick up a new book last night: Plush-o-rama: Curious Creatures for Immature Adults

Yeah, like I need more projects to make.

I finished the first stuffed Jawa, and need to make the 2nd. I’ll snap some pictures in a bit. I just remembered that I’m supposed to run down to the library to look at a Tupperware catalog to see if there is anything I can’t live without.

TTFN-

Suzanne

Book garage sale

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Suzanne

I’m trying to clean out my studio. I’ve put together a list of books that I’d like to get rid of. You can click on the tab at the top of the page that says Quilt Book Garage Sale to see what I’ve got. There are a few machine quilting books, mostly it’s quilt piecing books, though. I don’t suspect anybody else will want them either, but I thought I’d try to get something out of them before I take them to the library to their used book sale.

I have not had a very productive day. Feel like I’m going in circles. Feeling a little blech again. Plus, I spent the morning baby-sitting my washing machine while trying to get laundry done. We have a Kenmore He4t (a front loader like the Whirlpool Duet). We used to love it. Now we hate it. We rarely get through a full cycle without some sort of error code. It’s out of warranty (of course), and even if we get it fixed (~$300 for the extended warranty), we are worried that it will only work for a few more years and then have the same problem….

I’m trying to avoid making my blog a place of ranting and negativity, so I think I’ll quit for the night and see if tomorrow is a brighter day.

TTFN-

Suzanne