Hello Again

It's been ages since I've written a post.

Things had been crazy for a while. The long and the short of it is that I went back to school and finished my bachelors degree. This meant two new classes every six weeks. Twenty months later I finished with top honors. But this meant very little time for crafting or reading. And even less for blogging.

So now that that is finished and I'm back to crafting and reading again. I'm finding myself in need of a place to share. I'm not sure how often I'll post, I can't make promises, time with my family is still a high priority. But please stop by often and check to see what I've been up to.

And just because I like post with pictures in them:

I love how this picture turned out.

Well I hope that you have a good week. I'll be back soon to share the lasted additions to my yarn stash.

January Entertainment

Wow! Another new month already. What happened to January? Things have been crazy around here. Not bad, but not all sunshine and roses either. We're all still try to make the adjustment of the Boy being with us full time and get him on track at school. So that's a struggle. Other than that I finished with my volunteer project for the Monkey's school reading festival. They handed out medallions last night.

So what have I been watching?

Well we've been just finished watching season 1&2 of True Blood. Just odd. But you can't seem to stop watching it though either. This is a HBO show so it has adult content in it.

Season Two of Downton Abby started on Masterpiece Theater

Also my SiL came down for her birthday and we went  and saw One for the Money. I thought it was cute, had some laughs. Since I have read a good portion of the books in this series I thought that they didn't do Ranger justice in it.

City of Fallen Angels review

  

City of Fallen Angles by Cassandra Clare

Type: Young Adult fantasy

 

Synopsis: Book Four of the Mortal Instrument series. Continuing the Clary, Jade, and Simon story lines.

Review: I liked it, but not as much as the other books that I've read in the series. It seemed to be lacking some of the quality the other books had. I almost want to say it was written just to continue the story so the author could keep writing books, not to grow the characters. Like I said I liked it but it just seems to be missing something.

3 out of 5 stars.

The Iron Queen review

The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Type: young adult fantasy

Synopsis: This is book 4 of the Iron Fey series. I'm having problems writing synopsis for series giving the whole series away.

Review: I'm still loving this series, so if this is your type of book please, please give this series a try.

4 out of 5 stars.
 

Meal Monday

Well look we're back to Monday already. What happened to the weekend? Here's what I had planned for last weeks meals.

• Potato soup
• hamburger gravy
• breakfast muffin melts -- found here from PW
• autumn soup -- I got this recipe from one of the guys at work
• Chicken pillows with green beans -- recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe

I hope everyone has a good week.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Review

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

Type: adult historical fiction, time-travel

Synopsis: This is book 6 of the Outlander series, same character and place as the last one.

Review: Out of the 7 books that I've read from this author all from this series. I found that I liked this one the least. Not that it was a bad book at all. In fact I still enjoyed it. But I felt it covered such a large time frame and then just hit the highlights. 



3.5 out of 5 stars

2011 Book Review

My reading goal for 2011 was to read 52 books or a book a week. I ended up reading 69 books. A few of them I didn't finish though. And this also The point of this goal was to get through some of the books on my  to read list. Infertility my to read list has started to grow uncontrollably, thanks to GoodReads recommendations.

Some of the highlights of the year:

• 7  books that I rated 5 starts
• 8 books that I tried but didn't finish
• My top pick for YA novel :   

 

• My  tip pick for Adult novel:

 So what was your favorite book or least favorite book of 2011? Any must read book for 2012?