First catch of 2011

Lords of the Golden Horn by Noel Barber: this is one of the books I released way back in 2008 during the filming of the Bookcrossing documentary by the polytech students. It disappeared until it was caught (in the same place I’d released it) last July, and now it’s been caught again. Definitely a worthy…

What I read in 2010

Total = 137 books January (10) Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks At the Hall by Henrietta Soames The River King by Alice Hoffman A Vaudeville of Devils by Robert Girardi Torchon Lacemaking: A Manual of Techniques by Elizabeth Wade Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater Hexwood by Diana…

What I did in the weekend

First up, the latest batch of bookmarks: I’m having fun experimenting with all sorts of different techniques (as you can probably tell ;-)). I ended up going camping last night with brother and his family, and a friend of brother’s (FoB) and his wife (WoFoB). We were camped in total back of beyond up towards…

Happy New Year

Ok, so I’m about 9 hours too late, but I was too tired last night once the visitors left. Yeah, I know I said we were going to have a quiet night and probably not even see the New Year in, but plans do have a habit of changing. I’d offered to cook dinner for…

Bookmarks and forts

Still down in Alex, and in between babysitting the nephews I’ve been getting creative with all of mum’s wonderful scrapbooking supplies, making bookmarks: (The green one with a ribbon is one mum made when the temptation to join me in her crafting room got too great :-)) She’s got so many cool stamps and punches…

Merry Christmas everyone

Down in Alexandra for a few days visiting family, but that didn’t stop me creating my now-traditional Bookcrossing Christmas tree last night. It’s just in a slightly different location than usual 🙂 Mum (TopKat) came and helped me hang the books, and was terrified we were going to get in trouble for it, especially when…

I think it's summer

Today’s been the first properly hot day we’ve had this summer (according to the metservice, the high was 33 degrees, and it’s still about 32 now, at 6.30 pm). Poor George has spent the day collapsing in one patch of shade after another, trying to find one that’s actually cool. Not a good day to…

Christmas is coming…

Suddenly it’s December, and all those little craft projects I’ve had in the back of my mind for ages have taken on a greater urgency. You may remember that way way back in February I was cross-stitching a picture of a sewing machine and mentioned I had a plan in mind for when it was…

Entertaining a bookcrosser

Bookcrossers make the best guests – you don’t have to entertain them or anything. Just give them a book to read and you can happily ignore them for the rest of the afternoon, secure in the knowledge they won’t emerge from it until it’s time for dinner. Which is a roundabout way of saying Discoverylover…