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I’ve got two new YA reviews for you today! I have been reading a lot of YA lately (so much so that I am craving reading adult fiction right now) and these two have been part of it. One is set in present-day reality in Toronto, and the other is set in 1800s England with…
Instagram is a great place for crafters to spend some time showing off their handiwork. And if they know how to artfully take a photograph, that’s even better. I gobble these kinds of pictures up and then first get jealous that I don’t know how to make these things (with no practice) and second get…
Woohoo, this is my first time blogging as part of a blog tour. Appropriate! Thank you to Raincoast Books for letting me tag along. Here you’ll find an honest review of Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, as well as a short Q&A with her. ~~ Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, via St. Martin’s Griffin, out now….
It’s been a while since I did a Stationery Talk post! Good thing the holidays were a fruitful season 😉 Here are some recent finds that make me wish I was basically living in paper. This adorable small notepad is from Hey Chickadee – the same site where I got the Pusheen notepad. Good for…
Hell hath frozen over – I bought a Kindle. Yeah, I know. For years now, I have always stuck to my notions of: *I am a paper girl through and through — I love the smell, I love the way it feels to hold a book and flip pages, I love dog-earing pages, I love…
I wish I could make all the things. But I have to accept that I don’t know how yet. I would really love to be able to make some things that I could sell, such as zippered pouches, but before I can do that I need to learn how to use a sewing machine. I’ve had…
If you know me at all, you know I’m a pretty big Harry Potter fan. I started reading them soon after they came out – I was probably in grade 5. The obsession lasted until I was about in college, and now I maintain a healthy level of fandom 😉 (Seriously, there was an era…