Books 15, 16 and 17

In the last 10 days I have read 3 more books. (Technically it was 5, but I'm lumping the 1st 3 together ;-D ) I hope I mentioned when I first started this that I have VERY eclectic tastes when it comes to reading...I will read almost anything. Well if I didn't mention it before these last 3 books should prove it! LOL

The first story I finished was the second set of books in the Spiderwick Chronicles. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles is 3 stories set in Florida. It follows after the original series by a few years I believe. In this Series the central characters are a young boy who's father has recently remarried after being a widow for several years. Into the picture comes a new step-sister who firmly believes in fairies and wants her new brother to help her look around her new home for them. Nick (the main character) indulges his new sister never imagining what he would discover. These books are filled with Nixies, Merfolk, Giants, and Dragons. It was a wonderful read just like the original series. I think this series would be good for the over 8 crowd and anyone who enjoys the Fae world.

Ok next in line is gonna be a HUGE departure from anything else I've read this year. So be warned! LOL Next wasa book called Lethal Compound This books follows
Mack Bolan who is a fictional covert operative. This is a series that my husband has been reading since the mid 80's and I have actually read quite a few as well. It started out as merely I had NOTHING else to read, but I actually enjoy them as a change of pace. 'Mack' books are violent, graphic and filled with military phrases, weaponry and plots galore. Initially the 'Mack' series began with Mack returning home on Emergency Leave/Honorable Discharge from Vietnam to bury his Family after Mob-ties drove his father to murder his wife and sister then commit suicide. Mack goes on a one man vendetta to wipe out the Mob that was basically responsible for the deaths of his family. Throughout the years Mack ends up working for the government as a blacker than black covert operative. In recent years Mack has dealt with terrorists in every nation(including our own), cults, nuclear weapons and just about every scenario you can imagine. Lethal Compound was a bit of a departure for the norm but it was a wonderful books. Mack finds himself part of a 'security' force for an eccentric billionaire who fancies himself Indiana Jones. They head into Afghanistan searching for a secret compound rumored to have been built by Alexander the Great. If military/spy drama intrigues you (or your male counterparts) I would honestly highly recommend any of the Mack Bolan books.

Just this morning I finished book 17. And yep it's another departure from the norm for me. My sister bought The Black Dahlia a few weeks ago and couldn't put it down. She loved it. I figured what the heck I'd read it too. If you aren't familiar with the Black Dahlia case...1947 Hollywood a naked dismembered woman was discovered in a vacant lot. It became one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in American history. I've watched a few documentaries on the case before and thought this would be an interesting read. Unfortunately for me the Author took LOADS of creative liberty with this case. The book itself honestly became more about the fictional detective and his partners' obsession with the case and the people 'involved' in it. I can honestly say that by about mid way through the book I knew I was NOT going to like it...but I hate leaving a book unread. So I pushed on hoping that it would get better. In my opinion it didn't. While I did think the gritty 'film-noir' style writing captured the 1940's police detective era well, I just didn't like this book. For me a big part of the problem was that this was a fictionalized rendering of a factual case. the author twisted and distorted facts until honestly this really didn't resemble the original case at all. And I have issues with writers that take a TRUE story and just blow it all to hell. For instance, I didn't like the movie Perfect Storm since the entire middle of the movie was based on the authors supposition and conjecture. Same went for the ending of the recent movie Inglorious Basterds. That was just NOT how it happened. Maybe I am just too picky but I think I will stick to complete works of fiction from now on. :-(

TGIF!

Aaaaaaah nothing like the weekend! It's been a long week. Nothing major happened or anything it's just been a long week. Hubby and I were talking when he got home from work about dinner. Neither of us was hungry and therefor nothing sounded good. :-( As we were talking hubby said Ice Cream sounded really good. And that got my brain working...as a kid every now and again Mom would make what she called Backwards Suppers. Yep she'd make us dessert first!!! Sometimes it was just something as simple as a popsicle or cookie, but some times it was ice cream!!! With Backwards Supper ice cream it was often sundaes! Once I got married I started treating our kids to Backwards Suppers every now and again too. So that's what we did tonight. Banana splits with chocolate coated waffle cones, fruit or chocolate sauce, peanuts and whip cream! MMMMM what a great way to start the weekend! I've got left over roast beef and roasted chicken in the fridge for later when we get hungry!

I received this beautiful award from Kathi today! Thank you so much! She knows I am so much happier when the sun is shining!

The rules for this award are to pass it on to six bloggers. That's the hard part! How do you choose six from a list of hundreds of wonderful blogs? Eeney Meeny Miney Mo? I picked six now here you go!

Karin over at Orr Lake Musings offers some awesome Mini making tutorials, including one for Gooseberries! mmmm. =D

Gena Showalter my favorite author!

De over atDe-lightful Minis just finished a lovely rustic cabin.

Snowfern Clover makes some of the most realistic mini foods!!!

Rubber stamping and scrapbooking were some of my first forays into crafting and Jennie at The Artistic Stamper brings me back to my roots with her wonderful work.

Marsha at Sassy Mini Dolls makes some of the most expressives mini-dolls I have ever scene...and she loves sharing her techniques too!

Welcome Friends!!!

Oh my goodness...I am sooooooo very sorry...it's been ages since I welcomed my new friends! So forgive me for keeping this short and sweet...but in no particular order: all my new friends! This group of great artisans includes polymer clay artists, miniature makers, Air Dry Clay artists and much more! I do hope you'll take a few minutes to check them all out!
Rosangela Brino
Arizona Kate
Muriel
Shiho
Jonna
Susan
Jean
Eva
Annina
Lize
Anna
Angeles
Fehmida
Sue
Rosie Cotton
Rubina
MiniKat

Miniature Maid, Troy Bettridge, and CassieMissy and following my blog as well but I couldn't find blogs for them! So if you folks are out there and have blogs, let me know so I can link back to you!

Thank you so much for taking the time to follow my little blog...hopefully i'll get back to claying and mini-making soon!

Polymer Clay Cane Tutorial

Wow 3 posts in one day....talk about craziness! LOL

About 2 weeks ago I made some canes for doing miniature candy. I took pics and have finally gotten around to adding them to my Flickr. If you don't work with clay and are interested in purchasing some prebaked canes or finished jars of candy just send me an email! =D

Post 2 today! ;-)

Friday it snowed all day here. Now I know many of you have been buried under snow for a while now and the last thing y'all want to read about is more snow. So I will understand if you skip over this post...I can't say I wouldn't!

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oh wow hey you are still here, how sweet! =D
Well you see we live in Southern GA, the gulf of Mexico is only 4 hours away...and it SNOWED here ALL day Friday! They canceled school and everything. Now granted we only got about 3 inches and the roads were pretty clear, but please remember all of you scoffers out there. (I know when I lived in Ohio I would have scoffed too...3 inches is NOTHING to a Northerner) Buuuuuut down here where is hardly EVER snows 3 inches is cause for many folks to panic. Because it snows so infrequently here (like only twice in the last 8 years we have lived here) it is financially impractical for the cities or counties to own and maintain plows or salt trucks. Sooooo anyways long story short when it snows here everything Shuts down! Since it had been raining earlier in the week the ground was rather wet and we didn't get out to play until after dinner. but boy oh boy did we have a great time! The whole family went out to play. we had a grand old snowball fight! =D Sadly it was all gone by Saturday afternoon, but we had a wonderful time.

Book 13 of 100

I finished another of Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series. Book 2 in the Series is Visions of Heat is the story of Faith, an F-Psy, a Foreseer. Since she was 3 years old Faith has been foreseeing business prospects for the Psy. But now she is starting to get visions of darkness and blood. When her sister is brutally murdered Faith begins to realize that her disturbing visions are coming from her sisters killer...and he is planning another murder! As a Psy, Faith knows she shouldn't feel fear, but the darkness terrifes her and her vile visions threaten to send her spiraling into Madness,
Vaughn is a Jaguar changeling, adopted as a cub into the DarkRiver clan. Vaughn's Jaguar lies closer to the surface than any other changeling. When her comes across Faith both man and jaguar are drawn to her. For some reason, Vaughn alone can see when the 'darkness' attaches itself to Faith. Can he help bring Faith out of the PsyNet and help her stop another murder?

This was another great Singh book...I am very excited about finishing therest of the series, although it seems I will need to put the rest off for a bit as I did not buy a copy of the 3rd book!!! Grrr...So I'm gonna switch gears for a bit and read something new. ;-)