I read Lisa Kleypas's Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor over the holidays and enjoyed it. It was a fairly typical contemporary romance, a...

Letter Perfect: the Marvelous History of our Alphabet from A-Z by David Sacks: A fascinating book that traces the evolution of the alphabet...

Long delicate chains of Swarovski crystals: A stretch bracelet made of pastel glass spacer beads: (It reminds me of those candy neckl...

Sharon at Pintangle has had a long-running SAL called Take a Stitch Tuesday , and I've joined it this year. Every week I embroider an in...

January's pick for the Inspired by Reading book club was The Starless Sea, a novel which I had fortuitously bought for myself as a birth...

I'm generally not one who marks the New Year, but for some reason I'm feeling all energized and organized and excited about my craft...

I signed up for Julia's fall book box last year, and received a pretty edition of Lud-in-the-Mist in addition to some fun little treats...