Love these ideas...don't know if I could actually go through with them though...

9 Cool Things to Do With Old Books » Written Word

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This is too funny :-)

Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts | Brain Pickings

SPRING!!!!

I am having one of those wonderful lazy spring days. I am determined to get a cheapo plastic table and chair for our deck so we can enjoy this amazing weather! I don't think there has been an ounce of humidity, it makes the trees and the sky so clear and crisp.

I am also super excited for the new Black Dagger Brotherhood novel that came out today! I rushed off as soon as I could this morning to buy it. Now I'm trying to decide when to start reading it. I want to take my time so that I don't miss anything but this week is going to be pretty hectic and I feel like it's too late to try and start it today :(

Speaking of books, I've been looking at my bookshelves lately and I think it's time for another purge. Namely, I think I need to get rid of the remainder of my collection of Dirty Romance Novels. Some of them I haven't updated in a while, and frankly I'm just now interested in them anymore. I started rereading Jane Austen which somehow led me to read Ernest Hemingway which somehow led me to read Ayn Rand. Now the only series I seem to keep up with is J.R. Ward's series.

My new favorite cup

Yellow really is the happiest color :-)

So true

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This site just made me super happy!!

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This is such a beautiful day

I love early spring. It always reminds me of that Robert Frost Poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Today the sky is cerulean blue, there must not be an ounce of humidity; and it is wonderfully cool outside. Making the day even more blissful, I was able to sleep in late. This in spite of the protestations of my puppy, Zoe, who seems to think that there is some sort of tragedy if I'm not up when she wants to play.

As I was making my coffee I looked out on the deck and thought how nice it would be if we had lots of ferns and potted plants up there to make it look kind of like a hanging garden, then we could have a chair and table so that on mornings like this one I could sit and sip coffee and read my book.

Right now I'm reading Atlas Shrugged, or at least trying to. It's for a scholarship for grad school, I have to write an essay. I'm getting kind of antsy about books lately, mostly because there are so many I want to read and I'm not the sort of person to finish a book before I start another, so now I have so many started that I don't know which one to pick up next! It's made even worse by this website I found. It's like pandora for books!!

Orange prize for Fiction

Orange prize for Fiction

This looks like a super cool list of books to put on my reading list!!

Revamped Toms

So, I have this pair of Toms that I simply LOVE, but I had worn them so much that there was a nasty dark mark on the outer part of each shoe that would not wash out.

I wanted to cover it up so instead of using fabric like so many people I looked up bird silhouettes and traced two onto my shoes.

I think they turned out pretty well, I think I need to outline them just so the bird is really defined but other than that I think they're fab!!

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A great way to recycle a shoe box!!!!

Owl baby hat

I found this pattern at slugs on the refrigerator.com. I'm giving it to a friend for her baby shower.