Books and more
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs was just recommended to me by my sister, Gayle. It is the story of a boy who embarks on an adventure following photographs left by his murdered grandfather. The photos lead him to a remote island off the coast of Wales where Miss Peregrine’s orphanage is…
Books
For all the Downton Abbey fans out there (and who isn’t?)…I found a book that will help tide you over until the series resumes (or at least until The Royal Baby arrives!) Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey is the true story of Almina, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild who…
Books and more
“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” ― Mark Twain “Your ‘frog’ is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on.” —Brian Tracy from the book: Eat That Frog Brian Tracy’s rules for Eating Frogs…
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Photography
A few months ago, I subscribed to a new magazine, Click. It is a beautiful magazine “for the modern photographer” with pages of how-to articles, product reviews, and of course, lovely photos! It is the kind of magazine–like Real Simple, or Martha Stewart Living-– that one is thrilled to find in the mailbox… It is…
Art and more
“The artist is a collector, not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference. Hoarders collect indiscriminately. Artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they love.” “Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.” –Austin Kleon
Books and more
Books
This week marks the 23rd anniversary of one of the worlds largest and most famous unsolved art heists. In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men, dressed as policemen, bluffed their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The thieves tied up two security guards with duct tape and made off…
Books
There’s been very little quilting progress here lately. One of my New Year’s Resolutions ( read more here) was to read more fiction. I just finished The Hobbit, which I liked, but didn’t love…and now I’ve returned to one of my favorite authors, Rafael Sabatini. One reviewer described The Black Swan as “a thrilling swashbuckler“…what…
