Category: Books

  • Wreck This Journal:week 3

    Here we are at week three already. It has been just wonderful seeing everybodies journals. I felt so inspired after seeing how many of you are artfully wrecking your journals. So I gave my self a pep talk. No inhibitions and please Valli girl , use color. And use color is what I did. It…

  • Wreck This Journal

             For the next few weeks I will be wrecking a journal. This is the third round of Jamie Ridler's famous book club,"Wreck this Journal". I discovered this artistic book club via The Metaphorical Magpie and immediately became smitten with the idea of giving myself permission to "Wreck" something……… I first became introduced to Keri…

  • ~A Small Moleskine Addiction~

    'Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.'— Victor Hugo                                        It started in music school. I was tired of carrying around large tablets of staff paper,or three ring binders filled with wrinkled compositions. While in London one spring day I ran across a Moleskine book…

  • A gift from my grocery store

      The drought here in Tennessee has left me with a very difficult decision to NOT garden officially this summer. I really find I have much time on my hands to sit and wish that I am in my garden digging in the dirt. While I was at Kroger’s, our local grocery store, shopping I…

  • Look at the new cityscape of Portland

    Can you believe this great design.  I’m from the City of Roses and it was so great to find this new design. If you have never been to Portland Oregon please make the time to go. It is well worth it. My favorite place is Powell Books. It’s aka is"The city of books". It is…

  • First cold weather and 2 new books

    Today was a beautiful fall day with lots of color and we had our first fire of the year.  I love the smell of burning wood.  It’s the perfect day to curl up with a couple of books. The first on my list was a new book find at the library.  It’s called," Musicophilia, Tales…