Thursday, June 30, 2022

Baking and Knitting and Strawberries and ROW80

C

raft post!

I've not not been writing, including a final round of copy edits for Druid's Moon, but I've also been knitting quite regularly!

 

Among other activities...


Apple pie and cookies!

Brownies and cherry muffins (cherries from the cherry tree in our landlady's garden!)

Walking to the strawberry field...







Through the vines...











Strawberries!

So many!



Open house at the winery up the road





Checking on the kirsch in progress...

Memorabilia!



Our village, 200 years ago





We bought the carved stone from Marilyn Designs...

...and coloured it!



In other news, we've been designing LEGO dinosaurs!

A sewing project at school

My latest project

Using up some of my leftover yarns with the Dathan Hap pattern

Ancient Christmas ornaments!



From the late 1950s, early 1960s

Pysanka! I didn't make these; they're by author Marsha Skyrpuch. I had a chance to make real Ukrainian Easter eggs years ago (with traditional dyes and the real melted wax and instruments) at a friend's house; it was really fun and I'd love to do it again

Starting a new project, to make goods for a solidarity breakfast to be held at my daughter's school...

...potholders by me...

...and bookmarks by E!





















The complete collection!



As for my upcoming ROW80 goals, I'm back to participating in the monthly exercises on thelitforum, and I need to revise my query for Captive of the Sea, after some great feedback on Nathan Bransford's blog!

Which fruits and vegetables are in season where you are?

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Blogging From A to Z April Challenge!

For the first time since 2017, I’m doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge!





In 2017, I collated all my blog posts up till then

In 2016, I focused on JRR Tolkien and the Inklings

In 2015, I featured books I’d read based on a reading challenge

In 2014, I didn’t have a theme!
 
In 2013, I collated all my Twitter favourites up till then (it was a LOT easier to organize Twitter back then)

In 2012, I listed all my favourite books


This year I’m going to focus on fellow authors and bloggers!
 
I’ll cover all the guest posts, blog hops, cover reveals, interviews, and more, that I’ve featured over the years (mostly sorted by surname, with some sorted by title). Please share your favourite blog hops and blogging events and book covers in the comments!

Plus a photo (or a few) for each day, taken by my daughter (or of her!) on a visit to the canton of Schwyz (one of the founding cantons of Switzerland, in 1291)!


This year's A to Z team is:

Arlee Bird (founder) at Tossing it Out

J Lenni Dorner (captain) at Blog of Author J Lenni Dorner

Zalka Csenge Virág at The Multicolored Diary

John Holton at The Sound of One Hand Typing

Jayden R Vincente (spreadsheets) at JR Vincente Erotica Writer

Anjela Curtis (graphics) at AnjelaCurtis.com

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And now... Z!


The trip is over! Back to baking and knitting (and writing and blogging and...)...

Author for Z
Nicole Zoltack: Masked Love
Nicole Zoltack: Bernard Pivot blogfest

Who is your favourite author or blogger or musician beginning with Z?