Stitch In Time

Book Club

My book club (we meet every 4-6 weeks) just reached our 50th book and I thought I would list them here in case anyone is looking for ideas for their own book club, or just for general reading.  I put my top five books in red and my bottom five (least favorite) in green. The most surprising book selection we all liked was Frankenstein.  Here they are in the order we've read them:

1. The Sun Also Rises

2. A Red Bird Christmas

3. The Time Traveler's Wife

4. Bel Canto

5. Left to Tell

6. God & the Almighty (Madeleine Albright)

7. Lolita

8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

9. A Girl Named Zippy

10. 3 Junes

11. Winterdance

12. a long way gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

13. Water for Elephants

14. Absurdistan (unanimous worst book we read)

15. The Jane Austen Book Club

16. A Thousand Splendid Suns

17. The 13th Tale (a mystery)

18. Three Cups of Tea

19. Eat, Pray, Love

20. The Gathering

21. The Madonnas of Leningrad

22. The Alchemist

23. Frankenstein

24. The Widow's War

25. The Glass Castle

26. The Road to Eden's Ridge

27. Turtle Moon

28. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

29. Same Kind of Different as Me

30. Lucy

31. Sing Them Home

32. The Forever War

33. The Help

34. The Hummingbird's Daughter

35. The History of Love

36. The Year of Fog

37. The Book Thief

38. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

39. Before You Know Kindness

40. The Beekeeper's Apprentice

41. These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.)

42. Kidnapped

43. Have a Little Faith

44. Cutting for Stone

45. The Shadow of the Wind

46. The Thirtymile Fire

47. The Crying Tree

48. Starvation Heights

49. 84, Charing Cross Road

50. When Heaven & Earth Changed Places

Freebie!

"Sahlin Studio" is on Facebook. AND... for a limited time Krista is offering an Exclusive Full FREE Digital Scrapbook kit just for clicking "Like" on the Sahlin Studio Fan Page. It's a great way to stay up to date on products, peeks and get some great discounts!

Here's a page I made using this kit:

Snow Day

We've been stuck inside for the past two days with snow and freezing rain.  Part of one of our trees is now in our neighbor's yard.  I decided to do some scrapbooking and try out my Cameo to combat cabin fever.

Hard Rock Cafe

Lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe, Seattle.

Tell the Story

Credits: tell the story word art by Sahlin Studio, travel mixed media by Sahlin Studio

 

Giveaway Winner

The winner of the December Daily Giveaway is...

Shelley: I just love your december daily. still working on mine. found your blog because someone pinned one of your books on pinterest and i have been visiting ever since. would love a chance to win. thanks!

Shelley please email me with your address and I will send this package right out to you. Congratulations! 

 

December Daily Giveaway! (Closed)

I had a lot of extra material from my December Daily and I thought I would send it off to a good home.  If you are interested please leave a comment below and I will pick a random person at noon, Pacific Time, next Thursday, January 12th.

There are a lot of fun items in this package including October Afternoon Holiday Style, My Mind's Eye, Jenni Bowlin, Tim Holtz, vellum envelopes, chipboard, Webster's Pages, parchment paper, vintage items and much much more. 

There are also full sheets of Jenni Bowlin, My Mind's Eye, and even some Daisy D's.

Thanks and have a great day!

December Daily - Days 24/25

It's done!  Even though it was really fun to work on, the fact that we were out of town for a few days made it a little more challenging to finish.  But I was determined to finish this year and I'm really happy I did.

Day 24/Christmas Eve was about friends and family coming over. It's always good to go back to my hometown and see everyone again.

Christmas day was a somber event for us this year.  We recieved some sad news about a family member and no one was in the mood for much celebrating.  We opened stockings and went to church in the morning and then came back to my parents' house and kept things pretty low key for the rest of the day.  I will probably add some journaling to this last page at some point.

And a couple final notes to some questions I got:

I printed my photos on Kodak matte photo paper.  Because it was book style I chose matte paper over gloss.

The photoshop brushes I used were Holiday Word Art by Ali Edwards, French Laundry Art Edges by Sande Krieger, and some House of 3 brushes which are no longer available.

And even though it's thick, it's still pretty manageable.  I was expecting to have to get a larger size book ring but I didn't need to.  It helped by adhering the pages back to back.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and Happy New Year!

 

December Daily - Day 23

On Friday we were running around town picking up items for dinner the following night and getting a couple of last minute presents.  But the most memorable part of the day was the weather. All the trees were covered in frost and it was absolutely beautiful!

 

December Daily - Day 22

Thursday we spent the day traveling over the mountains to my parents' house to spend the holidays.  We got into town about 4:30pm and had a nice dinner and watched "The Help."  My parents left my son the tree to decorate when we got there, and this year was his first year getting to put the star on top.