Book Tag

So no shortage of books in my house, but when this popped up on Twisted's blog I chuckled. My books fall into two catagories. Well three, but I don't count my kids books as mine.

A. Books I read like crazy. Stephen King, semi fantasy or sci fi and horror.

B. Books I've picked up at antique stores or estate sales to lay around the house to make it feel more like home.

So when the tag said to pick up the next nearest book I knew it would be of the second category as theres one on the table at my back.

Here's the tag.


1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five other people.


And here is the excerpt from A Short History of England by Edward P. Cheyney. Copyright 1904

"On the same occasion he did homage to the king. That is to say, he knelt before the king and took an oath to be faithful to him. This was followed by the consecration , a religious service in which the new bishop or abbot was inducted by the archbishop or some other bishops into the religious functions of his position. "

I enjoyed the book when I picked it up, its worn in some spots, the pages are long ago yellowed and it is written quite nicely. While I wouldn't call myself a history buff or lover, I do from time to time enjoy picking up books on other places. Especially when they were written before my time.


It was sold for $1.40 at a drug store at some point in the past, it's got a little stamp in the corner. Theres also an address and a few lines written in pencil. There are lines underlined and small notes in the margin throughout the book which make me smile when I come across them.


Alright.....5 other people.

Hmm...tell you what I always feel so pressed by these things to choose just the right people. And I know there are so many tags floating out there that it seems they never end. So I tell you what. If you feel like sharing a book, do so then post a comment here letting me know you have. I've always got an eye out for something new and love to see others views on books. So share, ^-^

Robot Plush

And I do mean plush. ^-^ He's quite snuggly.


Blue Fleece, red fleece and black fleece all snugly stitched together into one robot with a heart.

I was making him for my little brother for his birthday Sat......but I think I'll be making him something else. ^-~

Just had to share...

I really love a good fresh fruit smoothie and every so often I get the urge to make one. Now I make one every couple of days for the kiddos, it includes carrots and fruits and what ever good stuff I can include for them. Gotta get the good stuff in where I can. ^-~

Today I wanted to make one that I would enjoy as well (I'm not a fan of carrots in mine, they make it too gritty for me. 0-o) so I started grabbing the fruit bags from the freezer. Well its nearly stock up time again so I used what I could get ahold of and just hoped it would be yummy. It was!


So heres my new smoothie recipe.

3 spoon fulls of honey.
2 shakes of cinnamon. (My shakes are fairly good shakes, and my containers got good sized holes. So I suppose it'd be about 1tsp but you don't have to use that much)

One large chunk of frozen berry mix. (this one has ras, blue, and black berries in it)

1 Philly Swirl blueberry flavored. I(t comes in a pack of 6 or so different flavor mixes, they are in the ice cream section but are a non dairy shaved ice sort of thing. I was just using it for the ice and the blueberry flavor. I don't like to add a bunch of ice chunks as it makes it harder to blend and my lil guy is afraid of the blender.)

1 Frusion Strawberry Banana yougurt smoothie. It's cheap, its a filler and it tastes good.

Blend until smooth as you like.


Now most of the things I use I keep around, but you may not have the specific brands, any yogurt or yogurt smoothie will do, I like the smoothies better because they are liquid and i don't have to add extra juice. But I've used all kinds in these. The shaved ice thingy, really any sort of ice and flavor mix works, even if its adding blueberries and ice cubes.

Just play with it. ^-^ I like this mix the best out of all I've made lately because the hint of cinnamon kept popping up and making it interesting. Not to sweet and not to tangy, it was a hit with both the kids and myself.

*^-~ And it means I got my fruits in for the day. he he.


0-0......I grabbed my camera to shoot a few shots of the yummy stuff before it was all gone and got spooked when I went to edit the photos! Apparently something else likes my drink.

Weird.....

On a lighter note

I just had to laugh. I hadn't gripped much this morning with my right hand, so when I set about making lunch for my kiddos I noticed my hand hurt.

I looked down and I have a large bruise where I was holding my round nose pliers handle. ^-~ Guess I did a bit too much spiral making last night. he he.

Just a note.

I don't normally cross post my blogs or even tell people about the others, I like my other lives secret. ^-~, but today I'm frustrated. So I'm sharing a bit of a rant on one of my other blogs. It's been made for just that, ranting. Not a sole actually reads it (or at least that I know of no ones ever commented and I'm rarely over there) so feel free to ignore it as well.

It's about the scare we had about two weeks ago and whats happened since. But again it's a rant, with words I can't say outloud anymore (I have little ears in the house ^_^) so not really anyone friendly.

Check it here if you want to. I wouldn't mind another thought on the subject, but do understand, it's a rant blog. It's not got many posts and its rarely a. updated b. read.

And its another side of me that not everyone cares for so fair warning.

I've been tagged! Twice ^-^

Never really been good at these tagging things, so here goes.

I've been tagged by both Cyndi *see here*
as well as Vicki of Parrotise Beads

Heres the tag, which by the way is an award ^-^ Which makes it a cool tag.

This was started by Erin of Idyll Hands

-Post the award on your own blog. (Post who gave it to you)
-Indicate its original link and link to that site.
-Give the award to 5 other blogs that you enjoy, find creative and inspire you.

So heres my 5

1. Posie Gets Cozy, She makes some really cute stuff and writes a blog thats a great read anyday.

2. BitterSweet, A blog I check on a daily basis. She has a wonderful writing style and a delicious blog in general. Plus shes a young author of a cookbook!

3.Etsians Say The Darnest Things, Because when ever I need a good laugh, I check this blog. It's based off the forums and the folks who say funny things in it. I've found some great shops through this blog.

4.Some Girls Wander, is a neat blog about some of the fun fashions popping up on Etsy.

5. The Twisted Pearl, A fellow ArEtsy gal who does some very pretty spinning and dying of yarn. I love her stuff and if I can't get ahold of some fiber of my own, I know I can get a fiber fix there!

Hope you all enjoy the blogs, if you've seen them before or not, and I hope you bloggers enjoy your award! ^-^ I know I've enjoyed sharing some of my favs.

Elysium the faun poppet

She's been floating around in my head for a good bit so I thought I'd let her out. ^-^



Today I took her outside and got some shots while it was nice and sunny. Though she said it was too cold and quickly wanted to go back in. *chuckles*




For now she's back to hanging out with Calypso. Which I'm not sure is a great idea....they might be scheming. ^-~