tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45816112297285400972024-03-05T20:59:50.483-06:00Mel's Daisy Patch Crochet and CraftsMelissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.comBlogger413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-84095826056790216832023-05-18T10:03:00.001-05:002023-05-18T10:10:41.222-05:00New Blog Location<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRfsc4ca7PbmPpgsQeUmXRvCjL2QM8eBvYQpKCOqrBAG4s_O4GtCWhGuye5X6ycz328oSJUNyzYYsB-mRtsHgIjoDRWflG_LOvkgGtYNvhhMqdGQ0VwCKc-lGWEBLHy_7k2avmaZV8ijVrEKeltG2H8mmpo5gAnAGY4o__Z-bcbLF7r1_H4gbKR-Bbg/s920/IMG_9470.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRfsc4ca7PbmPpgsQeUmXRvCjL2QM8eBvYQpKCOqrBAG4s_O4GtCWhGuye5X6ycz328oSJUNyzYYsB-mRtsHgIjoDRWflG_LOvkgGtYNvhhMqdGQ0VwCKc-lGWEBLHy_7k2avmaZV8ijVrEKeltG2H8mmpo5gAnAGY4o__Z-bcbLF7r1_H4gbKR-Bbg/s320/IMG_9470.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">I have moved all of my book reviews to a new blog. </p></div><p>You can now find me at:</p><p><a href="https://readingamongthedasies.wordpress.com/">https://readingamongthedasies.wordpress.com/</a></p><p>I will be posting new reviews weekly as well as book tours and bookish item reviews. </p><p>Please pop over and follow me there. </p>Melissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-43050601771873046342017-04-17T16:13:00.001-05:002017-04-17T16:13:41.407-05:00Hey Everyone!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been awhile since I posted anything here. I have been very busy with my new Etsy shop. I have been making lots of sweet dolls. I hope to start doing book reviews again. I will keep you posted. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day again this year. To enter please visit the <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts</a> blog. There will be at least two winners, I may pick another if there are a lot of entries. You will have a chance to win the grand prize:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A children's book title <i><a href="http://smilesinthesky.com/">Smiles In The Sky</a>, </i>written by Theresa Bonini and illustrated by Will Shields, that includes a mini Tooth Fairy Pouch (Made by me!!!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The giveaway is international and will run from 5/6/2015 to 5/10/2015. Now run over to the <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts blog</a> to enter and good luck. </span><br />
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Melissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-61495343524074317922015-03-02T13:57:00.000-06:002015-03-02T13:57:19.128-06:00Hello...Are You Still There?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hey everyone! I hope all of you in the US are staying warm. Has it really been that long since I have been here? My last post was November 7, 2014. I have been crazy busy with the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">Storybook Felts</a> side of things. If you would like to see what I have been up to please visit the <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts blog</a>. I would love for you to follow me there. Not sure how much I will be posting here other than reviews and such. Here is a little peek at some of the items I have been working on though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With Easter coming up these would make great basket stuffers! You can find the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">finished items</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/user/6789477/pattern-store?_ct=fqjjuhd-ijehu&_ctp=129644,6789477">patterns</a> in the Storybook Felts Shops. To see what else I have been working on please stop by <a href="http://instagram.com/storybookfelts?ref=badge">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/storybookfelts/">Pinterest</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Storybook-Felts/439076199495026">Facebook</a>. I would love for you to follow me at all these places also.</span></div>
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Melissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-2840558211613015842014-11-07T08:00:00.000-06:002014-11-10T12:34:11.775-06:00At Bluebonnet Lake - Book Review.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Her life is set to warp speed. His is slowing to a crawl.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Marketing maven Kate Sherwood's wold is fast-paced, challenging, and always changing. The last thing she wants to do is grind to a halt at Rainbow's End, a dilapidated resort in the Texas Hill Country. Still, she cannot deny her ailing grandmother's request to visit the place where she and her deceased husband spent on glorious week fifty years ago. There, Kate meets Greg, who appears to be the resort's unassuming handyman. But there's more to Greg than meets the eye-billions more, in fact.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I f</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">ell in love with this book and its character right away. There is more than one romance going on in this book. Kate's grandmother wanted to go back to Rainbow's End one more time but never imagined meeting a wonderful man while she is there. The book is written from not only Kate's perspective but Greg's, Sally's -Kate's grandmother, and Roy's as well. She and Kate also did not imagine it would look as rundown as it does. It is no longer the Christian family getaway that it once was and the brochure didn't quite depict it correctly either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Rainbow's End is the kind of place that my family would love to visit. Because Rainbow's End is located just outside a small town named Dupree in the Texas Hill Country, there is no cell service. There are also no televisions or phones in the cabins, and no Wi-Fi. Dupree is one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone else and has fantastic little shops and a cafe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Kate and Greg both find themselves falling in love with Rainbow's End and wanting to do something to bring it back to life. Neither of them can imagine doing it alone however. Things happen along the way that force them to change the way they think and feel about the life they think they want. Both come to realize that God's idea for their life sometimes differs from their own. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I can't wait for the next book to come out in Spring of 2015 so I can find out what happens to Rainbow's End and it's staff, including Carmen-the cook, and the KOB trio. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">If you would like to find out more about <i>At Bluebonnet Lake, </i>or any of Amand Cabot's other books, please visit her <a href="https://www.sff.net/people/amanda.cabot/">website</a>.</span></div>
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Melissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-43326117280802676222014-09-22T08:00:00.000-05:002014-09-22T08:00:05.203-05:00Back For Now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello everyone! I can't believe how long I have been away. I did post a book review this month but that has been it. A lot has happened since I last posted. Mr. Boo broke his arm AGAIN. Same arm different place. We were camping the week before school started and we had just bought him a new foot powered Razor scooter. He was scooting along when all of a sudden he went down. He hit his arm and leg on the pavement. Then the bad part happened...the scooter came down and hit his arm and snap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course he had to start school with a cast one his arm. Here are Mr.Boo and Lulu on their first day back. Boo is now a 4th Grader and Lulu...GULP...started high school this year in the 10th grade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have also been working on loads of new things for the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">Storybook Felts Etsy shop</a>. You can stop by the <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts blog</a> everyday this week for a peek at all the new items that have been added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have also been busy changing things up in the shop. Taking new pictures to update the items and combining some of the items to make them easier to list and order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure when I will be back with Monday Funday. Right now I am trying to focus all my time on Storybook Felts. I will be back off and on with updates and book reviews and such. I would love for you to follow my <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts blog</a> so that we can keep in touch. Come visit me on Facebook as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/storybook.felts">Storybook Felts</a>. While you are there, stop by my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Storybook-Felts/439076199495026">Storybook Felts Facebook Page</a> and give me a like. Storybook Felts is also in <a href="http://instagram.com/storybookfelts">Intagram</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">After his departure from New York two years ago to meet up with him almost-fiancee, Zayne Beckett is the last person Agatha Watson wanted to stumble upon in her travels as a reporter with the New York Tribune. Quite pathetically bedraggled, he clearly needs to be taken in hand and sent back East to his family. Although she no longer has feelings for him, Agatha realizes - by hook or by crook- she'll have to be the one to get the obstinate man home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Zayne has no desire to be taken anywhere and is prepared to drag his heels all the way home...until he finds himself slipping back into the familiar banter of his former friendship with Agatha. Once they arrive in New York, Zayne realizes Agatha's determined nose for news has earned her a few enemies, and he hopes to repay her help with some help of his own. When she rebuffs all his attempts to prove himself a knight in shining armor, the lengths to which they'll go to win this battle of wills lead to some memorable antics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Everyone else may think them a match, but nothing could be further from the truth-until Agatha finds herself in real trouble. Have these two stubborn, to-smart-for-their-own-good people been meant for each other all along?</span><br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">A Match of Wits </i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">is book #4 in Jen Turano's Ladies of Distinction series.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Agatha is not your usual heroine in a historical fiction novel. She is strong willed and a lot trouble. She is bound and determined to get her story one way or the other...even if it means dragging down everyone around her or getting killed in the process. She seems to keep herself in no end of trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Zayne is almost as strong willed as Agatha but he can't resist a challenge that involves her and wants to protect her and find her a man who will take care of her and force her to settle her wild ways.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This book started out a little slow for me. I did stick with it however and had fun in the end. I do have to say though, my favorite character in the whole book was Matilda. Matilda is a pig...but do not let her hear you call her that. There were places in the beginning where the story would lag and Matilda would step in and save the day for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">To find out more about Jen Turano and all of her books please visit her <a href="http://jenturano.com/">website</a>.</span></div>
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Hey everyone. I am in a bit of a blogging rut at the moment and have decided to take a bit of break...At least until the kids get back to school in a couple weeks. I am trying to get some things done with the Storybook Felts store and items related to it and blogging has been pushed to the back burner for now. I hope all of you are still have a fantastic summer and I will see you when I get back. <br />
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Melissa Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117977238252282337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4581611229728540097.post-68351357530332116282014-07-14T06:00:00.000-05:002014-07-14T10:19:29.458-05:00Monday Funday #90 July 14, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Happy Monday everyone!! Busy around here trying to revamp the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">Storybook Felts Etsy shop</a> at the moment. The kids and I did manage to squeeze in some bowling last week and are talking about going again this week. We had a blast. I signed the kids up for the <a href="http://www.kidsbowlfree.com/">Kids Bowl Free Program </a>and it has been great. The kids get to bowl twice a day for free. Then up to four adults can bowl twice a day with them for a one time fee. You do have to rent shoes but the kids can bowl in their socks. Lulu bowled a 100 both games and Boo bowled a 90 and an 83. They were tickled because their Grammy also went with us and bowled. We had a lot of fun laughing over the gutter balls and such.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Boo has some great techniques. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">(Sorry for the blur. Camera on my phone was dirty I guess.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I hope all of you are having a good start to your week. We had a lot of fun on our 4th of July weekend. We had family, food, fireworks and lots of fun. The kids were not ready to see their Uncle go home yesterday. However, he did leave with the promise to see them in a couple months at least. He took us to go see Earth to Echo while he was here. The kids loved it. Boo got a little emotional at the end. I thought it was cute but the ending could have been different. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Can you believe this is the last Monday in June already and that Friday is already the 4th. We are planning on having a cookout with the family. Hubby's brother is coming in from Texas...The kids are so excited!! They only get to see their uncle a few times a year, mostly on holidays, and they are over the moon for him. They don't get to see my two brothers as one lives in New York and I haven't seen the other one is close to 18 years even though he lives only 30 minutes to an hour away. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">We had a quiet week last week. We have been having lots of wonderful rain off and on and when it is not raining the kids are outside, in the pool, or finding something fun to do inside (like reading!!) when it gets hot in the afternoon. I have been trying to walk at least 30 minutes a few times a week. Didn't make it out this morning because I slept in till...8:00. The little man woke me up at 4:30 this morning coughing. Not sure what was going on. Lulu wondered if little brother might have been snoring like their Papa and choked on his slobbers. Usually when he coughs like he was this morning he is getting ready to blow chunks so I high tailed it out of bed and into his room but he was out cold. Of course the adrenaline was ramped up by that time and I had a wee bit of trouble going back to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Once I got up and running we had a late breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes with butter, syrup, cool whip and cherries. YUMMY!! This is the second time in my life that I have ever made pancakes and didn't burn them. I'm so proud!! I have discovered the secret of pancake cooking...are you ready...it is... <u><b>patients grasshopper</b></u>. I always want to crank up the heat and get them done as fast as possible but that DOES NOT work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I have also been working on some new items for the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">Storybook Felts shop</a>. I will share them as soon as I get more ready. I also have a book to share with you sometime this week (I hope). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Hello everyone. Yesterday my sweet baby girl turned 15! It is so hard to believe she is already 15 and will start High School in the fall. I am so not ready for this! She got her very own cell phone for her birthday. We were going to wait until she started driving to get her one then decided since she was going to be in high school next year that it might be a good idea to get her one now. We are so proud of the person she has become. I had the privilege of buying her a purity ring a few weeks ago. This is the one she picked out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">One of the things that she thought was extra special was that the girl wears it until her wedding day, then the husband removes it and puts on her wedding ring during the ceremony. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">We have been pretty lucky since she has not even had a boy friend yet. She has had a few crushes and lots of really great guys that she has been friends with. She just isn't ready to start all that yet. She has also decided to not even share a kiss until her wedding day. Both of my kids have talked about it. Boo-who is 9- thinks it is gross that people kiss unless they are in your family. I just pray that they both keep this mind set and goal until they are married. It is rare in this day and age for kids to even think about waiting for things like that until they are married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">We had a rainy week here last week. Boo was running fever most of the week and ended up at the Dr. on Wednesday. He got a different round of antibiotics and was doing a lot better the next day. I spent most of the week playing with the kids and catching up on all of my</span> <a href="http://melsdaisypatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Books"><span style="color: #741b47;">book reviews</span></a> <span style="color: #0b5394;">that needed done. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Last week I introduced you to two cats that had adopted us, Tom and Evergreen. Well the rest of their family decided to move in this week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Tom has become my cat. He is still a wild thing but likes to come and rub on the back of my legs when I am standing on the porch. He doesn't want me to pet him but he has to pet me. He has allowed me to touch his tail though. And he seems to think my toes look like a tasty snack because he is always looking at them and has already tried to have a little nibble but I got them out of there before he could get a taste. The kids are having fun watching them. The cats love to sit in the chairs on the front porch. Then, when you open the door, you hear this huge explosion of chairs because they are scattering everywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Everywhere you turn-TV, magazines, celebrities, and even your friends-it seems everyone demands that you look a certain way to fit in. But what if you aren't "perfect" like the actress in your favorite show? Or don't want to look like everyone else? What about true beauty, the kind God put inside you? Can your inside match the outside? Can you get the God-confidence you need to be content with the person you are?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">All the answers are here in this unique and creative book for tween girls. Using a Q&A format, Nancy Rue answers the common questions girls ask during the often confusing and sometimes overwhelming stage of life. Filled with fun quizzes, imaginative activities, and cool illustrations, <i>The Beauty Book</i> offers relevant, timely information about everything from great hair to tattoos, from skin care to clothes, and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>Forever Friday</i> invites you to travel back in time to the early twentieth century Texas Coastal Bend where a young couple-Gabe and Pearl Alexander-are swept up in a miraculous love. As the heartwarming, pulse-quickening story of their relationship develops through Gabe's Poems, the Alexanders reveal a new way to consider what it means to be truly devoted to each other. Could the secrets of their love affair, laid to rest twenty years ago, hold the key to one man's future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Ty Porter has always been irresistible to Celia Park. All through high school-irresistible. When their paths cross again after college-<i>still</i> irresistible. This time, though, Ty seems to feel exactly the same way about Celia. Their whirlwind romance deposits them at a street-corner Las Vegas wedding chapel.The next morning they wake to a marriage certificate and a dose of cold reality. Celia's ready to be Ty's wife, but Ty's not ready to be her husband. He's a professional bull rider, he lives on the road, and he's long planned to settle down with the hometown girl he's known since childhood. Five and half years pass. Celia's buried her dreams so that she can afford to raise her daughter. Ty's achieved all of his goals. Or thought he had. until he looks again into the eyes of the woman he couldn't forget and into the face of the child he never knew he had. How much will Ty sacrifice to win back Celia's trust and prove to her that their spontaneous marriage cans till become the love of a lifetime?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Celia Park has always been head over heels crazy about bull riding champ, Ty Porter. It started in high school when he walked into their high school Introduction to Ceramics class and took the seat next to her When they meet up again in Las Vegas years later, her old flame is still burning for him. He talks her into a whirlwind wedding at a Las Vegas Wedding chapel. Then, they wake up the next morning and he realizes his mistake. He lives on the road traveling as a professional bull rider and is in love with a woman that he has know since they were kids. Not exactly what any woman wants to hear the morning after she has married the man of her dreams. They go their separate ways and lead separate lives. Then one day Ty is back in Vegas and sees the wedding chapel that they were married in. Now he can't get Celia out of his head. Neither one of them has ever filed for divorce so they are still married. He never imagined that he had a child though. He does his best to wiggle his way back into Celia's life but it is hard for her to forgive him. He does everything he can along the way to make up all those lost years to her and their daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">In <i>A Shining Light</i>, Andrea and her son are outsiders who find their selves accepted as colonists in West Amana. Andrea comes from a very abusive marriage. Her husband has been lost at sea and she returns to the only home she has every know to find that her father has died while she was away in Maryland. After the colonists find Andrea and Lukas living in the barn on what she thought was her father's land, they take them back to the colonies and allow them to live as they do. Andrea works in the Kitchen house and her son goes to school and helps out at the tinsmith's after school. Before long Andrea finds herself falling in love with Dirk, the tinsmith. Then, along come problems to stand in their way. Even though these people live a simple life, there are lots of interesting things that happen in the book to keep you wanting to read more. Judith Miller writes with such detail that you feel like you are there watching the story unfold instead of reading it in a book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I can not believe that it is already the second week in June! Where is this year going. It seems to be flying by. The Kids finished up school on Wednesday of last week and we have been having fun at home. Boo had field day on Wednesday and had fun playing outside with all his friends. Lulu went on a trip with her choir class to Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. She got her hair done while she was there and it turned out really cute. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Lulu named all the cats except Tom. Evergreen got her name from the big spot on her nose that looks like a evergreen tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Tom is my buddy. He wont let me pet him but he does love to hang out on the porch with me when I am outside reading a book and such. He is quite the talker. He will start meowing the minute you come out the door when he is really hungry. He and Evergreen are expecting kittens are far as we can tell. We have been feeding them in hopes that they will stay and take care of the mice around our house. We haven't had any in quite sometime since the cats always visited between the two houses. It would be nice to have them stay here though because I enjoy watching and talking to them. Tom is very playful. He likes his tail and is as bad as a dog when it comes to chasing it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Can you believe it is already June!! My kids are on their last days of school and will be free on Thursday. It seems like they just started this year a few weeks ago. The older they get the faster it seems to go by. I have a pretty busy week with awards assemblies and school picnics and such but after Wednesday everything will slow down and I am ready for some summer fun. We put the pool up a week ago and the kids are ready to get in it. It has been raining and a little cool but this week is supposed to warm up and they will be in it pretty soon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I shared some great news on the <a href="http://storybookfelts.blogspot.com/">Storybook Felts blog</a> last week about what I had been working on for almost a month. I meant to share it here also but got busy with the kids school stuff last week and never go time to get back to the computer long enough to post something here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Here it is...500 mini tooth pouches. They will be inserted in a new book about the Tooth Fairy. The title of the book will be <i>Smiles In The Sky</i>. The author has promised to send me a book once it has been printed. It will go to print some time this month. There was a lot of work that went into these 500 little pouches. I had to call in reinforcements to get them all finished in the 3 weeks that I thought it would take. Each one was hand sewn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This week I get to start on another fun custom order, but it will be a lot easier to do. I have a customer who orders the doll clothing sets and then uses them to dress up a bobble head doll.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I am working on a outfit for this little guy for June and then there will also be one for July. I'll share them with you when I get each one finished.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Drop off Boo at school.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Drop off Lulu at school.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Back to Boo's school for his awards assembly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Back to pick up Lulu after her final is over.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Back to Boo's school for a school wide cookout.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Happy Memorial Day everyone. I hope all of you had a fantastic weekend and are having a safe memorial day. I am out doing fun things with the family as I have finally finished that HUGE custom order. I will get to share more about it this week. Have a great day!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Hey everyone. Can you believe that this is the next to the last week of May? It's almost time for the kids to get out for summer vacation and I am so ready. Lulu and I have been crazy busy this weekend working on a HUGE order for the <a href="http://storybookfelts.etsy.com/">Storybook Felts Shop</a>. Plus I participated in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway last week. I have been so busy that I don't know if I am coming or going. I hope to share more news about this huge order with you sometime this week. I hope all of you had a fantastic weekend and have an wonderful week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marty Dandridge Olson is ready to leave behind the pain of the past. Answering an advertisement for a "Lone Star bride," she leaves her Texas ranch and heads to Denver to marry a man she doesn't know. Jake Wythe is the man waiting for her. Burned by love, he marries now simply to satisfy the board of Morgan Bank, which believes a man of his standing in society should be we. Together Hake and Marty agree they are done with romance and love and will make this nothing more than a marriage of convenience. When missing money and a collapsing economy threaten his job, Jake's yearning to return to ranching grows even stronger, much to Marty's dismay. But a fondness had grown between them, as well, further complicating matters. What will happen when their relationship shifts in unexpected ways...and dreams and secrets collide?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/a-sensible-arrangement/341690"><i>A Sensible Arrangement</i> </a>by <a href="http://www.traciepetersonbooks.com/">Tracie Peterson</a> is book one in the<a href="http://www.traciepetersonbooks.com/lonestarbrides.html"> Lone Star Brides series</a>. This is Tracie's 100th book! The book is based in the 1890's in Texas and Denver, Colorado. Marty is a widow who lost her husband after he was gored by a bull on their ranch. Jake, a widower, lost his wife after she decided she was not in love with him and ran off to another country. She later died of a fatal disease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They both agree that the marriage will be one of convenience as they are both done with romance. Jake's dream is to go back to Texas and own his own ranch. Marty owns a ranch that she has never told Jake about. As Marty and Jake grow closer she decides it is time to tell him the truth about her ranch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a lot of interesting characters in this book. Along the way you will meet Mr. Brighton the butler and Mrs. Landry the head maid. They love to bicker with one another. Then you will meet Alice. Jake replaced her father at the bank after he was murdered, and now she is hired as Marty's chamber maid. You will be able to read more of her story in book two of the series...<a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/a-moment-in-time/341850"><i>A Moment in Time.</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved this book and had trouble putting it down. I was sad to see it end and I can't wait to read the second book to see what happens next in the lives of these characters. I love all of Tracie's books and have read almost all of them. All of Tracie's characters are so alive that you feel like you are a part of each one of her stories. If you would like to read more about Marty's earlier life you can find her in Tracie's <a href="http://www.traciepetersonbooks.com/landofthelonestar.html">Land of The Lone Star Series.</a> You can also find out more about Jake from Tracie's <a href="http://www.traciepetersonbooks.com/strikingamatch.html">Striking a Match Series.</a> The Lone Star Brides series ties the other two together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you would like to read this book or any of the others listed please visit Tracie's <a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/tracie-peterson/976">author page at Bethany House</a> or <a href="http://www.traciepetersonbooks.com/">Tracie's Website</a> to find out more information. </span></div>
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