Photo Friday: Travels

Just Around the Corner

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Great Give Away!

Erina, of Tragic Stitches and Tragic Adornments, is giving away *3* adorable owl necklaces!


Image by Tragic Stitches
Just visit her jewelry shop and comment on her blog post with your favorite by February 3rd and maybe you'll be a lucky winner!

I can't decide which to say is my fave... I love them all!

Happy books?

Jacqueline & I read a LOT, and lately we're having a hard time finding books that are happy. It seems so many of the books we read are full of bad things, the characters go through all kinds of rough times, and it leaves us sad and discontent.


Sleeping at Last by Second.daughter
We'd like to find some books that don't have horrible things happening to the characters, stories that can take us away from the troubles of our own lives and give us a few moments worry-free, where the events are LOL funny and the endings are happy.

We like young adult and fantasy best, and also enjoy dystopian sci fi teen ones, and even the occasional romance lit. Some of our favorites have been:

• The Time Traveller's Wife
• Stargirl (and Love Stargirl)
• Night Flying
• The Sugar Queen
• Remember Me?

And some we're thinking about getting are:

• The Alchemist (not part of the Nicholas Flamel series)
• Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
• The Bean Trees
• Under the Tuscan Sun

Have you got any recommendations? Any books along these lines that you read & loved?

A Note from the Universe

Always speak of the past, gratefully.

Of the future, excitedly.

And of the present, Bunny, with bobbing eyebrows and a Cheshire grin.

Spiritual politics, baby -
The Universe

New Fancies from Faerie Gardens

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Wishcasting Wednesday

What do you wish to say yes to?

Right at this moment, I am wishing I could say yes to the kids more.  They don't ask for much, but when they do, I don't want to have to say no because we can't afford it.  Being able to say yes to visiting far-away friends and relatives, taking them out to eat, or shopping... these shouldn't be such difficult things to provide and it kills me when they ask and then go away sad, or worse mad, because we've had to say no.


You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box [at the link] below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
~ Jamie Ridler

Mosaic Monday Bunday

My how time flies!  It's a New Year already - and months since we've done a MMB!  Welcome to a special New Year's Edition!  This week's MMB may be small, but it features some of my wonderful teammates from the Queer Etsy, Etsty Bloggers, and FAE teams!


Clockwise from top left:
Bird And BUNNY PAL by osha from the Queer Etsy Team, Rabbit in a Red Scarf by Me!, Year of the Rabbit - 2011 Chinese New Year Bunny Statue by PhenomeGNOME from the Fantasy Artists of Etsy (FAE) Team, and Bobby the Blue Bunny by Made by Melissa from the EtsyBloggers Team.

Check them out; maybe you'll discover just the thing you've been looking for...

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