Lucky Number 5!

For the classics club spin it is number 5, so I will be reading Little Dorrit. I have only read one book by Charles Dickens, which was Oliver Twist and I really enjoyed it. I have been wanting to watch the movie Little Dorrit but have held back until I read the book. So did everyone get a lucky number they wanted to get or no? Assuming I am able to finish reading Little Dorrit I will post my review of the book on the day this is supposed to be read by is October 23rd.

Another Classics Club Spin!

I love it when the Classics Club has spins and they are finally having another one starting on Monday. So what is a Spin you ask? Basically I take 20 books from my classics club list that I want to read and put them on a list 1 through 20. The books can be anyones I want, perhaps ones I am dreading or want to read, etc. Then on Monday August 24, the classics club will pick a random number 1 through 20, whichever book is on my list with that number I will read and then review by October 23rd.

Here is my list:

1. Jane Eyre
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Wives and Daughters
4. Little Women
5. Little Dorritt
6. Kidnapped
7. The Idiot
8. The Pioneers
9. Five Little Peppers and How They Grow
10. The Rights of Man
11. The Secret Garden
12. My Antonia
13. Love Letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
14. The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
15. The Outsiders
16. The Magicians Nephew
17. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
18.  The Mayor of Casterbridge
19. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20. Larkrise to Candleford

This time on my list I have added books I want to read and those that I am not too excited to read at all, as last time all of the books on my spin were ones that I wanted read.

Flowers, flowers and flowers....

I think this is the most mini flowers I have completed in the past two weeks, normally I just baste a whole bunch but don't ever put them together. Since it appears that this project is going faster than I though, perhaps it won't take me as long as I had previously thought to complete. I am now wondering if perhaps I should make this into a twin size instead of a lapghan. I guess that I will eventually decide once I have at least made this into a lapghan size.

How many mini flowers?

I had thought after adding quite a few more mini flowers on the lapghan I am making, that I am really unsure of how many more that I will need. This is mostly due to the fact that I am not working from a pattern, and that at present I am undecided on how big I want the lapghan to be. Here is the progress in the past few days and then a close up as well.

Mini Flowers...

In the past few days I have accomplished quite a bit more of the mini flowers for the lapghan. I plan on adding more light colors next to the some of the mini flowers I recently added on. I hope to get more done by the weekend. Next time I will try to get closer picks, so that you can see the flowers on the fabric.

Bout of Books Sign-Up

I am signing up for this Bout of Books marathon, here are the books that I have chosen to read during this time:

1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
3. Longbourn by Jo Baker
4. Crossroads by Barbara Cameron
5. Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen

I am sure that I will not get done with all of these, but I would be happy to finish at least two or more. Below are the "official rules" below.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

Two Rows and Organization...

Here is a picture of the progress I was able to get done in the past two days or so.

I have also decided to organize a little bit. I love baskets and decided to use this one to hold some of my books, it looks a lot better this way than if they were just piled on top of a table. 

In the octogon tin I have put the hexagons I have basted or need to baste for my current project, of course it doesn't hold all of the fabric but more than a handful, it is handy that I can just reach for the tin and everything is right there. The table runner was the last gift I had made for my paternal grandmother, and I thought it looked good here.