Oh my dears...this day has been a long time coming! After four years of waiting for a set I could afford, I am finally the proud owner of a brand new (shipped in the original shrink wrap!) copy of the two-volume Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850 by Betty Ring. I encountered these books the very first time I ( Read more... )

I only own two or three cookbooks, all of which are pastry-related. Soon to be added to the collection:


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A whole lot of crap has gone down today which I will report back on later, but the the moment the only VERY IMPORTANT matter at hand is that I must share with you all what I stumbled across (and subsequently purchased for full price) at Border's this evening: NELLIE OLSEN'S MEMOIR!


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Coming September 28. I. CANNOT. WAIT.


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It's pretty much a given that whenever I let my History Book Club membership lapse--that is, go for six months without a purchase, usually because I am broke--inevitably they try to lure me back into joining again with offers of cheap books. Come on, you want more books, don't you...? No actually, I don't. I've already got about a million and one ( Read more... )

Recently acquired/preordered crafting books. Now to learn to make all this stuff...


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Dear Gods the things that come down the pipeline via Twitter...Headdesk to Infinity? Yes please.

Tyra Banks Tries Hand at Fantasy Novels

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former supermodel Tyra Banks has signed a deal for a series of fantasy novels about the world of modeling, her publishers said on Tuesday ( Read more... )

Thank Amazon's precision target marketing for bringing this one to my attention. It'll be out in the UK by mid-May, but we won't get it in the States until the end of June :(

This tribute to Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) celebrates the genius of an iconic, imaginative and inspirational fashion designer with a catalog of more than 125 catwalk ( Read more... )

Oh dear me...a fangirl orgy of this magnitude is more hilarity than I was prepared for this early in the day. I can't even come up with a sufficiently snarky comment. Think I might have to make the cover into an icon, though...

[EDIT] Aaaaaaand....done!
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Because you know what Tolstoy needs, right? Robots o_O Although after the initial "Dear Gods, will this madness never end???" reaction subsided, I must admit that disgruntled droids rising up against their human oppressors in pre-revolutionary Russia has a weird kind of logic...which only goes to show just how far this bizarre little mash-up sub- ( Read more... )