Hello and welcome to a run down of my past month. If you follow me over on twitter you will have seen that I want to share a bit more than just reading books with everyone so my monthly wrap ups are going to be sharing, of course, books, but also a few more things as well. Each month what I share might be different, but I want to share something that sticks out as a propionate memory or just some random things that sparked my interest. I hope you enjoy!
Reading
- Hauled The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- Hauled How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald J. Robertson
- Hauled Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Read Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 5 out of 5 stars!
- Hauled A Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
- Hauled Dinner by César Aira
- Hauled The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Read Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon, 4 out of 5 stars!
- Read The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon, 4 out of 5 stars!
Current TBR Count is at 33 books.
Crochet & Crafting
This past month has been fun for crafting and crocheting. I completed my first granny square sweater without a pattern! I never really made anything before without a pattern and I actually really loved how it came out. On top of that I made quite a few market bags and made a huge chunk of progress in my ally blanket. I am hoping to finish that in the near future, I have never done a graphgan before and it takes a lot more time than I thought it would, but I am really liking how it is coming out.
On top of that I figured out how to transfer images to wood using Mod Podge, I feel like I am going to be using that in quite a few things in the future. I tested it out by making myself my own rune plate on a piece of cut wood. It came out fabulous! If I bought the same thing it would have been easily $35, I made it myself for about $12. This is one of the reasons why I love DIY so much!
Life
This past month I have been doing a lot of deep cleaning. I don’t know if it is because I am doing Summer cleaning instead of Spring cleaning, but I have been feeling the itch to purge a bunch of stuff I have not used in a while and clothing that isn’t really my style anymore. I have really been trying to acquire clothing and things I like and are truly my style. I think being at home so much over the past year I have kind of figured out what I really enjoy and want in my space. I think this month was just the month where I really started to follow through on it.
Anyway, that has been a bit of an incite into my life over the past month. I didn’t really make notes throughout this month because I didn’t know the direction I wanted this blog to go in, but now that I have an idea I think in next months digest you will see the difference. I hope you had a wonderful June!
I love how your post is a mix of bookish and real life! I’m hoping to read Malibu Rising in July~! Glad you loved it!
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Thanks so much! I am really trying to round out what I post about. I hope you enjoy Malibu Rising as much as I did!
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Thank you, I hope so too~ 🙂
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You’re welcome!
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I love how you have included more than just books in your wrap up post also I just love the creativity with the name. This has nothing to do with what you talked about in your post but lately I have been wanting to do pain by numbers but I can’t find them anywhere anymore. I’m not a very creative person but if I have something that pretty much tells me what to do I am good at it lol.
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Thanks so much Misty, as you know I want to share more than just books and I thought this would be a fun way to do that. Paint by numbers is so much fun! I found one a few months ago in a hobby shop, maybe you can find one there or somewhere online they might have some printable ones?
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I’m going to be looking into where I can get them where I live. I found some on Amazon.
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