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This is … my current reading material

by thornberry

First of all, thanks to My Champagne Dreams for this week’s theme.  I know that I always juggle a few different things to read at once, similar to the way I juggle a few different craft projects – what I read/make depends on what mood I am in, how much time is available, and how much I need the finished result.  I hadn’t quite anticipated that it would be this many items being juggled though:

This is ... current reading matter by you.

Clockwise from the bottom right corner:

  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres – our current book group selection.  Book group is meeting tomorrow night.  At my house.  I haven’t started this book yet.
  • The second book of the Ellie Chronicles, by John Marsden.  The first book in the Tomorrow series was our book group selection two months ago – since then I have completed the rest of the seven-part series, and the first of the Ellie Chronicles which comes next.  Great books!
  • Golden Hands complete crafts – my $1 garage sale find from Saturday.  I’ve only flipped through it so far and it will be a great reference.
  • Everyday Crochet by Doris Chan.  I’ve got some beautiful Vintage Hues yarn stashed, enough to make a jacket for me.  Just trying to find the right pattern – the yarn is about 10 or 12 ply.
  • Current issues of craft magazines – Threads, Australian Stitches and Interweave Crochet.  I get them all on subscriptions (especially pleasing that I subscribed to the US ones when our dollar was worth something).  So much inspiration!
  • More magazines – Real Living and Shop.  These come from a magazine addicted friend (in a bag with another ten magazines or so – Vogue, Madison, InStyle, She, Grazia, Lucky, Harper’s Bazaar, Australian House and Garden, Marie Claire, etc) each month.  Then I pass them along again.  I don’t read them thoroughly but they’re great to flick through.

Not in the photo but still current reading matter – today’s Sunday Age, the magazine out of last week’s Sunday Age, and bloglines, of course!  And let’s not forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar, One Fish Two Fish, lots of other board books that Stella loves, and too many books to mention that Clare loves.