Repurposing the Guest Room

My work in progress...I still need art, lighting, and window treatments.

For our first seven years in this house, one of the bedrooms was designated as a ‘guest bedroom’.  During those years, the room featured electric blue carpeting (came with the house), and a white wicker bedroom set with two twin beds.  We never had guests, and the room slowly morphed into a catch-all. In 2007, [...]

The Hunger Games: Big Screen Version

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**This post is spoiler-FREE** As the final bell rang at school last Thursday, I practically mowed down students and staff as I barreled through the corridor to the front door. Burning a hole in my pocket was a red plastic bracelet–my golden ticket–to an early screening of The Hunger Games movie, and no one was [...]

It’s In the Mail!

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Recently, I read about some fellow book bloggers taking up month-long (or longer) letter writing campaigns and was inspired to find my own pen pals.  I didn’t need to look much further than my own family! As a kid, I had a pen pal from another grammar school in our district and it was the [...]

A Special Invitation

Here are my Hunger Games action figures...

Look who dropped by Book, Line, and Sinker to extend a special invitation to an advanced screening of The Hunger Games movie to yours truly! Thanks to a wonderful connection, I’ll be joining some other lucky folks at an advanced screening on 3/22/12 and cannot wait!  I hope this book-to-movie translation is everything I’ve been [...]

Weekend Cooking: Minny’s Chocolate Pie

Featuring recipes from Cutting For Stone, Water for Elephants, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

While reading or listening to books, I frequently find myself interested in trying the foods that the authors describe.  The first recipe I remember wanting to try was from the Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  If memory serves, there was some kind of maple syrup and snow candy, and I was [...]