Time for a new read

ever since we redid the kitchen i have been looking for a clock & i finally found one.

the things it had to have were numbers as i hate roman numerals & it had to be Red.

JACKPOT!  numbers, red & its made of wood. it was priced at $29 but when i went to pay for it it came down to $11 how cool is that.

i think it goes very nice with my duck & apron/bag rack

Angus & Robinson is closing down so they had 40%, 50% & 60% off, this little lot cost me $72
they are what i call easy reads & as i catch the train every day i go through a lot of books.

CD Book

i saw a picture of this on a scrapbooking site, thought it was a good idea so i made my own.
it holds all of my photo cd's in date order.

i drew the camera picture on some grey gabardine, layered on the skull fabric then 2 more lots of grey. hand stitched the lines with black DMC floss
i cut out 2 squares of heavy weight card board, layered each piece between 2 pieces of grey & stitched around it with my sewing machine.
the size of the cover will depend on the size of the sleeves that you use. i used 6X6 scrapbook page protectors. made the cover about 1/2 inch larger.
punched the holes to match the sleeves.

for the sleeves i adhered stripes of patterned paper. using stamps for the date, the film strip & the camera. cut black paper to fit each sleeve so a disk can be put in each side.
each pattered paper strip has what is on each disk

put it all together with snap rings & added the badge

Books

True Blood

i have watched to first season, the theme song
["Bad Things" by Jace Everett] & clip are awesome very southern, red neck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxINMuOgAu8
the show is kind of a let down if you go by the clip images. but for me i think its great. Sookie Stackhouse's accent is priceless & as im reading i can hear all the character voices. there are quite a few great lines delivered in the series.
[Sookie]- Bill, you were just licking blood out of my head. I don't think it gets much more personal than that.
it has all the characters you would expect, the good, the evil, the truly bad {they are the ones you lov/lust after the most}, hillbillies, the unbelievably stupid plus all the other nondescript. its mindless entertainment, is there any other sort LOL.
as for the books, they are just like the show with a little more detail thrown in.
i have read the twilight series the first 3 books were ok the 4th was a let down, but they dont even come close to True Blood.