Things to Accomplish This Week

Other than teaching sign language on Sunday, we have a nice open week this week. Finally. So I'm making myself a honey-do list. Unless I put things down, I never get them done. My brain is just too discombobulated to keep it all straight. So I'm going to share my weekly plans with you all on here. Hopefully they'll give you some ideas. There will be crafty things, educational things, and reading things.

Bloggy Stuff
1. Finish Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by the Bloggess.
2. Review the above book and some children's books reviews.
3. Set up another awesome giveaway. (Would anyone like some jewelry?)
4. Make a page with all my reviews linked on it. Would make life a lot easier.

Sewing

Skirt to alter.

5. If I can find some fabric that goes with it, I'm going to take apart my favorite skirt so I can add a panel in the back so it can fit me. Let's be real, I'm never going to be a size 8 ever again. Possibly going to make it a ruffle bum skirt. We shall see. I bought it in Egypt and I can't bear to part with it so I shall make it something new.
6. Hem Craigle's pants. I have had a pile of pants to hem for quite some time, so I hope to get to it.
7. Sew CJ a couple pairs of shorts. Possibly using this pattern.
8. Finish Aunika's fairy tale blankie.
9. Make name banners for Aunika, Angelina, and Ida. Kind of like CJ's here except girlier.
10. Start making letters from leftover fabric.
11. Start the turn shirts into pillows project.

Crafting with CJ
12. Make CJ a batman mask. Find fabric for the mahna mahna Muppets costume.
13. Paint a city scene on cardboard for CJ's cars.
14. Alphabet magnets.
15. Start CJ's corner fairy garden.
16. Paint rocks. I'd like to paint some ladybugs, strawberries, owls, and rocks with words on them. Possibly a few gnomes and toadstools. Depends on the shapes I can find.

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17. Make a book page garland for Angelina.
18. Make a painting with the Be Not Afraid quote on it.
19. Put fabric over corkboard, add pins = Necklace holder

20. Start cutting Craig's shirts for t-shirt quilt.

Home
21. Paint CJ's room.
22. Continue to clean backyard.
23. Make garden/walkway.
24. Start gallery wall in living room.
25. Finish emptying boxes out of dining room.
26. Work on compost heap.

Miscellaneous
27. Menu Plan for the month of June.
28. Start planning CJ's party for realz.
29. Things to start collecting for projects : Wood, rocks.

I feel like I need a 30th thing to make it nice and round and even. Hmmmm. How about 30 is to make it a nice happy week for the whole family. Sounds like a good final goal to me. :)

Obviously, I doubt I will get even half of this done. But I know that without putting it all down for myself, I will never get it done.

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Meet My Shelves

As I write a blog that often focuses on books, you can probably surmise that I read a lot. Since I read a lot, you can safely assume I have a lot of books. Well, I do. I have a lot. Like.... A LOT. Like... bordering on having a hoarding problem. Someday I am going to have a house with a library in it, and my books will have their own home. Until then, they reside on bookshelves. How many bookshelves do you have in your house? I have eight. So altogether that is 40 shelves. Plus the hundreds of books on my nook and the books by my bed. I have a lot of books.

So anywho, I've decided that every once in a while, I will share one of my shelves. It is kind of like getting a little peek into my psyche. You can see which books I hold dear, how I order them. Personally, when I go into someone's house, I immediately look for their bookshelves. You can learn a lot about a person from their bookshelves. 

So meet one of my bookshelves...

This is the first bookshelf when you come into my apartment. It holds part of my classics collection. Each book has a story. Well, most of them do. 

From left to right...

The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (This is the hubby's edition of Alice.) 

The Illustrated Children's Bible (This is a Rand MacNally edition. I picked it up at used bookstore right after I found out I was pregnant. I'm still on the look out for the Illustrated Children's Bible I had and loved as a kid.)

Shakespeare: The Complete Works (No dust jacket, I've had this forever but I don't remember when I got it.)

Great Works - Locke, Berkeley, Hume (This is from back in the day when people had Great Works delivered by mail order. I think this may have come from my mom's best friend's house. But as I don't think anyone there knows how to read, I don't think it is missed.)

Dune by Frank Herbert (I've never read this, it is one of the hubby's favorites.)

Gray's Anatomy (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) (I got this for the hubby this past Christmas since he's my favorite nurse.)

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Got this as a birthday present from my cousin Amanda years ago. I've lost the dustcover.)

The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Leatherbound, no idea where it came from, but the pages are awesomely yellowed and it smells that delicious book smell. I just took it off the shelf and sniffed it Yum. Apparently this version is out of print, it was from Octopus Publishing.)

Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works  

The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set (This was hubby's when he was a kid. I had a big paperback with all of them in the same book, but we consolidated our books and mine went to the used bookstore.)

Gone With the Wind l (My favorite book of all-time. I had three copies, but I consolidated and this is the only one left. It's the prettiest. No idea where the dustcover went.)

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine 

Sherlock Holmes' The Complete Illustrated Novels (I bought this at the American University in Cairo bookstore when I was studying abroad. It still has the AUC sticker on it, and I probably won't ever take it off.) 

Dante's The Divine Comedy (Just a regular copy, nothing fancy. Does anyone know where I can get a copy that has the original Italian on one side and a translation on the other side?)

So there ya go. What does this bookshelf say about me? I'm a book hoarder who can't give up any book that has any sort of story related to it? Yep. Sure does.

Here's my Amazon bookstore with the books on this shelf. Some of these are different but similar to the editions I have. Some of the editions are out of print or just hard to find.

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