Wednesday, November 16, 2011

All about books

I love books. I have stated that I would give up many things before giving up reading so when we received this challenge from Another Freaking Scrappy challenge to scrap your favourite book, I was in a dilemma. Which one?? Anne of Green Gables is always high up there but really I had so many more. So I went with those books (and authors) that I reread on a regular basis. these include Little women, The Guernsey Literary and potato peel pie society club, Bill Bryson, Tim Moore, David Eddings and The Magician series.

Following this sketchHere is my Lo, loving digi at the moment.



I would love to hear what your fav read is, maybe your favourite childhood book, or what your current tastes lean towards. I know mine have changed from the books I loved as a teen (Stephen King, Virginia Andrews - who remembers how big she was in the 80's? - completely sick books and bad Russian revolution/romance combo books) to now where I can't read horror but don't mind a good vampire story or chic lit detective in the Stephanie Plum genre.

Please come and play, you know you want to...

and just a quick Lo to finish on, more from the Cocoa Daisy Crop from the weekend, this time the challenge was to use quilts as inspiration. I used a pretty strip quilt with bright colours on a white back ground. I love getting the camera back from Meaghan and finding arty photos like this on there. She didn't for once protest that I was doing a Lo on her.

Matt is now in Edinburgh, off to Dublin for a few days, then making his way to Germany to head home, he is very tired now and is looking forward to coming home. I suspect we won't see him much in the first week as his bed will be his priority...

Ok, enough rambling, time to go find your favourite book and come and play!!

5 comments:

TeenaBugg38 said...

both of these are awesome Karen!!

Mitralee said...

Playing along for sure your list is very similar to my list! Love your layouts! Art photo ROCKS!

wendipooh13 said...

both of these pages are amazing!!! LOVE LOVE the strips on the bottom one, I need to try that!!!

Heather Jacob said...

absolutely love these Karen... the one with all the strips is sensational .. soooooooooooo simple but sooooooooooooooo sensational and creative ... hugz
hey about the journal , give it a go and I bet you will become addicted like me .. LOL !!!!!
start with the ring bound journal because all you have to do is cut the pages . punch the holes add the rings and decorate .. take your time and it is fun ... you can use up your scraps too ... xo

Lizzy Hill said...

I must be about your age ~ soon as I saw your book LO, I connected! Except I loved the Little House on the Prairie series & [ashamed to say] these ones I still revisit... I used to love [teen] Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt. Now... anything that's sitting on the library shelf that is NOT red or black covered, or cheap at the op shop & looks OK!