In the evening after my daughters have gone to bed, I’ll often do some embroidery or read. We don’t have a TV, so I don’t have to waste hours in front of it. Some time back a few of us recommended some books to each other. One of the books that was recommended to me was “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas”. Well, I read it. Oh wow. What a book – thanks to whoever it was who recommended it!<\/p>\n
Because my husband is a school librarian, we usually have quite a few books out from his library. And Christmas holidays are no exception to that. Just after his holiday started he and I were in the area of his school, so we dropped in a selected some holiday reading for us and our girls. I got a nice stack of very thick books for myself.<\/p>\n
I started on one last night: Jodi Picoult’s “House Rules”. Oh my – it is VERY compelling! I read an article in the newspaper not so long ago about the fact that the literati don’t like Jodi Picoult and the criticism is that she takes every new hot-button issue and writes a book about it, which makes her a very populist writer. Hmm… to me it just sounds like she’s very cleverly selecting extremely interesting, contemporary topics and using them as her subject. Is there anything wrong with that?<\/p>\n
Yesterday I also did some more preparation for my stand at the Sydney Craft and Quilt show in June next year. Yep, I like planning ahead! My stand went really well last year, and this year I will be sharing with two other businesses in a larger stand. I’m having a rethink about what stock I take and how I will display it. I want to get as much off tables as I can, and display it vertically, therefore taking up less floor space. Its requiring a lot of creative thinking, (which is always fun – I love the feeling of solving a problem like that!) and that’s why I’ve started so far in advance.<\/p>\n
I hope the Christmas madness is not getting you down. Here’s a video you might find thought provoking. I did.<\/p>\n