February Round up

 Films watched at the cinema:

Argylle - 02/02/24
Migration - 10/02/24
Les Miserables - 14/02/24
BobMarley: One Love 15/02/24
Wicked Little Letters 19/02/24

Films watched on TV

Leave the World Behind

Books read:

The Fury by Alex Michaelidis
My Husband Next Door - Catherine Alliott
Crowfall - Vashti Hardy
Mia and the Lightcasters - Janelle McCurdy
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm - Siobhan McDermott

New books:

Paper Dragons by Siobhan McDermott
The Fury by Alex Michaelidis

WIPs completed:

Dear Santa

WIPs worked on:

Sleigh Ride

Reading Challenge - what's left to do

 Ultimate Reading Challenge (2024):

1. Read a book with more than 500 pages - As Good as Dead
2. Read a classic romance book
6.  Read a book written by someone under 30
8. Read a funny book
14. Read a non-fiction book
15. Read a popular author's first book - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
16, Read a book from an author I love that I haven't read yet
18, Read a Pulitzer Prize winning book
19. Read a book based on a true story - The Penguin Lessons 
21. Read a book my mum loves
22. Read a book that scares me
25. Read a book I was supposed to read at school but didn't
28. Read a book with antonyms in the title
29. Read a book set somewhere I have always wanted to visit
31. Read a book with bad reviews
35. Read a book set in the future
36. Read a book set in high school - A Good Girls Guide to Murder
40. Read a graphic novel
43. Read a book that takes place in my home town
44. Read a book that was originally written in a different language
47. Read a play
50. Read a book I started but never finished

WIPocalypse update

 WIPocalypse list

Alphabet Fun - Bothy Threads
Aster's Amazing Adventures - Fuzzy Fox Designs
Bag End
Baubles - SamSarah
Be Attitudes Afghan (2007) - Shepherd's Bush
Busy Bees Stitching Tray - Shepherd's Bush
Celestial Dragon - Theresa Wentzler
Christmas Eve - SamSarah Designs
Coeur de Brodeuse (2007) - Tournicoton
Cows Afghan - Free charts
Counting Bats (2011) - Just Nan
Cut Thru Haunted House - Bothy Threads
Cut Thru Pirate Ship - Bothy Threads
Dear Santa Afghan (2007) - Margaret Sherry
Dragon Virtues Afghan (2007) - Dragon Dreams
Handmade Houses Archway - Michael Powell
Hot Stuff (2011) - DebBees Designs
Love Tree - Bothy Threads
Making Friends - Just Nan
Merry Christmas by the Letter - Lizzie*Kate
Midnight Hunting - Dracolair
Mini Greek Island - Michael Powell
Murky Manor - Glendon Place
Owl Fun - Bothy Threads
Perpetual Calendar -
Puffin Party - Hands on Designs
Row of Christmas Fairies (2007) - Bothy Threads
Santa - Heritage Stitchcraft
Scissors by Any Other Name - Cat's Whiskers
Seaside Tiny Town - Heart in Hand
Six Fat Men - Lizzie*Kate
Sixteen Sided Biscornu - Sue Hawkins
Sleigh Ride (2007) - Dimensions
Thine is the Trick and the Treat (2011) - Prairie Moon
Totally Whaled It - Durene Jones
Trade Winds (2007) - Theresa Wentzler
Very Scary - Lizzie*Kate
Wally the Walrus - Hands on Designs
Witches Hollow - The Primitive Needle

January Round up

 Books read:

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan
A Stroke of the Pen - Terry Pratchett
The Uncommoners - Jennifer Bell
Unspeakable - Abbie Rushton
The Name of this Book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch
If You're Reading This it's Too Late - Pseudonymous Bosch
Looking For Alaska - John Green

Films at cinema:

Next Goal Wins - 05.01.24
One Life - 08.01.24
Poor Things - 14.01.24
The Holdovers - 26.01.24
The Color Purple 29.01.24

WIPs worked on:

Just Sleigh Ride but worked on every day.

December Roundup

Books read:

The Train of Dark Wonders - Alex Bell
Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power - P.A. Staff
Shot in the Dark - Anna Britton
The Witches Boy - Kelly Barnhill
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
While I Was Away - Waka T. Brown

Films watched at Cinema:
Wish
Wonka

New films watched on TV:

None

Stitching finishes: None

WIPs worked on: Sleigh Ride

From this: 

To this:

With some frogging and corrections along the way...

Films watched for the 101 Things

 November 23

4th November - Dream Scenario 4/10
18th November - Saltburn 7/10

December 2023

3rd December - Wish 2/10
18th December - Wonka 10/10

Cinema January 2024

5th January - Next Goal Wins 8/10
8th January - One Life 9/19
14th January - Poor Things 7/10

New to me movies on TV

The Book of Life
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Steel Magnolias

See 101 new-to-me movies (new or old releases); Current total: 7/101

Watch 26 new-to-me movies, one starting with each letter of the alphabet (can count towards the 101)

A - Argylle 2/2/24
B - Book of Life
C - Color Purlple 
D - Dream Scenario 4/11/23
E
F - Fisherman's Friends 11/11/23
G - Ghostbusters: Afterlife 13/01/24
H - Holdovers
I
J
K
L
M
N - Next Goal Wins
O - One Life
P - Poor Things 14/01/24
Q
R
S - Saltburn 18/11/23
T
U
V
W - Wonka 18/12/23
X
Y
Z

Watch a new-to-me movie from each decade, starting in 1920 (can count towards the 101)

1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s - Fisherman's Friends
2020s - Dream Scenario

Reading Challenge

December 2023

Read at least 150 of the unread books I have in the house - 7/150

Ultimate Reading Challenge (2024):

1. Read a book with more than 500 pages
2. Read a classic romance book
3. Read a book that became a movie - Artemis Fowl
4. Read a book published this year - Paper Dragons
5. Read a book with a number in the title - One Deadly Summer
6.  Read a book written by someone under 30
7. Read a book with non-human characters - A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
8. Read a funny book
9. Read a book by a female author - The Uncommoners 
10. Read a mystery or thriller - The Fury
11, Read a book with a one word title - Unspeakable
12.Read a book of short stories - A Stroke of the Pen
13. Read a book set in a different country - Onyeka and the Heroes of the Dawn
14. Read a non-fiction book
15. Read a popular author's first book
16, Read a book from an author I love that I haven't read yet
17. Read a book a friend recommended - The Last Dragon Slayer
18, Read a Pulitzer Prize winning book
19. Read a book based on a true story
20. Read a book at the bottom of my to-read list - The Name of this Book is Secret
21. Read a book my mum loves
22. Read a book that scares me
23. Read a book more than 100 years old - Little Women
24, Read a book based entirely on its cover - The Mysterious Benedict Society
25. Read a book I was supposed to read at school but didn't
26, Read a memoir - Always Look on the Bright Side
27. Read a book I can finish in one day - You Have to Stop This
28. Read a book with antonyms in the title
29. Read a book set somewhere I have always wanted to visit
30. Read a book that came out the year I was born - The Carpet People
31. Read a book with bad reviews
32. Read a trilogy - Darkness of Dragons, A Vanishing of Griffins, A Thunder of Monsters
33. Read a book from my childhood - Winter Holiday
34. Read a book with a love triangle - My Husband Next Door
35. Read a book set in the future
36. Read a book set in high school
37. Read a book with a colour in the title - The Silver Arrow
30. Read a book that makes me cry - The Shepherds Crown
39. Read a book with magic - Artezans, the Forgotten Magic
40. Read a graphic novel
41. Read a book by an author I have never read before - Gteenwild
42. Read a book I own but have never read - Orion Lost
43. Read a book that takes place in my home town
44. Read a book that was originally written in a different language
45. Read a book set during Christmas - Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop
46. Read a book written by an author with my same initials - Around the World in 80 Days
47. Read a play
48. Read a banned book - Looking For Alaska
49. Read a book based on or turned into a TV show - Worzel Gimmidge
50. Read a book I started but never finished
 

November Round-up

 New Books Bought:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Finding Alaska

Books read:
Dead Good Detectives Ghost Rescue - Jenny McLachlan
Max and the Millions - Ross Montgomery
Serpent of the Sands - Vashti Hardy
Jake Atlas and the Hunt for the Feathered God - Rob Lloyd Jones
Jake Atlas and the Quest for the Crystal Mountain - Rob Lloyd Jones
Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse - Rob Lloyd Jones
Wildspark - Vashti Hardy
The Good Turn - Sharna Jackson
Loki A Bad Gods Guide to Being Good - Louie Stowell

Films watched at Cinema:
Dream Scenario
Saltburn

New films watched on TV:
Fisherman's Friends

Stitching finishes:
Santa Clothes by Raise the Roof Designs.  Stitched on 28ct opalescent white using the recommended threads and JABCO button pack.

Things to Finish Finish part 3

 Miscellaneous finishes

Maybe a bell pull?

Possibly into a cube with others from the series

Possibly into a cube with others from the series

Possibly into a cube with others from the series

Possibly into a cube with others from the series

Probably self frame

Needs to wait for me to finish the other three designs in the series

Possibly framed

Needs to wait for me to do the rest of the series

Frame myself

Not sure yet

Not sure yet

Not sure yet

No idea

No idea

No idea

No idea