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
2. Read a classic romance book
3. Read a book that became a movie
5. Read a book with a number in the title
6.  Read a book written by someone under 30
8. Read a funny book
13. Read a book set in a different country
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
18, Read a Pulitzer Prize winning book
19. Read a book based on a true story
21. Read a book my mum loves
22. Read a book that scares me
23. Read a book more than 100 years old
25. Read a book I was supposed to read at school but didn't
26, Read a memoir
27. Read a book I can finish in one day
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
31. Read a book with bad reviews
32. Read a trilogy
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
30. Read a book that makes me cry
39. Read a book with magic
40. Read a graphic novel
41. Read a book by an author I have never read before
42. Read a book I own but have never read.
43. Read a book that takes place in my home town
44. Read a book that was originally written in a different language
46. Read a book written by an author with my same initials
47. Read a play
49. Read a book based on or turned into a TV show
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...