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Well, I’m a home-schooler. People tend to assume that obviously this means I am a Christian fundamentalist who only allows my children out in public if they’re wearing virgin-white smocks that cover them from wrist to ankle. These people do …

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The Spawn and I have started school.   This time both Younger and Elder Sprog are at school, and it’s a little intimidating teaching two very different age groups. The first day was pretty much the definition of awful. When …

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I’m around, just that nothing terribly exciting has happened worth blogging about. I’m using the time to catch up on a number of books I wanted to read. Lots of thoughts clashing around in my brain about Young Adult and …

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Or maybe just a spotlight, a review, and a box. I have this broken old reading lamp that was a shade of blue that just doesn’t work in my house. So I’m turning it into a white flower, because I …

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When the Sea is Rising Red

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After seventeen-year-old Felicita’s dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg’s magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing …

 

BULLSEYE

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It’s not exactly a crafting post but it has a colourful splodge in the middle (that’s the climax, btw, heh.) so I figure it’s good enough. This here is my new attempt at Getting Plot Right. Shut up, I’ve just …

 

Pizza!

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Because pizza(!) always deserves an exclamation.   The Elder Sprog has been nine for a while and we figured it was about time she learned to make a few meals more advanced than cereal. My evil plan is to train …

 

Flying ponies and Shiny New Books.

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Tanith and I made flying ponies for the passage wall. The plan is to make new ones whenever we have nothing else to do. If I took anything from this it’s that I need to be more like a four-year-old …

 

2012 day 2 – cupcakes

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Last year was a bit of a slack year – partly because I tried focusing all my energy on writing and ended up suffering the most massive horrible burnout I have ever experienced. I still don’t want to think about …

 

2012 Debut Author Challenge

Okay gotta get in on this one. It’s an excuse to buy new books instead of trawling the 2nd-hand bookstore. The original idea is over here – The Story Siren and the objective – “To read & review a minimum …