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Advent Calendar 2016

Happy December 1st! Last year we decided – because we really can’t have a tree in our small space – that we would make Advent calendars and fill them with little treats for each other. It took us a couple of months to cobble together all the materials, but last night we blasted Christmas music, […]

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Christmas paperback giveaway – 4 of 4

CLOSED: WINNER TBA Fourth of Four: After The Virus I’ve held on to these two paperbacks because the spines aren’t perfect – the printing is slightly offset. But that doesn’t make the front cover, by Irene Langholm, any less pretty 🙂 The paperback for this fourth and final giveaway (just to help me distinguish) was printed August 13, […]

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Christmas paperback giveaway – 3 of 4

CLOSED: WINNER TBA Third of Four: Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2)   Printed on February 10, 2014, this paperback will soon to be replaced with a new edition (with the new cover). Same story inside though 🙂 And again, that doesn’t make the front cover, by Irene Langholm, any less pretty. I’d be happy […]

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Christmas paperback giveaway – 2 of 4

CLOSED: WINNER TBA Second of Four: Spirit Binder This paperback of Spirit Binder is one of the first ten ever printed (July 31, 2012), but it was a misprint!! The spines all read SPRIRT BINDER, which was totally my mistake. Also, I’m about to bring out a second edition of this novel, so unfortunately there […]

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Christmas paperback giveaway – 1 of 4

CLOSED – WINNER: TBA As I already mentioned on my Facebook page, Michael was digging through some boxes for wrapping paper and Christmas cards this afternoon and he uncovered four of my paperbacks that I hadn’t bothered unpacking when we moved. I think I’d forgotten they existed at all, actually. Lost paperbacks seem like a perfect reason to […]

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Christmas Baking #FAIL

I just spent three weeks baking for Christmas – no, I am not exaggerating – I made the following goodies: Fruit Cake Sugar Cookies – iced and sugared Santa Whiskers Gingerbread – decorated, but tradition not as zombies, regular & mini Shortbread – chocolate-dipped and un-dipped Icing Sugar Chocolates Caramel – plain, chocolate-dipped, dipped & […]