library collections

I am such big reader. I love to read and I love wandering around the library selecting whatever takes my fancy. My favourite method is simply to pick up a book and start reading - if I like the writing I take it home, if not I put it back and try again. I love reading a book without knowing anything about it. I usually try to avoid reading the back of books altogether and just dive straight in.

So seeing crafting is suspiciously absent from my life at present, I thought I'd join along with Kate from Greedy for Colour and her library collection.

This is our current collection:

It's little but big! I am slowly ploughing/plodding through Les Mes. I'm yet to make up my mind about it, so I seem to be reading it in fits and starts. And we're trying out an audio book - I have to say that it is not going as well as we thought. Finding the time to sit down together to listen is harder that I expected.

I have to say my favourite from little-miss-e's pile would have to be Leslie Patricelli's In the Bath. The story and illustrations are delightful and little-miss-e loves it too.  Little-miss-e loves books - she is such a book worm - although her favourite book at the moment is not from the library, it's this one:

Everytime she sees it she excitedly shouts "HAM!" and then tries to foist it in our direction to get us to read it to her.

How about you? A you a library person? What's currently in your library collection?

more about crochet

my lovely friend found my this book at an op-shop and she knew she just had to get it for me...

 before giving it to me, she read me the introduction:

Today, when crochet is enjoying such unprecedented vogue,

it is natural that many woman of all ages wish to become 

accomplished in this fascintatng craft. Crochet has a variety of 

uses and is now as popular in the field of high fashion as it is 

in the adornment of the home...

i am not quite sure where this pattern for crocheted ties sits:

high fashion anyone?

after much book related merriment, i do have to say that in the end the book spoke truth. my friend decided it was time "to become accomplished in this fascinating craft" herself. so i pulled out my spare hook and off we went... slowly slowly, i am turning all of my friends into crochet addicts. does that mean i have become a crochet-dealer of sorts?

ooh, patience patience...

ooh... i am so pleased - i just finished crocheting something really really fun. but as it is a gift for someone, i cannot yet post about it. hence the need for patience. 

still, while we wait - lookie here... a fantasitc present i received recently - 

what a fabulous book, i am just about to make my first square from it. 

here we go...