in which i desire a book

i have had my head buried in Persuasion full stop for the last few days, whenever i could find the time......i am longing for regency frocks and dashing heroes...and jane inspired crafts!

in which i am sick

i haven't been doing much lately...i have a massive head cold and sore throat...luckily we had snow days yesterday and today, so i have not been exposing any of the high schoolers to it. i did brave the snow to watch this movie yesterday, though

on Sunday, my dearest sister-in-law, Karisa and I had a delightful playdate that included grilled cheese sandwiches, hot cocoa, and the Phineas and Ferb Marathon!!!!! i am, in fact, extraordinarily in love with Perry the Platypus. It was a glorious day.

in my sickness, i have been doing a lot of paper cutting, which is a favourite of mine. i get my downloads from Toy-A-Day and Scherenschnitte
they are great. i made myself a William Shakespeare from the first and some birthday presents from the latter's template tuesdays.
so that's what i've been doing.....and some reading. i finished northanger abbey finally! and am starting in on persuasion and mr. darcy, vampyre. what can i say? pbs has inspired me once again. i loooooooved their new version of emma and northanger abbey is starting this weekend!!! yayaaaaaaayayayayay

additionally.....i've been drinking lots of tea

Upon having been a blogging failure...

Upon having been a blogging failure since, oh, I started this lovely blog, I made a lovely pair of earrings to commemorate said event. One says "Epic" and the other says "Fail". Totally appropriate. I shall wear them as a reminder to fail no more! and also because I love them. Now if only I had pins long enough to make awesome sprinkles ones.........guess I've got a shopping list!

Today I also started putting together my green pearl necklace. I've been wanting a coloured pearl necklace for quite a while. Luckily for me, I was given a Hobby Lobby gift card for Christmas - it must have been fate!!!!!!

Big news ~ I am officially a substitute teacher! Now all I have to do is wait for the phone to ring! I know I've got a sweet day of babysitting on the 17th for soph/jr h.s. english. Yay! It's a reading day. Hopefully it will be fun. Even more hopefully, my Percy Jackson and the Olympians box set will be in from the 3rd grade book order!!! I loooooooooooove book order so very much! And I've got my very own book order dealer in the form of my superduper covered in awesome sprinkles sister in law! HUZZAH!!!!!

We've started the spring show. We're doing a musical...which will be interesting...but it's the one Karisa and I directed last summer for summer camp, so at least I've got it down forward and backward! And I get to do way more with the set.....like build a beanstalk!!!!

Well, with all that news and rambling, I think I'll sign off with a picture of one of my favourite and best things these days..........am currently waiting for season 3 to come out on dvd

earring and necklace pictures to come in the near future!!!