I have officially made my second Coptic Stitch journal for my manager’s mother-in-law for Grandparent’s Day (which is today, btw) and it came out really good. Except for the fact that it was white and I had to recover it about three times because it kept getting dirty :/ I wish I would had taken a picture so I could share it with the world…or whoever reads my blog :p BUT there are plenty more to come because I am hoping to sell my notebooks on etsy.com so keep an eye out for my link to my store :)
I also have started a new writing project because, unfortunately, I have lost a little bit of steam on my last project…just like all the other ones before it. The story is still swimming in my head but I don’t exactly have a plot per say in it. This new project is a few steps ahead of the other one and I am calling it Phoenix Rising at the moment. I might stick with it…I might not. I did change Shadows’, the last project, title about, four times :p But that is how it goes.
I also also have been meaning to put up a review on a book that I bought aloooooong time ago and finally finished about two months ago. It is called The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. It is the first book in The Mortal Instruments trilogy to be followed by City of Ashes and City of Glass. I will be honest and say that I did restart this book twice. I will also be honest and say the only reason I picked it up was because Holly Black (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside, the Spiderwick Chronicles) had said it was one of her favorite books. I have read Black’s modern faerie tale stories and love her to bits! So, of course I would pick something up she said she loved :)
The book follows a girl named Clary as she ventures through a world where demons are real and are hunted by warriors known as Shadowhunters. The story is in third person and has every other supernatural being in the world, and then some I have never heard of before, within its pages. There are vampires and werewolves and other really creepy things that if I put here would totally spoil the story. For the most part it wasn’t easy to guess the next move unless Clare purposefully made it obvious. It is as much of a fantasy novel as a mystery because Clary’s mother disappears and her “uncle” doesn’t want anything to do with her after she finds her apartment ripped to shreds. There is one major plot twist…actually, it IS the plot twist…that was very well thought out even if it did make me rather angry.
I do have the second book but with college started only a few weeks ago, it has been hard for me just to find time to do THAT reading rather than some leisure reading…unfortunately :(
I am also waiting on the arrival of Tempted, the sixth book in the House of Night series! The cover art was unveiled a few months ago and I failed at posting :( Sorry! But, it looks fantastic! 43 Days!!! THAT one, I WILL make time for :p
