These were from my Lego birthday party!
Wordless Wednesday- Lego Party
Author: LSieh
Just a wife trying to cook and craft her way through life's adventures.
Books! Glorious Books!
We managed to get to our favorite book sale- Bookstock- this year, even though we thought we might not be able to. Definitely still want to go to the 1/2 price day thought. We ended up with three bags, I think. I got some fun books for my annual Books of Christmas gift for my friends’ kids, some good cookbooks, and very surprisingly, one of my favorite Steampunk series!
Here are the pictures!
Cookbooks! I’m excited to try some from all of them, especially the popsicles.
Some kids books- the Kids’ Book About Failure went to my office and The Husband picked out Celebretrees, so I think that one is staying with us. I also kept Porch Lies- it’s a book of Southern/African American folk tales. Home At Last is also going to the office. It’s about an adopted child and adjusting to his home. I might have to get a couple of them for the kiddos too though, they’re really fun!
Paper backs- The Husband and I both found some books we like. I was surprised to find Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster. It’s a steampunk based romance and mystery.
The one I was super excited to find though is this one:
Gail Carriger is one of my very favorite authors! She’s so lovely and her books are so cool and steampunky. They have great characters and I would definitely recommend them. I’m super excited to read them and will note that I did, in fact. get rid of some books and straighten some shelves to fit them all in. Now, off to read!
Simple Sunday- Healing
“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. it’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo
Simple Sunday- Humor Me
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”― Albert Einstein
“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father’s shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.” “How sweet,” Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. “Every woman dreams of being told that she’s preferable to a dead cow.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”-Isaac Asimov
“Well, you know what they say: If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.”
—Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias
“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”-Terry Pratchett
Simple Sunday- Snarky Musicians
“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.”-Howard Dietz
“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”― Duke Ellington
“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.”-Dolly Parton
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”― Igor Stravinsky
“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”― Douglas Adams
“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”— Ella Fitzgerald
Wordless Wednesday- Signs of Spring
Simple Sunday- Theater
“People don’t understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you’ve got to come locked and loaded, that you’re a part of the experience, too. You can’t come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.”-Viola Davis
“All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.”-Stephen Sondheim
“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.”-Juliet Stevenson
“Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.”-Sam Heughan
“I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that’s what I want to do.”-David Tennant
Wordless Wednesday- Brick Fest Pt 2: Small Sets
Simple Sunday- Grief
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass
“She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’
‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Simple Sunday- Rainy days
“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.”-Denzel Washington
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”-Dave Barry
“Nothing’s more comforting than the sound of rain when you’re not in it.”
― Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
“…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…”― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”-Amelia Barr
“All morning it has been raining.
In the language of the garden, this is happiness.”― Mary Oliver