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{What I Read: January 2021}

February 5, 2021 by kelerr

Confession time: after spending a year largely reading books intended for pre-teens, I am finding it really, really difficult to concentrate on longer books now. Either that, or I am just not finding the right books these days despite constantly trying different ones. This is something I hope to rectify this year, as I am generally a very avid reader and enjoy it very much. But it’s also not something I really want to force, since I would like it […]

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{January Makes Round Up}

February 2, 2021 by kelerr

The first month of 2021 has already come and gone, and I have been extremely productive. With no musical to finalize costumes for, all that energy has gone into personal projects, and I managed a whopping five! Most have already been featured so we’ll do a quick recap, but then two new ones will appear as well. Above you see my Closet Core Patterns Carolyn Pajamas, my Sew Over It Betty Dress, and a pair of Nina Lee Picadilly Pyjamas, […]

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Friends Forever 11-12, California Diaries: Ducky – Diary Three & Friends Forever: Graduation Day}

January 29, 2021 by kelerr

Well… here we are. The last of my BSC rereads posts. I decided to squeeze it in this week, even though Tuesday’s post was also a BSC reread post. But I finished the books last week, so might as well get this out into the world ASAP. This post features just four books, the final three Friends Forever books and the one remaining California Diaries book. This installment begins with Welcome Home, Mary Anne. The new Schafer-Spier barn house is […]

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Friends Forever Books 6-10 & California Diaries: Amalia – Diary Three}

January 26, 2021 by kelerr

We are at the penultimate leg of this rereading the BSC journey. This post will cover all but four of the final books in the series, and features five Friends Forever books and one California Diaries book. I think I’ve been doing this long enough to that we can just jump right into the good stuff. In Stacey and the Boyfriend Trap, literally every single male interest of Stacey’s returns. And I mean everyone, from Toby (Sea City) to Wes […]

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{A Marvelous Week!}

January 22, 2021 by kelerr

This past week I participated in “A Marvelous Week,” a Marvelous Mrs. Maisel-based challenge hosted by @katieemilyl on Instagram. Katie and I were both finalists in the Made Like Maisel contest in 2019 (she won first place, I won third). We share a love of all things retro and Mrs. Maisel, so I was very excited when she came up with this challenge! Each day had a different Maisel-related theme. Monday was “We Got the Rabbi!” and the theme was […]

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Friends Forever – Everything Changes, Friends Forever Books 1-5, California Diaries: Sunny – Diary Three & Maggie – Diary Three}

January 19, 2021 by kelerr

A new era has officially begun! I have moved on from the main BSC canon into the Friends Forever series! This is the final leg of the journey to reread (or read for the first time, as is the case with these as by this time in original publication date I was a new high school graduate and had long since outgrown these books). My original goal had been to finish it all by the end of 2020, but now […]

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{Latest Make: Sew Over It Betty Dress}

January 15, 2021 by kelerr

My second make of 2021 is done! And it was a completely spur of the moment dress that only took a few days to complete from conception of the idea to finished product. About a year ago, I purchased about three meters of a checked wool from Blackbird Fabrics (the bottom in the photo below). I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do with it, but then it just sat. And sat. And sat. We went into […]

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{Pattern Review: Closet Core Patterns Carolyn Pajamas}

January 12, 2021 by kelerr

I have completed my first official project of 2021! This was a completely new project from cut to finish, rather than something that’s been in my to do pile for a while (I’ll get to those, but it’s fun for the first make to be something completely new and different!). I can’t say why I chose the Carolyn Pajama Pattern from Closet Core Patterns as my first project of 2021, but I have been planning to make them for a […]

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Books 126-131 & California Diaries: Dawn – Diary Three}

January 8, 2021 by kelerr

So… I finished the main series. In this special installation I have the FINAL six BSC books… and one random California Diaries that fell in between them. If I had gotten here as a kid, I would’ve spent days being sad about the end of my beloved book series. As an adult who has been frantically trying to read them all within a year of time, it’s a bit of a relief, though there is a touch of emotion there […]

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