Congratulations to Stephanie Burgis

It's always wonderful to see new authors enter the world of publishing. Stephanie Burgis' (stephanieburgis, on Twitter as @stephanieburgis) new novel A Most Improper Magick is out in the UK today. You can read the first three chapters on her website here. (She's running a contest to offer someone a free copy, along with book-related swag. Boost the signal for her to enter. See the details here.

New Dress a Day again

The young lady over at New Dress A Day (newdressaday on LJ and newdressaday_feed on DW) continues to astound. See today's entry, where she turns this:





into this:





Friend the feeds to read of her new sewing adventures every day.

The painters are done!

And here's what the house looks like:

A better picture of our new repaint job

( And here's my newly screened porch, where I plan to spend a LOT of time the rest of the summer )