Reviews For Moving In
Seriously Reviewed said "You know? Every so often you read a story that starts a little slow on the first few pages and then.....BAM it just explodes! This was one of them for me."
Kaye's Book Review Page
on which she said The book is "short, sweet, light-hearted and just plain fun."
Vince at Philosophy of Romance said "Alice Audrey’s voice is fresh, feisty, full of surprises and always fun. The author also deals with real people having real problems and she does it in a very insightful way."
Nessa at Chrysalis Stage said "If you like sweet, fast-paced romance with a hot hero and all of the misunderstandings that two people can throw at each other, then you will love this story."
Night Owl Reviews didn't have anything nice to say about it. Hey, you can't win them all.
Brenda Talley of Romance Studio said " I recommend this book to anyone. It was a pleasure to read and I shall look for more of her work in the future. "
By Guta Bauer at Murphy's Library did it twice! Once in English and once in Portuguese. I'm assuming they both say, "Life goes on, choices need to be made and we can never let our past deny us of our future. That’s just some of the things we learn from this story. "
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Yeah, I know the sizes are weird. What a pain. Anyway, if any of these books look interesting to you, click on them to read more.
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286/365 How to Make a Crazy Quilt 
I’m not a quilter. I’ve made three full-size quilts and three baby quilts, but I have yet to do it right. Nor do I intend to. I’ve tried the real way of doing it. All those titchy little details that can cause a quilt to warp and twist if you aren’t careful drive me nuts. Instead, I make crazy quilts.
How to make a crazy quilt.
Step 1: Acquire a large pile of scraps through the natural processes involved in sewing.
Step 2: Clear a floor
Step 3: Place the scraps together, face up, with a minimum of 1/2 inch overlap. Pin.
Step 4: Run through the sewing machine on maximum zig zag stitch set for around 24 stitches per inch.
Step 5: Repeat until you have built up a pieced-together section large enough to cover one side.
Step 6: Repeat the previous steps all over again until you have another side built.
Step 7: Lay one side out face down (hope your floor it big enough). Cover this with the quilt batting. Place the other side on top of both of the other two face up. Pin in place.
Step 8 : I run the whole thing through the machine. I don’t recommend this, actually, as I tend to break needles in the process, but I’m not going to sit around with a hoop and put those ugly little tufts of yarn through both sides to hold it in place, or take the time to stitch it all together by hand.
Step 9: Wrap a strip of fabric or blanket edging around the outside edging of the quilt. Stitch.
Easy as pie.
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The Serialists 
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I’ve wanted to make a quilt for as long as I can remember. It’ll probably have to be a retirement project, though. There are only so many hours in a day.
Even a crazy quilt will take up a huge number of hours. Certainly retirement worth.
I adore quilts. I might just try this!
One of the things I love about crazy quilts is that you can do all kinds of things with them that aren’t possible with regular quilts. I have actually gotten the fabric to weave together in spots, have folded it down to show the back, and have built in pockets. Some of my quilts come out looking like M C Escher pictures.
sizzling title!
http://itistimetothinkformyself.blogspot.com/2010/05/jingles-may-followers-award.html
Some May awards,
Happy Sunday!
I don’t think I’m up to attempting a quilt yet, not with my paltry sewing skills. I think I’ll leave the quilting to you, my sister, and a friend’s mom.
http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/jingles-may-awards-week-1-awards-4-u-all/
Happy May!
some friendship seeds.
you’ll have to post a picture of the whole thing. I’ve made a few rag quilts. I do love to quilt though. I love setting a quilt up and watching the pattern grow with the stitching. very relaxing.
Clearly you have more patience than I do.