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I LOVE THIS! I Snagged it from  Debbie , who just posted it an hour ago! I really want a nap, but am staying to do this instead!
“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

 

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Gray out those you are unfamiliar with.

6) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte I LOVE THIS BOOK!
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell AWESOME book, read it in fourth grade!
9 His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy GREAT BOOK
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES! AMAZING!
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky  
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (technicality - this is one of the Chronicles of Narnia, yes??)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo  I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!

WOOOOOOOOO summer is here! I love making these t shirts and have done them for the past three summers now. I usually make them for all of my little Auntlings (those critters, who by their very existence, make me an Aunt). That would be five boys and two girls, counting my own. So I just finished seven of these little suckers.

HERE WE GO!

Is there a way to turn pics in Vox? If so, I'm unaware of it and I'm kinda tired and don't really wanna open it in anything else right now. Okay, so for supplies you must have WASHABLE White Glue, COLD water Dye (suck as Dylon brand or the other which is pictured here in a pump bottle), some brushes and stamps if you like (I always use the little spongie on wood stick ones because they are cheap and i just toss them when done) and a White Cotton T Shirt. It is easier if you get a t shirt form like the one pictures, but any cardboard box will do. I prefer Dylon dye, which can be found at Wal Mart, Hobby Lobby, and Michael's for sure. I just pictured the other one because I had it on hand. You also need a LARGE spray bottle, like one that you buy empty to put cleaning solutions in.

Prepare your t shirts by washing and drying them first. Don't use fabric softener during any of these processes. Put your t shirt on the form or place some cardboard between the layers. Now you can use brushes, stamps, or even just the bottle to apply your glue design. Make sure you dry it well before flipping it over and doing the back design.

When all of my shirts are dry, I get some cheapie hangers and go hang them up outside somewhere. PUT ON SOME CLOTHES YOU CAN MESS UP and .......don't go barefooted. Trust me. The bottoms of my feet are STILL blue.

You'll mix your dye according to package directions in the spray bottle. Be sure you have some table salt on hand to add to the mix, this helps the dye adhere better. Spray each shirt with even coats. This is going to take a while. After doing seven, I had little blisters on both hands from doing it :). Its still fun though!

   

    Like most women who have to cook every stinking day and have done so for at least a decade, I love anything that I have not made myself, is quick and easy to acquire and inexpensive. Pizza, therefore, tops my list. I love Pizza! So much so that in this entire post I will show it respect of a proper noun by capitalizing its name :).
       I especially love the Pizza from a local gas station. They make it fresh and I can have them put bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and all sorts of goodies on only two slices, so my kids can have their blase pepperoni (they'll get imaginations later, I'm sure of it.)
    This past weekend, In Chattanooga with our Georgia counterparts, we all decided Pizza would be a great way to go for dinner. Pizza, kids, family, can't go wrong - right? We ventured to a lovely little establishment named the "Mellow Mushroom". This is a renowned pizzeria which I've read about in magazines.
    "Mellow Mushroom was began by two Georgia Tech roommates in the early 1970s. They were soon joined by a student from the University of Georgia. The first location is no longer there, but there are several dozen locations operating in Atlanta, elsewhere in Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Mellow Mushroom has been selling franchises since 1985 and many can be found in college towns, as they are popular with students.

The first Mellow Mushroom to be located outside of Atlanta was in Athens, Georgia, near the University of Georgia. That store renovated an old Wendy's and was open until 2006. In the summer of 2007, a new Mellow Mushroom opened in Athens on Broad Street.

    Beginning in 2000 the Mellow Mushroom has expanded outside of college markets to both urban areas such as Jacksonville and to suburban markets. The Mellow Mushrooms that have opened recently are larger and more modern, and are no longer located in strip malls. In 2008, a Mellow Mushroom franchise will open in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as well as Mount Pleasant, South Carolina outside of Charleston, SC."

    You can sense the other shoe is about to fall here, can't ya? Well I'll begin with a compliment, they have an extensive selection of beer. I think this is a very wise move on their part. Perhaps with ample beer you won't notice that it takes no less than four napkins to soak the grease off of one slice of Pizza. I also want to add that out of our entire party, four kids and three adults LOVED it. In fact, I think everyone on earth with the exception of me thought this place was just great! But OH MY GOD, I swear those little dollar frozen pizza deals you get at Wal Mart even beat this stuff. Call me some Domino's, Papa Johns, or Brad's Corner Market and I'll be happy and get out spending half of what I did there. Maybe I should have ordered the Dos Equis after all.......

"Ma ! !  Katy peed in a bucket and is dipping her stuffed elephant in it!"
~sighs~
So, I'm behind on my blogging. Normally not a big deal but I have a LOT of things to blog about! First of all, my MOM did a tutorial for the blog of her OMG AMAZING Mandarin Orange Cake. The PERFECT cake for summer. I will try to get that all up today and if you make it......be prepared to take off all your clothes, dive in naked, and eat your way out. Its just that good.

We just got back from Chattanooga, I have tons of great pics from that. I'm working on a video of the trip to post, but can't come up with the second song to use for it.

Still need to do tutorials on milk gravy. Made some great glue batik t shirts for the kids that I also did a tutorial on, those will be up soon too.

Gosh, I love my blog.

This is an oldie but goodie. You'll love it if you haven't seen it before - and if you can relate.
Margaritas all around for those who can!

On my way back home now from another trip to Chattanooga, Tn. This city is the poster child of the south. I seriously doubt there exists a nicer downtown area in any large city (much less with a Ben and Jerry's;). I've decided in another life I'm going to have an apt right on Broad St just to be able to walk all over the city at night. That was my favorite part ,walking alone in the evening. Hard to believe its only two hours (and at least two worlds) away from downtown Atlanta- the town which tops my list of places I wouldnt walk, drive, or fly through past noon. :)
Mobile blogging again. We'll see if this one goes up. I'll fix errors when I get home.

Alright, I've tried the email your blog thingie three times today to no avail. Now I'm giving this blogit thing a go. Its a special iphone edition so maybe.....

What are five things that make you unique?

1. Hmmm, I can do this wierd thing with my lip. I would post a pic but....well its wierd and unique, but not all too pretty :)

2. I can sing row row row your boat backwards

3. I know every word to Modern Major General (I use this one a lot, but hey, its a talent I tell ya)

4. I'm considered a "professional" quilter because I've been published in a magazine a few times.

5. As was reinforced yesterday outside the butterfly room of the Tennessee Aquarium - I hate butterflies. I consider them little winged messengers of Satan >:)

Wow, am i boring?