once upon a book club

Growing the Rhododendron Trail Quilt! from The Modern Diary

I finally tied this eye spy quilt (and another one, no picture) after a long time of it hanging out waiting.

I have been growing R Trail by a row or two each day. I am now on the other half row three! So three giant rows to go, then on to borders. If you are doing this beast, how is it coming along?

I won this beautiful book from a booktuber (MsReadsAlot) and I happily passed on my cheap paperback copy on to Jay. This one is so fancy! It has beautiful full color pictures inside too. Years ago ...

added by Andee 2 years, 3 months ago. under bonnie's rhododendron trail , once upon a book club , reading

Three Quilt Finishes, a Clue and some Reading! from The Modern Diary

Pine Tree Point made for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge made its way to Arizona to Melissa who quilted it (and the B2 quilt) in a jif and mailed it back to me! I love how both quilts came out. This one is for my daughter and her hubby. It is quilted with stars. Linking up!

We got our little tree up last weekend and so far the cats and Hazel are leaving it be.

I managed to get clue 3 done for R Trail. Pretty happy with it so far. Clue four is out and I just made one test ...

added by Andee 2 years, 4 months ago. under bonnie's h is for happy , bonnie's pine tree point , bonnie's rhododendron trail , mourning crosses quilt , once upon a book club , rachel and bryan's harley bq2 , reading

Books, Games, and Pine Tree Point is a Flimsy! from The Modern Diary

I got a surprise package the other day! You may remember I ordered a second blind date with a book from Book_Bestie's Etsy shop. Well, it was lost in the mail so when I contacted her she immediately sent me a new book. Weeks later the lost one arrived. So I get a bonus Blind date! I DNF'ed the replacement book "Wolf Hall" as it just was not doing it for me by the half way point. Excited to try the original second one!

I did the Booktube spin #1 and so my chosen book was Jurassic Park ...

added by Andee 2 years, 5 months ago. under blind date with a book , bonnie's pine tree point , bonnie's rhododendron trail , family game night , once upon a book club , reading , rsc challenge 2021 , tbr challenge

Reading, Tree Sewing and Hazel Turns One! from The Modern Diary

Hazel turned one last month. She has been walking and signing and even talking a bit for the past few months. Really so much fun! She kept this little hat on for quite a long time during her party too.

I decided to do a blind date with a book. I found Julia on Etsy (BookBestie) and ordered my first date. Here is the lovely package I received. Almost too pretty to open!

The book was "Song of Achilles" which was on my radar to read. It was a good story and my date was successful!

So I decided I ...

added by Andee 2 years, 6 months ago. under bonnie's pine tree point , grandbaby hazel , once upon a book club , reading

Happy Fall! from The Modern Diary

It has been a month since I blogged and all I sewed since them was the aqua Rainbow Scrap Challenge block! I am linking up behind schedule and better see what the next color is! I did not see it posted yet but Angela has a sick kiddo and is a teacher, so no worries if she is behind schedule. I may have missed it too so will check back. Only four months left to go!

I read another book box and really enjoyed it. I should really cancel this but I really LOVE them. I resell almost all of ...

added by Andee 2 years, 7 months ago. under bonnie's pine tree point , family memories , once upon a book club

Progress...Slow and Steady! from The Modern Diary

I really have not sewn much the past two weeks. Before that I got all the blocks and half blocks ready for Winter Blues in Green. I then realized I had a TON of sashing to cut and cornerstones. Wind out of sails I just did not feel like cutting all that! There is so much cutting and subcutting in this one! I am loving my new ruler for doing it but still. I also am pretty sure that I want to do a yellow version of this and then combine the two colors for TWO Packer quilts instead of ...

added by Andee 2 years, 8 months ago. under bonnie's winter blues in green , kathleen tracy , lori holt farm girl vintage , modern maples , once upon a book club

Farm Girl Vintage is Growing! from The Modern Diary

Read the latest Once Upon a Book Club box and put it up for sale when I was done. I have enjoyed all but one of the books I have read in the past year. Thinking I may cancel after my birthday as it is not cheap, but I wind up selling almost all of them so basically it costs me postage for the fun each month.

I started working on more towels since I need new ones (and I gave away all the ones I made last year) and they make great gifts. I had to reacquaint myself with ...

added by Andee 2 years, 10 months ago. under christmas gifts 2021 , lori holt farm girl vintage , once upon a book club , towels

Farm Girl Vintage Start from The Modern Diary

Hazel is starting to cruise! She was chasing the ball in this picture. Just a bit over six months old and such a happy girl! She loves to be read to and her favorite book at my house is "That's Not My Puppy!" which we read at least once each day.

Just finished my latest book box. The story was good though lots of "convenient" things happening to interrupt things all the time. It got on my nerves a bit.

Finished the Kathleen Tracy Mini Mystery. She decided to surprise us with the last clue (borders) a few days ...

added by Andee 3 years ago. under grandbaby hazel , kathleen tracy , lori holt farm girl vintage , mini mystery , once upon a book club , treasure box quilt exchage

Christmas with the Youngest and Mystery Quilts are Caught Up! from The Modern Diary

Two blog posts in one day since I cannot figure out how to schedule this one like I used to!

We went and saw Jay the day after Christmas. He liked his gifts and his stocking. While we were there we had pizza and played "The Game," "Blokus," (which he gifted us) and "Five Crowns," which is a long time favorite game.

My Once Upon a Time advent box came super late on Christmas Eve. Read two stories a day and opened my gifts. We got four books in the box! Really fun stuff.

Here is clue five of Grassy ...

added by Andee 3 years, 3 months ago. under bonnie's grassy creek 2020 , family game night , family memories , once upon a book club , solo gaming

Merry Christmas! from The Modern Diary

We spent Christmas Eve with my daughter and her husband and baby Hazel. They went home to his folks' home last weekend so they could keep it small. So Hazel finally met two more great grandparents and his parents had a chance to see her for the second time. Really keeping the circle small. So hard with a new little one, but we benefited as we got to spend the time with them. Tomorrow Kathy and I will go spend the day with my youngest (he is working the holiday) so seeing two out of there of my kids is ...

added by Andee 3 years, 4 months ago. under bonnie's grassy creek 2020 , christmas 2020 , family memories , once upon a book club

Geese on a String and Holiday Happenings! from The Modern Diary

Geese on a String progress happened between Grassy Creek Clues.

Bug had to pose with the first few rows.

And the flimsy is complete.

My November book box finally arrived and I read it right away. Still waiting on December and sadly, the advent box too.

Gudrun Erla did a video on December 15th for these Woven Heart ornaments, which remind me of Norway so I bought the supplies and had to make a few. This year only the kids and my Goddaughter will get one, next year maybe more folks. They are fun to make!

I am still working ...

added by Andee 3 years, 4 months ago. under bonnie's geese on a string , bonnie's grassy creek 2020 , family memories , games , once upon a book club , solo gaming , woven hearts

Mysteries and More Mysteries from The Modern Diary

These are my fabric choices for Grassy Creek along with the cards I am using them for of Bonnie's. So where she has orange I have dark blue, etc. I went with what I have though I LOVE her colors this year.

Clue one is all ready except I should trim the dog ears off tonight. Next clue comes out tomorrow already! I love this time of year as I have so much to sew and have a high motivation to do it. With my fatigue it is nice to feel PULLED out of bed even for awhile.

I ...

added by Andee 3 years, 4 months ago. under bonnie's geese on a string , bonnie's grassy creek 2020 , capes , family memories , games , handwarmers , lil' twister , once upon a book club

All Good Things November! from The Modern Diary

Hazel is as happy as we are for a female Vice President! Herstory in the making! There were some tears at my house. I hope our country starts coming together again soon.

Still reading the Once Upon a Book Club boxes. Some of them I resell when I am done with them. They are a bit pricey but I really enjoy them so I am going to keep it up for now. The Halloween Spooky box above was really good and I will find and read more y that author. The Halloween Sweet box was too corny for me though ...

added by Andee 3 years, 5 months ago. under bj mystery , bonnie's easy breezy , bonnie's grassy creek 2020 , christmas stockings , family memories , morewood mystery 2020 , once upon a book club

Books and Mysteries! from The Modern Diary

Still doing a lot of reading. This was a really good and fast read!

This one was 726 pages and was not as fast of a read! I am really enjoying opening the gifts on these books as I go. I finished this one yesterday and watched the BBC movie/series about it. I am looking forward to the new movie about David Copperfield too. I had never heard anything about this story and while long it was sort of like a soap opera of the day or something. Originally published as a serial and at least partially autobiographical, I ...

added by Andee 3 years, 7 months ago. under bj mystery , norway honorary daughter and grands , once upon a book club

Birthdays and Chunky Churn Dashes from The Modern Diary

My birthday was last Thursday and I had a really nice day! Kathy got me the Once Upon a Book Club selection and I saved it to read that afternoon. If you have never seen this before, you get a book and several gifts to open on certain pages of the book. The gifts relate to the story. (If you get this and have not read August's yet, do not scroll down as I do post a picture of what the gifts were--do not want to spoil it for anyone!). I loved this so much I ordered another one ...

added by Andee 3 years, 8 months ago. under birthday celebrations , bonnie's chunky churndash , family , jelly snowflake mystery , once upon a book club

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