here is a link to some free valentine images

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

they are free if you post a link to a blog or an email group.

i know this journal doesn't have a lot of traffic, but i HAVE posted it and hope somebody gives lisa a hit.  she is an awesome altered book/mixed media artist and usually sells her things, but this is a freebie ( Read more... )

Marco bought us all day tickets.  we could travel anywhere in zone 10, which covers all of the inner city of Zurich ( Read more... )

MONDAY ( Read more... )

we arrived, was it only this morning?  we are quite good at hopping on and off the tram.  we have seen two churches and more fountains than i can remember.  we spent a lot of time in the older parts of town.  we are finally exhausted and are planning to get some real sleep for the first time in two nights.

Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith.  The latest installment in the Isabel Dalhousie series.  I enjoy this series, but perhaps just a tiny bit less than the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency books.  Perhaps because it is less exoctic, so slightly more realistic?

And this really is part of getting ready for Switzerland; I had to ( Read more... )

monday - travel - ALL day ( Read more... )

More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.  San Francisco life the way it (never) was. an assortment of characters living at 28 Barbary Lane, some of whom are gay.  This is the pre-AIDS era, so the bathhouse/club/bar scene is there, but not necessarily the main focus.  The characters are looking for love - in the wrong and right places - and find ( Read more... )

were the last two volumes in the Enchanted Forest Series Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons by Patricial Wrede.  Really just one of the best YA fantasy series out there.  If you like YA fiction and haven't read this, do yourself a favor, get all four and read them.

(cross posted to 50bookchallenge)

is another re-read.  Searching for Dragons by Patricial Wrede.  Truly one of the best YA fantasy novels out there - dragons, princesses, wizards and an enchanted forest, but everything done with a fresh twist.  (Soapy water with lemon is a great way to melt wizards, even if only temporarily).  There is even a magic sword, romance and sorrow.  I re- ( Read more... )

Borrowers of the Night by Elizabeth Peters.  This is the first of the Vicky Bliss books, which I have never read before, though I am an avid fan of the Amelia Peabody series.  One of my co-workers is quite a fan of Vicky Bliss and when this one came into the store, she put it in my bin.  Very fun, and Caitlin says this is not the best.  I am sure I ( Read more... )