Joy!

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Just wanted to stop in really quick and send everyone some love for the holidays! Things are still a bit of a madhouse at Casa Bookgirl (still no internet!) but the good news is that most of my books are on the shelves now. Yay. I promise a picture of the five Ikea Billy bookshelves is coming soon.

I really have missed blogging and visiting you guys a lot. I am hoping to stop by and visit soon. Also I can’t believe I still haven’t posted anything yet on my favorite books of the year. Ah, but you know I tend to wait until the last minute possible to post my list because you never know if that great book is still just waiting to be read.

Anyway, as always thank you for stopping in even when the postings have been so iffy lately. Now I’m off to get a cup of coffee and enjoy a bit of my current read, The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. So great to be back visiting with Inspector Gamache.

Wishing you a lot of joy this holiday season!

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Well, hello blog friends! Thank you so much for all your comments. We have been busy with our move and it’s been going well. Just made a trip to Ikea last weekend to get four new bookcases. Oh I can’t wait to show those to you but I still have to get all my books out of their boxes.

Unfortunately we won’t have internet at home until next week and then of course it’s the holidays and oh my. So that’s why things are still kind of silent on my end. You’d think that with no internet to distract me I’d be reading up a storm but again, my books are still in boxes.

Actually, I did open one box because tonight is my mystery book group meeting and I’ve been rushing through L.A. Outlaws. Hopefully I’ll finish it this afternoon.

Of course I also had to place a small book order as all of my books were put away. I got the second book in the Daisy Dalrymple series, The Winter Garden Mystery and I also got the January selection for the Slaves of Golconda reading group.

Anyway, I must get back to my book and organizing. I hope you are all doing great and reading lots of good things.

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Slowing Down

No, things aren’t slowing down for me but they may be a bit slow here at the blog for several days. You see, now I get to tell you why things have been so crazy. We are moving! We’re still in Austin but we are saying goodbye to apartment living and moving in to our house – yay!

That’s why I’ve been a bit absent from the blog and blogosphere. I owe emails, I’m behind on reading your wonderful posts, etc. So, I’m sorry I’ve been a bit out of it but I hope this excuses my behavior. This moving to a house business is exciting, overwhelming, fun, tiring, you name it.

Now, it’s back to packing for me. I’m up to 31 book boxes and I still have all my craft books, poetry books and a few others left to pack. I can’t wait until we get settled in and my library/craft studio are back up and ready to be enjoyed.

In the meantime I hope you guys are reading lots of good things. I’ll try to post and blog visit in between some packing and moving breaks.

Oh and a bit off topic but if you are still doing your Christmas shopping my Etsy Bookbinding Team is having a big event. If you are planning to buy a journal or other paper goods shop at any of the participating stores this week (mine included!) and you can be entered to win some super cool prizes. Here are the details.

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