Random Friday: Christmas, Mod Podge, The Hobbit.

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• I hate when you see a great quote on Pinterest but it isn't credited to anyone.
• Today is the last day of the Christmas Romance novel giveaway. Your chances of winning are EXCELLENT. Get to it.
• Have you blogged your Christmas Reading Escape yet? Link up here.
• The Bug had his stitches from the biopsy removed yesterday. I am so SO thrilled to have that done and gone.
• Christmas sewing..oh man the Christmas sewing! I am SO proud of a couple of them, but you can't see them until after Christmas, sorry!  This weekend we're doing salt dough ornaments and I have to break out the Mod Podge. Plus more sewing. Speaking of, any suggestions on what to sew for a 12 year old girl? I've already done the usually suspects for her. I was going to do a makeup roll, but mom says she doesn't wear much yet.
• Pinterest users!  I need a fun, cute, CHEAP Christmas treat for the Pirate's class next Friday. Last year I did those snowmen mashmallows. What have you pinned?  
• The boys are all going to see The Hobbit tonight. I think the Princess and I have a hot date to Walmart planned. Pierre is so thrilling.

What I Read This Week:

• Erebos: It's a game. It watches you. by Ursula Poznanski. This one was odd. I thought it was interesting but there was a disconnect between the writing (translating?) style and the plot. It was a smart plot (that I didn't buy) but the dialogue and action sequences were very juvenile.
• Under the Mistletoe (A Lucky Harbor Novella) by Jill Shalvis. It was nice to revisit the Lucky Harbor gang, but novellas are just too short, this one wasn't very satisfying.
• Together for Christmas by Lisa Plumley. This is my first by this author and I'm really enjoying it. Very straightforward characters, likeable but not without flaws.