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  Top down from left to right: Bannock * (recipe) Mini knife necklace from Young Hearts Designs Moonlight pomegranate soap from meadowcreekboutique Moonlight earrings from Willow Studio Jewelry Dragonfly in amber necklace from cinstationbaubles Gold wishbone necklace from redtruckdesigns Photo from here . For the other posts in this series, check out the tag .

Top down from left to right: Double handled storage basket from TOAST Cullen Skink (recipe) Autumn leaves cape /shawl (pattern) Kitchen mysteries: mortar and pastel (article with bonus curry recipe) Leather longstitch bound book (diy) or the more modern stab bound book (diy) For the other posts in this series, check out the tag .

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon My Rating: 5/5 stars (for both the original and the reread) There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save---respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree? Claire Beauchamp is on her second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband when she falls through a pair of standing stones back through time to 1743.  Arriving in what she thinks is a movie set, Claire is quickly acquainted with Black Jack Randall, a distant ancestor of her husband, Frank, a marauding band of Scots and Jamie Fraser.  Part of a series, the book follows the increasingly intertwined lives of these characters from one end of Scotland to the other, and still farther afield as they strive to save their liv

Top down from right to left: Whiskey Stones from EcoGranite A plaid skirt or kilt Wooden spice box from Chocberryavenue Pearl necklace from The Altered Chain Keep calm and ride on print from Chic Wall Art Scotland type map from boldandnoble For the other posts in this series, check out the tag .

I figured since the other day was the one year mark in this project I should post a bit about it here. I'm going to start out by posting the list of goals below, any further discussion will end up in another post. The goals that are completed are crossed out. For now, relevant dates can be found in my monthly snapshot posts . Greyed out goals are ones that have been changed, the current wording/goal will be found below it. Goals in italics are long term goals I'm working on or goals I'm hoping to complete by the end of 2014. Headings are in bold (and italics). Travel and Activities [09/21] Places.   Prince Edward Island Australia Yellowknife Vancouver Portland Banff or Jasper Victoria Adirondacks Activities. See a play in Stratford See Vienna Teng in Concert Watch a play in a local theatre   Go apple picking Rent a cabin in the woods Have a geeky sleepover Host a dinner party   Attend a reenactment Host a game night Food and Cooking.   Make pu

**For all of you who like my monthly snapshot posts, Becca has started her own series which you can find at her blog here .  This month features some rather cool looking converse and lots of knitting. ON REPEAT Coconut coconut muffins Ground beef and onions Salads Burgers Camp food (quinoa soup, sweet potatoes, groats with chia seeds) Walking Knitting planning Clothes shopping and wardrobe planning Bookstores Sight seeing Outlander excitement FAVORITES BOOKS:: Outlander, Drums of Autumn, and the Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell TV SHOW: The Newsroom MUSIC: Acrobat by Matt Brown MEMORIES: Trivial persuit and fireworks, seeing Jim Byrnes again, babysitting. camping for a week, rereading Outlander with accompanying Twitter excitement, shopping on Robson, Trader Joe's, Powell's City of Books, Washington Park, the aerial performance, Matt Brown, and the Aztec dance group, the Golden G

For those of you not obsessively trolling the internet for any small bit of news, Outlander premieres on Starz tomorrow night.  It's based on a series by Diana Gabaldon by the same name and follows the adventures of Claire Beauchamp after she falls through a pair of standing stones and back through time from post WWII Britain to Scotland in 1743. I won't give anything away, partly because I haven't done a proper book review and I don't want to spoil my own fun, but also because for people discovering the series for the first time, there's nothing quite like watching the entire thing unfold before you.  That being said there are a couple of items that are central to the books that will come as no surprise.  As such, here's a couple of my favorite things corresponding to some of them. top down from left to right: Earl Grey Rooibos or any more proper English tea Perfume (diy) or the perfume bottle necklace from The Parlor Apothecary Antique alarm