Stitching Question and Reading Challenge Update

Since M retired I no longer spend time cooking, shopping or cleaning so all my at home time is free to spend as I choose. Since I'm in a stitching slump I seem to spend all my time reading and when you add a night of insomnia to the equation I wound up reading 2 books and starting a 3rd yesterday.  Oh yeah, #55 and #56 are new additions to the reading list.

By the time Friday got here I needed a break from work so took the afternoon and spent the time in a bookstore, a bead store and a fabric store. Think serious shopping - my credit card took a major hit.  Then I came home and pre-ordered Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow and the fabric for it. I'm thinking of ordering the silk thread package but still not sure if I can justify spending that much on stash when I'm not stitching.  If purchased alone, the silk pack is $230, but if I decide by Tuesday morning to get them I can save $46 cause I got the chart, fabric & thread.  What's your opinion?  Is it worth the extra $ to get the NPI silks?

Here's the updated reading list:

1) The Cat Who Could Read Backwards – Lilian Braun Finished 09/15/09
2) The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern – Lilian Braun
3) The Chocolate Cat Caper – Joanna Carl
4) The Chocolate Bear Burglary – Joanna Carl
5) Split Second – David Baldacci
6) The Summoning – Kelley Armstrong
7) Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
8) Exit Strategy – Kelley Armstrong
9) Savannah Blues – Mary Kay Andrews
10) Savannah Breeze – Mary Kay Andrews
11) Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery – Joanne Fluke
12) Tangled in Love – Heidi Betts
13) Metro Girl – Janet Evanovich  Finished 09/19/09
14) One for the Money (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
15) Two for the Dough (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
16) Three to Get Deadly (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
17) Four to Score (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
18) High five (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
19) Hot Six (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
20) Seven Up (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
21) Hard Eight (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
22) Visions of Sugar Plums – Janet Evanovich (A Between the Numbers Novel)
23) To the Nines (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
24) Ten Big Ones (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
25) Eleven on Top (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
26) Twelve Sharp (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
27) Plum Lovin’ – Janet Evanovich (A Between the Numbers Novel)
28) Lean Mean Thirteen (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
29) Fearless Fourteen (re-read) – Janet Evanovich
30) Plum Spooky – Janet Evanovich (A Between the Numbers Novel)
31) Finger Lickin’ Fifteen – Janet Evanovich
32) Killing Floor – Lee Child
33) Dead Man’s Island – Carolyn G Hart
34) Death on Demand – Carolyn G Hart
35) Dust to Dust – Tami Hoag  Finished 09/18/09
36) Dead Cat Bounce – Sarah Graves
37) Grave Sight – Charlaine Harris
38) Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
39) Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
40) Real Murders – Charlaine Harris
41) Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris
42) Knit One, Kill Two – Maggie Sefton
43) Dying to Sell – Maggie Sefton
44) A Killing Frost – Michael A Black
45) Random Victim – Michael A Black
46) State of the Onion – Julie Hyzy
47) Deadly Blessings – Julie Hyzy
48) Artistic License – Julie Hyzy
49) Death Down Home – Eve Sandstrom
50) The Violence Beat – Eve Sandstrom
51) The Camel Club – David Baldacci
52) The Will – Reed Arvin
53) Exit Strategy – Kelley Armstrong
54) Little Bitty Lies – Mary Kay Andrews
55) The Trouble With Magic - Madelyn Alt  Finished 09/18/09
56) Fool's Puzzle - Earline Fowler


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