Sugar Doll Award

Thanks to Lori @Some of My Favorite Books I got this pretty award. Thank you, Lori!!

I'm suppose to list ten random things about myself so here we go:

1. I don't like to touch raw meat
2. I love pink daisies
   
3. I work part-time at an animal clinic
4. I've been married for about 3 1/2 years
5. I got married in the Smokey Mountains
6. I adopted my first cat when I was 10
7. I hope to knit my first sweater sometime this year
8. I love my blue jeans
9. I hate to wash dishes
10. I have naturally curly hair (which can be a pain at times)

Once again I'm going to pass this along to all my followers because y'all are such Sugar Dolls! :)

Bliss (Happy 101) Award

I got this lovely award from Renee @Black 'n Gold Girl's Book Spot. Thank you, Renee!

I'm suppose to list ten things that make me happy and then pass this award along.

1. friends/family
2. my cats and dogs
3. reading
4. my faith
5. chocolate
6. hubby
7. knitting
8. my ds lite
9. bargain shopping
10. vacations

I'm suppose to pass this on to ten other bloggers but I'm going to cheat and pass it on to all my sweet followers. :)

Value Fiction Blog Tour: Beneath A Southern Sky by Deborah Raney

Beneath A Southern Sky isn't really the type of book I usually read but when you read what it's about you almost have to read it to see what happens. Beneath A Southern Sky is about Daria, she becomes a young widow with a newborn baby and eventually remarries. She is happy and her daughter loves her second husband like a father. Then the telegram comes and turns their lives upside down: Daria's first husband didn't die, he's alive! So what does Daria do: stay with her second husband or go back to her first?? When I started reading this I was thinking that she should go back to her first husband but as I read I got more confused and didn't know what she should do. Deborah Raney does a great job of bringing all the characters to life and you find yourself just has confused as Daria.

**This book was provided for review by WaterBrook Multnomah

Value Fiction Blog Tour: Yesterday's Promise by Linda Lee Chaikin

Yesterday's Promise is the second book in the East of Sun series and it's just as good as the first book. I would recommend you read book one before you read this book because otherwise you will be in the dark on a lot of things. Yesterday's Promise continues with Evy and Rogan's story but Yesterday's Promise deals more with Rogan than Evy. In Yesterday's Promise we follow Rogan as he goes to South Africa on his pursuit of goldmines. Linda Lee Chaikin really brought South Africa to life for me. I mean at one point when I was reading this book I saw something out of the corner of my eye and for a second I thought it was a snake. Now that is good writing. ;) This is an enjoyably read that I highly recommend.

Book Description:
Rogan Chantry faces danger from tribesmen, ruthless politicians, and his own family as he searches for gold in South Africa. In England, his beloved Evy is injured by a mysterious assailant. The greed and intrigue surrounding the diamond mines could very well drive them irrevocably apart.

**This book was provided for review by WaterBrook Multnomah

Tomorrow's Treasure by Linda Lee Chaikin

Tomorrow's Treasure is book one in the East of the Sun series and it's the first book I've read by Linda Lee Chaikin. I really enjoyed this book, it kind of reminded me of a Victoria Holt type of book. In case you haven't ever read Victoria Holt, a lot of her books are full of people that you don't know if the main character should trust especially the guy she likes. In Tomorrow's Treasure we meet Evy who doesn't want to but ends up liking the Squire's son, Rogan. He's very arrogant and thinks he can have whatever or whoever he wants. I really enjoyed this book. You know a book is good when you get a lump in your throat a few times during it. Linda Lee Chaikin really brought Evy and the people of Grimston Way to life. So I highly recommend this book.

Product description from Goodreads.com:

Raised by her aunt and uncle at the rectory in the small English village of Grimston Way, lovely Evy Varley remembers little of her missionary parents and nothing of South Africa, the land where she was orphaned during the Zulu War of 1878. But when Sir Rogan Chantry, the arrogant and handsome son of the local Squire, accuses Evy's mother of stealing the infamous Kimberly Black Diamond, Evy sets out to prove the rogue wrong and clear her mother's name.

Secrets abound, however, from the diamond mines of South Africa to the halls of her own beloved rectory. Strangers come to Grimston Way for their own mysterious purposes, a stunned Evy finds that her own aunt and uncle may have concealed disturbing truths about her family, and the dashing Sir Rogan has his own reasons to seek the missing diamond.

Yet despite Rogan's seemingly rakish ways and the class differences that render a romance between them impossible, Evy finds herself drawn to the man who was once her childhood friend and now holds the keys to her heart. Faced with a dangerous past and an uncertain future, Evy must draw upon her wits and her faith to pursue Tomorrow's Treasure.

A story of faith, danger and romance, Tomorrow's Treasure is a masterpiece of historical suspense fiction.


**This book was provided for review by the Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group.

Moggy Monday

This Moggy Monday I'm going to show y'all that I have too much time on my hands. Awhile back I found this pattern to make a beret for cats/dogs. So since I had never knitted a beret I thought this would be good practice and I would end up with a cute hat to take some cute pictures of the animals. The only cats that would corporate with me were Jake and Carmel. Gracie and Shelby weren't too thrilled...Shelby looks like she has a headache..lol.

And The Winner is.....

Lori!!!!

Congratulations!! :)

Teaser Tuesday

"The sound of humming stopped. Katie's heart pounded as a terror-filled silence encircled them, and then the clacking of assegais against Zulu shields started up, along with a death drum of pounding feet." --Tomorrow's Treasure by Linda Lee Chaikin

Moggy Monday

I know a lot of y'all have been getting a lot of snow and usually we don't get any snow but on Thursday evening we got snow! My two cats, Matthew and Luke, had never seen snow before and they had a blast playing in it. It was too cute. I took a few videos of them with my camera but since it was getting dark they didn't turn out that great. But I will share with y'all the best one..it's short and only Matthew is in it but it'll give you an idea of what they were doing.


And now here are some pictures of Matthew (orange cat) and Luke (gray) playing in the snow. Also put a few pictures of the snow. Enjoy! :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Giveaway!!!

Want a chance to win this book?? Then here's all ya gotta do:

* You must leave a valid email address in your comment, so I can contact you if you're the winner. To stop spammers from grabbing your addy so something like this: daisyglow at gmail dot com

* Sorry but at this time, the giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

* The giveaway will be from Feb 10 thru Feb 17 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time
(Any/all entries entered after this time will not be eligible.)

* I will announce the winner here on Feb 19 ~ you will also be contacted via email. You will then have 3 days in which to respond with your snail mail address, or another winner will be chosen.

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Thank you so much for dropping by and participating!

Good luck!!! :)

Moggy Monday

Hello! Today is Moggy Monday...it hasn't been a great Monday for me but I hope y'all are having a better Monday than me. Since I've introduced all my critters to y'all I thought I would share some new pictures. I have some real cute ones on my camera but of course I forgot my camera this morning soooo.... I will just have to see what I have on my computer. Enjoy! :)

Listen by Rene Gutteridge

This is only the second book I've read by Rene Gutteridge and I have come to the conclusion that I really must read more of her books. I started this book Friday after work and finished it Saturday afternoon. I really wanted to stay up and finish it but I knew I needed to get to bed cause I had some things I had to do Saturday morning. Listen is a book that makes you think about what we say when we think no one is listening. In Listen we get to meet the residents of the small town of Marlo. Marlo is a sleepy little town that is about to be turned upside down when people's personal conversations are posted on the Internet. All of sudden friends are against friends and chaos becomes the norm for Marlo.

Listen is an excellent book..it keeps you turning the pages trying to figure out who could be responsible for the posted conversations and why. Not only is this an enjoyable read but it leaves you with some food for thought. The power of words certainly can be mighty than the sword.

As you can probably guess I highly recommend this book and I personally am looking forward to reading more books by Rene Gutteridge. :)

*I want to thank Tyndale House Publishers for my free review copy

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

This was a very different book and I have mixed feelings about it. There were times when I couldn't wait to turn the page and then it would plod along and I was forcing myself to read. I think maybe the problem with the book was really with me because I started reading this book thinking it would be like that movie, Lost in Austen. It wasn't. So I think that was my main problem. But I didn't hate the book and do think if it sounds like something you would like then I say check it out.

Product Description from Goodreads.com

In this Jane Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time.

After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?

Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her love of Jane Austen has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless seducers, and marriages of convenience. Enter the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who fills Courtney's borrowed brain with confusing memories that are clearly not her own.

Try as she might to control her mind and find a way home, Courtney cannot deny that she is becoming this other woman—and being this other woman is not without its advantages: Especially in a looking-glass Austen world. Especially with a suitor who may not turn out to be a familiar species of philanderer after all.

*I got this book from paperbackswap.com

In Loving Memory

Duke

Moggy Monday

It's Moggy Monday and I know that those who have been following Moggy Monday since the beginning think y'all have met all my cats but I realized there is still one y'all have yet to meet....Jill, my office cat. Jill showed up at my office about seven or eight years ago as a little, wild kitten. She had a brother but he has since disappeared. :( Anyway, when they first showed up they were so wild it wasn't even funny. You couldn't touch them so how me and my dad caught them and got them to the vet I have no idea. I just remember chasing them around the office trying to catch them. lol If your wondering how they got in the office I'm not real sure but I'm guessing their momma brought them when the door was open. So anyway, at first I had named them something like Thunder and Lightening because they were so wild. But once we got them back from the vet (got them both fixed and they got their shots) Jill slowly started to mellow out until one day she let me pet her and now she is the biggest love bug I've ever met. :) Her brother soon followed so since they were both such sweeties I renamed them Jack and Jill.

Jill is an excellent mouser, she has even caught a big ole lizard once. If she brings them in the office we, uh well I guess I should say I get my husband to rescue the little critters before she has her way with them. She LOVES canned food and pretty much refuses to eat much dry food..I call her a Fancy Feast Addict. ;) If she is outside when I get to work in the morning she will come running from wherever she's been and starting meowing at me. Sometimes she wants some food and other times she just wants me to sit down so she can get in my lap and get her head rubbed. She's a sweetheart and since I've had her as my assistant not one piece of paper has ever floated to the ceiling...so I guess she's doing her job. ;)

I really don't have too many pictures of her but I do have this one: