Winter Reads Week 3!

Yes I forgot last weeks post since I was on vacation. Topcho remembered and posted in my original Winter Reads post! Good going! The library just posted they are doing theirs. At least I give a little longer to read 6 books! I forgot about the sign up until I was walking out of the library but they have the forms to print off this year. For Winter Reads instead of doing a list they have you write a review of the book you read. Since it's only for adults and teens over 14 it's not so hard. I guess they figure all the other kids are reading a bazillion books in school for reading programs they don't do a kids thing. I did get a book mark started while on the way home. I bought a piece of fabric for $1 since it was cheeper than the predone bookmark and I could stitch more. Of course the one I cut out was too small! I had to stop and start on the edge to get it in the right spot and then I'll cut it out and finish up the edges. Also pictured, is the book I checked out and my new orts container that I got for Christmas. My friend S made it for me. She kept seeing the Eeyore at the store and wanted to get it for me but didn't want to just give it to me as it was so she took some fabric and edging and glued him to the top. Its adorable! I guess if I fill it up I can dump them into the RRTM (Rectangular Rainbow Tribble Maker). I still haven't hit up last years Rainbow Tribble with spray adhesive and I need to do research on what Jim Kirk's sons name.

So what has everyone else read? How many books are you up to? Anything you started 2 Wednesdays ago counts, I take ebooks, audio and children's books you've read to your kids for bed time too ;) What is everyone crafting? We went out today and I spent $51 and some change on a new needlework project that I had gotten the pattern for at Christmas. That's not counting the bit of floss and pearl cottons I had managed to get at Michaels and a few other stores. So I'll be working on that, the book mark and I need to get some scrapping in.

Where George and Jim sit

George and Jim sit under my computer monitor with whatever other stuff wedged in like Oliver and Sinclair Chocolate, a fishy and shell turtle from friend who went to FL, Myrtle the turtle getting crushed by hubs' Valentine's card, some necklaces, a number for a dairy?, the book I was keeping track of my WIPocolaypse in, etc.

 The TUSAL's didn't get named until the start of Jan 2011.  I had been using a glass bowl from my wedding when I started TUSAL  in 2009.  At the start of Jan 2010 when I was trying to figure out what to do with the orts, my ferret Pratchett decided for me.  He finally got onto the couch and the end table where I had left it and knocked it over. :p  Bad Ferret!  So I dug through my stuff for something durable.

My next TUSAL container was this, it was meant to hold playing cards.  I had Monty Python Holy Grail game cards but as I was the only person with time, out they went and in went orts.  When I dumped the orts into a mug in Jan 2011 to start over they stayed clumped together in the shape of the container.  I immediatly got that Loony Tunes feeling when that loveable big off would find a wee little creature and say he was going to love them and squeeze them and hold them and call them George.  So George was named. 
After I set George on my computer desk I decided he looked like a Rectangular Rainbow Tribble (RRT).  I then remembered watching the new Star Trek movie and James T. Kirk's father was named George and his Grandfather was Tiberius.  So the RRT got named George, the old one got posthumously named Tiberius and the new RRT became Jim. 
I do not have a name for the ornament beyond TUSAL 2012.
Sadly I've only caught bits of the Star Trek episdoes.  I plan on stitching something appopriate and watching all TOS sometime on Netflix.
As of yet the RRT's have yet to be hit with spray adhesive but moving them to be photographed caught some bits coming off so they will need to be.

TUSAL 2011

My TUSAL from 2010


I don't have another container so I tried dumping this out and was kinda surprised that it kept it's shape so well. Kinda like a cheese mold or something.


I love it and it's sitting under my computer monitor. It's kinda like a rectangular tribble.

Tomorrow I will do my first stitching of the New Year so next months TUSAL will have some new rectangular tribble beginnings.