Project for Pet Lovers! - Project for Awesome 2012

Crawling out from under the blog pile to bring my p4a video!

The Project for Awesome is an annual event that sprung out of various YouTube communities to support charities and other ways of decreasing the overall worldwide level of suck. More: http://www.projectforawesome.com/

Denver Post Article:

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_22154584

Facts about Pet Overpopulation in the U.S.:

http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.aspx

Find Free or Reduced Spays/Neuters in the US:

http://www.spayusa.org/

http://www.lovethatcat.com/spayneuter.html#states

Find-Trap-Return Program:

http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=889

Outside the US:

{coming soon}

Yarn Crawl Haul: The Blog

This is a blog post to compliment the following video.

Please watch it if you have the time or want.

Okay so

The Breakdown.

• Chunky Mochi ~ Crystal Palace Yarns

 Roughly $9 at Table Rock Llamas Fiber Arts Studio, Inc.

for more info: TableRockLlamas.com

• Maxima ~ Manos del Uruguay

 

Roughly $13 at Stash

for more info: FYStash.com

• Rialto ~ Debbie Bliss

Roughly $8 at Needleworks

for more info: HollyBerryHouse.com

• Encore ~ Plymouth Yarn

Roughly $8 at Green Valley Weavers & Knitters

for more info: GreenValleyWeavers.com

• Comfort ~ Berroco

Roughly $7 at Colorful Yarns

for more info: ColorfulYarns.com

• Canadiana ~ Patons

Roughly $11 for both at A Knitted Peace

for more info: AKnittedPeace.com

• 220 Superwash ~ Cascade Yarns

Roughly $12 at Fancy Tiger Crafts

for more info: FancyTigerCrafts.com

**Also mentioned: Knitty Cat in Centennial, CO.

&& of course leave any questions you have for me in the comments!

Photos collages by.

On Set with a Photobomber

Remember that time when I said I was going to be posting regularly again?

...

 Raise your hand if you weren't holding your breath.

*waits for all the hands to raise*

Well I have about 2 seconds this morning and want to interrupt my slacker blogger-ness.

My friend, Jayde, is a much better blogger than I am and

 she just fangirl'd a blog up about pics of Finnick on the Catching Fire set.

If this sounds like something you'd like, I encourage you to go read it.

No, I am not going to talk about my Finnick feelings but I do want to leave you with this:

Okay first off, Sam looks GINORMOUS with this perspective...

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, LOOK AT THAT PHOTOBOMB!

Hand posed on hip and everything. 

Only pure FABULOUS-NESS could distract from the intended content!

Catching Fire, film, Finnick O'Dair, funny, gifs, Josh Hutcherson, May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favour, Mockingjay.net, movie, Peeta Mellark, Sam Claflin, set photos, The Hunger Games

I'M NOT DEAD! PROMISE!

EEP!

       So my last blog post was back in June! #oops.

Well, I am here to tell you now, I'm NOT dead!

&& I'll be back to normal blogging this week.

My summer was so busy, yo!

Between the new job at 40hrs and the summer holiday of AWESOME,

this blog just fell to the back burner.

But don't worry,

I'll try to catch ya'll up!

How has your summer been?!

☮, ♡ &  

  

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Kate's Book Club: Summer Reading Program

So May lead to me only reading 3 books.

THE WHOLE MONTH!
Terrible, right?

I know!!

SO

Since I have all this extra time on my hands

I have decided that I am going to do
Kate's Book Club Summer Reading Program!

When the book titles below are bigger and blue I have read them...

1. One Book Recommended By A Friend.

Paper Towns by John Green

Actually I have to read this one within the next 12 days because I promised

my fellow Awkardnauts that I'd read it before I went on holiday to meet them

them in person since I am the only one of us who hasn't read this book

as well as this is the only John Green book I haven't read!

2. One Book That Has Been Sitting On Your Shelf For Over A Year.

Hereafter by Tara Hudson

I bought this book in hardback about a year ago when Borders was going out of business.

*wipes tear away* I heard about it from the Siren and was very interested and then I

updated my library card so it has been waiting patiently on my shelf ever since!

3. One Book You Read A Long Time Ago And Don't Remember. 

Harry Potter 3-7...
Okay before you light the torches and grab pitchforks, please remember that I

decided to to a re-read in 2012because I hadn't read any of the HP since their original

release date and currently I remember the movies better.

4. One Book From Your To Be Read List.

Jennifer's Body by Diablo Cody

A few people have told me that the book is better than the movie.

I also have never seen the movie but I've always figured, why not? 

5. One Book You've Never Heard Of.
 

Killing Kiss by Sam Stone

I actually own this and it is a personalized signed copy because I met the author at a con.

She was English and lovely and is the partner of a writer of Doctor Who canon episodes.

Naturally I bought it from her.

6. One Classic.
 

 Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

I love that so many classics are available on Kindle for free and I can read

them on my iTouch.I might read this on the beach while on holiday because well my

 other beach bookmay not make it to my house from the Book Depo before I leave!

7. One Book You Started But Never Finished. 
 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

This is one of the books that probably every high school in America has read.

Except for me.

But I did recently by the latest movie adaptation and I'll be very okay with

reading Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender in my head as Mr. Rochester.

Very okay.

8. One New Release.
 

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

This book has been on the "can't wait to read" lists of a few book bloggers I follow

and I recently got approved to review it on Netgalley so I am pretty excited!

9. One Book That Is Outside of Your Typical Genre.

 

Music From Beyond The Moon by Augusta Trobaugh 

I read a lot of YA but usually those book break down in to the subcategories of 

dystopian, fantasy and sci-fi.. Music is not any of those and is set in 1920’s Florida.

10. One Chunkster (A Book That Is Over 400 Pages)

The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross

 Okay, this one is mildly cheating as it is the book I am reading right now

via Netgalley BUT it is 416 pages even as an ebook!

 

Yes. Yes, this basically goes hand in hand with my challenge to read 101 books this year BUT I figured this would help me focus over the summer so I don't fall farther behind.

For example. right now I am 9 books behind according to Goodreads and I am 3 Harry Potter books behind according to it being June!

C'est la vie!

If you want to also follow Kate as she reads her summer away,

you can find her blog post that inspired this one here.

{photo credit for this post}

book jackets via goodreads, gif via tumblr search "mr rochester"

Book Recap: May 2012

Here is a recap of all the books I read this month!

(as promised)

Click the covers to open their Goodreads page.

2 May	14 May	16 May

 Dates listed are dates finished.

•   Pandemonium :: Lauren Oliver
• All I could think after reading was "what's next?! What comes next!?"

• Angel Fire  ::L.A. Weatherly
• Well I gotta say this book could have been about 100 pages shorter according to my attention span. A lot of it felt repetitive--maybe because you get the POV from so many characters so you as the reader are hyper-aware of what is going down with everyone.
  I did like it. I did. But overall I would recommend borrowing this one. I will not need to read it again.

• Purity :: Jackson Pearce
  
• I like Jackson because she throws so much at you at once that seems like it should work and not only does it work but she makes it fun.
  That being said, I think I'd enjoy this book no matter what because of Jackson's writing style. The book itself starts out a little slow and with it being on the shorter side (just over 200pgs) I felt a little wary about that. Our girl, Shelby, ends up with the boy you peg her to end up with at the very start but what is most important for me to state is even though this book is about sex it is not about teen romance. I won't say too much more because I think that reading this book with little preconceived-knowledge is better.
  I did like it over all. I'd say this is a borrow book even though I bought it... Hey, I adore the author, okay?!

I started a new job this month and it. is. killing. me.

Srsly. I only read 3 books this month! WTF

I miss reading so much.

Hopefully the new month will bring a better balance to my schedule.

 && Harry Potter

I am so behind.
So behind.

What books have you read this month?

Please feel free to leave recs in the comments!

♡
{read all book re-caps from 2012}

My brand of crazy.

In less than 6 weeks I am going on a 3 week holiday.

YA'LL I AM SO EXCITED!!!

So excited!

Except it is going to kill me.

Kona has been cuddled up next to me in bed
 the whole time I have been editing and writing this post.
MY HOLIDAY IS GOING TO KILL ME.
I am going to miss her so much!!






All the pics in this post where played with on this website.