Almost time to stuff ourselves with the turkey, get fat, and then fall asleep for 12 hours (oh, well I think I already did the 12 hours sleeping part 🙂 )
But it seems as if Merlin has eaten the turkey. I was wondering why a piece of it was missing.
As you may have noticed, I have already changed my blog background to fit the Christmas spirit. Yes, it is the beginning of November and I am one of those annoying people who goes around singing Christmas carols, and has already started listening to Christmas songs on their iPod. I have even started the Christmas gift list, and am already contemplating what decorations I am going to use this Christmas.
So I thought to fit my Christmas spirit, I would change the blogs background.
Hope you are as excited for Christmas or that break at the end of December as I am. 🙂
Are there any book bloggers out there who want to join in the Holiday Gift Swap? You better head over to the Holiday Gift Swap blog to sign up because the deadline is November 11. Click here to sign up.
This is a great things to do for bloggers. You get given a blogger to get some things for. The blogger who you are sending the gifts to is not the person who will be sending you your gifts so you do not know where your gifts are coming from. This is essentially Secret Santa for book bloggers.
I hope that you join in with the fun and you never know, you may be my secret santa. 🙂
I know that it is almost Saturday, or late in the day on Friday for many people, but I just thought to share this game with you guys for my FunDay Friday!!!
This is called Bowling Cats (don’t worry, no cats were harmed in the making of this game.) What you do is bowl and this game can keep you entertained for a little while.
My mom showed me this game like 4 years ago and I just remembered it. Hope that you enjoy it.
Click here to play the game.
Or if it does not work the link is…
http://www.brandextract.com/catbowling/
This is such an amazing book. It is, admittedly, a picture book. Not something that a Young Adult’s would read, but I have to say this is a very good book. The story is very cute and there are also some really good illustrations as you can see.
I was curious how the pictures were drawn or created because they are so good, so I looked in the back of the book. It said, “The illustrations that appear in this book were rendered using Lamp Black and Titanium White Holbein Acryla Gouache and Berol Prismacolo Pencil on Strathmore 5-Ply, Plate Bristol board and reproduced in silver and black duotone. The “ghosts” were created in graphite and then added as a transparent layer using Adobe Photoshop.” To sum it all up into a few simple words, a lot of it was drawn by hand, but some of it was “enhanced” with Adobe Photoshop. When I say “enhanced” I mean the edges were rounded and the pictures were softened and there was a glow added. But overall this book was hand drawn. A very impressive work of art, if you would call it that. This story was based around the poem and became its own little masterpiece.
This book is not for younger children because they might find the spider scary or the story a little frightening. I have always loved it because I like the pictures. They are really good and they are just so much fun to look at. There are little things hidden all over the place. Not a treasure hunt, but the ghosts and the butterfly are on almost every page. I would definitely check this book out because it is really cute and a great Halloween read.
