Weekly Reading Round-Up
This week’s big find? Winifred Watson’s 1937 bestseller, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Where has this book been all my life? How had I not read it before? Miss Pettigrew and Flora Poste would have a great deal to discuss…. After that, it was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Making of a Marchioness, which I’d…
Read MoreAnd the Pinkorama winners are….
Everyone! With Pinkoramae like that, how could I not give a prize to each and every one? But if you want to know what the vote tallies were, we had…. Honorable Mentions: Christine’s Vampeep (and pound cake): Nikki’s Love at First Peep: Third Place: Candace and Cassandra’s Napeepleon Meets Miss Gwen: Second Place: Rachel’s Robert’s…
Read MoreThe 2015 Pinkorama Round-Up
2015 is a banner year in the annals of the Pinkorama. We have five beautiful scenes, each unique and crafted with sugary care. And, for the first time, also a recipe! So many thanks to Rachel, Nikki, Christine, Pam, Colleen, Candance, and Cassandra for these Pink peep recreations! I am so in awe of your…
Read MorePinkorama #5: "Napeepleon Meets Miss Gwen"
So many apologies, all! I’d meant to post our fifth and final Pinkorama yesterday, but life (aka toddler) got in the way (and by “in the way”, I mean “demanded the computer”). Here, belatedly, is Candace and Cassandra’s Peep masterpiece, “Napeepleon Meets Miss Gwen”. The creators informed me: “Cassie decided in honor of the 10th…
Read MorePinkorama #4: "A peepingly good time at Farley Castle".
In our latest Pinkorama, by Pam and Colleen, we turn to The Mischief of the Mistletoe for a bit of festive cheer at Farley Castle. Pam and Colleen describe the scene: Starring Jane Austen in maroon, Arabella in brown, Turnip in pink, and Lord Vaughn in black and red with Mary Vaughn in a red…
Read MorePinkorama #3– and a recipe!
For our third Pinkorama, Christine brings you… the Vampeep. As Christine puts it: What if Lucien really was a vampire and Sally stumbled upon his lair aka pound cake coffin? Check out the shock and surprise on Sally’s face! (All drawn with toothpicks and food coloring. Pretty impressive, no?) As an extra special bonus– and…
Read MorePinkorama #2: Love at First Peep
A moonlit garden, an inquisitive debutante, a duke who might be a vampire…. It doesn’t get much more peepmospheric than this. Today, from Nikki, we bring you… “Love at First Peep”, Lucien and Sally’s very first meeting at the opening of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla. Here’s the description from Nikki: A glimpse into…
Read MorePinkorama #1: Robert's Peeposal
From Rachel, I bring you… Robert’s Peeposal to Charlotte at the end of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine! To quote the creator of the scene: Robert and Charlotte are happy and engaged… and being secretly blessed by a spying unicorn 😉 A trail of tarts leads Charlotte to Robert… … as the swan swims…
Read MorePinkoramae!
We have Pinkoramae! There are five wonderful Peep creations this year, courtesy of Rachel, Nikki, Christine, Pam & Colleen, and Candace & Cassandra. I’ll be unveiling them one a day, in the order in which I received them, with the first one appearing later today and a round-up of all of them next Monday. Let…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I really should be writing a short story right now. (More on that later.) But I couldn’t resist celebrating turning in the final Pink book with a little binge of leisure reading. Among others: — M.J. Rose’s The Witch of Painted Sorrows, an incredibly compelling novel of family secrets, dangerous passions, and witchcraft set in…
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