Japanese goodies!!!!

I'm sorry for not posting sooner. I've been a bit stressed lately and we had family come down from Michigan last week. They stopped by our house on the way down to Orlando. Let's just say it was alot of people in one house!!

I was very happy this morning when I saw a new comment on my previous post. It was from Yuko!! I had wrote a nice comment on one of her most recent posts to compliment her on her gorgeous work. I love her finishes!!

She told me that she had received her copy of the Christmas Preview issue of JCS in the mail. After reading her comment, I remembered that I finally got the Japanese craft books I bought from eBay in the mail yesterday!! I got Stitch Ideas Volume 3-5 and Cross Stitch for A Princess...at least that's how they were translated on eBay. I have to show everyone a picture of the books :)



(sigh) Despite my best efforts, I ended up buying yet another book yesterday at work. Yes, you must get used to me talking about books in addition to cross stitch on my blog ;)

I recently finished reading Emma by Kaoru Mori. It is a manga (Japanese comics) series that takes place in Victorian England. A maid and gentleman fall in love and have to overcome obstacles in order to be together. It was a sweet series. I love anything to do with England so I read it. The anime that accompanies the manga is very good as well.

Well, I was reading the fifth volume of the series and one of the characters mentioned a book called The Prisoner of Zenda. (sigh) And of course, I looked it up on the computer to see if we had it in the store and luckily we did. So I bought that yesterday. To my credit, I finished Totto-chan today so I can start my new book....and yes, I will get to Jane Eyre. I figured that I read it already so I wanted something new. LOL

I promise I'll have an update of my ornament later this week. Thanks for reading my blog.

Also a special thanks to Yuko for leaving such a nice comment on my blog :) It really made my day!!