Know me, know my books - part 1

I am the first to admit that I keep the amount of personal information on this blog fairly minimal.  I started it out as strictly a crafting blog, but I have come to realise that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't talk about your life and the folks and events that make it special.  Some of the blogs I love to read the most have perfected the balance between crafting fun and personal stories - I have been moved to tears by stories I have read, equally moved with joy by other stories, and of course endlessly inspired by the creativity out there.  Now I have been writing here for over a year I think I feel comfortable to relax a bit and talk more about me (hey, I'm a Cancarian, tough outer shell and all that...)

I have finished my book art project and seeing as I selected book titles that were relevant to our lives and/or meant something to me I thought I would share them with you.  Maybe you like some of these too!  So without further ado, here are the titles that are contained in the first frame.

• Sailing - my husband loves to sail, and he nearly sailed out of my life not long after I met him, lucky he came back.
• The Catcher in the Rye - one of my husbands favourite books
• Modern Architecture - one of us is an architect
• Our Man in Havana - I love spy novels, and we would love to travel to Cuba one day (obviously not as spies though)
• Creativity in Industry - I love the cover art of the squiggly smoke stacks
• The Penguin Knitting Book - in homage to my crafty ways
• The Big Sleep - we both love Raymond Chandler novels, and I am a champion sleeper
• New Biology - one of us is a biologist/science teacher
• The Body in the Library - you can't go past a good Agatha Christie mystery
• Tender is the Night - this book has a nice title, which is why I chose it, but I think the novel itself by F. Scott Fitzgerald is fairly bleak.
• Thinking to Some Purpose - way too much thinking is done around this house, sometimes I wish I could turn my brain down a notch
• As You Like It - a good old Shakespeare play - we are lucky to have a life pretty much "as we like it"

Stay tuned, there is one more frame to show you.