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Dress progress and my #littenkitten Willow trying to eat the stitch markers!

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Sad but ultimately hopeful book of poems about one of the many dark parts of United States history. File it under “stories the Right doesn‘t want your kids to know.”

Edited to add the photo. 😑

Book 19 of Elm Creek Quilts series. Setting is California wine country in early 1900s. Rosa is married to an abusive husband but is in love with Lars who is related to Henry and Elizabeth Jorgensen. Elizabeth is an older cousin of Sylvia who settled in California . Fascinating story amid the years of Prohibition.

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Sylvia, who grew up in and owned Elm Creek Manor, and who was a dear, devoted soul, passes on.
A lot of ground is covered in this book 18 of the series: Sarah and Matt‘s twins are born, Sylvia connects with her long lost cousins, and the twins receive a final gift from Sylvia

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MC Rosa is a devoted mother.

My job WAS teacher and guidance counselor-my job now is to mother my children and love my grandchildren❤️

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Book 11 of the Elm Creek Quilts series. Love the colors in this design! Sylvia and Andrew visit Andrew‘s daughter who does not agree with her dad marrying Sylvia. Sylvia breaks the ice by presenting the recalcitrant Amy with a New Years Quilt.

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Book 10 of the Elm Creek Quilters series. This one travels back to 1920s when Elizabeth Bergstrom of Elm Creek Manor in Pennsylvania and her husband Henry ride by train to CA to claim their ranch. But they don‘t own the ranch at all; they were swindled and all their $ is gone…

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Book 3 of the Elm Creek Quilters series. Five women from across the US gather at Julia‘s Elm Creek Manor to participate in quilting camp. A quilting group is so much more than fabric, thread and designs - the fellowship and collaboration has a healing effect - some become friends for life 🧡

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Why do I keep picking sad Christmas books this month? It's part of the Elm Creek quilt series. However, I had no trouble reading it as a standalone.

Finished my last 2023 read early this afternoon (The Rose Code by Kate Quinn) and this was my final count for the year.

I don‘t know if I will set a book goal for 2024.