What are you working on? You haven’t posted anything in a while.” Oh boy. So you remember the Problama? The law of Chateau Andrews state that if one child has gotten something as a parental gift, the other child shall receive an equivalent of the same type. So if one gets a handmade sweater, the
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Crafting Projects
Kinsmen Trivia Quiz
Will you ever write any more in the Kinsman universe? I love those books and read them like reward cookies/ treats at the end of particularly hard days. S I can take this one! I love delivering good news first thing in the morning 🤩. Fated Blades, the new novella in the Kinsmen series, is
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No Probllama
Do you have a probllama? This is my probllama. I haven’t crosstitched in about 20 years, but I saw an article about different reddit boards, and there was a crosstitch reddit. And on it, someone had taken this kit and changed it from No Probllama to 2020 Probllama. I thought it was the funniest thing.
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Funniest BDH Theories – A Selection
Staying with Innkeeper for a brief announcement: 📢Hear ye, hear ye📢. House Andrews have need of a bilingual Korean-English speaking fan of Innkeeper who would be willing to help with a project. Please email me at modr@ilona-andrews.com if you are native/fluent in both. Please list your credentials in the email. Thank you! A while ago
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Innkeeper Chronicles Trivia Quiz
Those who know of the inns and are allowed to keep that knowledge are usually welcome at the inns. For example, Officer Marais will never have to worry about lodging if he is in a city with an inn. Ilona, Innkeeper Questions,part 1 Do you know enough about the inns to be welcome for a
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Music, Covers, and Fainting Fans
State of House Andrews: the copyedits for the Fated Blades novella are finished. It came in at 45,000 words so double the typical novella length. I will post more once we have the cover. Blog prompts, here we go. Do you have a favourite meeting with a reader or reader interaction? Something that marked you
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Help, BDH, Help
Ilona: We could maybe do a series summary graphic for new readers? Me *about to make a mistake*: Leave it to me, I’ll make a mock-up. It will be brilliant! Live footage of my brain trying to describe the series I’ve read roughly Graham’s number worth of times: So I come to you, on this,
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The Kiffness and the Cat
All the Colors
By popular request, here is one of the yarn things I bought. I still need to call and order stuff from the West Coast. I bought this set from Expression Fiber Arts. It’s called Romantic Morning Hues, 50% Merino Wool, 50% Mulberry Silk, “pearlescent fingering,” the total of 2200 yards. Now I have no idea
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It’s Thursday, yay.
I must be still really tired because the novella’s edit just drained me to nothing. I stopped cooking and cleaning. I just edited for like 2 weeks straight and my brain feels like it’s just done. So in an effort to focus on the positives, behold my list of Yays. Novella has gone out to
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I Don’t Need More Yarn
We all have different coping mechanisms. I have found that sometimes they fail and we don’t even realize it. The other day I picked up a knitting project that lay abandoned for several weeks and Gordon said, “I’m so glad you’re knitting again. That’s a thing you do, and you suddenly stopped.” The last time
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