Welcome to Litsy!

🌧️ The smell of the air right before it rains
🐾 Warm, short-haired dogs. It‘s a thing!
🥖 Fresh baked bread

#TLT @dabbe

@THill

#bestof2021swap @Amiable @candority All packed up and will be shipping out this week.

These are (just) a few of my favorite things…

❄️ Winter
🔥 Fireplaces
🧦 Stockings
🫖☕️ Warm beverages
📚 Tsundoku
📖 #BookoftheMonth picking day!! #BOTM
💰 Free books!

Some things that I found comfort in this year were
my cats, knitting, crocheting, painting, movies, Reese‘s peanut butter cups, drinking lots of London Fogs, and popcorn for dinner.

I ❤️ book sleeves, bookmarks, magnets, socks, whole bean non-flavored coffee, earl grey tea, pop rocks, chocolate covered cashews, whiskey, pocky, and milk chocolate.
#Bestof2020Swap

My favorite colors are cobalt blue, teal, and aqua.

I‘ve signed up for the #Bestof2020 swap! See @candority ‘s post for the deets.

🎼 These Are a few of my favorite (Christmas) things 🎶:
A card & a book I‘ve been wanting (thank you, Eadie) +
A Christmas card from Helen & Robin +
Mary Berry! (I just couldn‘t resist—I love her!)

*Thank you very much to all of you lovely Littens for the way you are so lovely to me . . . and to each other.
Happy Boxing Day, dear Eadie, Helen, & Robin!! Thank you SOOO much for thinking of me!! ♥️♥️♥️

#wintergames #TeamFestivus

Okay team! All you have to do is comment on my post with your fave things. 2pts per comment! I‘ll kick it off.

@i-am-papercrane @Addison_Reads @Ads0123 @ChasingOm @EliNeedsMoreShelves @Teebe @Samanthagutt @Chaoticgoodhufflepuff @Readage @Chrissyreadit @LouBeth @Kdgordon88 @MaleficentBookDragon

And what‘s the third thing? 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor

#Whatyoulove, this one is hard because there‘s SO many things I could pick. So I decided on this pic from this past Christmas because it has some of the 3 things I love most: wine 🍷 Rose 🐶 and faux fur vests 💁‍♀️ lol jkjk the third thing is Andrew of course 😉

#SelfImprovementSept

#hpbhaul

My nephew is a talented genius 😉. Not only did he make me this beautiful bag, he made it just the right size - enough for me to pick up a few books, but not enough for me to do too much damage 😏 It‘s like he knows me or something.

Favorite holiday books gingerbread house

#adventrecommends - a fun countdown to Christmas - 24 of your favorite books (any genre) leading up to the holidays. This is a great challenge because we all need more book recommendations! Hosted by @emilyrose_x

🐼Pandas and dogs (Great Danes)
🥛Water and Ginger Ale
🎼Way too many to list! Right now anything by Christian Kane or Neil Jackson
📖Reading, playing with my dog, crafting (loom knitting, diamond painting), watching movies, etc.
📚Harry Potter, The Selection, and The Gallagher Girls
🍫Chocolate
🕯Baking type scents, especially vanilla
👑Scarves, jewelry
🗝Clue, word games and card games

#favorites #stuffedstockingswap

1. Periwinkle, yellow, emerald green, other blues
2. Mystery, Fantasy, sci fi fantasy, and more
3. Black Panthers, all dogs
4. Besides books; keychains, bracelets, kpop albums, notebooks, funkos
5. Sweedish fish, red licorice, peanut butter cups, dark chocolate
6. Pretzels or sour cream and onion chips
7. Coffee or hot chocolate
#favoritethings #alittleaboutme

1. pink & turquoise
2. classics, ya fiction
3. unicorns, giraffes, sloths
4. books! 😂
5. peanut m&m's
6. pringles, jalapeno cheetos
7. Coffee and tea
#myfavoritethings

@JoScho always with the brilliant ideas 💡 a few faves to get to know each other and help with any upcoming swaps!
1. Heather purple/sage green
2. Fantasy, magical realism, sci fi...
3. Oh, I like most of them! I‘m a sucker for a cue otter though... same with 🦊 foxes
4. Bookish pins ☺️
5. Anything milk chocolate 🍫
6. Kettle chips and pea crisps
7. Yes. 😋

1. Bright pink, leopard print and black
2. Anything twisty and murdery; also like southern fiction and funny non fiction
3. I have a dog and a cat but like elephants too
4. I am the anti-hoarder. I have candles though.
5. Chocolate bars of all kinds (milk), caramel type things
6. Chips and salsa, Cheeto puffs, chips and dip, Whisps (find them at Publix)
7. I drink Unsweet tea and sometimes a latte

(1) Yellow and lavender purple
(2) Fantasy
(3) Cats 😻
(4) Collecting books, used to collect lip balms
(5) Chocolate chip cookie
(6) Blue corn tortilla chips
(7) Coffee in the morning, tea at all other times, hot chocolate on a cold day

💖pink, all shades 💝
💜 Kristin Hannah- she's her own genre 🌟
💛 puppies 🐶
💙 Eggs, of course 🥚
💚 ice cream 🍦
❤️ kettle corn 🌽
🖤 coffee ☕️

♳ green, light, dark, neon, electric...
♴ historical fiction
♵ sloths!!!
♶ flattened pennies, Santas
♷ brownies
♸ cheddar sour cream chips
♹ black tea

1. Cosmos by Carl Sagan, read by LeVar Burton
2. Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders
3. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
4. Martha Wells

#litsyquestions @GypsyKat

Not sure if this is a trending tag or not, but I'll decide to join in on the fun. Thanks for posting this @BookishGirl06 ! I'll call it #myfavoritethings

📚My Books
🎵Space Enough to Grow by Of Mice & Men
🏬Best Buy
🎽Kohl's
🍏Green
Cinnamon
🍽️Chicken Pot Pie
🏣CopperTop
🌯Subway
🌻Spring
🌜Night
❄️December
🎄Christmas

1. Agatha Christie, Jane Austen (including fan fiction) & any classic novel that looks pretty
2. Dear Mr Knightley, The Art Of Travel & The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
3. Zebra cakes
4. Bookmarks
5. Travel, blog, watch sports & theater
6. Ice cream
7. Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia & Myanmar)
8. Old movies, Murder She Write, Gilmore Girls & Veronica Mars
9. Frank Sinatra
10. @GirlInterruptedReading
#myfavoritethings
@TricksyTails

Attention, #wintersolsticebookexchange and #secretsantagoespostal match!
1. Jhumpa Lahiri, Khalid Housseini, Celeste Ng
2. It changes daily
3. Popcorn and wine
4. Totes and clutches and pouches
5. Cross stitch, roller derby, ballet, baking
6. Mac and cheese, Thai curry, and spaghetti with meat sauce
7. Morocco, South Africa, and Chile
8. West world, Master of None, Jane the Virgin
9. Batgirl (I LOVE bats, and she‘s a librarian), Dorothy Gale

1. Koontz, Rollins, Crouch, Preston & Child
2. Demon Crown, Stalking Jack the Ripper, Paperbacks from Hell
3. Reese‘s PB Cups
4. Bookmarks & magnets
5. Crochet, Photography, Camping/hiking, baking
6. Mashed potatoes, cake
7. Iceland, Russia, Every US National Park
8. Clue, Parks & Rec, Supernatural, Scream Queens, Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful
9. Maleficent, Evil Queen, Cheshire Cat, Harley Quinn, Chloe Secret Life of Pets #myfavoritethings

#myfavoritethings

1. Margaret Atwood, JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Gregory Macguire
2. All of them 😍
3. Hot Chocolate, s‘Mores, Boston Coolers, truffles
4. Tshirts (XL or XXL), socks, gloves, pins..everything
5. Hiking, going to museums
6. Lasagna
7. New Zealand, India, Ireland, Britain, Scotland, China, Japan
8. Buffy, Big Bang, Handmaid‘s Tale, HP, LOTR
9. Hermione, Luna, Buffy, Tinkerbell, Maleficent
10. @MaleficentBookDragon @aroc @JazzFeathers

#allaboutme2017
☕️Hot Chocolat with Cinnamon ,👣Fuzzy Socks,🕯Vanilla,Cinnamon or Jasmine, 🍬Hot Tamales and Cordial cherry, Enamel Pins and rubber duckies.
#giftswapsurvey
🖍Red, Disney, cactus/Arizona, ,📖The Fifth Season,Fantasy,🤚🏾I‘m left handed, goodreads.com/aCleverDuck
#giftideasthisorthat
Both,Series,Hot Chocolate,Candle,Neutral,Blanket, Yes to All Funko Figures😍
#ssgpthisorthat
Sweet, both, both,Cold,both,anything with coconut😖

@robinb tagged me to post (a few of) my favorite things...so here are some of my choices!

1. Next to impossible to choose, but a recent favorite is of course Ilona Andrews Hidden Legacy series
2. Adaptations like Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds or the North and South (Gaskell) or Pride and Prejudice mini-series
3.???😀
4. Something with chocolate
5. I don't really have one...

@Lizpixie tagged me in #topfivefaves :

1. 📚series: Cormoran Strike series (for now)
2. 🎬: Lord of the Rings trilogy / Billy Elliot
3. Colour: Shades of red to perk me up, shades of gray to calm me down (only 5 shades, not 50)
4. Matcha ice cream/ dark chocolate!
5. Gerbera (among few others).

I'm tagging 7 others if you feel like joining and if you haven't already been tagged (why 7? Because it's my favourite number!).

I was tagged by @Robothugs #TopFiveFavs

1. Series: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
2. Movie: The Breakfast Club
3. Color: Hot Pink
4. Dessert: chocolate melting cake
5. Flower: anything I can't kill so probably wild flowers lol

I tag @EchoLogical @Avanders @Bostonmomx2 @Annl @Seekingtardis

Hope those aren't duplicate tags. My internet connection is still super slow. Trying to catch up still on comments etc too

A glamorous picture this is not BUT this is where I store all my bookmarks & here is my Maui bookmark & this is the Dunkin Donuts iced coffee my husband & I split this morning 😍 not pictured: my favorite little baby napping at 9:20 am since he was up WAYYYYY earlier than he should've been. #babylogic #favorites #debsstack Happy Litsyversary @DebinHawaii (she's doing a giveaway for a gorgeous stack of books, if you haven't seen, go check it out!)

#AsideFromReading

hobby: creative writing (of my historical pirate adventure romance novel)
drink: water
food: ham
color: blue (and pink)
Fav city: Charleston, South Carolina (I could feel the history and it's a pirate town)
accessory: earrings and rings
TV show: PBS Masterpiece Classics/Mysteries
Last movie in theaters: POTC Dead Men Tell No Tales (saw it for the third time yesterday)
Currently reading: POTC The Price of Freedom