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Cozy Summer Reading Vlog | sewing, gardening, and taking things slow
Hello everyone! In this video, Amelia is away on vacation, so this week I am going it alone 🙂 I only end up reading one book in this vlog, but I had a lovely time in nature and in preparing some gifts for Amelia’s birthday. I hope you enjoy this video, and I’d love to hear about what you were up to this week! Thanks for watching! – Mattie Grace
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My Summer Writing Goals (and How You Could Set Some Too)
Hi, everyone! This is Amelia today. With school pretty much over and summer on its way, I thought I would talk a little bit about my writing goals for the summer and how I plan to achieve them. I also wanted to talk about how, even if you’re not a writer, you can set some goals too! My Writing Goals My Current WIP I’m over 90,000 words into my first draft of “Project Airship” as I’ve been calling it for a while now. My word count estimate for this novel was 100,000 words originally, but I feel like it’ll probably be closer to 120,000. My goal for this project over…
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A Few Things We Enjoyed This Summer
Hello, everyone! We wanted to share a few things we’ve been enjoying in the last few months. We hope you enjoy! 📖 Books 📖 Mattie The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read The Sword in the Stone back in July, and mentioned it in our July TBR video. As I said in that video, this was my first dive into the world of King Arthur, and I’m so glad I started with this book! Throughout the book, we follow the Wart’s adventures and lessons as he grows up under the tutelage of Merlyn. This book is definitely not your typical medieval Arthurian legend. It isn’t stiff,…
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Drying Our Own Tea Leaves! ☕🌸🌿
This summer we decided to try making our own homemade tea! Though it didn’t turn out quite like we hoped, we still had fun and learned a lot! We hope you enjoy watching our attempt at making some bee balm tea! Thanks for watching!– Mattie Grace and Amelia
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4 Historical Fiction Books We Recommend for this Summer📚
Hey, everyone! Today we’re going to be recommending a few Historical Fiction books that we really enjoy and think that others will too. We found that we really enjoy Historical Fiction books, so we thought we would share some that we really like that we haven’t talked about on our blog yet! Mattie’s books: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson Reverend John Ames’ life is coming to an end. The old reverend writes one long letter to his seven-year-old son to be read when he grows up, to tell his son what he won’t be there to teach him. Set in the 1950s, John Ames takes us through his life and his…
