Crafts and Life

Breakfast Lunch – veggie sos on a sub roll Dinner – home made pizza Snacks Supper – cheese and crackers Drinks – Water (500 ml) x 1, tea with milk (400 ml) x 3, red wine Weight – 22 st 6.25 lbs Up late with a migraine – the day…

Annie Fisher checks her list of last minute wedding preparations. Food, flowers, dress alterations, and, of course, a wine-filled evening with her mom, aunt, and close friends are all on track for the perfect day. At least, it appears to be heading toward the perfect day. When a not-so-welcome relative…

Fleeing a disastrous love affair, university librarian Amy Webber moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She quickly busies herself with managing a charming public library that requires all her attention with its severe lack of funds and overabundance of eccentric patrons. The last…

Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse—in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valley’s world-renowned grapes and all the town’s businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival,…

Breakfast Lunch – Veggie quarter pounder with new pots and veg Dinner – Veggie curry and rice Snacks – mini cheddars! Supper – cheese sarnie Drinks – water (500 ml) x 1, tea with milk (400 ml) x 1, cider x 7, red wine (eeeps!) Hmm again up at 10.00…

Breakfast Lunch – egg sandwich Dinner – Veggie curry and rice Snacks Supper – cheese sarnie Drinks – Water (500 ml) x 1, Tea with milk (400 ml) x 7 Up just gone 10.00 again (roll on Monday, more to the point Tuesday when the B12 should be working again!),…

It’s always been Mimi Rousseau’s dream to open her own bistro, but it seems beyond her grasp since she’s been chased back home to Nouvelle Vie in Napa Valley by her late husband’s tremendous debt. Until her best friend Jorianne James introduces her to entrepreneur Bryan Baker who invests in…

Annie Fisher can’t believe she’s at her father’s funeral. A freak accident has changed the course of her family’s life forever, but little does she know that a secret from his past is about to make things even more complicated when another body is discovered just after Roy’s funeral. Wanting…

Breakfast Lunch – egg salad Dinner – Pasta and veggie ragu Snacks – cheese sandwich Supper – cheese sandwich Drinks – Water (500 ml) x 1, tea with milk (400 ml) x 6, red wine (oops!) Up later than I would like again, but I am UP and dressed, tablets…

When Sydney Bonner overhears a fellow mah jongg player arguing on the phone with her husband, she realizes the couple’s “perfect marriage” isn’t all it appears to be. A few days later, the husband is found dead, his head bashed in. Fearing she’ll be considered the most likely suspect, the…