Lots of Books and Vegetables

There were lots of books in the mail for me today!
There were two books that I ordered with a gift card I got as a late birthday present. One book that I won in a giveaway by Suzanne Johnson, and Beanie sent me the third Darren Shan book.

Thanks everyone!


Now for an update on my vegetables::


The coriander is ready to be part of tonight's meal.


The dill got a bigger pot, so it has some more room to grow.


The radish, cherry tomatoes, and carrots also got a bigger (and deeper) pot to give them room to grow.


My glass garden looks a bit empty now.
Time to plant some new vegetables!

High Tea, Books, and Other Awesome Things

Today Aurian and Freya paid me and my owner a visit for our birthday!

They brought lots of books and goodies, but more about that later.

We spent a couple of hours chatting, before we went to 't Feithhuis, a restaurant in the center of Groningen.
('t Feithhuis means the Feith House. Feith being the name of a family that used to own the building the restaurant is in.)


We were going to be served a High Tea.
I got Mango tea.


And we got all these yummy snacks!


Especially the scones, muffin and quiches looked very tasty!

We had a great time tasting all those delicious snacks, and we talked some more about books, and other fun things. It was a really great afternoon.


Here's a picture of the front of the restaurant


It's right across the street from the Martini church and Martini tower.


At the end of the afternoon Aurian and Freya had to travel back to Utrecht.

I got busy with drooling over all the books and goodies:


Look at all the books I added to my collection!


We also got cider and rum from Aurian and Freya.
Yum, yum.


Aurian got us magnets, and signed bookplates and postcards from the Katherine "Kitty" Katt series by Gini Koch. It's one of our favorite series, so we're very happy with this cool present.

And last, but certainly not least:

We got a picture that Suzanne Johnson made especially for me and my owner! She sent it to Aurian, so Aurian could surprise me.
You can't see it in this picture, but on the hat it says: Sullivan McPig Rocks. Isn't that cool?! I'm very happy with it!

So all in all we had an awesome day and got lots of cool books and presents!

Thanks Aurian, Freya and Suzanne!

Awesome Mail Day

There will be two more posts with pictures we took on our forest walk, but I had to show you all the cool mail I got today!


First there was a book for Voodoo Bride.
I won it for her at the blog of Suzanne Johnson.

Thanks Suzanne!


Next there was mail from Danielle L. Jensen.
Stolen Songbird sounds like an awesome read, so I asked my owner to preorder it. And Danielle sent us a bookmark, a signed bookplate and a beautiful postcard with the book cover as a 'thank you' for preordering.


She even wrote a message for me at the back of the postcard.

Thanks Danielle!
I'll be putting that post card on my notice board.


And last, but certainly not least, two packages got delivered!


The first contained an uncorrected proof of Silver Mirrors by A.A. Aguirre.
I loved the first book in this series, so I'm very happy to have the chance to read Silver Mirrors early.

Thanks Ann!


The second package seems to have made the mailmen curious. They had torn it open a bit to see what was inside.


And how jealous they probably are!
It's an Advance Reader Copy of The Mark of the Tala by Jeffe Kennedy.
Jeffe also included a cover flat and cards of some of her other books.


There's something really cool about this book (apart from it being a really beautiful story of course).


Do you see it?

Thanks Jeffe.
You rock!