Yesterday my partner in crime and I were lip balm, hand lotion, and jarring honey machines! We spent a good chunk of the day yesterday making little gifts out of the honey and wax from our little fuzzy buzzy ladies. I was surprised how good everything turned out, and how nice the lip balm and lotion was. By the time we were pouring the lip balm in the tins or the lotion in the molds, my hands had never felt so soft. We were also pretty darn giddy when we were pouring the honey into the jars. There was something pretty darn exciting about seeing all the hard work finally paying off. Next step we are going to make labels and put little gift baskets together for our friends. I have taken about ten million pictures so I will post them on our Bee Blog and Pinterest page soon. I have been pretty darn bad about getting my pictures together for that. Truth be told I am horrible with my baby basset’s pictures as well. I think I am about 8 years behind.
Courage Resurrected: A Ray Courage Mystery (Ray Courage Private Investigator Series Book 3)
by R. Scott Mackey
Genre: Mystery | Thrillers
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Ray Courage’s wife Pam died thirteen years before in a car accident. Or did she? Ray’s world is turned upside down when he receives a series of e-mails from someone claiming to be his dead wife, accusing him of attempting to kill her and vowing revenge. Ray sets out to find the identity of the e-mailer only to discover the circumstances of his wife’s apparent death appear to be all but accidental. Soon Police Detective Carla Thurber comes to suspect Ray of killing his wife, and of a subsequent murder of Pam’s confidant. Meanwhile, a murderous predator who does not want the facts of Pam’s death to surface aims to stop Ray. In the greatest challenge of his life, Ray must outrun the police and elude those who are out to kill him as he seeks the truth about his wife’s death.
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All the Blue of Heaven (A Colors of Faith Book): Historical Christian Romance
by Mary Jane Hathaway, Virginia Carmichael
Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Romance
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Eight years ago, Allie Hathaway scandalized the wealthy elite of Chicago when she ran away to San Francisco. Now a world-renowned portrait painter, her life is filled with laughter and friendship, including being a mother to her orphaned niece. Life is perfect, so why can’t she forget her first love?
Thomas Bradford has come a long way from being the Hathaway family’s carriage boy. A veterinary degree, ambition and hard work have made him one of Chicago’s most sought-after bachelors. If only he could forget those stolen moments with Allie, Thomas might be able to enjoy his success.
The Great Quake of 1906 stuns the nation and Allie’s art studio burns to the ground, destroying years of valuable work. She’s forced to return to Chicago with little Janey, the only spark of hope in a life reduced to ashes. Her faith is crushed by her tragic reversal of fortune.
Thomas knows better than to fall for the beautiful young painter again, but he’s never been very wise around Allie Hathaway.
The carriage man’s son is all grown up and Allie doesn’t expect a second chance at a love that was refused eight years ago. Her life is in shambles and she has a child to support, so why won’t her heart accept the truth?
Once their love was torn apart by circumstance, but Thomas and Allie must decide whether to forge a future of hope together.
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Convergence: Journey to Nyorfias, Book 1
by Terry Roy
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Action & Adventure
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With her homesystem at a critical turning point in an all-or-nothing battle against alien invaders, a combat-weary platoon leader finds herself merged with an alien lifeforce. Making her condition known to authorities is mandatory. Rett has to learn fast to adapt, coexist, or risk losing everything.
Can Rett and her visitor find a balance, stay alive, and keep their unusual situation a secret?
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TWO RHODE KILLS: An Omnibus, Formerly RHODE KILLS
by Lawrence De Maria
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery
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In SISTER, a nun’s murder in Massachusetts brings two homicide detectives to Alton Rhode’s office. The New York private eye is quickly cleared as a suspect. But he is shocked when he finds out who the victim was before she became a nun. She was his first love – a girl who disappeared mysteriously, leaving him bereft. Plagued by long-suppressed memories, Rhode dedicates himself to finding the killer. The police are stumped. There are no suspects, clues or obvious motive. But then a pattern emerges, which sets Rhode on a cross-country hunt for a probable serial killer. What he eventually discovers stuns him!
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In GUNNER, the brutal murder of a Medal of Honor winner from the Vietnam War, staged as a robbery, has unintended consequences. The killer, a hired assassin, is himself a veteran of more recent American wars. He feels betrayed by the people who hired him to kill a man he reveres as a comrade. The outraged hit man will now use the $20,000 “blood money” he was paid to seek revenge. But there is a problem. When on “assignment,” he uses cutouts and secret accounts, and has no way to find out who ordered the hit. But the remorseful killer knows someone who can. Someone he has trusted with his life in the past. Someone who has a reputation for doing the impossible: Alton Rhode.
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DIY Gifts In Jars: 30 Simple, Delicious, Inexpensive Gifts in Jars Recipes
by Rose Michaels
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine | Crafts, Hobbies & Home
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Design Your Own Beautiful and Delicious Gifts in Jars Creations to Give to Family and Friends on Any Occasion
Finding thoughtful, personalized and beautiful presents for friends and family can be a challenge at times. DIY Gifts In Jars was made to take the constant questions of gift giving out of your holidays and special occasions and fuel you with enjoyment and happiness as you send pretty Mason jars filled with love, chocolate, and sweet snacks out to your friends and relatives.
All 30 recipes in this book are pulsing with wonderful warmth and flavour. Cookie recipe mixes are stacked with beautiful brown sugars, white sugars, spices, and texture-bringing chocolate chips in beautiful, decorated mason jars; snacks are piled high with caramel corns and dried cranberries. Bring breads, muffins, scones, brownies, cakes, and crunchy snacks to friends and family on any occasion. Lend the gift of satisfied bellies, of feelings of comfort and late-night snack-induced sleepiness. Allow this holiday season as well as every approaching birthday be an exciting time for you. You get to bake. You get to decorate. You get to have fun, and you get to make your friends and family happy. What’s more in-the-spirit than that?
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