Above freezing and more Snow Queen freebie

Yes, it is now 37 degrees and most of yesterday's snow (only a couple inches) has melted. Just finished paying bills and have a ton of laundry waiting to be caught up. Have been reading a lot the last couple days. About one third or more into Dan Brown's Origin and have also read several e-books on Kindle. The thing about e-books is that many are self published and the quality is all over the place. Sometimes the description leads you to expect one thing and what you actually get is something else. Some present themselves as factual when in fact they are ill informed. Others have a good story idea but are poorly written and more poorly edited, if at all. I can see why a number of well respected authors have been reluctant to have their fiction and non-fiction made into digital formats. Still, e-books offered for free or at low prices can be entertaining. My preference is still books in the old fashioned paper format. And speaking of books, I recently came across an article by the American Library Association about banned books. Bibliophile that I am, I had to do a copy paste of the list to see how many I've read and/or at least know about. Didn't find any that I wasn't aware of and marked with * all I've read. The primary reasons the books ended up on this list include profanity, sexual situations, racial issues, and religious issues. Of course, social mores change over time so what was prohibited reading at one time may be acceptable at another. Aren't you curious to see how many of these you've read?

Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

* The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
*The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
*To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
*The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Ulysses, James Joyce
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1984, George Orwell
*Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
*The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
*As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
*A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
*Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
*Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
*Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
*Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, Richard Wright
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
*For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
*The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
*The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
*Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
*Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
*A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
*Women in Love, DH Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
*Rabbit, Run, John Updike
*Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Getting away from discussion of books, today's Snow Queen freebie is a set of geometric templates based on quilt blocks. I choose these because they reminded me of windows and in freezing weather we spend a lot of time indoors looking out. You have already seen one of these templates made into one of yesterday's quickpages. For the other I made up an example page using nothing but kit papers where you will probably use one or more photos.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8np978lp0lf3csz/ws_SnowQueen_11.zip?dl=0

Want you to know I really appreciate all the positive comments you have made about this kit. Happy to know you are enjoying it.