Illuminae Printables

Because this book had so many great quotes and such amazing galactic art in it we decided to make a few printable and bookmarks for you to download. I hope you enjoy these.

FREE Printable Bookish Valentine's Day Cards

Love is in the air . . . and the Valentine's are beginning to circulate. If you're like me, you want to do something simple and easy, but wouldn't it be nice to give away something unique? What about something that is related to something you love - BOOKS! And that you can print for free from the comfort of your home! Bring on the LOVE. (Just follow the links or right click and save each image to print your own).

Reading Quote Printable

I created this print for my book club members at our Delicious Reads Retreat and thought I'd share it with anyone else wanting to add a cute print to their book shelves or room.

You can download the print in three different sizes: 4X6, 5X7, 8X10

Enjoy!

Book Club Ideas for "Shutter" {by Courtney Almeda}

We were honored to have Courtney Alameda, the author of Shutter, come as a special guest to our Book Club meeting!

 I met Courtney at the Provo Library some years ago. Courtney use to coordinate all the events and author signings at the library so we saw each other frequently and I quickly came to love her and her vibrant personality. Courtney was usually dressed up in a head to toe costume for events and hosting over the top author signings. I knew right when I first saw her dressed as a Grisha (Shadow & Bone reference), that we were kindred book party spirits.

When Courtney told me she was working on publishing her first book I told her,
"...When you get published, I'm throwing you a book party and that's that."

I was true to my word.

Read on to see how I totally freaked out all my members during our meeting!

Book Club Ideas for "Remake" {by Ilima Todd}

What a refreshingly different book!
Remake turned out to be not what most of us had expected from reading the synopsis but in a good way!

Our book Moderator for this book was Robin and she did such a wonderful job (as always) coming up with unique ways to highlight this book.

Book Club Ideas for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" {by Jules Verne}

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Book Club

by Jules Verne

Book Club Ideas for "The Devil in the White City" {by Erik Larson}

{Decorations}

The Devil in the White City has two different but parallel story lines going on throughout the entire book. 

The first plot is that of  H.H. Holmes, serial killer and all around CREEPER. The second plot follows the creation of the Chicago Worlds Fair and all involved. Towards the end of the book the two plots tie together.

March Book Madness {Selection Sunday}

Are you ready for....
March {Book} Madness?!
Watch our hilarious video below to learn what books will be pitted against each other and how you can play along!

Book Club Ideas for "Remembrandt" {by Robin King}

Our very own book club member Robin King wrote her first book and Brooke did such a great job putting this book club night together. We all had such a great time discussing, socializing and dressing up for this book club night.

Guest Blogger: Carissa Miss and FREE PRINTABLE!

Delicious Reads Readers! Hi! So happy to be guest posting sharing some of what I'm looking forward to for 2015. I blog at Carissa Miss where I share how to get great design without spending a lot of money. You'll get great sewing/painting/design tips and tutorials as well as some fun free printables.

2014 Delicious Reads Book Club Retreat

Welcome to our first annual Delicious Reads Retreat!

This retreat has been in the works since the very beginning of the year. I have been fussing over it and worrying about all the details for the whole year because I wanted to spoil my members and kick off the holiday season with a BANG!

{Swag Bags}

I envisioned from the beginning of planning that I wanted to give each of our members a Swag Bag of goodies to take home with them and that's just what I did.

We came up with this tote that looks like a piece of paper. One of our members sewed them all and we will post a DIY for them very soon which I will link to!

Thank you to all the companies that donated items to put in our swag bags!

CENTS OF STYLE for the darling colored stud earrings

RUBY BLOOM BOUTIQUE for the gold chain necklaces

THE BEST IN UTAH for the gift bags full of LOTS of fun surprises

BELLE ROSE CONFECTIONS for the delicious "Hot Chocolate on a Stick"

I also want to thank the people who donated items for our raffle that went on all night long, awww yeah!

*THE BEYOUTY BUREAU for donating the awesome gift bag full of cosmetic goodies!

*UNFORGETTABLE JULES for the darling gold flamingo necklaces

*THE KINGS ENGLISH BOOKSHOP for donating a gift bag along with a $15 gift card

*PUREZA SALON & MEDI SPA for donating three gorgous Frankie Rose lipsticks and some   Kerastase hair product.

 DELICIOUS READS donated some Harney and Sons pumpkin spice tea (one of my favorites), some  library themed thank you cards, "Sense & Sensibility" book and a cute Jane Austin reading quote. {FREE PRINTABLE AT THE END OF THIS POST!}

*CLASSY COSMETICS for donating a coupon good for a 1 time makeup application.

*RUBY RIVER STEAKHOUSE for donating two $50.00 gift cards!

*PERSNICKETY PRINTS for the $25.00 gift certificate

AND a big Thank You to all of the Book Club Members who helped in getting donations!

Our newest book club member is sweet baby "Ryo" Summers son. He was in baby heaven being surrounded by so many women who wanted to hold and snuggle him!

 {Author Visit}

One of our favorite authors, Teri Harman, came up to our retreat to talk about her new book that we read for the month of October, "Black Moon"
See our review of Black Moon, our meeting details and photos with Teri HERE.

We had a delicious spread of food to devour (which we did no problem)

{Italian Soda Bar}

We had to have an Italian Soda Bar! If you're looking for Syrup check out the Holiday Syrup on Amazon: (2 Vanilla, Hazelnut, Peppermint, Gingerbread and Caramel) or you could go Traditional (with Caramel, French Vanilla, Vanilla, Raspberry, Peppermint and Hazelnut)

{Decorations}

We brought a few decorations to celebrate "Black Moon" the 2nd Book in The Moonlight Trilogy but we kept it simple since we were not having a typical meeting.

But, you should check out the over the top book party we threw for Teri's first book BLOOD MOON if you'd like ideas and inspiration!

 

{Birthday Wishes}

One of our members and blog contributors ROBIN had her actual birthday at the retreat so we wanted to make sure we celebrated it with her. She is so dedicated and we love her for spending her special day with us!

{Photo Booth Shenanigans}

You can't have a girly get together without a photo booth!

Find these free printable word bubbles for your photo booth HERE

We stayed up photo boothing, painting our nails, listening to dance music, and talking about anything and everything until the wee hours of the night. We went to bed so late, like 4:00 am late, but we had to get some sleep because we had the important task of picking out our books for 2015 in the morning!

Oh and I am so excited for all the books we choose to read!

All in all I think we had a FABULOUS retreat that we will continue to do year after year!

{FREE PRINTABLE}

To download just click on the image you prefer and save to your computer.
Each print was designed as a 5x7.
Enjoy!

CREDIT**All photos were taken by the talented Summer Nicole Photography 

Thanks again to Teri Harman for coming to our retreat,we always love having you!

DONATIONS:

CENTS OF STYLE 

RUBY BLOOM BOUTIQUE 

THE BEST IN UTAH

BELLE ROSE CONFECTIONS 

THE BEYOUTY BUREAU 

UNFORGETTABLE JULES 

THE KINGS ENGLISH BOOKSHOP 

PUREZA SALON & MEDI SPA 

CLASSY COSMETICS 

RUBY RIVER STEAKHOUSE 

PERSNICKETY PRINTS 

"Shadow & Bone" {by Leigh Bardugo} Book Club Ideas

My first thoughts upon reading the first chapter of Shadow and Bone...

"I want to own a kefta... in every color – including black. I want to attend The Little Palace and gawk at the Darkling and wonder what dark things he's up to.

Oh Mal...you can track me anyday.

:)

By the end of the book...

"I need Siege and Storm! I need to start reading it IMMEDIATELY!!! Ahhhhhh, this book is SO good!!"

Let's talk about our book club meeting and what we did to make "Shadow and Bone" jump off the pages...

(If only we could have figured out how to get the Darkling and Mal to jump out the book!)

Before and after shot of my living room with book club



The food table

Entryway table

More decor touches

The book themed Menu:

You can make some of our special dishes for yourself by simply downloading the recipes below!

BEEF STROGANOFF

BUTTERWEEK ALMOND CAKE

AND, as an additional BONUS FREEBIE, you can download an absolutely beautiful, amazing and DELICIOUS digital "Shadow and Bone Cookbook" created by Chef Elle Jauffret.

I contacted Elle Jauffret who gave me permission to share a sample of her S&B cookbook that can be downloaded HERE. 

I hope that Elle and I can work together in the future because she loves to take books to the next level just like we tend to do!

A little more about Elle:

Born and raised in France, Elle Jauffret left her native country in search of adventure with the only certainty that she would become either a lawyer or a writer. She is the author of the James Normal series (middle grader mysteries) She lives in California with her family where she entertains a growing following with a Facebook blog in which food and original fiction are tightly entwined. 

More details

A few of us dressed up in our own versions of keftas for the meeting while everyone else wore the Grisha colors, Red, Blue, Purple and Black!

Bethany was in charge of Moderating again and BOY did she did a fantastic job!! She turned my house into a Russian winter scene right out the book and created the most amazing presentation that allowed her to jump in and out of the Ravka map to show us different things!
She used an online presentation site called PREZI that allowed her to do this.

You can view Bethany's presentation for Shadow and Bone HERE

We held a drawing for a couple fun prizes and Angie and Brittanie were the lucky winners!

Angie won a copy of "Siege and Storm" and a gorgeous Stag Necklace! (shown below)
And Brittanie won the most adorable set of Russian Doll measuring cups along with a Shadow and Bone Soundtrack that Bethany made.
(More soundtrack info below)



This necklace can also be found here

FREEBIE BELOW!

This is the playlist that Bethany put together for Shadow and Bone! She researched Leigh Bardugo's favorite music, she added in a few that she thought went well with the book and ended the soundtrack with a song written by Leigh herself!

I created this playlist printable that can easily be downloaded for your own personal use.
I also created a blank version so you can add in your own text for whatever you decide to create with it!

DOWNLOAD ORIGINAL SHADOW AND BONE PLAYLIST HERE

DOWNLOAD BLANK VERSION HERE

Don't forget to check out Leigh's Pinterest page where you will find tons of awesome fan art, book inspiration and other clothing and imagery ideas for her books!

These were two of my favorites!

 Thank you again Leigh for commenting on our Instagram photo and finding the time to Skype with us at book club, you made our  night and made us giggle, what more could we ask for?!

Read our Skyped Q&A with Leigh HERE

Read our official book review HERE