Andrew Thornton hosts a monthly book club called Inspired by Reading. He picks books and we read the section and create based on our reading! Although I've been able to read only one book (and it was good) so far, this time Andrew was nice and provided me with a selection from this month's book, "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales" , edited by Kate Bernheimer - basically adult fairy tales! The story I chose was First Day of Snow by Naoko Awa, a Japanese fairy tale that borrows elements from folktales about disappearance. This story is about a girl who finds a mysterious round hopscotch trail and takes it for what seems like miles and miles. She finally sees snow and hears a rhyme; it's the bunny rabbits, appearing as snow to take her away from the world and turn her into a chunk of snow. The only way she can get back is by chanting a rhyme about spring and a mugwort leaf. My idea for the necklace was a white bunn...