A Friday Favs with pictures this time! How glorious. What a thing – wait for it – to be grateful for. *grin* I was going to do this like picture – sentence – picture – sentence etc but I decided that would make the post unwieldy, so I’ve just popped the pictures in and captioned […]
Friday Favs, aka Things I’m Grateful For (With Pictures!) Read More »
Well, somehow, mysteriously, it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for a round of Friday Favs. Here are the things that I’ve been appreciating in the past week or so: What about you? What’s been keeping you going? 🙂 Read more:Made-It Monday: Hogwarts CameraMade-It Monday: Random Kids' Craft People#MadeItMonday: NOT A Cake! (Book Cover Reveal)
Phew, it’s been a bit of a rocky few weeks, but we made it. Well done us, go team. (I’m okay, I just both got myself quite overtired with a few very booked weekends, AND realised that although I have improved my levels of burnout SIGNIFICANTLY since June, I am still actually highly burnt out
In news that will shock no one who’s caught glimpse of my to-do list this month, it’s been a bit of a shocking week. I said on Instagram last Sunday that I was hoping to be potato: covered in weeds, but still thriving. Not sure I can say I *thrived* through the week, but I
A Song To Encourage You Along your Way Read More »
I’ll be honest, the only YouTube/video things I’ve watched in the last few weeks is gardening videos. So, today, you get a few of the most recent pins I’ve pinned across my Pinterest boards. (Pinterest is my mental-health go-to for social media, gonna be honest.) This may end up replacing the previously-usual Friday videos, since
Hi, do you wish to see my face? Do you wish to see my face WHILE IT’S TALKING?!?! HA. Happy Friday. The lovely Barney from StoryComic had me on the show again and we had a blast chatting about indie vs. traditional publishing, my bizarre writing processes, why most of my books are set in
An Interview With Moi Read More »
Sooo this is pretty cool. IDK if you know or not, but inventing actual blue pigments that work and don’t kill you is actually SUPER hard. Blue isn’t very common in nature, and throughout history it’s been a pretty rare and valuable pigment as a result. That’s not the REASON I used blue as the
Introducing YinMn Blue (Now I Need To Revise The Witch Blue Universe) Read More »
Stumbled across this video earlier in the week and thought it was interesting enough to share. The video sliiiiightly simplifies the situation – I actually did a paper on this during university! – but it’s a clear enough introduction to the topic if it’s not something you’re familiar with. So. Why DIDN’T Ancient Greek have
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Imma be honest, this got me through the end of last week :’D The video’s long, but don’t be intimidated: it’s a highlights reel of their main music video channel, so you can stop the video at any point to fit the time you have/care to invest. Humour is so variable, but I was actually
Best parody Songs Of 2020, Via The Holderness Family Read More »
Been watching a lot of art stuff on YouTube lately, thanks to my lovely copics, the time I had over the holidays to actually spend some time on art, and three gorgeous, gorgeous art books I have recently acquired. So here’s a fun way to end our weeks: with a photoshop genius who takes people’s
Realistified Drawings, Or, #PhotoshopLifeGoals Read More »
