I’m going through a period of time wherein I have a constant drip of ideas for blogs ONLY when I’m not in a position to actually write them. Is this a sneaky form of perfectionism, with my critical voice conveniently erasing the idea harddrive whenever it suspects I might (outrageously) actually write something? Possibly, hmm, […]
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Kiddo the first is of the age when he has joined Pathfinders, our church’s answer to Scouts I guess. As part of this, he went through a couple of weekends ago and pulled out all the honours (patches) he’s interested in doing. Spoiler, there are 38 of them and it took us 2.5 hours to
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So the next month or two (or three) I’ll be drip-feeding through a bunch of updates on Things That Happened While I Wasn’t Posting. Today, the most exciting of those things: I won an Aurealis Award! (Somewhat amusingly, the photo below was taken on the one-year anniversary of the book’s release – I didn’t realise
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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
Just some midweek encouragement to keep us all going: showerthoughtsofficial: Your future self is hating you for the poor decisions you’re making today. coffeeandcastiel: bold of you to assume current me isnt also hating myself for making the decisions that i am making duamuteffe: Hello, I am old and thus have a large amount of
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Le child’s birthday party impends and thus the house is full of various Pokemon-themed crafts in various stages of construction. Last night, it was Pin The Flame On The Charmander time. I decided to splurge and use the copics, because I haven’t used them in two weeks and wanted to crack them out and just
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Semi-dodgy video again, but we’ll get there. One day I’ll learn to move more slowly so as not to make you all seasick, and to take a decent shot for the thumbnail :’D Anyway. Things have grown a lot since last time, which is happy to see. We lost a tomato plant, which is sad
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Oh wow. Oh. Wow. Guys? The From The Ground Up saga is over. And I am so pleased, and relieved, and excited. I could never have envisaged the journey that this one-book-which-became-three would go on back in 2012 when I first submitted the proposal for it, but now here we are, almost exactly eight years
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Having finally realised that markers really are my medium of choice for The Art Making, I bought myself a set of 6 skin tone copic markers a few weeks back. I haven’t made much time to practise, but even so I’m pleased at how intuitive they making colouring. I can *draw* okay, when I put
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As promised yesterday, the “The drawing advice that changed my life” video! Although he’s talking about drawing, the advice clearly applies to creative work of any kind – or even skills of any kind generally. Broadly applicable. Much advice. Such good. /nodnod. What’s some good advice you’ve found on the internet? Doesn’t have to be
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