Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂 More art journaling pages than usual because my tumblr queue was getting out of hand…

• ICAD warmups.
• “More than a single story“.
• “Art can connect all of us…“
• “How to print a skyscraper“.
• Play.
• “I am you, you are too“.
• “…too hot to breathe today.“
• More ICAD warmups.
• Last of the ICAD warmups.

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“I do not accept this excuse of ‘working’ for why the laptop is taking my space on your lap!” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• “The importance of contemporary poetry“.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• “50 must-read nonfiction audiobooks under 10 hours“.
• “50 must-read books about neurodiversity“.
• On the use of “squick” in fandom.
• The future of computer-assisted novel writing?
• Hogwarts houses working together.
• Luna Lovegood, tattoo artist.
• On the importance of storytelling.

Learn, Think, Make, Do

• “9 ocean facts you don’t know but should“.
• Woe the baobabs. 🙁
• Do bees understand zero?
• On figuring out the whole ace/aro thing.

Cookity

• Zucchini breakfast casserole.
• Buffalo chickpea salad.
• 25 easy vegan recipes.
• Easy blender lemon curd.
• Chewy chocolate meringues.
• Deep-dish chocolate chip skillet cookie.

Gluten Free

• Mrs Fields’ style chocolate chip cookies.
• Chocolate wafer cookies.
• Classic icebox cake.
• 25 gluten-free desserts.

Artsy Crafty

• How to make a TARDIS journal.
• “A guide to Tombow dual brush pen palettes and colors“.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• On acknowledging your emotions.
• “When your number is called“.
• Pianos on Parade. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• Meet Minneapolis.
• Spoonbridge & Cherry.
• Downtown Minneapolis.
• Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar is in a Maroon 5 music video.
• I’m imagining, Little Free Library.
• The story of BabyTodd. The sequel.
• Steel turned into lace.
• “Firefly: 15 years later, a look back“.
• Linkity from kmkat. And more.

Cool or Wha…?

• Things that I did not expect this week – the drama of #mprraccoon! Thankfully it had a happy ending. Fan art and t-shirts available…
• Roof dragon.
• I think this mug look neat, but I would probably break off the crystals within hours. I’m clumsy.
• Bob Ross sleep meditation.
• Augmented reality to help you preview nail polish colors.

Wha…?

• No big deal, just potentially invalidating an awful lot of studies involving lab rats. (Of course, if you go to the source, this is from four years ago.)
• Sawblade launching handheld catapult.
• “Domino’s is fixing America’s crappy roads for pizza safety“.
• Broccoli coffee.
• OMG.

LOL

• That’s a lot of goats.
• Awww.
• Other restaurant chains had a delightful time with IHOP changing its name to IHOB.
• That cat is not so good at catching Q-tips.
• The Codex of Privacy.
• A guide to common birds of the western US.
• Animal cookies.
• Surprised red pandas.
• A Simon’s Cat short.
• Humans Are Weird, again, simply for the “strongest castle in the solar system” bit.
• Some common hazards.
• xkcd has some ideas for a new Presidential line of succession. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• “Cookie mountain“.

Teh Cute

• Happy cat! Baby white bison! Penguins and babies! Kitten! Baby cheetah! Baby bobcat!

Reading Update
Wildly into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind by Tyler Knott Gregson. Good collection of short poems that I didn’t quite connect with.
The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects That Give Old Books New Life by Lisa Occhipinti. Very good look at how to transform old books into all sorts of things, such as lamps, a chandelier, a fireplace screen, an ebook reader cover, and more.
Collage Art: A Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase by Jennifer L Atkinson. Good collection of interesting collage techniques, including using collagraphy, woven paper, fabric, and assemblage. For a book from 1996, it definitely managed a mostly timeless feel.
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace. Very good, most likely haunting collection of poetry. Some of the poems resonated all too well.

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“You stay right there, May.” -Chaos

“But WHY, big kitty??” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “What we play is life.“
• Wind and library cards and pumpkin carvers.
• Writing writing writing.
• Rainbow scribble doodle!
• Undersavers, paper towel, implosion.
• Cherry tangerine crossword.
• Stamp testing.

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*BLANK* -Chaos

My neighborhood had a fiber outage during most of my linkity time – and I love you guys, but not enough to stay up really late to do linkity when I have to work the next day! 😀

“Hold still, May! *SLURP*” -Chaos

*purring* -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Green skies at night.
• Unexpected.
• Pressures vary.
• Monster.
• “Home is where your art is”.
• Go play.
• Meeting the brain.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos