Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “Be kind.“
• Circles.
• Season of Play.
• Very purple.
• More index card collages.
• Get Messy.
• Punctum.

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“What? Just trying to bask here!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• The impact of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling on speculative fiction.
• On reading Samuel R Delaney. (Personally, I’d recommend starting with Babel-17.)
• An indie bookstore went viral and got a boost.
• “Gruntled, kempt, and whelmed“.
• “Godzilla sonnets“.
• Funny library signs.
• “In which Sirius Black failed to argue with a hat“.
• SAME. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• A comic on the last 180 years of immigration into the US.
• A poem about life in America.
• Switchblade fish.

Cookity

• Easy oven-baked risotto.
• Broccoli and cheese risotto.
• Easy roasted veggie enchiladas.
• Split pea soup.
• 30 easy vegetarian dinners.
• 10 easy chicken and rice dinners.
• Slow cooker pesto chicken.
• Giant peanut butter cup.

Gluten Free

• Italian eggplant, beef, tomatoes, and mint.
• Glazed yeast raised doughnuts.
• Weight Watchers bagels.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting comic.
• “SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network”… and knit some eldritch horrors, basically.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Snow with Spoonbridge and Cherry. My neighborhood in the snow. (We had 14 inches/36 cm of snow last weekend…) (TRUTH.)
• I can’t remember if I’ve already linked this fic from elsewhereuniversity or not.
• “Be careful with your honey“.
• “That’s just 4 things“.
• A good metaphor for life.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Mini VW van.

Wha…?

• “Sexy Handmaid’s Tale sleepwear“.
• Canberra centenary skywhale.
• Capitalism UGH.
• “Singing road” failure.
• Hair covered car.
• “Mayochup“.

LOL

• What if the Avengers were cast in the 90s?

Teh Cute

• Little penguins! Fennec and babies! Baby penguin!

Reading Update

• *whistling*

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*SLURP* -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• “What to expect/What to imagine“.
• “I do not know fear.“
• Rainbow scribble doodle mandala.
• The universe…
• New frontiers.
• NO.
• Limitless possibilities.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Hurtful, but true. STOP IT, MINNESOTA. (Another winter storm watch for this weekend! Total snow accumulation of 13 inches/33 cm possible…)

Bookity

• New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks), AAR (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, genre-benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. More linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Harry Potter-inspired photoshoot.
• “The bodies of the girls who made me: Fanfic and the modern world” from Seanan McGuire.
• Neil Gaiman on fanfiction – at least scroll down to the two small text chunks above the gif at the end, starting with “Then again…”

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Allergy myths and facts.
• Is “Lyme disease the first epidemic of climate change”? (via MCaspian)
• “State-by-state USA cryptid list“.
• Why you should turn to veterinarians in a zombie apocalypse.
• “There is nothing wrong with your house“.
• Ha! Those “warranty void if removed” stickers are meaningless. Repair away!
• On sunscreen and expiration dates.
• “Don’t let minimalists make you feel guilty about your ‘clutter’“.
• “It takes 90 hours to make a new friend“.
• Molly Ringwald on misogyny in John Hughes’ movies.

Cookity

• 25 recipes made with a can of chickpeas.
• 15 recipes using black beans.
• BBQ tofu salad bowls.
• Easy slow cooker bean soup.
• Vietnamese-style chicken and noodle salad.
• Slow cooker spinach and artichoke chicken.
• Orange-baked rhubarb.
• Three different one-bowl brownie recipes.
• Easy chocolate biscuit bombs.
• 10 easy, fancy single layer cakes.
• Peanut butter sheet cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Gluten Free

• Flourless fudge cookies.
• Almond flour sponge cake.
• Easy cinnamon rolls.

Artsy Crafty

• Definitely read this review before rushing out to buy the new Tombow Play Color Dot Markers. My favorite line: “Alas, I cannot dot all the things.”
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Massive LEGO chimera. (via maderr)
• From the life of a retired villain…
• “Death comes for Minerva McGonagall“…
• “When real sports become a sports movie“.
• Kids singing Cloud Cult’s song “Chemicals Collide”.
• New glow-in-the-dark coin from the Royal Canadian Mint.
• Yes.
• Linkity from kmkat. Linkity from Bookwyrm-Knits.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Harry Potter dream castle for sale in downtown Minneapolis” – and it’s right around the corner from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts! 🙂
• LEGO mosaic of King Richard III.
• Plush Dave Bowman (from 2001: A Space Odyssey).
• MIT has a headset that listens to your thoughts.

Wha…?

• EWWWWW.
• “It’s a horseshoe“.
• Earthworm jerky.

LOL

• Members of The Breakfast Club as social media platforms.
• Arnulf the disruptive sheep.
• “One reason to root against every team in the Stanley Cup Playoffs“.
• On birds and men and flirting.
• New Simon’s Cat film. Or two!
• Some words of wisdom from Captain America.
• “OS born to be“.
• Interesting theory about Australia and Mad Max.

Teh Cute

• Kitten! Baby otters! Reindeer/caribou and baby! Baby clouded leopard! Sloth bear and babies!

Reading Update
The Art of Expressive Collage: Techniques for Creating with Paper and Glue by Crystal Neubauer. Reread: I appreciated this book more the second time and bumped my rating from three to four stars.

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“Still no birds. Woe.” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Create.
• Genre bars.
• 2018 Speed Journaling Round Robin.
• Shiny decline.
• More collages for 365 Somethings.
• Color wheels.
• Get Messy class practice.

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“Do you MIND? I’m trying to sleep here!” -Chaos, with the Ears of Annoyance