This is going to be an unorganized whirlwind linkity because I volunteered at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Thursday (today as I’m writing this) and am quite tired now.

• Boom! The hardest hitting Nativity scene.
• “‘Ridiculously hard’: How Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for refugees from 1000 tweets“.
• Gingerbread Overlook Hotel (The Shining).
• How to make flowers very creepy.
• Klimt’s The Kiss, cat version.
• Genius way to keep a cat off the Christmas tree.
• Some comics about Death.
• Knit a stocking hat with kitties on it.
• Mobius Ship (Tim Hawkinson, 2011).
• Stained glass gluten-free sugar cookies.
• Gluten-free iced oatmeal cookies.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• The nonbinary pronoun “they” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year”.
• Mysterious cake wrecks.
• “23 emotions people feel but can’t explain”.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from kmkat.
• 7 easy, healthy one-bowl meals.
• “Staying safe using ride-hailing services”.
• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)

Reading Update
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. For me, this didn’t age well. And Meg drove me absolutely crazy. D’oh.

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“What are you DOING, big kitty!?!! OMG.” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• Hula hoop. Paradox.
• Advent calendar title page.
• A Wrinkle in Time.
• Some quotes from Learning by Heart.
• Allow.
• Winter wonderland.
• Rainbow scribble doodle with journaling.
• Freedom earful.
• Markmaking.
• Non-harmonious rainbow mandala with journaling.
• White on white.
• Good Omens, variations of the painting “The Kiss”.
• Mindfulness.

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“You DO realize that I WAS asleep before you started this photography nonsense?!” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance) and Tor.com (fantasy, YA SFF, genre benders, scifi)
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Signs at the British Library.
• “English Pronunciation”, a poem.
• “A History of Good Omens“.
• Neil Gaiman on imposter syndrome.
• On why trying to write like Tolkien really means writing like yourself.
• 40 Terry Pratchett quotes.
• “From the Point of View of a Cat” by Karel Čapek.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Have you ever heard of cartographer Marie Tharp? I hadn’t.
• “The spiciest parts of the full impeachment report“.
• BP gets sued for false advertising.
• “The shocking rise of consumer drug prices“.

Cookity

• Quick chicken and potato curry.
• 12 easy soups.

Gluten Free

• Chocolate kiss cookies, with and without peanut butter.
• Gingerbread loaf.

Artsy Crafty

• Knit a teeny tiny fish.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Lake Superior in winter (in case you’ve forgotten it’s really an inland freshwater sea).
• I would personally be delighted to find a line of snow ducks.
• Felt kitchen.
• My version of the username song meme.

Cool or Wha…?

• Disconcerting photographs.
• Tetris, public service department style.
• IKEA tarot deck.
• Star Wars and Instant Pot.

LOL

• Have an Untitled Goose Christmas!
• Bot tshirt production gone terribly awry in the most deserving of fashions.
• Time cops.
• “How to spot a dragon using an illusion spell“.
• Darby is not a feline mastermind.
• A cat watching a horror movie.
• Decluttering.

Reading Update
Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit by Corita Kent & Jan Steward. One of the best books about creativity I’ve ever read, despite it looking as if it was produced on a photocopier in the 1980s.
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. I’m still not sure how I feel about this one. The POV character is an unreliable narrator who admits she’s a liar right off the bat. She’s also a PI who’s hired to solve a suspicious death at a California boarding school for mages, where her estranged sister teaches. It definitely sucked me in, because I read it in one evening. But right now when I think about the book, it’s like there’s a very small pebble in my shoe – a small but persistent irritation.

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*ignoring* -Chaos

“Oh, geez, how many pictures are you going to TAKE, Mom?!?” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like.

• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• “…through the eyes of no one else.“
• Too late.
• Fancy letters. Green.
• Ruling pen rainbow scribble doodle.
• “Words unravel…“
• Walking in London.
• Beauty.
• Fanciful. Pool lounge chair.
• More thinking.

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“I really don’t wanna get up.” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• “Go ahead and laugh…“
• Reflections on color.
• From responding.
• Does your art reflect…
• Rainbow scribble doodle of Crowley’s eyes.
• Moon. Museum.
• Ledger-bound journal.
• Aziraphale+rainbow-colored wings.
• More rainbow colors.
• Where is my life taking me?
• In Eden.
• Mostly feral.
• Even more rainbow colors.
• In case…
• More unbox.
• A little Good Omens zine I made in a class at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
• Another rainbow scribble doodle.

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“No photos!!” -Chaos