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.

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

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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.

*ignoring* -Chaos

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

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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.

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

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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.

“No photos!!” -Chaos

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Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And from last week.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Language, warfare, and the brain as computer: Babel-17“.
• “I am the one who will remember everything” – a Harry Potter fanvid.
• “It is the year after the Battle of Hogwarts. School is starting again. And the thestrals are confused by all of the attention they are getting.“
• On Hagrid.
• What if Petunia Dursley took Harry in and treated him well?
• A writer’s routine/ABCs.
• On bookmarks and what constitutes a suitable one.

Do, Learn, Think, Make

• How the media portrays the Apollo 11 mission vs actual quotes from the mission.
• Deep thoughts re the Untitled Goose Game.
• “Americans don’t love an underdog. They love an underdog story.“
• On ostriches (Weird Biology).
• Apparently breadsticks are another thing that’s different between the US and Europe. (How about Canada???)
• It’s a rough time to be trying to manage mental illness.
• About Audre Lorde.

Cookity

• 20+ easy dinners.
• Spicy peanut noodles.
• Pecan pie cheesecake.
• Cheesecake-stuffed baked apples.
• 5-ingredient pumpkin pie bars.
• Pumpkin icebox cake.

Gluten Free

• Cranberry cornbread.
• Coffee cake muffins.
• 15 desserts for the holidays.

Artsy Crafty

• “Unlike phones, handiwork does not distract“.
• Some knitting humor.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Is that not worth exploring?“
• A story of a dragon and a princess.
• Crowley and Aziraphale plushies.
• Homemade pop!Crowley and pop!Aziraphale.
• Two anime-style fanvids for the Good Omens tv show.
• A card of the Archangel Gabriel I found the other day – very amusing if you’re thinking of the Good Omens tv show.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• Crunchy peanut butter Marmite.
• “This Ohio bill gives students religious exemptions for facts“.

LOL

• It’s a mystery why!!
• Cats, man.
• *THLURP*
• “So, how ~Southern~ are you?“
• This applies to Minnesota, too.
• “Meanwhile, in Minneapolis…“

Teh Cute

• Baby red panda!

Reading Update
Revenge of the Babysat (Calvin & Hobbes #5) by Bill Watterson. Found it in a Little Free Library and had happy flashbacks rereading it.
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing by Natalie Goldberg. What it says on the tin. This took me a while to get into, but I ended up quite liking it.

*IGNORING* -Chaos & Mayhem

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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. Also, no linkity this Friday, for no particular reason other than my birthday’s this coming weekend. 😀

• Epigraph know.
• It has POCKETS.
• Hope. Tea.
• Resilience bodies.
• Inside cover of my Season of Reflection journal.
• Owl. Vase.
• Photo. Equator.
• Quotes for the Season of Reflection.
• Color.
• “I’ll be your mirror.“
• Horizon. Fake.
• Cherry. Thread.
• Junk Mail. Yarn.
• Tunnel. Italian.

“Not your knee, Mom. MY knee.” -Mayhem

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Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Writing x characters when you aren’t x: A masterlist“.
• Works entering the public domain in 2020.
• Lots of quotes about libraries and librarians.
• Stylometry: Who wrote what? (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
• Some Terry Pratchett/Good Omens humor.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Fascinating tidbit of Renaissance painting history.
• Barn owls with Weird Biology.
• Kiwi birds with Weird Biology.
• The Gaboon viper with Weird Biology. (Yeah, Weird Biology is a time suck – beware!)
• The San Francisco Columbarium and Emmitt.
• Cookie Monster is back on Waze.
• “14-year old genius solves blind spots“.
• “Astronauts are testing what happens when you bake cookies in space“.
• “What happened to adult coloring books? Charting the boom and the bust“.

Cookity

• 10 pumpkin recipes.

Gluten Free

• Sandwich bread.
• “Thin Mints” cookies.

Cool

• Working around some fairy tale curses.
• Picking your heavenly house after you die.
• “People matching artworks“.
• Humans are weird, clap clap stomp.
• The Halloween Moose!
• “Self-coupling“.

Wha…?

• Eggnog wine.

LOL

• MN vs the rest of the US.
• The end of Daylight Savings.
• The truth behind Wikipedia!

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfics, yup, you guessed it.

“I feel strangely crowded for some reason…” -Chaos

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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. 🙂

• “…possessed by light.“
• Looks like 1972.
• I am enough.
• Good Omens collage.
• Zombie.
• The running joke of Aziraphale’s flaming sword.
• “Make my messes matter.“
• Seek see.
• “I am stained with light“.
• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• “…out with lanterns“.
• “Winter is coming“.
• Some vintage Walt Disney World.
• Another rainbow scribble doodle!
• Here’s to…
• Make a happy mess.
• Completed Season of Habit journal.

*feedmefeedmefeedmefeedmefeedmefeedme* -Chaos

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Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (sf, fantasy, young adult sff, genre benders) and AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches. More linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Listen to a free short audiobook horror story by China Mieville.
• Listen/watch Neil Gaiman read a horror story.
• Neil Gaiman on how well received the Good Omens TV show has been.
• A librarian on the Macmillan ebook embargo, which goes into effect today.
• “Neither allegory nor lion: Aslan and the Chronicles of Narnia“.
• “The evolution of dragons in Western literature: A history“.
• On Jane Austen’s writing desk.
• Margaret Atwood knit a Great Auk.
• Non-book gift ideas for readers.
• “Does switching to Comic Sans really fix writer’s block?“
• NaNoWriMo tips from bookwyrmknits.
• Library puns.
• “Tips for surviving an Agatha Christie novel“.
• “It is a lovely day in Ankh-Morpork and you are a horrible goose“. Death and the goose.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Remember the Halloween Blizzard of 1991? That photo doesn’t do it justice.
• On gaming, knitting, textile workers, and computer history.
• Anxiety and ADHD.
• What the “perfect” female body has looked like at various points in history.
• “A tribute to Jane Fonda and her 50 years of activism“.
• Tips for packing for emergency evacuation.
• I like the concept of “load-bearing” more than spoons.
• VINDICATED.

Cookity

• 23 kale salad recipes.
• 20 recipes for fall soups.
• One-pot chickpea tomato peanut stew.
• Easiest two-ingredient chocolate mousse.
• Instant Pot bourbon pecan pie.
• Salted honey no-bake peanut butter pie. (via The Kitchn)
• No-bake pumpkin cheesecake bars.
• Apple cider doughnut cake. (via itstartledme)

Gluten Free

• Pizza pinwheels.
• Brownie bottom pie with peanut butter mousse filling.
• Butter cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Learn to knit with scales.
• Knit Star Trek socks. (via tinsnip)

Cool

• About the Hogwarts Interhouse Nuisance Orchestra.
• It STARTS as a “humans are weird” post…
• Defending a genie charged with “felonious wish-granting”.
• Fancy jack-o-lanterns at the Minnesota Zoo.
• Halloween costume idea: the Edmund Fitzgerald.
• Halloween linkity from kmkat. Linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.
• Linkity from bookwyrmknits.

Wha…?

• Awful Halloween costumes.
• Faux flesh phone cases.

LOL

• Lizards and Canada.
• Some things to consider before accepting a quest from a wizard.
• “OMG! A ghost!“
• Laugh your way through the Lord of the Rings movies via sh*tposts.
• Definitely how much of autumn in Minneapolis has been.
• AP English drama and suspense!

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfic! And the actual Good Omens novel again…

*side-eyeing* -Chaos & Mayhem

Kitties – now more judgmental than evah!

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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. 🙂

• Purple!
• On keeping a journal.
• Onomatopoeia.
• The color white.
• Pickings life.
• Tent.
• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• Who I’m not.
• More purple!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

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