Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “…usurious rates…“
• Perimenopauseland…
• “Do you pickleball?“
• Paradox.
• Patisserie, playing card, curtains, compass.
• “…practice being fictional…“
• Tolkien whiteout poetry.
• Alphabet of me! (Not that I’ve done more letters yet….)
• “Fearing the worst…“

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• More index card collages!
• More fragments of another day.
• “Not all sanctuaries are equal“.
• Sky, the Jetsons, castle.
• “I am what I make up“.
• Tangerine, meerkat, magic carpet, garden.
• Personal playlist.
• “Rhubarb is the secret of the good life“.

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“Can’t a cat have some privacy around here?!?” -Chaos

No fancy sorting, sorry.

• Cool mural that I must stop and see when I am in St Paul sometime.
• Murals in Minneapolis.
• Frostbeard Studio (“home of the original book-themed candle”) tells the story behind their mural.
• Sailboats as concept art.
• Minneapolis City Hall right before the torrential rain hit Thursday evening.
• “Why does Google Earth show a plane at the bottom of Lake Harriet?“
• A story of a name and a Fae.
• “au [alternate universe] where the trojan war is a party menelaus throws to win back his girlfriend who left him for some douchebag and he ropes all his friends into helping him and wacky shenanigans happen and a running gag is that odysseus doesn’t even want to be there he’s got shit to do and at the end he gets stuck in traffic on the way home” (So far there is just one part to this.)
• “Anonymous asked: what about susan who got married and had a child while in narnia, and then returned to england as a child, a whole life and family left behind?“
• What if the hobbits were raccoons instead? (So. Funny.)
• Harry Potter just needs to get away from things for a little bit…
• Imagine the Ministry receiving Harry Potter’s auror application.
• “She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving but specifically spinning and weaving giant structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes”.
• Black cat and goose. I have questions!
• “An entomologist rates ant emojis“.
• Matchy matchy!
• “Remember Kiwi and his goth gf?“
• Koi mosaic.
• Oh snap.
• On the importance of mermaids and cyborgs to disabled people.
• Miniatures.
• Amazingly realistic felt cat portraits. YouTube tutorials. (Thanks, Cheryl!)
• Snow leopards really like holding their tails in their mouths.
• Some flat Earth humor.
• Linkity from kmkat. Knitting linkity from kmkat.

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“Mom fed us THREE HOURS LATE last night. I am scarred from the experience. Look at how traumatized I am!!” -Chaos

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Black Hills abstraction.
• Sea green. Superher0 x 2.
• Path. Suitcase.
• I am… I do…
• Creative detritus.
• Legend. Greetings from… Treasure.
• Two-year old me with my grandpa.
• “Surely not everybody was king fu fighting“.

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“Look, Mom! I’m helping you take your art journal photos!!” -Mayhem

…which means more likely than not, there won’t be linkity again until August 9. Although I might manage SOMETHING to break up that month. We’ll see how it goes! 🙂

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and io9 (scifi/fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “What the Laura Ingalls Wilder award name change means – and what it doesn’t“.
• Neil Gaiman says goodbye to Harlan Ellison.
• “What rereading Black Beauty taught me about social justice“.
• 50 books about music.
• What if Lizzie Bennet came “from a family of mechanics but left the family business to become a cop”?
• How story ideas look in your head vs how they look on paper, visualized using Starry Night.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Clarification of what cultural appropriation actually is.
• NASA things for July.
• Learn all about ceiling fans.
• That time Ben Franklin and John Adams had to share a bed.
• That time the Ottoman Sultan wrote to some Ukrainian cossacks and demanded they submit.
• “Whiny baby tRUMP balloon set to greet the president when he visits London“.
• Yeah, you have some wacky weather when you’re in the middle of a continental landmass.

Cookity

• 10 easy chicken dinner recipes.
• Sheet-pan honey dijon chicken and vegetables.
• Vegetable breakfast hash.
• Zucchini burrito bowls. (via The Kitchn)
• Garlicky marinated mushrooms.
• Corn recipes.
• Blueberry recipes.
• Blueberry crumb bars.
• Food processor pound cake.
• Best chocolate cake. (via jmcbks)

Gluten Free

• Pan de bono.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• We have a few bridges here.
• SO MUCH YES!
• Why you should love Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid.
• “Ballet dancers in random situations“.
• Astronaut tweets (from 2014).
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Fruit tart cat bed.
• For those of you who’ve always wanted to live in a Gothic church.
• Moth and butterfly fiber sculptures.

Wha…?

• Huh. Apparently I missed a second civil war on Wednesday.
• A FOX News broadcaster “claims immigrants are sucking up the finite resource that is love“. Maybe I just need to rename this section “Extended facepalm”…
• Automatic sand printer.

LOL

• “A sitcom about the modern Greek gods where everyone is wildly miscast. Zeus is played by Michael Cera.“
• For bad days.
• Creativity.
• Darn those “freeloaders who just wan to cheat the government out of wasps”!
• “Lycanthropy is a feminist issue“.
• New Simon’s Cat short called “The Snip”.
• “What do cupcake theft and goat-keeping have in common?“
• Masters of Mansplaining.

Teh Cute

• Noses of cats! Penguins and a cardinal! Black kitten! Wolverine and babies! Mountain goat and baby! Scottish wildcat and babies!

Reading Update
Poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words by Susan G. Wooldridge. I liked this a lot – particularly how accessible Wooldridge makes poetry and word play to everyone. Wooldridge’s “word tickets” sounded an awful lot like Magnetic Poetry to me, and based on the original publication date, she was probably writing this around the time the original Magnetic Poetry set was released (but probably before it was widespread).
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K Le Guin. Initially, I was quite enjoying this one, but then I hit a rather curmudgeonly bit and set it aside, never to pick it up again.

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“I am dying of hunger. Please feed me.” -Chaos