Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Mijello blue vortex.
• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• Arbitrary satisfactions.
• Rainbow scribble triangles.
• Crumpled 3D geometric Gruene Cactus (ink).
• Sparkly typography.
• Ink vortex.

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“Smells…arty.” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Tor.com (genre benders), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Smart  Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• On bullet journaling.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Is this American Gothic? (via malkinisms)
• How animals see in the dark.

Cookity

• 21 apple recipes.
• Scrambled chickpea and spinach pitas.
• Tomato-basil morning muffins.
• Brownie batter swirl smoothie. (via stars-benn)
• Chocolate and peanut butter molten lava cake. (via gilajames)
• Confetti cookie dough cake. (via stars-benn)

Gluten Free

• Apple dumplings.

Artsy Crafty

• A very pink yarn bombing.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• My phone and tablet lock screens, for the curious. (Not that they’re cool, but sheesh, this section was looking kinda sad.)
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Pre-damaged Star Trek redshirt tshirt.
• USS Enterprise rocker.
• Flat-pack truck.

Wha…?

• Signs. (Some are NSFW.)
• Gosh, I can’t imagine why this picnic basket shaped building isn’t selling.
• Bubblegum flavored broccoli.
• Lumberjack virtual reality game.
• Carbonated milk.
• “Mercedes working on delivery vans that deploy robotic carrier pigeons“.
• Tactical spork.

LOL

• Oh, Walmart. (via maderr)
• xkcd on exoplanets. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• xkcd on migrating geese. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Simon’s Cat and toilet paper…
• Simon’s Cat takes on the trash.
• Summer cat states.
• Rivalry in the Midwest.
• “The Muppet doo-doo post“.
• Autocorrects “that are sure to work you up”.
• Back to school with autocorrect.

Teh Cute

• Red panda and babies! Cheetah and puppy! Jaguar and baby! Tiger and babies!

Reading Update
Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint. Another good collection of short stories set in Newford and the hills nearby.
Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint. This isn’t one of my favorite Newford books – it doesn’t have quite the zing of some of the other books and some of the overly specific technology bits have not aged well.
Widdershins by Charles de Lint. I don’t think I realized the first time I read this book that, because of how all the ends are tied up, this was probably the final big Newford book.

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“Can’t a girl enjoy her box in peace?!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• Art = magic.
• A finished art journal!
• Sunny rainbow scribble doodle.
• Stormy paper sky.
• Bees!
• New markers!
• Tomoe River paper.

And a photo I took over the weekend in Uptown Minneapolis…

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

(If it helps, her right ear is in the upper left corner of the photo.)

Work continues to be crazy. I am so behind on blogs and GoodReads and life in general. Hi! :waving:

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (fantasy & scifi), Tor.com (scifi, fantasy), Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• 23 Antarctican slang terms.
• “You have been transported to the location in the last book you read. Where are you?” I came out pretty well in that one: Newford and the desert near Tucson, Arizona.
• Video game set in Walden Woods.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• On “smol”.
• Short film about the evolution of the universe.
• Who knew you could play games right in your browser?
• Do you know which is the least-visited national park in the continental US?
• “How aluminum changed the world“.
• Timelapse of a 1223 pound pumpkin growing.
• Crows and tool use.

Cookity

• Butternut squash with sriracha and coconut.
• Rainbow veggie noodle salad.
• 23 hearty vegetarian dinners.
• Caprese chicken.
• Caprese grilled cheese.
• 10 summer breakfast casseroles.
• Upside-down tomato corn cake.
• Easiest ice cream cake.
• Dulce de leche chocolate cupcakes. (via smoke-and-oakum)

Gluten Free

• Banana muffins.
• Granola bars.

Artsy Crafty

• The difference between the primary color wheel for paint and for digital.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s cool, but it is definitely not the sort of mural I’d expect to see in a Radisson.
• Good to remember about autism.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Next level foam art or photoshopped?!
• R2-D2 bento box. (via The Mary Sue)
• Cassette-shaped table.
• Pop-up mosquito cage.
• “Watch classic Soviet sci-fi films for free online“.

Wha…?

• Shoecar.
• A brigadier penguin?
• Print your own Stargate.
• Inflatable cockroach for lounging on in the pool.
• Sunscreen that smells like fried chicken.
• “An axe-throwing range is coming to Chicago“.
• Axe handle made of gummi bears.
• $3000 box of colored pencils. (It’s a brand that uses cedar for the wood of the pencils, which means I will never, ever, ever try any of their pencils – even the more reasonably priced ones. :wheezing asthmatic sounds:)

LOL

• So very Chaos…
• People share the birds they’d most like to see.
• Autocorrect and religion.
• NASA and computers. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Linear regression. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Teh Cute

• Baby puffin! Tiger and babies! Baby tree kangaroo! Panda and babies! Black kitten!

Reading Update
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint. Upon rereading, I liked this third collection of Newford stories more than the second (The Ivory and the Horn).
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint. This Newford book was a solid read, but not one of my favorites.
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint. Not my favorite Newford book – it’s a hard read. I really wanted some magical healing, dammit.

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“Why are you taking a picture of my foot, Mom??!” -Chaos

Check out that proto-thumb dewclaw there, eh? He doesn’t have extra toes or anything – just large and weirdly dexterous dewclaws. I don’t think May can even move her dewclaws, besides flexing the actual claw…

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• Irregular rainbow vortex.
• Comparison.
• Purple.
• Rainbows all the way down.
• Better in ink.
• Mimeograph.
• Magical things.

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“Your knitting bag, Mom? I don’t think so! I think it’s my knitting bag. It has kitties on it!” -Mayhem