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Hello! I thought I’d make a pinned post of some of my favourite stuff I’ve made. You can click on the pics to go to the listings if you feel like doing so.
Tumblr users can visit my Etsy shop via this link to get 25% off at checkout (on everything except custom prints). I use Threadless for my T-Shirts and some other stuff like that lil’ magnet- I can’t do discount codes on there, but they seem to run store-wide sales all the time.
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Which is your favourite?
I’ve redrawn my stack of Austen books to get the image quality high enough to be a shirt/tote!
Reading The Hobbit to my daughter as she tries to get to sleep with a fever. She’s not yet 4 but insisted and is getting a lot out of it.
Her chipping in occasionally from the cosy tent that she sleeps in with ‘uh oh, Bilbo will not like the scratches on his green door!’ or ‘I would also like to ride a fat pony on a adventure’ or ‘I’m not scared of the goblins because I’m very brave, but let’s just not read that bit, ok?’
A thoroughly nice way to re-read this book.
What is this book for you?
In a literal sense, I re-read several Discworld books as a kid that fell to bits (not sure why, but ‘Interesting Times’ in particular). As a teenager, this was ‘High Fidelity’, ‘The Prestige’ and Brett Easton Ellis books, none of which I’ve returned to since!
I don’t re-read much as an adult, except that I listen to the audiobook of ‘I, Partridge’ every few months and read ‘A Christmas Carol’ every December and revisit short stories by Kelly Link, George Saunders and Carmen Maria Machado quite often.
How about you?
I want to make this into an enamel pin, has anyone ever had experience of getting pins produced?
MOSTLYGHOSTIE STRIKES AGAIN!!
Thank you thank you thank you to @mostlyghostie for this beautiful commission! I’ve been wanting a piece of your art for a long time and this is just amazing. I am over the moon to have this in my hands.
I’ll be spending my day finding a frame for it 💚
(Y’all have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do this commission and mostlyghostie made it better than I could have ever dreamed, using my favorite editions and having a wonderful skill)
It was so fun to draw all these dragon-y spines!
Prints have arrived! You can get one here, if you want.
A couple of these left, I don’t think there will be a re-order!
I have set myself a deadline to design my new book journals and associated stickers and bookmarks AND to have them sat in boxes in my house by mid-October.
This is partly so they’ll be ready to order for Christmas gifters and partly because we’re expecting a new baby in mid-October and there’s absolutely no way I’ll be able to design or draw anything new for a few months after that date..
Luckily, my favourite local printers who are very carbon conscious and make everything in the UK have started offering larger notebooks and journals, so I don’t have contend with a big, global, possibly poorly made giant printing company.
Let’s see if a strict deadline actually helps me achieve something!
Saw my fave band Martha for the 3rd time tonight- if you don’t know them, they’re just the best and you should
I’ve had an idea to put together a bundle of stickers that people can use to make a DIY book journal- headers for sections like this one with parts you can write on, little stickers to use for star ratings, nice vinyl book stickers to go on the front etc.
If you use a book journal to record your reading, what sections do you have in yours?
New version of this one- I’ve recently read a book I didn’t understand a word of and a good couple of ‘extremely sad but in a good way’ books.
(This is now a T-shirt also) Shop & Instagram
Draft of a page in the book journal I’m putting together. I want to try and bring some of the crumpled, used book aesthetic of my drawings but don’t want it to look too visually busy..
(Obv the words are placeholders, I’m not going to print the scribbles)
Is the box at the bottom of quotes for ratings? And what are the tassely bits on the book details column?
FIrst, I’m not sure how prescriptive I’d want to be about what each section is for, because personally, I never write down quotes for instance, so I don’t know on that front.
The box on the right is supposed to be a bookmark, however, I’ve been wondering about this- in my head, the quintessential image of a bookmark is a leather one with tassels on the bottom, but while drawing this I wondered if that’s just because that was the one bookmark I owned as a child in the 90s?? What I might do is draw half a dozen variations on this page that are broadly similar but with different details so I can draw different kids of bookmarks.
Draft of a page in the book journal I’m putting together. I want to try and bring some of the crumpled, used book aesthetic of my drawings but don’t want it to look too visually busy..
(Obv the words are placeholders, I’m not going to print the scribbles)
What I read in July!
Being on holiday for a couple weeks helped here.
Loved The Burgess Boys, Strout is unbelievable at creating real people, her books are just so compelling. This was more just sad rather than the hopefulness of some of her others, but loved it.
Don’t Look Now was enjoyable, but a rare case of the film being better. Some other good stories in here too,
Powering through Narnia with my 5 year old, we both thought The Silver Chair was really weird, but there was some good stuff in it, primarily the giant castle and the collapsing underworld. Alan was more than usually unhelpful in this one.
Listened to the audiobook of The Witches while driving through Alberta on hols, it’s a bit less fun once the mouse transformation happens, but such a sweet ending
I’m sure I’ve read Animal Farm before at school, but that was a loong time ago. It’s fucking great! Obviously. Found an 80s Folio Society edition very cheap in a local shop with Quentin Blake illustrations.
Hot Milk was great and weird and funny, following a slightly aimless young woman who is accompanying her mother to Spain for a cure to an illness that she’s patently making up for some reason. I bought this in 2016 and only just read it.
The Hole was also v weird, reminiscent of Murakami, liked it a lot. I’m fond of the detached, quiet style of a lot of Japanese fiction.
Didn’t like this Pratchett very much. I never read the Tiffany Aching books when I was deep in my Discworld phase (96-06?), liked the first one a lot but this didn’t connect with me
