Goodbye September! You were quite a whirlwind of travel and work.
My 4 favourite photos
From my Instagram (L-R, top-bottom)
- Perfectly positioned ghosts, straight from the laser cutters
- My tomatoes are turning red!
- Iona Abbey (more on that trip soon)
- Turquoise water at Carrick-a-Rede in Northern Ireland
Fave 5 from the blog
- Looking back at 9 years of Asking For Trouble products
- Stitching up Mt Fuji in sashiko
- My visit to JAXA Tsukuba Space Center in Japan
- Day trip to the Giant’s Causeway & Carrick-A-Rede
- Tokyo Shopping Guide entry for the Rilakkuma Stores
New stuff in my shops
li.st highlights
- My little business is 9 years old! 🎉
- What is Sashiko? (request)
- Photos from Belfast, Part 1
- Photos from Belfast (& beyond), Part 2
- Memorable Cinema Experiences
- All the reasons I’m excited for Halloween 👻🎃🕸
- This is how you reward customer loyalty 👏
- My journey to Iona
- 15 THINGS I’M GOOD AT
- 15 THINGS I’M BAD AT
- What I loved about Iona
- Things I’ve been into this month – September 2016
Links I Loved
- A library in Japan had a sleepover for toys and live-tweeted the whole thing. It just keeps getting cuter!
- There have been some good posts about blogging lately at Foldedspace and Folksy (great PDF guide linked at the end). Perhaps I need to write my own.
- Yes! Dumb astrology ‘news’ means another excellent takedown by the Bad Astronomer.
- The #InternationalRabbitDay hashtag on Twitter is a delight.
- MOO immortalise their staff members in felt – this is so cool!
Reading
Summer Days and Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I didn’t enjoy this as much as the winter version but I liked a lot of the stories and I appreciate how diverse the couples are. Super pretty hardcover though.
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was definitely the weakest in the trilogy as it barely tied into the others and the plot made no sense. Lola wasn’t very believable either – she was a cartoon character literally wearing a costume.
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was much better and nice to go back to the original location and familiar characters.
