Goodbye November! You were very busy and involved a lot of tedious technical stuff with web hosting and domains so blogging suffered a lot.
My 4 favourite photos
from my Instagram (L-R, top-bottom)
- Fireworks night! Quite pleased with this one
- Always fun when lots of new stamps arrive
- Fabric delivery from Spoonflower for new pencil cases
- Pretty pretty sunset
Fave 5 2 from the blog
New stuff in my shops
- Snowflake ornaments in 3 finishes
- Silver Shimmer Ghost brooches
- Christmas pick and mix badges
- Lots of new and updated polymer stamps
- Bunny & Panda Christmas cards
- 5 Year Diaries
- Birthday Calendars
- Comforters, notebooks, acrylic art blocks and more on-demand
li.st highlights
- All the reasons I’m looking forward to Winter ❄️☃️
- Last 10 things I bought on Etsy
- Graffiti on my drawing board
- THINGS I KEEP AT MY BEDSIDE AT ALL TIMES
- Come and pack orders with me 📦💌
- My favourite artists/makers/shops to buy from if you’re looking for gifts 🎄🎁
- Things I’ve been into this month: November 2016
On My Wish List
AKA things I am trying not to buy before Christmas!
Jinbe San mug | Starry Night dress by Cakes With Faces
Illustrated UK print by Deth P Sun | Pusheen Christmas ornaments
Reading
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I don’t know how she does this? Recreating years of history in minute detail and making it so alive and captivating. This is more experimental than Wolf Hall but I was still giddy reading it and had to keep stopping to highlight pages of dialogue. I only knew the basics of the French Revolution before this and I was in agonies of suspense over characters I adored. The final chapters are crushing *cries over fictionalised versions of real people who died hundreds of years ago*
Equator by Thurston Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is less a journey along the equator than a series of visits to a random selection of cities, towns and attractions close to the equator. It turns out you can’t really visit much of the equator (in the mid 80s at least) due to most of it being over ocean or jungle, and that most equatorial attractions have fallen into ruin due to a lack of interest and money. However he’s one of those people that talks to everyone and gets into absurd situations so it’s an entertaining read.
