August Round Up

Goodbye August! You were quite fun.

My 4 favourite photos

Random new feature, from my Instagram (L-R, top-bottom)

• Packaging brooches for a wholesale order
• Eating Miffy cookies from Japan with my mum
• The Waverley paddle steamer setting off from Helensburgh pier
• The protective layer on my laser cutting often makes me laugh. RAVE GHOSTS.

Fave 5 from the blog

• My visit to Usagito bunny cafe in Japan
• My adventures in sashiko stitching
• Making a frame for my enamel pin collection
• Pt 2 of my summer holiday recap
• Happy customer photos including cute nail art

New stuff in my shops

• Pocket notebooks
• Mt Fuji enamel pins

li.st highlights

• How to live life the Delgatie Castle way 🏰
• Highlights from the Annual Flower and Vegetable Show
• Olympic sports equipment I’d like to be left alone with
• Scottish Delicacies
• My type drawer of tiny things
• What September approaching means to me (request)

Links I Loved

• Design*Sponge turns 12 and celebrates with some great tips and a look at their old website designs. I remember all of them!
• If you like renovations, history, design and hilarious writing and aren’t following Manhattan Nest then have a word with yourself. This post is so good.
• Did you see Hannah Zakari’s beautiful summer meadow window display?
• Kathleen Hanna’s favourite albums is as good as read as you’d imagine.
• I need one of these realistic bunny bags!
• Very relatable Creative Review article about the discomfort of letting people see all the weird quirks of your working Photoshop files.

Reading

Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets by Joanna Blythman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Well, this was depressing. It’s about how the food industry keeps one step ahead of labelling laws and public awareness to come up with new ‘processing aids’ that fool us into thinking food is healthy and fresh. Basically we’re all doomed unless you live on a farm.

Up to This Pointe by Jennifer Longo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I loved this! It ticked a lot of my boxes: ballet, Antarctica, smart female characters. All the details about wintering over at the research station were fascinating and the plot and characters weren’t too generic.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Everyone kept recommending this series to me so I checked it out. I’m not one of those people who swoon over Paris but I liked it a lot. Relied a bit too much on misunderstandings for 5 stars but I’ll probably read the other books sometime.