And now for something completely different – my decoupage projects! All of these are made with Décopatch paper, Décopatch glues and mache bases, all bought from Hobbycraft.
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Last part of the sewing projects! Are you excited? I’m excited! Let’s go!
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Sewing Projects: Part Three
Part Three of the sewing, let’s go!
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Sewing Projects: Part Two
Part Two of Probably Four of the sewing projects I did in 2021 because I’d like to get the sewing projects plus the decoupage projects I did posted BEFORE 2022.
Also I won a Writers’ Forum Flash Fiction competition earlier this year with a story called “Mary, Mary”.
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Photobucket Sucks
You’re not allowed to imbed Photobucket pictures any more unless you pay them. The problem with that is that I’m not willing to pay and I have a LOT of Photobucket pictures embedded in my early blog posts.
So sadly, the early days of this blog are probably going to look terrible soon as I’m deleting all those photos from the account before I get into trouble.
Still. All these pictures are at least 5 years old, so it’s not the end of the world.
~ Penny
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Sewing Projects: Part One
Part One of how many? I have no idea. Have some sewing pictures.
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Big Posts Are Overrated
I haven’t posted anything since February. I’ve wanted to. But I haven’t.
See, posting something to a blog may not seem like a big deal. But when you’re autistic with ADHD? Even small things can seem enormous if they have a lot of stages. Which blog posts do. You have to write the text, find images, upload them, write image descriptions, tag the post… There’s a lot.
But I want to share stuff I’ve made! I’ve done a lot of sewing since February and done some cool cross-stitches and made some cute felt animals with kits from Aldi. So what am I gonna do?
Simple. Whenever I feel up to it, I’m gonna make a post with a photo of one thing I’ve made. The post will be that single picture plus a description of the image, and that’s it.
After all. Big posts are overrated.
~ Penny
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Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
No! I don’t! But I do want to build a snow cat!
“One Day, When the Tonguin’ is Done, We’ll Take Our Leave and Go”
I have read a book, and will be writing a little review of that… well, I won’t say soon, because it all depends on when I can corral my brain into working for me. It’s like a flock of particularly dopey sheep being herded by a poorly German Shepherd who’s easily distracted by shiny hunting in Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee.
… that analogy may have gotten away from me somewhere.
My point is that I’m not here to write about a book, but about a problem I and many other people currently have: Wellerman Addiction.
Now I’m not on TikTok, but I am on Tumblr because 2020 was terrible enough to send me fleeing back to the comfort zone of my early twenties. And it was on there that some beautiful, blessed soul shared “The Wellerman”.
So you have this guy called Nathan Evans who made a video on TikTok of him singing a sea shanty called “The Wellerman”, which you can find here. This song is pretty bad-ass, but not bad-ass enough for Luke Taylor. This guy – who is nineteen, by the way, and yes, his speaking voice is that deep as well – decided to add a bassline to the song and… well. It sounds incredible.
Even better? Not only has Taylor done extra videos with him adding other voice parts (including tenor, so he is clearly one of those lads like Avi Kaplan or Tim Foust who have enviable vocal ranges), other people have now taken Taylor’s original version and added their voices to it. For example, here is a user called beccaleighz adding a rather lovely soprano to it.
But my utter favourite is one that adds not one, not two, but three more voices to Evans’s and Taylor’s: first Aaron Sloan, then Bobby Waters, and finally Jonny Stewart.
Folks. I cannot stop listening to this. So in the spirit of making everybody as hopelessly enraptured as I am, here’s the video.
You’re welcome.
~ Penny
Related Post: So. I turn 30 this year.
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Edit: OKAY NO SOMEBODY MERGED TOGETHER A BUNCH OF AMAZING VERSIONS OF THIS SONG AND IT IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER.
PEOPLE ARE AMAZING. SORRY I CAN’T LINK THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS THIS TIME, THERE’S TOO MANY, BUT OH MY LORD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.
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So. I turn 30 this year.
Remember a little less than a year ago when I said I’d be posting here more often?
Yeah. That was a fun little hope 😛 Then again, 2020. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Here’s the thing though: this year? I turn 30. And they say that when you reach the age of 30, you officially stop giving a single Technicolor fuck. So guess what I’m doing!
In celebration of my 30th year, I’ve planned 30 small and hopefully manageable challenges (as long as a few informal challenges I want to try to do), and one of those is to post here what I want, when I want, as part of Jenny Trout’s 2021: The Year of Chaotic Creation.
Let’s face it: writing-wise, things have stagnated here. I haven’t had anything published since 2017. I’m no longer on Twitter or Facebook because they were so damaging to my mental health. All attempts I made to create a “brand” for myself have fallen by the wayside.
Why not do what I want? Why not swear as much as I want? Write about my roleplaying characters? Post pictures of baking I’ve done? Talk about whatever I want?
So here we are. On the first day of the year. And the reason I’m writing this post is to talk about my book and film challenges. I have four official goals relating to books and movies:
- Make a little review of every book I read or listen to on Audible, trying to read/listen to at least twelve.
- Make a little review of every movie I see, trying to see at least twelve.
- Watch a film released in the year I was born.
- Read a book published in the year I was born.
But I also have two unofficial goals: I want to read every book listed under New Books on this Wikipedia page and see every film listed under 1991 Wide-release films on this one. I say this is unofficial because it’s very unlikely I will manage it. There are 79 fiction books on there alone, one of which is Book 14 of the Xanth series. I’d say I’d want to read the other 13 first to have context, but Ana Mardoll has written about the first three on his blog and hoooo boy.
But the reason I came here today and the reason I’m writing this post?
If I do watch every single film in the wide-release section, I will legit have to watch fucking “Citizen Kane” because it had a re-release 15 days before I was born. How cool is that?
Anyway. I’ll hopefully be back at some point, maybe after I’ve watched a film, maybe after I’ve read a book, maybe because I’ve baked something or done a cross-stitch or written something. Who knows? Not me! That’s the fun of it!
~ Penny
Related Post: I Ate’nt Dead
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