feb book roundup!

going from “i have to do this because my mom found out xyz” to “i need to do this because i haven’t gotten better and i still feel like this” is brutal

they don’t prepare you for how hard it hits when you realize as an adult that you are in fact, very much mentally ill and need to seek help after your only experience with psychiatrists was forced by your parents

january book roundup 😇

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

embellished embroidery of a stag beetle, with many green teal and iridescent sequins, clear and silver beads, with black beads outlining the body

bead & sequin embellished stag beetle embroidery is done! just have to finish the ornament🙂‍↕️

bummed about an opportunity that didn’t work out and worried that my current role is to blame. any thoughts from anyone who’s pivoted away from a stigmatized industry?

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.

Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

Unfinished embroidery of a stag beetle, black thread and felt making up the legs & body, marks in pen showing where the head, antennae and mandibles will be

can’t share on insta because my the recipient follows me but working on a Coleoptera beetle ornament for my entomologist coworker 🖤

This year I always had my camera and a small photo box to hand when I was gardening. My children are always finding caterpillars outside, and I wanted to document that a bit this year. With the exception of the garden tiger moth (Arctia caja), they all came from my garden.

Due to [gestures vaguely at everything], I'm evil now.

"First they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem."

omg you’re too kind!! i’ll be booking when i get paid✨

hoping to get myself a reading for the holidays from you!!!❤️

wicked was amazing i have many thoughts as someone who just started the book for the first time but wow it was so good and i cried so much

a medieval drawing of an umbrella-like bat with many arms

this gotta be one of the all time wmg classics. ive seen this image so many times and i love it more each time

Opening of the Life of Findchú from the Book of Lismore

November 25: feast of Findchú of Brí Gobann (Brigown, Co. Cork), an early medieval Irish male saint famed for his asceticism & his ability to breastfeed, taking on female characteristics. HIs medieval Irish Life is preserved in the Book of Lismore

[Life of Findchú, UCC The Book of Lismore, f. 67v]

last 3 pics are journals made during my internship at @middlesexbindery.bsky.social 🤗

I’ve seen a few posts recently arguing whether audiobooks count as reading. For me, the important thing is people are able to access books in the way that best suits them, be it ebooks, audiobooks or physical books. Some people don’t get that access at all and we that do are the lucky ones.

just showing off more books from my internship & BFA work 📚

you don't need to earn rest @ourchronicillnesstribe

great advice for my chronically ill friends
#chronicallyill #chronicillness

Love the spiraling shape of the earwires!

christmas gifts this year are handmade felt ornaments. first one done is for my stoner brother!🤗

seeing this go around so here’s mine
10 things i like/talk about so you can get to know me in no particular order:

1. bookbinding
2. bugs
3. plants
4. spooky things
5. true crime
6. fiber arts
7. printmaking
8. being queer
9. tattoos/piercings
10. being neurodivergent

If civil war breaks out, meet up at the library. They don’t know where that is.

square photo closeup of passionflower from the side, yellowish tower coming out the middle with arms of anthers and stigma sticking out like spokes on a wheel, and below and firework array of fingery pedals that are white with purple stripes, reddish fuzz in the middle

Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) definitely one of the most spectacular flowers in North America, and they grow in weedy lots across the south

I’m going to start by saying this now so there is no future confusion if you decide to follow me:

I believe that being trans is a real thing & I ❤️ LGBTQIA+ people.

I believe that diversity breeds progress & creative problem solving.

I am ANTI-racist.

I will never not believe these things.

Amazing thank you!

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

where’s the bluesky bookbinding community at 👀