Randonymity

• Some art journal pages. 🙂
• The Fourth Annual Cat Video Festival was held in St Paul recently.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance).
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Haruki Murakami’s workspace.
• 15 writerly quotes from Kurt Vonnegut.
• Favorite books of 20 famous “nerd heroes”.
• Who can tell me what Minneapolis bookstore this is?! It isn’t Magers & Quinn.
• Bookish art from Tumblr.
• Excellent response to the old “What are you reading?” question.
• Kindle Cover Disasters has an interview with one of their regulars.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• The Drinkable Book.
• “Can you play? The NHL and marketing to the LGBT community“.
• Major breakthrough in ALS research because of the Ice Bucket Challenge!
• July 2015 – the hottest month in recorded history.
• “The psychology of fandom: Why we get attached to fictional characters“.
• “15 groovy science music videos“.
• 15 tidbits about kraken.
• Things you might be surprised you can take on airplanes.
• If you’ve ever wanted a luggage-eye view of the airport…
• “Table salt is also sea salt“.

Cookity

• Very berry smoothy breakfast cookies. (via anna-sugarfairy)
• Baked oatmeal cups.
• Sweet potato veggie burgers.
• Fried cauliflower rice.
• Vegetable jambalaya.
• Arctic char rice bowl. (via The Kitchn)
• Slow cooker chicken enchilada soup.
• 20 five-ingredient chicken dinner recipes.
• “Low-rent” tuna poke bowl.
• Fresh peach frozen yogurt.
• Bee sting cake.
• Cherry chip cake.

Gluten Free

• Raspberry ricotta breakfast cake.
• Chocolate pound cake.
• Sour cream chicken enchiladas.

Crafty

• Cross stitch your Hogwarts badge.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• The Mississippi River passing through Minneapolis in 1955. (via stuffaboutminneapolis)
• Mad Max: Fury Road recreated with go-karts.
• Jurassic World recreated with LEGO.
• Lovely video of the coast.
• Tour forests and mountains from the air.
• Cat bookends.
• Yes, this.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• S’more bench. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• The Star Wars Collection from Covergirl.
• Star Wars car floor mats. (via The Mary Sue)
• Centaur anatomy art.
• Dismaland.
• Weeping Angel string lights.

Wha…?

• Who thought this was a good idea?!
• Actual pumpkin in Starbucks’ pumpkin spice lattes?! *gasp*
• Contraband cheese ring?
• Beer jelly.
• Turn a Barbie into a Swiss Army knife.

LOL

• “10 times autocorrect almost ruined summer“.
• Creepy Cake Wrecks.
• A very short film about Minnesota.
• The fourth largest religion is not what you’d expect.
• Creative inflight safety videos.
• New Simon’s Cat!

Teh Cute

• Baby red pandas! Baby mini-horse! Black cats! More black cats! Baby otter!

Reading Update
Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life by Keri Smith. Ok short activity book about how to bring more creativity into your life, which apparently involves a lot of stickers and vaguely New Agey sentiments. I did like the directions (page 61) for how to make a wee book from a single sheet of paper.
Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials by Sue Pelletier. Ok collage how-to book that’s not particularly relevant to collage for art journaling, as it focuses on creating works that are not flat. (I don’t see myself using plaster-of-paris or 18-gauge wire in my art journal.) Plus I found the artist’s style repetitive – mostly dresses, Mary Janes, and birds.

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*continuing to be enthralled* -Chaos

(Spoiler: It’s a branch. Not a bird. Not a squirrel. A branch.)