That first tiara is so cool! I love the little spider detail.

I've been so close to doing this with a banjo, but the didgeridoo is cooler!

FUSHIGI

I bought a yo-yo thinking I was going to learn some cool yo-yo tricks. I did not.

I absolutely have a contact juggling ball! It's so difficult though lol!

The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! I also added 2 new cross stitch pattern links and 2 new personal site links to the Cats page and I added 2 new cross stitch related links to the Cross Stitch page as well as a photo of a project I finished months ago but just realized I had never added.

I loved browsing your cross stitch projects. The cat lava lamp is so fun!

Aww, thanks! That cat lava lamp was super fun! I usually don't stitch the same pattern more than once but I think it would be fun to do it in some other color schemes.

Showing off another jewelry oddity I found while searching for tiaras. 🐙

It's a funky one but I have a weakness for animal themed jewelry. Are you interested in brooches at all? Like those showy bejeweled ones? I got into wearing them recently and always look for them in thrift stores.

@luckyinstar - you had me at showy and bejeweled! I am interested in anything sparkly, bonus points if it's unusual. Have you had a lot of luck thrifting brooches?

This one is so pretty! I end up loving so many tiaras you post but something about the level of detail in this one is standing out to me 🥺. Also I love that you share these finds thank you so much! They're such a treat and inspiring design wise

@floral-tears, I'm always so excited when someone else lets me know that they love the tiaras, too! With this one, it amazes me to think that each tiny leaf (and look how many there are!) was created separately. Such a lot of work went into that piece.

Felt inspired to make another short blog post this evening!

Just a short reminisce about a childhood memory.

I'm obsessed with this- how cute!!!

What an odious group. Being able to speak in favour of those books sounds like it would be a good thing though. I do not feel qualified to cast judgement on the shit birds but I enjoyed reading all the catty opinions.

My job is making books for school libraries, and it seems like I'm always hearing news of another district or entire state trying to ban books with "objectionable" material. For example, I am longer allowed to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in a book for fear of making it unbuyable in Florida. It is enraging that these people have that much power.

@oopsiedoodle - that is *unreal*.

We're starting to have problems like that in the UK, but it is not parents not wanting to read certain books, it's Nigel Forage and his ilk. - https://www.instagram.com/bannedbooksweekuk/ https://www.instagram.com/indexcensorship/ It's bad enough when bookshops have limited space, or books go out of print, or publishers refusing to publish an author's new book like the situation J.V. Jones has found herself in but

banning books from schools? There are some primary schools in the UK that don't even have a library in them which is bad, and when it comes to science fiction and fantasy and non-fiction natural history/zoology, I have a better personal library than a lot of the public ones do.