Laura

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Crafting, reading, looking up at the moon 🌙

Picture of the book "Hark! The Herald Angel's Scream" with a windowsill filled with potted plants, a lit jar candle, and a felt gnome in the background. The book cover shows a person in a Santa costume with the Santa mask pulled away to reveal a green gorey face below, and snow falling around them.
Two books on the self-checkout scanner at the library: Feral & Hysterical, and 101 Horror Books To Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann/Mother Horror
The cover of the book The Massacre at Yellow Hill by C.S. Humble.
Picture shows the book "The Black Lord" by Colin Hinckley (yellow background with birch trees and an ominous black tree-like shape amongst them) and a cross stitch project (says "Witchcrafts" and shows various crafting tools like scissors and needles along with bats, crescent moons, and a cauldron) against a dark green background. Also includes the embroidery floss for the project (black, yellows, and silver-greys), scissors, and a a repurposed "mystifying mints" tin that looks like an outdated board.
A swallowtail butterfly laying eggs on a parsley plant in a raised bed.
Five skeins of fingering weight natural colored Canadian wool from Topsy Farms on a blue comforter. Beside the skeins, there is a card with a picture of a sheep and the words "Thank you for helping us to keep the farm land as a farm - Brownie"
The book "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson held in my left hand, with my dog laying in the sunny grass in the background.
A picture of a steel gray, partially knit, sweater (pattern is The Weekender by Andrea Mowry) on knitting needles and the book "The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones.
Indie Bookstore Day haul from three stores showing eleven books and a "final girls read books" tote bag. Books are: "Queer as Folklore" by Sacha Coward, "Boreal: an Anthology of Taiga Horror," "Mapping the Interior" by Stephen Graham Jones, "The Black Lord" by Colin Hinckley, "You Will Speak For The Dead" by RA Busby, "Thyme Travellers: an Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction," "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, "All The Quiet Places" by Brian Thomas Isaac, "21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act" by Bob Joseph, "Indians on Vacation" by Thomas King, and "Making Love With The Land" by Joshua Whitehead.
A fabric basket sits on a window ledge. It contains unspun merino wool fibre that has been dyed in green tones with some brown, as well as some of the fibre that has been spun and two-plied. An acorn tipped bottom-whorl spindle sticks out of the basket.
A hand holding the book "The Between" by Tananarive Due and a bookmark with a skeleton on it, outside in a backyard.
Some green handspun merino wool, on a bottom whorl (acorn shaped) drop spindle, outside in the sunshine.
The cover of the book "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag Queen.
The book "Milldust and Dreaming Bread: Exploring Scottish Folk Belief & Folk Magic" by Scott Richardson-Read and a framed illustration of the Cailleach and the Bodach at Tigh nam Bodach.
My dog, a beagle mix, looking up at the camera while cuddled up with me, her head resting on a multicolored knit.
Two panels of knitting in progress: one with 6 colours in a dark pink to cream gradient, and the other with the first three of the same colours.
A curled up rolag, a drop spindle with a rolag's worth of fiber spun on it, and a skein of yarn made from the third rolag. The colour of fiber varies from gray to light and darker purples and blue.
Two drop spindles, one with a finished cop and the other just begun. Unspun fiber in a rolag nearby.
A picture of items on a wood table: a blue ceramic mug of coffee, the book "A Witch's Guide to Burning" by Aminder Dhaliwal, and a handspun yarn knitting project, lit by nearby candles.
The cover of the book "Withered Hill" by David Barnett. A hare's face made of branches on a black background.
Days one through six of a hand-dyed mini skein yarn advent showing warm browns into yellows and creams.
A screenshot of the audiobook "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World" by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
A standing tree with a small carving nestled in the crook between branches.
Late autumn goldenrod fluffs