Suzen (she/her)

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You'll find me knitting, walking, and reading weird and funny things 🧶✨🛸

I read Emily Henry's new book and it made me cry. A rambling review of Great Big Beautiful Life from your knitting librarian friend. Available April 21st, 2025 KNITLIBJOURNAL.SUBSTACK.COM
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen. Listening on Libro.fm and supporting local indie bookseller The Next Page.
A white person's hand, palm up with fingers in a slight fist, showing off a subtle manicure of natural pink nails with white, irregular polka dots
Suzen faces the camera, smiling. She is wearing a neon pink t-shirt and you can see the tattoo of a pitcher plant peeking out from the v-neck. She is wear new, bright red lipstick.
A hand holds a takeout container which is open to reveal what look like chicken nuggets inside. The reality is that these nuggets are actually CAKE and this product is part of Pretty Sweet Bake Shop's April Fools menu!
Suzen stands in her dark home studio while wearing headphones and feeling slightly sleepy. Her hands are on her hips as she shows off her recently finished hand knit sweater.
Holding a partially knit purple sweater while sitting in my knitting chair. The project is just a few inches away from separating for the sleeves. The pattern is Midsommar Tee by Caitlin Hunter, a bottom-up boxy tee with drop shoulders, knit with bulky weight yarn. It was published in 2024. I am using Bernat Fluffee in Amethyst Awe on size 8.00mm needles.
My goofy cat sits on my lap with his eyes closed and his paw in my right hand as I attempt to show off the trigger finger splint I wear on my ring finger.
X-ray images of my teeth are displayed on a monitor in the dentist office, a green houseplant sits in the background.
Holding a knitting project being knit with fluffy lavender coloured yarn.
Cover image of the digital audiobook, Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green. I am listening to it on Libro.fm where I received an early copy with their Librarian Program.
A woman stands with her back to the camera in a room with a black leather couch and a mural of plants painted on the wall. She is holding a triangular shawl out that is draped across her back.
A digital painting oriented in portrait in colours that look like melted icecream if melted icecream could be a planet.
The cover of the romantic comedy sci-fi novel, "I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com" by Kimberly Lemming sits in the center of a digitally marbled background.
Cover of the romantic comedy novel, "First-Time Caller" by B.K. Borison.
A hand knit triangle shawl in progress, lying flat on a white tabletop. There are small refractions of light across the surface, scattering rainbows against the white table.
I am balancing on a log near a frozen river, right leg extended out behind me as I lean forward. A very friendly dog stands below me facing in the opposite direction.
Holding an open case of earplugs while sitting in the driver's seat of a car parked in the lot of IKEA.
Suzen stands awkwardly in an art supply store. She backs up in frame and gives a little wave before making a face that resembles a turtle and turns off the camera.
The start of a small triangle knitted shawl in light grey and neon red blocks of colour. It is held flat on a white table service with my left hand, palm down.
A hand holds a slice of freshly baked white bread.
A selfie taken outside in -27C with the frozen Bow River in the background. I am smiling and slightly frozen solid inside my big parka and double woollen hoods.
A partially finished hand knit sweater lays flat on a wooden floor, a finished sleeve stretched out while the other sleeve is cropped with a ball of yarn attached. My sock feet poke out from the bottom of the frame. The sweater is very fuzzy, as if it is covered in frosty muppet eyelashes.
The illustrated cover for the mystery novel "The Framed Women of Ardemore House" by Brandy Schillace is sitting center frame on a digitally marbled background. The colour scheme is orange, purple, black and white.
A pixelated cartoon verison of Suzen, created in picrew.me
A image of an x-ray on a computer monitor. It shows a right arm laying straight with a metal plate and several screws positioned in the elbow.
Standing beside the door to my condo and front closet, I am striking a rather silly pose with my hand in the air. I am wearing rainbow dungarees and a neon yellow balaclava. I am getting ready to walk to work on the second anniversary of smashing my elbow.
Yet another knitting project in progress. The pink fabric of the knitting has a fuzzy white halo that feels like the softest muppet eyelashes. I am holding it up as I watch Melissa chat about her current knitting projects on her YouTube channel.
An image of a heart rate chart showing a jump in beats per minute from 52-123.
The light from the sunset shines on a frozen river. There are trees in the background and heavy traffic puttering along the street beside the river.
An illustrated book cover for Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson is featured centrally on a digital marbled background with a slight drop shadow that makes the cover appear like it is floating. At the top of the image, hand written in cursive, is "February 2025". At the bottom of the image, under the book cover, are 4 star emojis, the rating of the reader. The book cover shows a white man and woman stand on the shoreline of a large body of water with mountains and an old stone house in the background. The woman has long red hair and stands on a rock while wearing pink rubber boots. The man wears green rubber boots and a kilt as he steps out of the water and takes the woman's hand. This book is a rom-com about an American woman arriving in Scotland to connect with her estranged family after her father's death. When she meets the son of a rival family, secrets start spilling from the loch. Content Warning for significant descriptions of grief and the death of a parent.
An illustrated book cover for Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson is featured centrally on a digital marbled background with a slight drop shadow that makes the cover appear like it is floating. The book cover shows a white man and woman stand on the shoreline of a large body of water with mountains and an old stone house in the background. The woman has long red hair and stands on a rock while wearing pink rubber boots. The man wears green rubber boots and a kilt as he steps out of the water and takes the woman's hand. This book is a rom-com about an American woman arriving in Scotland to connect with her estranged family after her father's death. When she meets the son of a rival family, secrets start spilling from the loch. Content Warning for significant descriptions of grief and the death of a parent.
The cover image for the horror novel "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" by Grady Hendrix sits in the middle of a digitally marbled background. The cover is black with a lava lamp in the middle of the frame, a pink disembodied hand is floating in the water of the lava lamp, surrounded by a greenish-blue. The font of the book's title is gold with bold serifs, giving the impression that it was designed in the 1970s. Below the book cover are 5 star emojis, the rating of the reader.
A hand holds a THC beverage beside a knitting project in progress on their lap. they are wearing neon pink sweatpants. The knitting is a geometric colorwork pattern that resembles a disrupted checkerboard.
Suzen holds a hardcover copy of The Lamb by Lucy Rose, set to release on 02/04/2025. Here is what it's about! "With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it." (Blurb from the publisher)
A sunrise on the horizon, the photo is of a busy intersection with oncoming traffic. It is shot at 0.5x so the image is slightly distorted.
A daily spread from Suzen's bullet journal for Monday, January 27. Includes a lot of lists divided by time of day and a food tracker because this ADHD demon needs reminders about what food has been consumed so she can rule out other things when in a very heightened emotional state. For example, are you really actually pissed off at everyone or have you just not eaten since breakfast?
An overhead view of a frozen river, ice breaking apart with the currents. The snow glistens like platinum from the high midday sun.