The leaves are starting to shiver. Nests are falling from the trees (I picked one up and brought it home...then the SO then wrote about it and I got laughed) and there is a bite to the air, a familiar bite, a bite the majority of us wyrdos ache for through all spring and summer.… Continue reading The Wyrd Words & Effgies Guide To Autumn Part I : Wyrd Crafts To Do In The Autumnal Months
For someone who eat, sleeps, breathes black, I shouldn’t have, in theory, fallen madly, deeply in love with Mermaid Toast . But I did. The Insta-toast-artisans captured what looked like the Aurora Borealis in cream cheese. Of course I was going to be impressed. But naturally, I needed to go against the grain, and I… Continue reading Cooking In The Dark : Witch Toast
If you were born in the 80's you should remember watching the Moomins, and you ought to remember one of the show's best and most disturbing characters, The Groke (or in Swedish, Mårran. Morra means to growl; or to grumble). I can still remember my little heart rate increasing when she made he first appearance… Continue reading Moomintroll And The Groke
I haven't spent much time on Etsy this year, but one of the discoveries I (thankfully) made on one of my brief visits was Dark Crosses, a store providing 'Counted cross-stitch charts with a darker twist.' Based in York, England Dark Crosses is run by Jacob de Graaf, a Netherlands native who moved to York… Continue reading Shopping In The Dark : Dark Crosses
Oh my goodness if feels so good to sit down and write here. I've been aching for my blog for days now, and have felt so fucking forlorn when I've needed to go to bed without sharing. But I'm here now and can breathe a little bit easier. This little project of mine went much… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : A Week Of Swedish Words
So, you'll all know about my obsession with embroidery. And believe me, it's only going to get stronger so if you've had enough, better to back off now. For those of you still here, you're in for a treat! I've been lurking around Instagram on the hunt for embroidery to get my creative juices flowing,… Continue reading Intriguing Instas : The Yellow Wallpaper
I was excited when I woke up this morning, excited A: because there was snow outside (but also great stretches of ice which made walking to school a bitch). B: Because I had SFI and I am loving learning Swedish for real. And C: because after my SFI class I would be heading down the… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : A Week Of Swedish Words
As I mentioned in my last post, I was going to start a little project this week where I stitched one Swedish word a day. And today, to my own shock and disbelief, I actually managed to start it. Before I got stitching today though, I headed out into the cold with a goal -… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : A Week Of Swedish Words
My time management skills used to be phenomenal. I don't mean to brag, but really, they were. However, following my 'breakdown' last year (when I came off my medication and was hardly functioning for months), I've struggled to claw back my time, and now it seems like I have less of it than ever before.… Continue reading Stitching In The Dark : Stitching Into 2017
For this second post in my new Instagram series, I want to focus on, and celebrate Hord an account which brings memories of my Yorkshire homeland back to me in droves. "BORN IN THE BLEAK, ROLLING MOORS OF YORKSHIRE, HÔRD ECHOES THE COLD, BRAZEN LANDSCAPE AND COMBINES IT WITH THE WARMTH AND WELCOMING FEEL OF… Continue reading Intriguing Instas : Hord
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 