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
I'm still trying to make up my mind about USBM project Howls Of Ebb... But they're intrigued me enough with this track from their 2016 album Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (it was the album art which drew me to it initially) to want to check out the rest of their discography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HB1xleU6Gc
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
From a photoshoot I did this afternoon with @erzabethbathory. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPQauvLhmOn/?taken-by=katiemariemetcalfe&hl=en
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
Listened to Leonard Cohen's final album You Want It Darker today. Bowled. The fuck. Away. Here's my favourite track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
It's been ages since I've given Norwegian black metallers Mistur some attention, which is strange because I'm normally up to date with the sounds coming from Bergen way. So today I decided to give their latest album In Memoriam a spin. It's one hell of a feast, crowded with variety. Enjoying it very much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGB1TGRl5nY
On the 24th of December, one of my all-time favourite authors Richard Adams passed away. To honour his finest work and a book which changed my life and inspired the direction I would take as a writer, I will be sharing my favourite artistic finds which celebrate Watership Down. Today I've been on Etsy and… Continue reading Watership Down Worship : Etsy Finds
It's been a while since I've given some of my time to USBM project Ash Borer, but yesterday I listened to their latest album The Irrepassable Gate in its entirety and relished every moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu4Gzzd3ZOM
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 