Chapel Orahamm 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 he/they
@chapelorahamm.bsky.social
Developmental and Substantive Editor
Illustrator, Author
Level 5 TEFL Certified
A Southwesterner in Amsterdam
https://chapelorahamm.com/
Illustrator, Author
Level 5 TEFL Certified
A Southwesterner in Amsterdam
https://chapelorahamm.com/
Introduced Wren to one of my hyperfocus today that I've just always kept quiet about. Fountain pens. Showing him Montblancs was probably not nice..
Anyways, I now have a lovely Parker Midnight Astral from a half off sale for Christmas from him and I'm excited to have a new nib to play with.
Anyways, I now have a lovely Parker Midnight Astral from a half off sale for Christmas from him and I'm excited to have a new nib to play with.
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Introduced Wren to one of my hyperfocus today that I've just always kept quiet about. Fountain pens. Showing him Montblancs was probably not nice..
Anyways, I now have a lovely Parker Midnight Astral from a half off sale for Christmas from him and I'm excited to have a new nib to play with.
Anyways, I now have a lovely Parker Midnight Astral from a half off sale for Christmas from him and I'm excited to have a new nib to play with.
Share your mood for the weekend
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Share your mood for the weekend
Wondering if I can apply to work at my local model train shop even if I don't have any real Dutch language. I'll get better with interaction...
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Wondering if I can apply to work at my local model train shop even if I don't have any real Dutch language. I'll get better with interaction...
Dutch Eggnog which is called Advocaat is not my cup of tea. The brandy in it overpowers everything. Bleh.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Dutch Eggnog which is called Advocaat is not my cup of tea. The brandy in it overpowers everything. Bleh.
Taking a break from reading for the reviews and devoting a couple hours to make up more of the hourglass quilt squares.
December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Taking a break from reading for the reviews and devoting a couple hours to make up more of the hourglass quilt squares.
Book Review up for The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/19/r...
Review: The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
A department store rests between the sleeping and the awake where dreams are sold with ribbons and bows to consumers wishing to leave behind the real world for a time.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Book Review up for The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/19/r...
Writers!
Our obsession with finding antique typewriters shall soon pay off!
I say while side eyeing all the AI drivel being packed into *everything*.
Don't forget you can read physical books for your research. Your librarians would love you if you did.
Our obsession with finding antique typewriters shall soon pay off!
I say while side eyeing all the AI drivel being packed into *everything*.
Don't forget you can read physical books for your research. Your librarians would love you if you did.
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Writers!
Our obsession with finding antique typewriters shall soon pay off!
I say while side eyeing all the AI drivel being packed into *everything*.
Don't forget you can read physical books for your research. Your librarians would love you if you did.
Our obsession with finding antique typewriters shall soon pay off!
I say while side eyeing all the AI drivel being packed into *everything*.
Don't forget you can read physical books for your research. Your librarians would love you if you did.
Book review up for The Coffee House Witch and the Grumpy Cat: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
Review: The Coffee House Witch and the Grumpy Cat by Ariana Jade
The first section of a cozy coffeeshop story involving a bit of magic and a couple of talking cats.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Book review up for The Coffee House Witch and the Grumpy Cat: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
Book Review up for Letters from Half-Moon Street by Sarah Wallace: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
Review: Letters from Half-Moon Street by Sarah Wallace
A book of letters evolves into a story of romance in a magical regency setting.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Book Review up for Letters from Half-Moon Street by Sarah Wallace: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
Book Review up for Hither Page by Cat Sebastian: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
Review: Hither Page by Cat Sebastian
A post-war romance between a spy who came to the village to check on a murder and a doc trying to keep that village from a bad round of tonsillitis during Christmas.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Book Review up for Hither Page by Cat Sebastian: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/18/r...
I saw this piece at Stedelijk last month. It's massive and the colors here don't do it justice. When I encountered it the word I kept thinking to call it was Effervescent. It reminded me of champagne.
Wild Years, Bal Tabarin (1907) by Dutch artist, Jan Sluijters (1881-1957),
a popular Parisian cabaret opened in 1904
Oil on canvas,
203 x 143 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#FestiveSeason
a popular Parisian cabaret opened in 1904
Oil on canvas,
203 x 143 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#FestiveSeason
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I saw this piece at Stedelijk last month. It's massive and the colors here don't do it justice. When I encountered it the word I kept thinking to call it was Effervescent. It reminded me of champagne.
No, I'm not going to waste my time making a booktok account for doing my book reviews. And I'm not messing with Insta or Meta.
I'm keeping it blog style like the early 2000s and that makes me eager to continue. If that means a smaller audience, so be it. I can't compete with the bot farms.
I'm keeping it blog style like the early 2000s and that makes me eager to continue. If that means a smaller audience, so be it. I can't compete with the bot farms.
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
No, I'm not going to waste my time making a booktok account for doing my book reviews. And I'm not messing with Insta or Meta.
I'm keeping it blog style like the early 2000s and that makes me eager to continue. If that means a smaller audience, so be it. I can't compete with the bot farms.
I'm keeping it blog style like the early 2000s and that makes me eager to continue. If that means a smaller audience, so be it. I can't compete with the bot farms.
Review ready for The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/17/r...
Review – The Magpie Lord: KJ Charles
The Magpie Lord KJ Charles Affiliate Link to Book – Amazon Non-affiliate Link to Book – Kobo KJC Books (c) 2017 Summary A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exil…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Review ready for The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/17/r...
Review for A Suitable Stray by R. Cooper is up:
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Review: A Suitable Stray by R. Cooper
Tiiran is fae-touched and desperate to be touched by a pair of handsome blokes a good foot taller than him. They in turn are keenly aware that Tiiran is going to be more than a handful.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Review for A Suitable Stray by R. Cooper is up:
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Review for Neon Gods by Katee Roberts is up: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/17/r...
Review: The Neon Gods by Katee Robert
Persephone makes a deal with Hades to get out of an arranged marriage to Zeus, but is she ready to find out what’s behind Hades’ glossy black door?
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December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Review for Neon Gods by Katee Roberts is up: chapelorahamm.com/2025/12/17/r...
Got no sewing done on the quilt squares.
Did read a book from start to finish.
I'll take that.
Did read a book from start to finish.
I'll take that.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Got no sewing done on the quilt squares.
Did read a book from start to finish.
I'll take that.
Did read a book from start to finish.
I'll take that.
Just a reminder,
You don't need a fancy sewing machine to piece or quilt if you've got the patience and physicality to do it by hand.
Still not sold on the patterns, but that's what happens when you buy mystery fabric.
You don't need a fancy sewing machine to piece or quilt if you've got the patience and physicality to do it by hand.
Still not sold on the patterns, but that's what happens when you buy mystery fabric.
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Just a reminder,
You don't need a fancy sewing machine to piece or quilt if you've got the patience and physicality to do it by hand.
Still not sold on the patterns, but that's what happens when you buy mystery fabric.
You don't need a fancy sewing machine to piece or quilt if you've got the patience and physicality to do it by hand.
Still not sold on the patterns, but that's what happens when you buy mystery fabric.
Hoi! Goedemorgen!
Calling all friendly Dutch folk.
Can someone tell me where in the Amsterdam area (Utrecht or Leiden are also valid) I can find a fabric shop that carries quilters cotton? I have a binding I need to replace.
Calling all friendly Dutch folk.
Can someone tell me where in the Amsterdam area (Utrecht or Leiden are also valid) I can find a fabric shop that carries quilters cotton? I have a binding I need to replace.
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hoi! Goedemorgen!
Calling all friendly Dutch folk.
Can someone tell me where in the Amsterdam area (Utrecht or Leiden are also valid) I can find a fabric shop that carries quilters cotton? I have a binding I need to replace.
Calling all friendly Dutch folk.
Can someone tell me where in the Amsterdam area (Utrecht or Leiden are also valid) I can find a fabric shop that carries quilters cotton? I have a binding I need to replace.
This flu has ended in parosmia. Almost everything edible smells and tastes like cider vinegar. 🤢
This is weird. I don't recommend. It should go away?
This is weird. I don't recommend. It should go away?
December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This flu has ended in parosmia. Almost everything edible smells and tastes like cider vinegar. 🤢
This is weird. I don't recommend. It should go away?
This is weird. I don't recommend. It should go away?
Hi, yes, I despise whoever of you told me about the Backrooms.
I absolutely did not need this to turn into my winter hyperfocus. I had wanted guache painting or architecture drawing but nooooo, now I know too much about an alt-dimension haunted magic maze.
Thaaaaanks...
I absolutely did not need this to turn into my winter hyperfocus. I had wanted guache painting or architecture drawing but nooooo, now I know too much about an alt-dimension haunted magic maze.
Thaaaaanks...
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hi, yes, I despise whoever of you told me about the Backrooms.
I absolutely did not need this to turn into my winter hyperfocus. I had wanted guache painting or architecture drawing but nooooo, now I know too much about an alt-dimension haunted magic maze.
Thaaaaanks...
I absolutely did not need this to turn into my winter hyperfocus. I had wanted guache painting or architecture drawing but nooooo, now I know too much about an alt-dimension haunted magic maze.
Thaaaaanks...
Pain 🧵 and why 1-10 doesn't work.
In 2020 I had an AVM rupture in my brain, resulting in a stroke.
This is often referred to as a suicide headache with good reason. You find your way out with that type of pain.
However.
I had been raised to deeply ignore my pain signals.
Other people had 'real'
In 2020 I had an AVM rupture in my brain, resulting in a stroke.
This is often referred to as a suicide headache with good reason. You find your way out with that type of pain.
However.
I had been raised to deeply ignore my pain signals.
Other people had 'real'
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Pain 🧵 and why 1-10 doesn't work.
In 2020 I had an AVM rupture in my brain, resulting in a stroke.
This is often referred to as a suicide headache with good reason. You find your way out with that type of pain.
However.
I had been raised to deeply ignore my pain signals.
Other people had 'real'
In 2020 I had an AVM rupture in my brain, resulting in a stroke.
This is often referred to as a suicide headache with good reason. You find your way out with that type of pain.
However.
I had been raised to deeply ignore my pain signals.
Other people had 'real'
Why do I not buy used books anymore but instead digitals when financially used is cheaper?
So that I don't have to pay for square footage a bookshelf would take up. Ie cheaper rent. Maybe it's a wash. But in the Netherlands adults pay for the library. So I'm paying one way or another.
So that I don't have to pay for square footage a bookshelf would take up. Ie cheaper rent. Maybe it's a wash. But in the Netherlands adults pay for the library. So I'm paying one way or another.
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Why do I not buy used books anymore but instead digitals when financially used is cheaper?
So that I don't have to pay for square footage a bookshelf would take up. Ie cheaper rent. Maybe it's a wash. But in the Netherlands adults pay for the library. So I'm paying one way or another.
So that I don't have to pay for square footage a bookshelf would take up. Ie cheaper rent. Maybe it's a wash. But in the Netherlands adults pay for the library. So I'm paying one way or another.
This flu needs to quit already.
I have travel blogs to write up and books to put back up.
Also...I feel like none of the OTC meds I can get in the Netherlands are effective. I miss what I'm used to I guess.
I have travel blogs to write up and books to put back up.
Also...I feel like none of the OTC meds I can get in the Netherlands are effective. I miss what I'm used to I guess.
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This flu needs to quit already.
I have travel blogs to write up and books to put back up.
Also...I feel like none of the OTC meds I can get in the Netherlands are effective. I miss what I'm used to I guess.
I have travel blogs to write up and books to put back up.
Also...I feel like none of the OTC meds I can get in the Netherlands are effective. I miss what I'm used to I guess.
Some content creators have the perfect voice to sleep to and I feel bad that it sounds like an insult but I'm sick and listening to this guy cover the 100 levels of Backrooms lore put me to sleep in less than 5 levels. I woke up to level 28 and am now debating on listening again to get more sleep.
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Some content creators have the perfect voice to sleep to and I feel bad that it sounds like an insult but I'm sick and listening to this guy cover the 100 levels of Backrooms lore put me to sleep in less than 5 levels. I woke up to level 28 and am now debating on listening again to get more sleep.
Netherlands flu/covid test is neat. It just checks all of them at once on one strip. I didn't know you could even do that.
And I have flu A.
And I have flu A.
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Netherlands flu/covid test is neat. It just checks all of them at once on one strip. I didn't know you could even do that.
And I have flu A.
And I have flu A.