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Laura
@hazelbranch.bsky.social
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Crafting, reading, looking up at the moon 🌙
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RIP my TBR

🧡 @sadiehartmann.bsky.social
💙 my library
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
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I just finished The Massacre at Yellow Hill by @cshumble.bsky.social (the first book in the Amidst the Vastness of All Else saga) and loved it! Ready for the next, A Red Winter in the West.
The cover of the book The Massacre at Yellow Hill by C.S. Humble.
August 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Still reading, still crafting. ✨️

Book: The Black Lord by @chinckleys.bsky.social

Pattern: Witchcrafts by @thewitchystitcher.bsky.social
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the project (black, yellows, and silver-greys), scissors, and a a repurposed "mystifying mints" tin that looks like an outdated board.
July 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Today's news from the garden: more babies coming soon to the parsley.
A swallowtail butterfly laying eggs on a parsley plant in a raised bed.
July 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I'm excited to try some natural dyes on these lovely skeins of Canadian wool!
Happy to support your farm @topsyfarms.bsky.social !
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"
June 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Just finished "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" by @biidaasamose.bsky.social

Nibi has never given up. 💙
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.
June 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The best Saturday plans:
* Reading a book by @sgj.bsky.social
* Knitting
* A play later today at a small local theatre
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.
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I stopped at three indie stores today, and @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social was one of them!
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.
April 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Finished off the first single, and plied it this weekend. Embracing my snail pace.
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.
April 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I just finished "The Between" by @tananarivedue.bsky.social today, and it was so good! Jumping into "The Good House" audiobook next!
A hand holding the book "The Between" by Tananarive Due and a bookmark with a skeleton on it, outside in a backyard.
April 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Taking the spindle outside and enjoying the sunshine.
Some green handspun merino wool, on a bottom whorl (acorn shaped) drop spindle, outside in the sunshine.
April 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Listening to Bob the Drag Queen's audiobook "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" while hearing about her removal (apparently temporary) from the National Parks Underground Railway memorial, was quite the moment. I'm happy to have received a fascinating history lesson through Bob's story & music.
The cover of the book "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag Queen.
April 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A lovely spring Equinox surprise from @scottishfolkmagic.bsky.social in my mailbox this morning!
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.
March 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Snow day cuddles and a newly finished handknit.
My dog, a beagle mix, looking up at the camera while cuddled up with me, her head resting on a multicolored knit.
February 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Knitting up advent minis and enjoying the colour changes.
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.
January 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Three becoming-yarn stages.
The second spun rolag has now also been plied, and the third rolag started its transformation into yarn today.
Thank you to @nyxieh.bsky.social for carding and gifting the fiber. 🩵
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.
December 31, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Holiday spinning thanks to @nyxieh.bsky.social
Two drop spindles, one with a finished cop and the other just begun. Unspun fiber in a rolag nearby.
December 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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A quiet Sunday morning.
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.
December 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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This week's reading: "Withered Hill," "The Fright Before Christmas," "The Lost Village," and "Lanny." If forced to choose a favourite, it would be Withered Hill, but Lanny had the most emotional impact.
The cover of the book "Withered Hill" by David Barnett. A hare's face made of branches on a black background. The cover of the book "The Fright Before Christmas" by Jeff Belanger. A picture of Krampus holding up a branch in one hand and a distraught child under the other arm on a red background. The cover of the book "The Lost Village" by Camilla Sten. A picture of a large old abandoned house, with other houses in the background, under a grey sky. The cover of the book "Lanny" by Max Porter. The background is made up of two black shapes, almost like a sheet of paper torn in two, that don't quite fit together.
December 8, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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The first six in a series of tiny joys with this advent by TinyHumanKnits. I'm enjoying watching the gradient unfold.
Days one through six of a hand-dyed mini skein yarn advent showing warm browns into yellows and creams.
December 6, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is such a gift. Her books are soul-nourishing, and I love listening to her read them. I'm torn between taking it in in one go and parceling it out in many small, delicious moments.
A screenshot of the audiobook "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World" by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
November 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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An unexpected creek walk find.
A standing tree with a small carving nestled in the crook between branches. A face has been carved into a piece of a branch and placed in the crevice between branches on a standing tree
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Late autumn goldenrod fluffs Bank of a creek with fallen autumn leaves. Bright spindle tree flowers. A hole that can be seen through, in a standing tree that is partly filled with leaves. A tree version of a hag stone.
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Mmm, the joy of starting a new book. Love this cover...
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Loved this so much! Mazin Elsadig and Noah Reid were both so good. ❤️
November 16, 2024 at 9:23 PM