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Halloween: Treats and Treats

October 30, 2015

I love Halloween. When I was a kid, my sister and I used to go trick-or-treating around our village. I remember I usually got so much candy from those to last me an entire year (though the best chocolate bars would be gone within a week!) I don't remember dressing up back then, though I found this photo of me and my sisters recently. I'm a witch, @karentiuseco a clown, and @ktiuseco a skinny Ate. What randomness. #nationalsiblingsday #nsbA photo posted by Katherine (@kaichypoo) on Apr 11, 2015 at 5:37am PDTFor[...]

art / Betty Edwards / books / Chef's Classics / drawing / Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain / exercise / food styling / inspire / learning / portrait / project / skill / step by step / WIP / work in progress

Reading/Drawing/Styling

October 6, 2015

If there's anything that can be done one day at a time, it's learning. I advocate the thinking that anything can be learned, even skills that people insist are dependent on talent, like singing, dancing, and writing. Sure, talent makes it so that there is a predisposition to a skill, but with enough attention to the right procedure and plenty of practice, I think every skill can be developed. I've always envied visual artists, those that can replicate the world around us, and especially those that can tra[...]

adventure / bibliophile / books / codes / computers / dreams / driving / fantasy / fiction / Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore / mystery / reading / review / Robin Sloan / technology / traffic / typography / young adult

Reading Dangerously

September 16, 2015

That morning light and tree-cast shadowsIt was a combination of I-Couldn't-Put-It-Down and The-Traffic-Is-Stressing-Me-Out that made me whip out the book I'd been reading. I had reached the plot twist, and it was making me antsy. At the climax of most books, I have this bad habit of glancing ahead, wanting to find a word or phrase to lessen the weight of not knowing what's about to happen... and then I feel guilty the moment I glean exactly that, regretting I did not wait for the proper build up. I finish[...]