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Review: Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit

Tanja — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:15:07 GMT

Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit by [Vivienne Fagan](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4974820.thumbnail.jpg "Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit by Vivienne Fagan") My rating: ★★★☆☆

Funny little story :) Quick read.

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Trying out some paper

Tanja — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:09:03 GMT

I bought new paper to draw on, so I decided to do a quick sketch to see if it works. It handles the ink and paint nicely, though next time I need to wait just a bit longer before I erased my pencilmarkings after I inked…

Drawing with the Inkling

Tanja — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:54:25 GMT

I've played around with the Inkling a bit today. It requires a little bit getting used to (I tend to hold my pens low, it appears, and this interferes with the Inkling-signal).

These images show the difference between the drawing on paper (first image) and the vector-image that came from the Inkling device. It looked slightly wobbly, so I simplified the paths, resulting in the third image.

I normally don't draw with ballpoint pens so that required some adaptation on my side. I tried some handwriting and that seemed to go well (image 4). I did notice a slight misalignment every once in a while, usually if I removed the pen from the paper too far. I dotted the flower roughly at the same distance everywhere but it looks off in the Inkling-export. All in all it works pretty well, but I will have to get a hang of the quirks.

Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Tanja — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:32:23 GMT

13 Little Blue Envelopes by [Maureen Johnson](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10317.thumbnail.jpg "img13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson") My rating: ★★★★☆

I zoomed through this book, which had a lot to do with the entertaining writing. Some bits of the book didn't match up with my reality, however, after some thought, I'd rather read and enjoy a book with some factual errors, than read a boring but highly factual book. Besides, a story has the right to stray from reality ;)

At Ginny's age I did not travel Europe, I waited some more years because I didn't have the guts to do it at 18.

I enjoyed reading the parts about places that I have visited myself and could easily imagine myself back there for which the book gets points. I wanted a story to entertain me. I feel entertained. :)

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Sharpening my little knife.

Tanja — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:54:38 GMT

The tomatoes won't live long.

New shoes

Tanja — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:36:10 GMT

I needed new shoes. I don't own many so when I say 'need', I do mean need.

I had proper bad weather shoes and a pair of awesome teva sandals that I loved wearing during warm weather. The sandals had one big issue: my insoles don't fit. I have special insoles, specifically made for my weird feet to help prevent pains. The few times I wore my sandals this year I ended up with hurting feet -- even after only two hours. So I went on a mission to get other summer-y shoes. These will fit my insoles, didn't cost a fortune and I like them because they look a little weird.

Also, they look great for drawing.

Drawings from my trip

Tanja — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:50:41 GMT

I recently went on a trip to the UK and made a few drawings. This first one I made while we waited for the ferry to cross over with. As a kid I got sea-sick a lot so this trip gave me the opportunity to see if I'd still get sea-sick. See how I try to give it a positive twist?

Yeah, it didn't go so well...

We had some afternoon tea and some food at Tiny Tim's Tearoom where I made a drawing of a chair and a birth-bath. Halfway through my drawing things got moved.

Another time we had tea and food at Cafe 22. I loved the little teapot/cup set and we searched around for them at the shops, but couldn't find them. I ended up ordering a set over the internet, ah well.

We also visited Mike and his husband and played around in the pottery. I messed up a few times and still ended up with a cute little bowl. Hurray!

We went to London for a bit too and I tried drawing St. Paul's Cathedral from Tate Modern. Lots of wind, so my pens rolled of the table and my pages flipped over. That, and I misguessed the amount of space I needed. Ah, well :)

Little books

Tanja — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:21:55 GMT

I have filled up three little books with my Inkblobs. The fourth has the writing on the outside and no drawings yet.

I think I'll fill it up pretty soon and then on to the fifth. And a sixth, and probably a seventh and so on.

Clearing out my bookshelves, just in case I have lots of them next year. One has to prepare for these things :)

Happy little houses

Tanja — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:21:49 GMT

I want to live here, with the garden on top of the house.

Or maybe on the right there, with a garden and a little fence and maybe a goat.