Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Scavenger Hunt

[ysabetwordsmith]

3weeks4dreamwidth is hosting a scavenger hunt today.





Find the items around your home to tick off as many boxes as possible. Answering by text or pictures (or silly doodles!), all fine :)

You can put your responses in the comments, or post to your own journal and link below.


01. The last physical book or magazine you read.

Book: The Complete Beans and Grains Cookbook

Magazine: Mother Earth News.


02. A piece of art.

A string of bells that I made for the window.


03. The view from your window.

Well, right now I'm in my office, which looks out on the streetside yard, which is forest, so all I can see is a wall of green leaves. Other windows have more interesting views -- the east window in the kitchen looks over the patio and then the forest garden (much smaller than the forest yard) with the birdfeeders.


04. Something you've kept from childhood.

This house, actually.


05. Your favorite mug.

Cobalt blue glass with white snowflakes on it.


06. Your lockscreen/desktop wallpaper.

I think it's still set to Stonehenge.


07. Something fuzzy.

A blanket similar to this, but mine says April Woman. Truth in advertising.


08. A piece of physical media.

Firedance: Songs for Winter Solstice by Jaiya


09. A tool you use in a hobby.

Garden trowel.


10. Something that makes you feel good.

A hot cup of tea, but this one is in the smaller peacock cup.

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[greghousesgf]

01. The last physical book or magazine you read.

Book: Thank You, Jeeves

Magazine: Bon Appetit


02. A piece of art. a Wayne Thibeaux print of a bunch of shoes




03. The view from your window. The courtyard and closed office of my apt bldg and part of the street.



04. Something you've kept from childhood. A hex sign from Amish country I've had since I was 13




05. Your favorite mug. A big ceramic one with a moon and a sun with faces on them I got at the Ren Fair. The guy who made it doesn't make them anymore.




06. Your lockscreen/desktop wallpaper. A picture of House looking intense and holding a hypodermic needle.




07. Something fuzzy. A sweater I washed this morning and am hanging in my bathroom to dry.




08. A piece of physical media. A Rush CD collection.




09. A tool you use in a hobby. This computer




10. Something that makes you feel good. A picture a friend drew of me kissing Hugh Laurie

[starbit]

1. The last physical book or magazine you read.

do textbooks for school count if you read more than half of the text? if yes, it was probably a training manual on power transmission systems. otherwise it was a library book I've since returned (although I don't remember what, as most of my library books are via libby) or, scraping the barrel a bit, I did read my physical copy of First Test by Tamora Pierce last summer on the airplane

1. A piece of art.

a print I bought at a michigan comicon where a cis man somehow managed to accidentally make a fantastic drawing of a heroine from a 90s fantasy novel that he'd never heard of. complete with historically accurate armor

1. The view from your window.

a couple of coast live oaks from the second floor

1. Something you've kept from childhood.

[image description: a hand sewn stuffed animal. it resembles a cartoon dog, and it is sewn in two colors of fleece. one is solid teal and one is mottled purple. it is a very cleanly sewn stuffed animal, with internal seams, but the neck is a bit floppy. it is a good size for hugging] NOTE: there is no picture to go with the image description 05. Your favorite mug.

either the purple yeti mug (practical, it keeps my tea warm) or the one my mom got at an art museum that's got a print of diego rivera's captains of industry mural (has a great many stylized pistons on it)

1. Your lockscreen/desktop wallpaper.

https://secretldn.com/london-from-international-space-station/ this picture. it's london from the ISS, taken at night. the color scheme is black and gold (from the street lights) and the curve of the thames is clearly visible

1. Something fuzzy.

you know, I don't really do fuzzy textures. I've got a well loved and well washed fleece blanket from when my brother was on swim team as a kid. it lives on the couch. I also have a giant stuffed animal whale from ikea (the same size as the infamous blahaj, but it's a whale instead of a shark)

1. A piece of physical media.

the book and CD of Philadelphia Chickens by Sandra Boynton

1. A tool you use in a hobby.

blunt tipped sewing needles because I decided I was going to learn how to hand sew a t shirt (yes, in jersey/stretch knit fabric. that's the point)

1. Something that makes you feel good.

my linen duvet cover that I hand dyed purple. it is a very pleasing texture and it took a lot of planning and physical exertion to do the actual dyeing with no backyard. every time I look at it, the color makes me happy (it's striped, medium and dark purple because the original was white and pale blue stripes) and I'm proud of the work that went into making it

[labelleizzy]

01. The last physical book or magazine you read.

Atlantic Canada by Andrew Hampstead (we're going on an RV trip!)

02. A piece of art.

I have bought my buddy Chelsea's painting, an abstract where a jumble of warm background colors with various shapes outlined in white is overlaid by darker cool swirly spirals in blue green and teal.

03. The view from your window.

Looking out into the front yard where the wind is blowing the green leaves and branches of the fig, podocarpus, and redcurrants, and the dark pink flowers on the crabapple tree are persisting.

04. Something you've kept from childhood.

I don't have much, really. Mostly ephemera, birthday cards and such. I do have a birthday card from my grandma Bert, which is both hilarious and (modernly) cringe: a large white cartoon rabbit 🐇 says, happy birthday! Knock knock, who's there? Lilac. Lilac who? You open the card and the rabbit is presenting the answer like he's on some kind of vaudeville stage: "Lilac anything if someone asks your age!"
I was 11, 12? And needed the joke explained. It seemed like a dumb thing to do and I decided I was never going to do that.

05. Your favorite mug.

I have many, mostly stoneware, and I broke one of my favorites yesterday. It fell off the table. Rough stoneware, held half a liter of tea or coffee, beautiful carving and glazing in tones of white, pale blue, and cobalt.

06. Your lockscreen/desktop wallpaper.

Oh that's easy, I have a photo of last year's Temple at burning man during the rains. The photographer caught a rainbow 🌈 arc that touched the top Temple spire beautifully, with dark skies behind.

07. Something fuzzy.

The back of my neck after yesterday's fresh haircut. Wahoo!

08. A piece of physical media.

Brene Brown's Daring Greatly audiobook on CD. I listen to it in the car sometimes.

09. A tool you use in a hobby.

Crochet 🧶 hook! I'm making my first ever sweater!

10. Something that makes you feel good.

The rainbow stained glass rose window my husband hung in the front window for me.