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Chapter 15 of A Strange, Unearthly Thing is now up! In which ball preparations are underway, and there is quite a bit of fluff 🥰

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63943552/chapters/172539523

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Chapter 10 of Lavender Blue is now up, and it's royal wedding time! 🦋✨

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64839799/chapters/172183282

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Oh goodness this is so funny to run across because I know what this is. It’s a self-published series from an acquaintance of mine: The Gate Chronicles by Alli Earnest. I was asked to be a proofreader of the first book, and I opened the ARC (yes, it was actually supposed to be that close to publishing) to find it needed major editing, despite an editor already having gone through it. Goodness, I did entirely too much work on that thing.

She asked me to proofread the second book too, this time at an earlier stage in the process (but still after the ‘editor’). Reluctantly I agreed, hoping it would be better this time. Nope. Like the first book, this one needed major structural work, which I wasn’t about to do. I fixed what I could (including corset inaccuracies) and passed it back.

Honestly, even without the editing issue, the plots of both books aren’t particularly great, and the characters irritate/need work. Wouldn’t recommend 😅

Deeply upset by the implication that Rogue One DIDN'T have a romantic subplot.

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Chapter 14 of A Strange, Unearthly Thing is now up! In which Lockwood and Lucy cuddle and dream 🥰

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63943552/chapters/171925225

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Chapter 9 of Lavender Blue is now up! In which the King meets Marissa Fittes-Carlyle 😬

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64839799/chapters/171583477

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Chapter 13 of A Strange, Unearthly Thing is now up! In which we meet the vicar of Lockwood and Lucy's parish, Mr Barnes 🤭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63943552/chapters/171159226

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Chapter 8 of Lavender Blue is now up! Will the King find his queen?🦋✨

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64839799/chapters/170775727

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Chapter 12 of A Strange, Unearthly Thing is now up! In which Lucy comes to terms with what's expected of her in marrying the master of Thornfield Hall 👀

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63943552/chapters/170520166

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Chapter 7 of Lavender Blue is now up! In which Things Go Down at the ball 😬

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64839799/chapters/170153584

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1940s refashion! Before pic at the end. Originally the brown part was a 40s repro that I’d kept trying to fix, but the pattern wasn’t very good. So I took it apart and used a true vintage 40s bodice and 60s skirt patterns, as well as new mustard fabric, to make a new dress!

The scallops on the skirt were drafted, and I borrowed pockets from another pattern. I had the buttons in my stash; they were just the right shade👌Best part is it still matches my vintage (midcentury) brown hat! Here’s how the dress looked in its previous iterations lol.

I was sort of inspired by the particolored dresses from the medieval era, and the 40s did it too!

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A lovely thing about sewing with bedsheets is there’s a ton of fabric in them 😆 Made this dress from an original 50s pattern! The pockets are gloriously huge, and see all that fabric in the back? So much range of motion while walking! 👌

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Chapter 11 of A Strange, Unearthly Thing is now up! I do believe you guys will enjoy this one especially 🤭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63943552/chapters/169894876

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The digital download print of my color La Belle Dame Sans Merci is on sale!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1886924055/color-la-belle-dame-sans-merci-print?ref=shop_home_active_3&pro=1&logging_key=ac9bbf21f8c63ad790ed2f6598b222be5f165a19%3A1886924055

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My digital download coloring pages are on sale!

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My locklyle version of Klimt's The Kiss is on sale as a digital download print in my Etsy shop right now!

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My Portland Row (color) digital download art is on sale right now! Just one more day left!

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Chapter 6 of Lavender Blue is now up! In which Lucy meets the King 👀🦋

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64839799/chapters/169536169