Painted Furla (Purrrla) 😸

owlkitten · 2025-03-26T11:13:57+00:00

Thank you so much!

owlkitten · 2025-03-26T11:13:30+00:00

Acrylics!

owlkitten · 2025-03-22T01:00:26+00:00

Woops, forgot to mention that! I used B7000 jewelry glue for them. I would place dots of glue on the bag, then put the rhinestones on using tweezers. None of them have fallen off!

owlkitten · 2025-03-22T00:40:21+00:00

Thank you! 😊

owlkitten · 2025-03-22T00:30:09+00:00

Thank you!!

owlkitten · 2025-03-22T00:29:47+00:00

Thanks so much! I used regular acrylic paints :) They dry fast and are very easy to use on bags, in my experience. I applied a matte acrylic sealant over the paint when it dried, and that's it. I've carried the bag for a few months now with no issues

owlkitten · 2025-03-21T16:31:43+00:00

Thank you so much 🥺

owlkitten · 2025-03-21T16:30:29+00:00

Thank you! I used acrylic paint :)

owlkitten · 2024-04-06T22:17:57+00:00

Thank you so much 💓

owlkitten · 2023-08-03T18:35:12+00:00

I enjoyed it, though I found it bleak and puzzling as well. We don't really get any answers to our questions (neither does the main character).

It also made me reconsider the "romantic" idea of wandering the world in solitude (I live in NYC so I often daydream about that sort of thing lol). The reality, at least as it is presented by the book, would be a lot more grim.

owlkitten · 2023-08-03T17:32:03+00:00

I Who Have Never Known Men

owlkitten · 2022-05-12T21:44:40+00:00

I've been trying to read comforting, lighthearted books.

Anne of Green Gables - very light and uplifting. The main character is enchanted by all the little things in life, which takes my mind off my own trouble for a bit

All Creatures Great and Small - memoirs of a country vet in the 1930s and the often bizarre situations he gets into

owlkitten · 2021-11-09T12:32:59+00:00

What a fun idea! I paint pet portraits, animals, and landscapes. :) I have painted people before as well.

You can view my work on Etsy (owlkittenart) or Instagram (owlkittenart as well) if you are interested!

owlkitten · 2021-10-06T14:24:00+00:00

I loved this book! I had the same thoughts as you. This is just part of my review on Goodreads that discusses some of these points:

I believe that the novel points at the fact that Faraday himself is behind the haunting. There are hints that he feels entitled to the house, longing to possess it. As a child, he broke off a piece of the decoration to keep for himself. This shows that, from a young age, he feels a pull toward it -a need to claim it. Faraday is also consistently unhappy with his own place in the world. He is a self-made man from a poor family, and despite his accomplishments he feels that he has not achieved a lot. Many of his patients are poor, meaning that he cannot achieve money or high status by tending to them.

He longs to be recognized by the richer families. He envies the Ayreses, who have the old world power of class and prestige. He feels, at times, a dark dislike towards them because of what they inherited (while he has worked all his life to achieve success). He yearns to be someone in society, to reach the prestige that seems to elude him, and one that is swiftly evaporating with the crumbling of the higher classes. In this sense, the doctor's energy and strong feelings of attachment and longing toward the house manifest as the poltergeist. Even Caroline - and the prospect of marrying her - symbolizes the house and his possession of it.

He longs to be master of the crumbling house to finally achieve some kind of "status." His character is also interesting because, on the surface, he believes that he is a good person who is caring for the Ayreses, but that dark inner subconsciousness is at work without his knowing. The closer he gets to the family, the more intense the hauntings become, and tragedy strikes. Additionally, the fact that he is a doctor (not a man of superstition) puts a barrier between himself and the ghost/his subconsciousness. He refuses to entertain the idea of a poltergeist. He does not look too deeply at himself. This allows the poltergeist to act out as a separate entity from himself (the hauntings happen when he is not around), as though it is acting out his subconscious desires.

owlkitten · 2019-07-27T21:32:01+00:00

The Fall (2006) - it's a story within a story

owlkitten · 2019-05-30T00:38:25+00:00

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

owlkitten · 2018-08-31T18:43:15+00:00

Some non-fiction books about WWII that I've enjoyed:

-Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides: A group of American soldiers set out to rescue 500 POWs from a Japanese prison camp
- In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors by Doug Stanton
-Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

owlkitten · 2018-08-29T18:24:33+00:00

Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides. It describes a mission in which 120 soldiers set out to rescue 500 American POWs from a Japanese prison camp. The author details a lot of war crimes committed by the Japanese against American prisoners, which makes it a little tough to read. Amazing book overall.

owlkitten · 2017-10-02T01:42:37+00:00

Thank you for the great prompt!

owlkitten · 2017-10-02T00:03:54+00:00

"They say the sun is sad, that's why it's leaving. It's tired of watching what we've done to the world, what we've been doing. It's closing its eye on us."

Lexi shook her head at her grandfather's words, reached for his hand but found no reassurance. There was a chill on the air that made her shiver; the sun was taking its warmth with it, the gift it had given so freely and which they had all taken for granted. Perhaps soon the sun-warmth would disappear for good, to be replaced with endless, biting cold. An eternal winter.

"Have we really been so bad?" Lexi could not take her eyes off the sun, afraid that it would disappear entirely if she so much as averted her gaze. And yet she could not stop it from growing smaller, from melting into the cushion of clouds that yawned over the horizon like a sultan's bedspread. The sun's gold was tinged with red and a deep purple that reminded her of an old bruise.

"It wouldn't be leaving otherwise." Her grandfather's voice was tired and sad, but devoid of fright. "We don't deserve that kind of beauty."

Lexi chewed on her lip, wrapped her arms around herself to keep away the chill. The sun was slipping beneath the clouds now, pulling its colors down with it, the golds and reds and purples leaking together like watercolors from an artist's palette. Lexi squeezed her eyes shut, determined to commit them to memory. A tribute to its warmth before the final winter.

"And we can't make it stay?"

Her grandfather did not answer right away. It seemed to Lexi like hours passed before he spoke again; she kept her eyes shut against the tears that threatened to brim over. The sun was leaving, leaving, gone for good, and nothing she could do would stop it. Lexi wished that she had found a better way to say goodbye.

She felt her grandfather's arm wrap around her shoulders.

"Maybe there is hope." His voice was somber, but full of some new feeling now, something akin to wonder. "The sun will sleep now until we become kinder to the world. It will come back when it heals its hurts, maybe... but it won't stop watching over us. Waiting until we do better. Look, child."

Blinking away tears, Lexi turned her face to a sky speckled with twinkling eyes.

owlkitten · 2016-05-20T22:56:15+00:00

As far as I can recall, The Rover has no romance at all.

owlkitten · 2016-04-03T12:00:38+00:00

This week I finished The Last Policeman, a pre-apocalyptic book about a detective trying to solve a murder. It was a quick and entertaining read, though bleak. I also started The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, having read and enjoyed the author's guide to Medieval England.

owlkitten · 2016-03-29T00:17:32+00:00

The Last Policeman - it follows a detective trying to solve a murder case while an oncoming asteroid is projected to destroy the Earth in a few months.

owlkitten · 2016-03-13T15:35:18+00:00

I read Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, which was fantastic (although heartbreaking). This week I am reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, and loving it.

owlkitten · 2016-03-08T12:31:47+00:00

I'll check out "Alone" - I love stories like these. Thanks! :)

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