Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Comic series of the week: Too Real Designer Problems. LOVE it. The next set in my Storybook Romance wedding invitation series is up on my design blog. The 36 Days of Type challenge on Instagram is pretty epic and awesome, if you haven't checked that out...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Best early April Fools joke: Four Sets of Identical Twins Staged a Time Travel Prank on an NYC Subway. Sadly, not a joke: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day. Privilege is what allows Sanders supporters to say they’ll...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: How The Rest Of The World Sees Donald Trump: 12 Foreign Political Cartoons. The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online. Women Need More Sleep Than Men Because Fighting the...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Over on my design blog, I launched a new freebie for indie authors, to help jumpstart the book cover design process with their designer: 50 Questions from Your Novel's Cover Designer. File under things I will never use: Sadistic Writing App Deletes Your Work if...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Advice of the week: Be thoughtful about your friends’ money situations. So much this!! Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? My result said I am a 'married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year'. Ha! The...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  I want this staircase/bookshelf so bad. Play nice! How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour. Standing Ovations Should Be Reserved for Productions That Earn It. Agreed. They lose meaning if they're given for everything. How I Learned That Being...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Arty thing of the week: Artist Dedicates His Life to Preserving Traditional Japanese Art of Wooden Sculpture Floats. All about the brainzz: This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes, and New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’....

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Question of the week: What Ever Happened To Waterbeds? The radical plan to destroy time zones. I'm... skeptical. Donate Your Old USB Drives to Fight North Korean Brainwashing. I'm legit considering sending some in. Why fruits and vegetables taste better in...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Is The Internet Killing Creativity? “Think about it. We’ve focused all our efforts on making sure we get the tech right. That we follow the right UI patterns. That our sites perform well. For the best part of our short history, we’ve focused on creating a...

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Tuesday Treasure Trove

Tuesday Treasure Trove

  Mind-blowing video of the week: World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot. Funny video of the week: Korean Girls Try American Barbecue for the First Time. I was not nearly as enthusiastic when I had Korean BBQ for the first time. New York Is Going to Turn Off...

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About

Hi, I’m Amanda!

I’m a self-employed graphic designer by day, and a crafty hungry bookworm by night. Dragonflight Dreams is where I write about books, recipes, internet goodies, life things, crafty projects, Austin happenings, and more.

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Currently Reading

The Surviving Sky
Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Chillpreneur: The New Rules for Creating Success, Freedom, and Abundance on Your Terms
Thinking, Fast and Slow


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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Amanda has completed her goal of reading 75 books in 2023!
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