Art series of the week: Artist attempts to create most frustrating products imaginable. And succeeds. Video of the Week: If Disney Princes Were Real. Funny but true. Why I Feel Bad For - And Understand - The Angry #GamerGate Gamers Beyond Tinder: Can Anyone Create A...
Video of the week: "Diet Racism" Is The Beverage Of Choice For Your Quietly Intolerant Friends. Better Identification of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half of the Warriors Were Female. 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative....
Infographic of the week: Should You Catcall That Woman? Video of the week: Modern Office with Christina Hendricks. Photo series of the week: The Taser Photoshoot: Portraits of People's Faces When Hit With A Stun Gun. I would never volunteer for this. Research shows...
Art series of the week: an artist creates surreal portraits of shelter dogs. Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction. aka. just because there's a dragon in the book doesn't mean the story isn't based on reality. Readers absorb less on Kindles...
Now that the craft show is past, I've been attending to a lot of the other to-do list items for my shop. First up, I'm finally getting photos of the made-to-order shirts on an actual person! Witness: Yeah, that's just me wearing them. I never know what to do with my...
This past weekend was the Austin Craft Riot Summer Show, otherwise known as the first major craft show that I've ever done. Which you probably knew because I basically talked about nothing else here on the blog for the past month. And of course I had high hopes,...
Art series of the week: Meticulous Cut Paper Illustrations by Maude White. Video of the week: Puppies Rolling Down Hills. Comic of the week: How to Make Small Talk with Introverts. Spot on. How to Be Polite. The Reasons I Don't Read: Causes of the Dreaded Book Slump...
Video of the week: Dear Kitten. Life lessons from an older cat. Photo series of the week: Pit Bulls Photographed As Lovely Fairy Tale Creatures. Comic of the week: Penny Arcade vs. the Mash-Up Tee. Been There, Done That: Why We Keep Retelling Fairy Tales. How To Be A...
Taking a page from Pip's book and using this list to do a life snapshot. Making : a few more prints for this weekend's craft show. Cooking : nothing at the moment. Will probably have leftovers for lunch (spaghetti). Drinking : water. Reading: The Furies by Mark...
3 Ways To Say No To People Who Want To Pick Your Brain Americans are overworked but aren't taking time off. What gives? 3 Ways to Earn More Money from Client Work 7 Weirdest Things About Working From Home. #1 so much, though usually it's to Sienna, not myself. This...
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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