miss_grimwood

Challenge #14

Try something new. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

ok, I know I haven't done challenge 13 yet, but I'm back in my playing with pictures era (for my new friends, I like to do silly manips and edits and such), I also forgot that I learned canva for an old internship so I've been playing on there again (initially to make some graphics for the Bellatrix fest) and so I decided to have a go at making some icons.

I did them for a room with a view, one of my current loves. I don't quite know icon etiquette but feel free to save and use them if you like them. also, I'm still learning how to grasp html, so I daren't try and put them under a cut yet (sorry)

 Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:

1. Something your favorite character would like
2. Something that makes you laugh
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
5. Something you find comforting
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
7. A piece of clothing you love
8. A book or song with a color in the title
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand

I'm counting my current space as my bedroom since I've spent the last week holed up in here writing

1. I think Bellatrix would like my Bellatrix doll (good for the ego), or failing that, my black boots
2. A tiny piano model - it's not necessarily the object, more the story. My mum bought it for me on a cruise after a few drinks, and she rang me to tell me how cool it was, and then was so embarrassed bringing it home when she realised it wasn't as cool as she thought. But actually I do find it cool and its a fun memory
3.This might not count as a fandom, but I really love Colin Thompson puzzles, and I'd love to spend some time in the magic library
4. Again, this loosely counts as a fandom, and I'm going to be vague because the 'fandom' in question is a local poet from the 19th century and I don't want to share my full location, but her works were recently re-published by an academic at my old university, and I just wrote an essay on her, and I'd quite like to meet him and talk to him about her
5. All of my blankets! I have 9 on my bed right now including the duvet
6. My favourite childhood film was The Aristocats, and I have so much relating to that film. Two of my fleece blankets have a Marie pattern, several pairs of pyjamas, some plushes, three little ornaments, a hot water bottle. Basically Marie is the go to theme for my family buying me gifts and has been since I was little
7. A black, paisley patterned skirt I got from the charity shop last year which is the comfiest skirt I've ever worn
8. The only book I have with a colour in the title is The Color Purple, which I can't believe, I was sure I'd have more than that
9. I don't really have any niche fandom in-jokes or references in here. I feel like people outside the being warm and cosy community don't really understand why I need so many blankets though, if that counts

 Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I set some goals in my new year post, but that was mainly fic related. So here is my expanded list of goals for 2024

- Complete the blanket I'm making from woven squares
- Host the Bellatrix fest again
- Write for at least one new fandom
- Finish my Bellamione longfic, or at least complete the outline for each chapter

I'll come back to this at the end of the year and see if I manage at least one