MissionSparrow – Page 8 – A Midsummer’s Blog

portal to pirates ocean

My fingers danced over the controller, fiddling with the stick and pressing buttons ferociously. “Ugh!” I sat back and ran my hand through my hair, knocking my cat-eared headphones onto my shoulders. The screen in front of me bore the ominous screen of death:

Game over: GameZero died. Restart? Or …Pay five-thousand silver to continue.

Groaning I checked the amount of silver I had. 7,000.

“One more try, then I’ll play somethin’ else.” I clicked the ‘pay five thousand to continue’ and grabbed my headphones to slide them back on.

the coming of age of Taxídia, goddess of travels

Taxídia was with her mother among the mortals as she grew to adulthood. One day in a tavern she met a plain young man, whom she fell in love with. He was a sturdy traveler, skilled with the bow, and she accompanied him on many a journey. At the end of a particularly long journey, in the capital of Archaíos, he proposed to her.

Testing acrylic paint

My bullet journal has been feeling a bit bland lately, so I thought for the new month I would spice it up with an interesting theme: mushrooms. After some consideration on how to go about creating this theme, I decided to throw myself into the waters and try acrylic painting. Now, I’m not entirely new to acrylic painting, I’ve done it once …maybe twice before. But never directly into my prized bujo, so the stakes were somewhat raised for this particular painting.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness – a short note on the day

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

With each passing Independence day, I see more and more signs simply saying ‘happy July 4th’ and wonder with each one … are we, as the people of this nation, forgetting the meaning behind why we celebrate July 4^th, or rather, why we celebrate Independence day?

Steampunk Journal

One of my friends is entering collage this fall. She is very creative and an avid writer, so, knowing her aesthetic, I thought she would appreciate a steampunk journal as a going off to college gift.

Chocolate Banana Bread

I don’t enjoy scrolling through pages upon pages of how someone made the recipe and why, along with random life stories. So, I won’t put you through that either. Instead, sparing you my tale of woe, here is the recipe:

Wedding cake for eldest sister

The day has finally come when I craft a cake for a genuine wedding. Knowing the cake was for such a special day was exciting and at the same time incredibly nerve racking. Since I was to help with some of the wedding prep aside from the cake, I wanted to make sure there was plenty of time to complete the cake. So we started approximately two weeks in advance.

Winter Wonderland Cake

It all started when my sister forgot to tell me what her cake should look like. I asked her what she ‘wanted’ the cake to be …she assumed I was talking about flavor, and said lemon or vanilla. So I decided since her birthday falls in January, and it is always horrendously snowy this time of year, to surprise her with a snow storm or winter wonderland themed cake.

Happy New Year! 2023 BuJo Set up

…And a new year begins. For me the start of this year was a great time to attempt a reset physically and mentally. One of the few things I stalled doing during the last number of months was bullet journalling with any earnestness. As the bullet journal was supposed to help me be more productive, I believe I also lost some of my productivity when the bujo exited my daily life. So, I am going to set up the spreads for the coming year and month to hopefully launch myself back into bullet journalling.

1st Junk Journal

What do you do with a hard-bound book you really don’t need but are too lazy to get rid of? Turn it into a journal, perhaps.

As Christmas crept closer, I finally finished the journal I was putting together as a gift. The reality is that making a journal is not as hard as one would think. The hardest part of this one was probably separating the original book from its cover.