March Paper Boat
This month feels like a rebirth of so many things held both tenuous and tight the past couple months. The news is still terrible and contains new horrors every moment, but at the very least springtime is creeping in with slightly milder and longer days signaling up an upturn in mental health. Progress on a new series of poems that are still kind of all over the place, but glorious fun. Upcoming wedding plans as we crest the 100 day mark countdown and preparations for a new book due out in summer (see the cover reveal below.) The days lately feel like minefields, in which general work productivity is torpedoed every time I check social media. One vague idea for a future book project, non-fiction, is a guidebook on how to be creative, how to live a creative life amidst, well, regular life things like jobs and bills and family obligations. I now have to add the downfall of democracy and descent into fascism and I’m not sure I know how to write about that just yet and still be encouraging (or if I even can be.)
MONTHLY ZINE
February’s zine projects, coming in just under the wire, was EXOTICA, which feels like a sister or companion book to GIRL SHOW. As if you picked up the women in parts of that book and set them down elsewhere. There are a good two decades between those two manuscripts and yet there are definitely ways they speak through and to each other. You can read the whole zine, with its attendant fauxtograph series that shaped it, HERE.
DECOR & DESIGN WRITING
This past month’s pieces on vintage and thrifting:
Breathe New Life Into A Worn Out Office Chair With A Simple & Stylish DIY Upcycle
How Erin Napier Turns A Common Thrift Store Find Into A Unique Statement Decor Piece
Swap Out Standard Kitchen Drawers For Vintage Crates To Hold Produce
DIY A Gorgeous Kitchen Decor Piece Out Of A Repurposed Thrifted Cookie Tin
The Vintage Ceiling Decor Trend That's Made A Serious Comeback
The One Piece Of Decor You Should Never Overlook In A Thrift Store (And How To Style It)
DIY A Beautiful Decorative Gallery Wall Using Old Clipboards And Jewelry
Don't Toss Broken Coffee Mugs - Use Them To Create A Unique Statement Decor Piece
ON THE BLOG
While the blog has been quieter this past month due to other kinds of writing taking precedence, there are still a couple posts of note, including a discussion on imposter syndrome and rock and roll legends and one on the glories of self-publishing…
SNEAK PEEK
As I begin to compile the poems formally into the next full-length book, I am (as I often am) already putting thoughts toward the cover. This one won’t likely drop to July or August since the early part of my summer will be kind of crazy with wedding and life stuff, but it’s coming nevertheless…while the last book felt so serious and grief swollen, this one is a little more mischievous with witches, changelings, and wraiths, villainous origin stories, and adventures underground.
HOW TO CONNECT
The best way to follow my obsessions and work is to join me on BLUESKY, where I post regular updates on what I’m working on, what I’m reading and listening to, and what inspires me. I am also still posting daily visual posts on INSTAGRAM.