I can’t believe January’s over already. It feels like it was just winter break. Though I’m not sure where the time goes, here’s a record of what I read in January.

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So #tbsreads four books in January. I loved CVV, as I knew I would. I'm stuck on The Deep – hearing the Clipping. song in my head all the time. What did you read this month? #bookstagram #readingwrapup #januarywrapup #booknerd #procreate #bookart #bibliophile #reader

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So in January I read…

• Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (Sticky Note Review)
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Sticky Note Review)
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Sticky Note Review)
• Nyxia by Scott Reintgen (Review to come)

I spend a fair amount of time playing with the Procreate app on my iPad, so I thought I’d do something different with my wrap up posts from here on out. I watched this tutorial on YouTube about how to draw Polariods with shadows, then put my own spin on it.

I can’t tell you how fun it is.

I’m also learning hand lettering, which is different, and hard, and fun. It seems that officially finishing grad school means I now have space to learn new things. It means a new blog header is coming that will probably look something like the photo below, and that you’re probably going to see hand lettered book quotes from me.

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Playing around with chalk textures on @procreate this afternoon. I’m thinking about creating a new header for my blog, which means I’ll need a new version of my tag line. I could run it through WordSwag or Canva, but this is more fun. #digitalart #ipadlettering

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What were you up to in January?