Author: Jax Blunt
On being all the places
Today I have driven and sat and been and driven and walked and shopped and walked and driven and walked and eaten and driven and watched and driven and eventually home. There hasn’t been a great deal of room or energy for writing, drawing or really even just being. But I’ve made the effort since…
Showing up.
Have just posted on Instagram: So I decided I’d join in with @journalofawriter #showup100 challenge, and use it to give me some impetus to work on the novel I’ve been avoiding working on for months. And I had half an hour before I needed to cook dinner, so that seemed like an ideal time to…
Stories for homes blog tour
Tonight I’ve a slightly different type of review post for you. In the stories for homes anthology, published and unpublished writers come together to create this selection of stories about what ‘home’ means. There are 55 writers included in this second charity anthology that brings issues around housing, poverty and crisis to life through the…
It's Kentwell
Time with Joan. Time with crafts and friends and a campsite so quiet you can feel the silence like a warm soft cloak, and gather it to you to calm a modern mind. Time with fires and candles and communal meals and shared wine, and games of an evening and shared memories. Time past. My…
Tinsy Winsy Weeny Tots review
OK, you are probably wondering, much as I did when I was contacted for this review, what on earth is a tinsy winsy weeny tot? Basically, as you can hopefully see in the picture above, they are hand sized, soft bodied baby dolls which come in a collectable series. Each doll has a different, very…
(early) Saturday snippets September 23rd 2017
{heading} for bed very soon, as Kentwell calls. Our last event of the tudor year, and it’s just me and Small attending. Which will be a little odd tbh, but also quite nice to spend a bit of time with just one child. We’ve four days, and have borrowed a caravan so at least I’m…
Jungle Speed – a #Bloggerboardgameclub review
Buy at amazon (affiliate) Hardly seems possible that it’s time for our second blogger board game club review, but it is. (In case you missed it, our first game was Codenames) I was quite hopeful when I saw Jungle Speed that it would be a good game to play with the younger children – it…
Big details, small picture.
One of the screener questions used in the pre autism diagnosis questionnaire is whether you’re a big picture or a small details person. I have no idea how to answer that question. As I’m sure I’ve written before (although I can’t put my cursor on where or when to link) when I was a systems…
Drawing exercises – blind contour drawing
Tonight I’m working from Draw People in 15 Minutes. (Amazon affiliate link, although I got it from the Works – there’s a banner ad in the sidebar/footer if you want to explore.) I’m using a 2B pencil and a Cass Art sketchbook, and the exercise is blind contour drawing. The idea is that you draw…
How to recover a day
Eat Cadbury flake ice-cream and watch a film. We went with Sleepless in Seattle. (affiliate link) It was good. (Yes, I’d seen it before. Big hadn’t. I had been remiss.) You can substitute something else if you really have to, although I feel the chocolate is important 🙂
