Emily Jane Buehler (she/her)

A large tomato on a pile of multicolored heirloom tomatoes, and the bottom of the fruit seems to have several small tomatoes embedded inside it

I don't know about this tomato

My mom probably hid it from me because she thought it would freak me out

A grid of book covers, all with bright colors and featuring images like a romantic couple, flowers, animals, and teapots; the books are A Fellowship of Bakers and Magic, A Coup of Tea, Princesses and Pastries, Wooing the Witch Queen, The Magic Seeker, Books and Broadswords, Brewed in Magic, The Wind and the Wild, Tusk Love, How to Find a Nameless Fae, The Spellshop, Behooved, Violet Thistlewaite is not a Villain Anymore, Must Love Scones and Secrets, and Sorcery and Small Magics

Here are the comp titles I've found so far for my upcoming romantasy novel, The Magic Seeker. If these seem like your kind of books, free ARCs are available at BookSirens: booksirens.com/book/E6AI9KI...

How have I never encountered this book with my names?!

Yes, he followed it from window to window...

I can only imagine the zoomies he'd get from coffee!🤣

Cat sitting in the sun in a window in an awkward position

Coco is having a Monday...

Obviously there is some power deeply rooted in that mosaic ball that they are channeling!

Agree, that raspberry fluff looks weird but the consistency of the squishy cherry in D would be the worst one for me

A faded background scene of a bar with bottle of alcohol, with the text, “So where you from?” he persisted, sliding closer. Her face warmed. This was another reason she avoided people. Especially men. Sometimes when they talked to her she sensed their interest floating in the air but she couldn’t describe anything concrete to tell them to stop doing. But she hated how that interest felt on her skin and swirling around her, and she never knew how to answer their questions.

Today's #fridayfling is *question* so here's a scene from my upcoming (March) cozy romantasy, The Magic Seeker...

It just arrived yesterday from Main Street Books, along with Silver and Blood by @jessiemihalik.com !

My mom once mentioned in passing that my grandma used to walk around the house strumming a ukulele 🥹

This is one of those weeks when I consider getting out of bed my win for the day

A sheet of stamps, with each stamp having two cartoon birds on it

In other bird news, I just found out this year's love stamps feature birds!

It's Robin Party day. Coco scared them away from my front grass but they filled the holly bush and maple tree and were getting water out at the street.

We now need to wash the car.

They lost a little bit of color when they dried, but you can get it back by brushing paraffin on them.

It was pretty easy to get started, and if you "pulled" a paper and it was too thin or uneven you could just plop it back in the vat and try again. Very beginner friendly.

A cappuccino in a small blue mug on a saucer on a wooden table with a café in the background

First coffee was a cappuccino with breakfast at Morning Fog in Andrews, NC, and second coffee was regular drip coffee from the Dripolator in Black Mountain, to help me finish the last three hours of my drive #coffeewithhunter

A large machine with a trough of water that is filled with a cotton like pulp substance

A woman in an apron holding a frame screen over a vat of water and pulp

The paper making classroom with flat vets of pulp and water, frames with screens in them, and press in the background

Six sheets of paper stuck to a large wooden board

I didn't get great pictures in my paper-making class because my hands were basically wet all week, but here are some pictures of the process including the machine that beats the fiber into pulp, a classmate pulling a sheet of paper, the studio, and six sheets of paper drying.

A bahn mi tofu sandwich on a plate on a table, and the person behind the plate is wearing a T-shirt with a drawing of a lion on it with big eyes who appears to be staring at the sandwich

Someone is excited for bahn mi!

A large room filled with display cases of various arts and crafts with items labeled like a museum

I never make it into the Folk School history center when I am teaching, but as a student I was able to check it out and it's lovely!

Blooming Hellebore and some new daffodil shoots coming up amid patches of snow

I am happy to see the hellebore again!

Black and white cross stitched QR code with a label that reads "sing behind the plow, 1925 to 2025"

They're free on Chrome, but at the Folk School, they're cross-stitched!

The book The Magic Seeker, showing a woman lifting her arm with sparkles around her as a man watches, surrounded by four other books: Behooved by M. Stevenson, Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis, Books and Broadswords by Jessie Mihalik, and Forged by Magic by Jenna Wolfhart

Some of my favorite comp titles for The Magic Seeker—if these romantasies made you smile, download an ARC of my upcoming book at BookSirens: booksirens.com/book/E6AI9KI...

We had a slow day snowed in here at the Folk School. I spotted a yellow-bellied sapsucker on my walk to breakfast. (Apparently I stopped for too many photos because I arrived too late and missed the food/coffee.)

Stained glass panel showing a truck on rocks under trees

Emily in jeans and a jersey, standing beside her stained glass creations

My project is done!

Stained glass truck on a sheet of paper with a drawing, with some pieces of glass cut out like trees and grass around it

Stained glass truck with glass trees and ground positioned around it, as well as some sliced agate below it

Stained glass truck is coming along!

Table with line drawing of a truck under trees and several pieces of colored glass laid over it

Line drawing of truck under trees with pieces of gray, red, yellow, and black glass laid over the truck

Don't tell Darcy but I am making him a stained glass T100

Pieces of colored glass and round bobbles laid out in an abstract pattern on a white sheet of paper

Pieces of glass in different colors and shapes with the edges wrapped in a thin layer of copper foil

An abstract stained glass work with different colors and shapes of glass, round bobbles, and curlicues of wire on a sheet of white paper

An abstract stained glass work with different colors and shapes of glass, round bobbles, and curlicues of wire hanging in the window

What I now know about stained glass: you score and break your pieces of glass, wrap the edges in foil, and solder them together. First piece is done!

Vintage oven-baked stained glass kit with a metal owl and some envelopes of colored pellets

Until last night, I legit thought this was how stained glass was made 😂😂 I now know you start with glass, cut it into shapes, and solder it together.