Kathleen Jennings

More plate-inspired mermaids, for Mermay More of the mermay illustrations! These are mermaids 12 to 20, based on Bunnykins, Stavangerflint ware, vintage crockpots, Pyrex, and more. You can see previous posts here: Mermay 2025: the first f…

Nine more of the mermaids!
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Honeyeater

You can preorder HONEYEATER now!
@torbooks.bsky.social US: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
@macmillanaus.bsky.social Australia: www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/

(Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer)

"The strangest descent into the dark earth of a family's secrets you'Il ever read, glittering and exact and uncanny, rich with rot and perfume, full of bird-calls and waterlogged suburban heat " FRANCIS SPUFFORD author of Cahokia Jazz

The excellent Francis Spufford on HONEYEATER!

Girls Running From Houses Wallpaper | Spoonflower Shop Girls Running From Houses custom Wallpaper by tanaudel for sale on Spoonflower

I just heard today from someone who papered their bathroom with "Girls Running From Houses" — and fyi, Spoonflower has 25% off wallpaper currently
www.spoonflower.com/en/wallpaper...

Spring skulls by tanaudel | Redbubble Ink, watercolour and pencil drawings, for Australian spring / Halloween

Spring skulls! Available on various objects
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1651...

Isn't it lovely? Ola Galewicz

"I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour, all that land and all that water..." no wait, that's really a Melbourne song:D

Hands holding sketches in black pen and green pastel, each of two figures lounging

Me and Jo, in front of a green velvet curtain, both wearing denim jackets, holding our sketches in black pen and green pastel, each of two figures lounging

Life sketches from the Ladies Lounge at HOTA, with @joanneanderton.bsky.social

Listening to Brisbane songs and identifying three primary categories: "Please Don't Move To Melbourne", "The Brown Snake", and "I've Been Drunk in Every Pub in Brisbane"

(this isn't a complaint)

Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews With shiny, slithery, eely cover

Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews

It’s a good exhibition when people who bump into each other trying to get close to the items keep saying, “Oh, it’s okay! We’re all here for the same reason!”

Urban Divination Deck — PAM WISHBOW I noticed that a lot of oracle and divination decks have symbols in nature to help guide your readings. I didn't exactly grow up near nature so I always felt a bit disconnected from those decks. Are y...

I'm mentioning this in something I'm working on, but I also had it out earlier in the week, and love @pamwishbow.bsky.social's work so much, so here:
www.pamwishbow.com/shop/p/colle...

Hands holding sketches in black pen and green pastel, each of two figures lounging

Me and Jo, in front of a green velvet curtain, both wearing denim jackets, holding our sketches in black pen and green pastel, each of two figures lounging

Life sketches from the Ladies Lounge at HOTA, with @joanneanderton.bsky.social

So many!!

YouTube video by The Chats - Topic I've Been Drunk in Every Pub in Brisbane

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jim...

YouTube video by Thelma Plum Thelma Plum - The Brown Snake (Official Music Video)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbL5...

YouTube video by Ball Park Music Ball Park Music - Please Don't Move To Melbourne (Official Video)

Examples: www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tC...

Listening to Brisbane songs and identifying three primary categories: "Please Don't Move To Melbourne", "The Brown Snake", and "I've Been Drunk in Every Pub in Brisbane"

(this isn't a complaint)

Urban Divination Deck — PAM WISHBOW I noticed that a lot of oracle and divination decks have symbols in nature to help guide your readings. I didn't exactly grow up near nature so I always felt a bit disconnected from those decks. Are y...

I'm mentioning this in something I'm working on, but I also had it out earlier in the week, and love @pamwishbow.bsky.social's work so much, so here:
www.pamwishbow.com/shop/p/colle...

"Tournee du Parc Jurassique" Art Print for Sale by tanaudel A riff on the classic Black Cat poster. Cut-paper silhouette and ink line work, coloured digitally. No representation made as to the accuracy either of the French or of the bones. • Millions of uniqu...

It's mostly gothic and fairy-tale art, but there is a T-rex in there
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many tiny thumbnails of fairy-tale and fairy-tale-gothic prints, and one piece of Jurassic Park fan art

If you like my repeating patterns, but prefer wall art, you can also buy single-repeat prints of many lot of them!

www.redbubble.com/people/tanau...

I couldn’t remember if the sherbet cones made it into the final version of HONEYEATER, but they did!

Tonight’s ref posting theme is rounded doorways and windows if your interested in that kind of thing and all in my media tab

The house is handsome. It is threatened with conversion into a bed and breakfast.

i had a great aunt who lived on a farm in queensland who had never actually tried pizza but reverse engineered it for us from descriptions and it was a lot like what if the british had invented deep dish with a base more like a scone than anything else

i deeply regret not getting the recipe

These characters are not foodies

Also:
honeycomb-and-gravy
curried-sausages-and-ice-cream
wedding-cake-and-green-beans

and other things that shouldn't be et

Some food referenced in HONEYEATER:

sherbet cones
[steak &] kidney pies
monstera deliciosa
loquats
mangoes
baked beans
mouldy bread
loose sugar
tea
peas, lamb, potato
milk
cordial
mandarines
chocolates
coffee
MEAT

Very occasionally I get other people's illustrations for something I've written, and almost invariably I look at the art and think, "I wish I could write a story like *that*"