Ellena D

A photograph of a handmade sea-themed coaster.

Here is a photograph that shows the sea-themed coaster in more detail. #handmade #crafting

The stamps I was compensated with.

Royal Mail lost a handmade clay item I posted via recorded delivery, spent two months investigating, then compensated me with £13 worth of stamps and a letter saying, “I hope you are happy with the outcome.” Reader, I was not. 📮

Philomena Famulok

L’intérieur d’un aquarium avec poisson bleu, anémone, corail. Tons mauve, bleu, violet, rosé.

Aquarium

📷 #MobilePhotography

A handmade resin turtle and sea-themed coaster.

I made this little resin turtle with shell fragments and semi-precious stones, and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. I also made a sea-themed coaster using resin and black sand. I’ve been finding crafting really helpful for unwinding lately. #crafting #resin

I think I was around 20 here. #nostalgia

Hi there Whitney, thank you for your kind comments - I'm so glad you appreciated these! Yes, it’s really enjoyable to make these clay pieces, and I often make them for friends and family. I find making personalised gifts makes me feel more connected in some ways to the people I make the gifts for.

YouTube video by Aisha Vaughan - Topic the mist

youtu.be/JzrRVF2ifTA?...

A photograph of Ellena wearing a paisley blouse.

Happy New Year all! 💫

YouTube video by Aisha Vaughan Aisha Vaughan - Into The Light (Official Video)

Just incredible. youtu.be/zedfSOSQZcY

Marc Chagall ~ Soleil d'Hiver (M. 716), Winter Sun
(coloured lithograph)
#MarcChagall

A few Christmas ornaments I made from air-dry clay as gifts! #crafting #Christmas #handmade

A photograph of Ellena wearing a knitted hat.

Got a new cat hat for the holiday period. #festivecat 😹🎅

Thank you! It hope you have a great holiday period! 🎄

A handmade squirrel Christmas decoration.

A handmade duck Christmas decoration.

A handmade duck decoration.

I have been having some fun making these animal-themed Christmas decorations from air-dry clay over the past couple of weeks! 🎄#crafting #christmas #handmade

I’ve been thinking recently about how poetry can function as an aesthetic act of survival. I don’t have any firm conclusions about what it means to take this idea seriously as yet but I’d be grateful for any thoughts or resources others might want to share.

A photograph of Ellena’s chihuahua, Mink, sitting beside the Christmas tree in her lounge.

My dog, Mink, is already embracing the holiday spirit! 🌟 #chihuahua

A photograph of Ellena in her lounge.

A photograph of a small tabletop Christmas tree alongside some other decorations in Ellena’s lounge.

The Christmas decorations are up!🎄 #Christmas

He is ready.

Picked up a copy of Recalibrating Stigma after a fantastic launch event in Edinburgh last week. Very much looking forward to reading the chapters and drawing on the analysis in my own work. Great work @gmthomas.bsky.social, @oliwilliams.bsky.social, Tanisha Spratt and @amychandler.bsky.social.

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Painting by Sano di Pietro.

Actual footage of my dog bravely surviving his nail-clipping appointment. 💅👀

(Painting by Sano di Pietro).

Another line of theory/evidence on this: MOHO influenced in part by Drew Leder’s The Absent Body, who was influenced in turn by Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. He construed the body as an “I can”, when things are going smoothly, in absence of illness or disability. Goes back to Husserl.

That’s a good observation. I’m much more familiar with Twitter in general and haven’t been on Bluesky long enough to really get to grips with it yet.

I’m really glad to see you here too. 😊

Hi Indigo, it’s nice to come across you here. 👋 This was really well articulated!

Hi Jay, it’s lovely to come across you here! 👋 That is good to hear - it’s always nice to meet people with similar interests and life experiences). 🙂

That is good to know. Hi, Stu! 👋

Thanks for this, Rose! That is really good to know. 😊👋

Celebrating achievements is wonderful, of course, but when interactions revolve mainly around sharing successes on such platforms, I think social media can start to feel a bit surface-level -where people seem connected without really engaging with one another on a more human level.