Chantelle Smith (she/her)

This is part of why I’m so caustic about ‘how to write’ advice. The usual ‘Write what you know!’ gets challenged by ‘Write what you want to know!’ and then … this.

Art, its processes and origins, is ferociously personal.

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

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This week on FilkCast
Chantelle Smith & Richard Wileman, Jen Midkiff, Wyld Dandelyon, Mary Crowell, Puzzlebox, Linda Short, Char Mackay, Barbership, Graham Leathers, Eli Bar-Yahalom, Mich Sampson, Annwn, Avalon Rising, Phoenyx

Bean Sidhe Song (Banshee Song), by Chantelle Smith & Richard Wileman track by Chantelle Smith & Richard Wileman

It's #BandcampFriday and @kardaestra.bsky.social and I have a new single out: Bean Sidhe Song (Banshee Song)
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Self care is so important. I hope you have a chilled evening with Sally the cat keeping you company. Sending virtual hugs x

Yay for M being awesome!

Two different fleeces side by side for comparison. Darker fleece to the left with small, tight curls and white fleece to the right with longer, wavier locks

A case of mistaken fleece identity. While Tatty's fleece _has_ been washed, I'd forgotten that Viola's last fleece had been added to the box so what I'm currently combing is Vi's fleece (Cotswoldn x Lleyn). No wonder it looked so Cotswold-y

#Spinning #Weaving #Fibrecraft #FleeceToProduct

What a fabulous idea! Thank you!

White washed fleece, white fleece locks on the tines of a wool comb, empty wool comb, combing waste, combed fleece for spinning in a black metal mesh basket

Onto the next phase of going from fleece to woven shawl: combing. There's a lot of wastage that comes from combing fleece but the combing waste will be used for other projects.
#fibrecraft #combingfleece #spinning #weaving

Writing paper with a whale print at the top, a teal coloured fountain pen, a seal and wax melting spoon all laid on top of the wooden surface of a writing box inlaid with black leather that has gold detail on the edges

The joy of letter writing to those I love and cherish never grows old. I get the joy of using nice stationery, fountain pen and wax seals, writing on my antique writing slant box while arranging my thoughts to share with people I care out. I hope to always find joy in the writing of letters

Black and white cat sitting on a grey footstool

Sootica was wondering where her human minion disappeared to for the day. At least normality has now been restored

#catsky #felineoverlord

A cluster of snowdrops

A cluster of snowdrops with flared white petals

A cluster of snowdrops with two long white petals to the side and a smaller petal with green marking in the middle

Three people smiling at the camera

A gorgeous afternoon out at the Painswick Rococo Gardens with gorgeous and magical friends @theowildcroft.bsky.social and @wendahazel.bsky.social. So many snowdrops heralding the first stirrings of Spring.

Dryad by Yoshi Yoshitani

Dryad 2

November ‘24 Palette Trio

This dryad is inspired by trees near shrines that get covered in good luck charms

#art

To celebrate the start of the Spiers & Boden tour tomorrow ... I'll leave you with one more in my hashtag series:
#PeopleYouNeverKnewPlayedTheSqueezebox #5

This one's a goodie ... it's Benny Andersson out of ABBA!!!

Some full-on Swedish trad stuff as well.

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This week on FilkCast - Back From Break!
Mark Bernstein, Barry Gold, Kathy Mar, Jim Birrill, Aislinn, Karen Jolley, Phil Allcock, Mike Whitaker, Lawrence Dean, Rhodi James, Pat Brown, T. J. Burnside, Renee Alper, Gravity's Rainbow

Such a sweet playful detail here from Pompeii (and some truly excellent alt text too! ❤️)

Out today! Season 3 is go!!

Join us for the next 10 weeks as we travel through the folk songs labelled Rouds 21 - 30.

Linktree in the thread.

I'm so tired of it.

Neil Gaiman claiming autism.

Musk claiming autism.

Autism doesn't make you do terrible, terrible things.

Stop. Blaming. Autism.

That's a good point - thank you for raising that as I certainly don't want to diminish someone's enjoyment of their own Inkvent calendar. I think I might delay posting by a day going forward to make sure I don't spoil things for others.

The words Day 3 Noble Fir written in a green shimmery ink with gold overtones

Mini bottle of fountain pen in with a green label and Noble Fir written on the front in gold cursive script

I will actually post something that's not just #Inkvent2024 at some point but for now here's today's ink: Noble Fir is a green shimmer with gold overtones

I'm wondering if there's a likelihood of a LLM AI being involved for that level of inaccuracy. Regardless if that's the case or not, there's no excuse for their shoddy review and I'd be annoyed in your shoes too.

Day 2 Wilted Rose written in a dusky pink ink with a sample of the colour beside it

A small bottle of ink with Wilted Rose on the label in front of an advent calendar

Day 2 of #Inkvent2024: a lovely dusky pink called Wilted Rose (and a reminder I need to get new nibs for my dip pen after a splodge incident 🙄)

#fountainpenink #handwritten

Fountain pen ink swatch in glittery blue shade with pink/purple highlights and the words Day 1 Baltic Breeze written beside it

Fountain pen in bottle with Diamine Baltic Breeze on the label

#Inkvent2024 Day One: a lovely shimmery blue by the name of 'Baltic Breeze'

Image shows a page where the Bodleian Broadside Ballad archives used to be informing visitors that the online archive has been withdrawn.

As a result of the Bodleian Folk archives being no longer available from today, I'd like to try to get an idea of how many of us use it, how, and how often. It's such a vital resource for so many of us. I've set up an email at hlfolkmusic@gmail.com for this so please do feed back

Woman in wet blue waterproof coat looking at the camera with a flock of sheep behind her eating hay beneath solar panels

Flock of sheep eating hay - one particular sheep, with a curved Roman nose, in the centre of the photo eating hay with some of it hanging out the side of his mouth

It's a bit soggy out there today! Hay given to the sheep, everyone checked, kit checked to make sure it's secured. Now back home to the dry and warm

Thank you! I'm glad you're finding it a pleasant corner of the internet here 😁. It's so much nicer, more positive and interesting over here! I'm still a bit boggled (in a positive way) at the lack of ads too

I have a wooden (self painted and slightly repaired) advent calendar that I usually use because I'm about sustainability. This calendar feels a little like a gratuitous expense but I do love fountain pen in so I'm hoping I will find some shades I want to buy a proper amount of. At least they'll last

Woman wearing a blue waterproof coat sat in the driver's seat of a car with two bales of hay stacked in the back seat

A flock of sheep eating hay under the shelter of solar panels

I'm sure my little car is a TARDIS. Mine can fit two bales of hay in the back (and, if I really need it, one in the passenger seat) which is super useful when making sure the ovine overlords have the extra food they need. All done before Storm Bert went to full force in my neck of the woods. #sheep

Image of a black coloured advent calendar, made out of cardboard, with The Inkvent Calendar written on the front in white handwriting font with numbers on calendar doors in gold

After years of talking myself out of buying one of these, I finally decided to treat myself to a Diamine Inkvent Calendar.