Christmas Book Haul

Christmas.  April.  One does not usually put them together.

But I do!

The lovely embroidery of my online persona was made by YouTuber elmify.  To see more of her craft work, check out her etsy.

I took art lessons as a kid, and having become friends with Maddy and seeing Sanne draw and paint, it's made me really want to take it up again.

We did Secret Santa in my flat, and Rosi got my name.  She got me some beautiful short stories from Penguin.

My mom came to visit me in London for Christmas, and after seeing me loving flick through this edition in a Waterstones, she insisted on getting it for me.  Seriously though, this is a beautiful binding--biblical almost.

I've been keeping journals pretty regularly since high school.  And because my life has been so... eventful over the last year or so, I run out of paper annoyingly quickly.

My Christmas gift from Sanne.  She knows me well.

Watercolour Notebook - Pocket {x}
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme {x}
The Widow Ching-Pirate by Jorge Luis Borges {x}
The Crime Wave At Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse {x}
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy {x}
London themed journal
The Great Cat: Poems About Cats edited by Emily Fragos {x}
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne {x}