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HippieKender
@hippiekender.bsky.social
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Hi! I’m Stephanie [she/her]. I do crafts and read a lot of books!

Board games, TTRPG, crafts, books, and random thoughts.
BLM, 🏳️‍🌈, neurospicy, 💙, FDT

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OMG! We busted out Munchkin last night. I haven’t played it in years. Guess what I found in the box?? One of my missing Chessex Confetti Borealis (the d10)!! Now I’m only missing the d8 and d12! 🎲
Clear dice with rainbow sparkles. Pictured is the d4, d6, d10, d20, and the percentile die.
July 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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78 book/kindle sleeves in various sizes… and it still doesn’t feel like enough to fill a table at a craft fair. (I still have about 30 to go)
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Fabric dust jackets, book sleeves, and kindle sleeves in various sizes and fabric patterns stacked up on a table. The patterns include donuts, florals, waffles, abstract, paw prints, firefly characters, and precious moments.
June 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I 3D printed some bookmarks today. The top set was my first attempt. They weren’t quite purple enough, so I fixed that on the bottom set.
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3D printed bookmarks featuring skulls and leaves in shades of grey and purple.
March 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Okay, you’ve convinced me! Fantasy wins! I’ll be starting Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales.
The other options were Yellow Wife and Chain-Gang All-Stars.
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A hand holds a hardcover copy of Wmily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett. The cover is pink with various plants, mushrooms, stacks of books, and a snail on it.
March 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Yikes. If you think authors don’t deserve to be paid for their work, you can go ahead and unfollow me and maybe fuck *all* the way off. 👀📚💙
Screenshot of a Facebook comment where someone named Natalie tells me “but it’s not a human right to be paid for your writing. I would love to make a living from cross stitching but I can’t. Like, welcome to the world. Boycotts are painful, it’s why they can be so powerful. If it were easy then the thing we are boycotting would not necessarily be as powerful as they are e.g. Amazon”
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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My @thestorygraph.com reading streak. Nice.
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A screenshot of my StoryGraph app showing that I have read for 69 days in a row. It also shows that I am currently 5% through Monday’s Not Coming and 88% through Tor the Dungeon Crawler. My To-Read list shows The Spirit Bares its Teeth, City of Brass, He’ll Followed With Us, and Every Last Secret.
March 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Don’t mind me. I’m just over here doing some old people shit.
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A woman wears a neck lamp to help see the stitches as she crochets with black yarn.
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Oh my goodness! My UK copy of Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales just arrived and I am in love! Look how beautiful it is! And all of them together?? Stunning!
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A hard cover copy of Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett. The dust jacket is link with various plants, flowers, mushrooms, a spool of thread, a sewing needle, a thimble, a button, and a stack of 3 books with a snail on top. All 3 books from the Emily Wilde series. Book 1 is a cream color, book 2 is green, and book 3 is pink. They all feature various plants, flowers, mushrooms, books, and maps on them.
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Book review: Seed by Ania Ahlborn.
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A paperback copy of Seed by Ania Ahlborn sits inside a shoebox. There is a box of text to the right that says “This book was creepy right from the beginning. Maybe it’s because I have kids and maybe it’s because my kids did creepy things, like sleepwalking, when they were little, but this book made me want to hide under my covers so the monsters can’t get me. There is a good amount of miscommunication trope, which I don’t love, and the dad was very passive about what was happening which pmo, but it’s sort of explained why’s overall, I really enjoyed this book.”
February 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I’ve been having a blast customizing my Tome page!
#TomeIsHome #TomeProfileContest
A screenshot showing a profile for StephIsABookNerd on the Tome app. It shows a cartoon ghost in front of shelves full of books. There are also little ghost icons labeled Books I’m Reading, Book Reviews, and Book Blanket.
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Books 8 and 9
I’m really loving the Scythe series. I can’t wait to start book 3.
Lights out was fun and ridiculous. I think I may have enjoyed the audiobook slightly more than the ebook.
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A crochet granny square sitting next to a copy of Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman. The cover shows 2 grim reapers hiding scythes. They are standing back to back. One wears a dark grey robe while the other wears a dark teal robe. They are set against a cream background. The granny square mirrors the colors of the book cover. A crochet granny square sits next to an iPad displaying the cover of Loghts Out by Navessa Allen. The cover shows a light blue skull set against a black background with blue flowers along the edge. The granny square alternates blue and black to match the cover of the book.
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#dungeoncrawlercarl #mattdinniman #carlsdoomsdayscenario #bookquotes
“We had this fable. Basically, the story goes if you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you stick that same frog in the water when it’s room temperature, he’ll just sit there. He won’t move because everything’s fine. Then you put the pot on the heat. The temperature goes up, and the frog still doesn’t jump because it’s only a degree hotter than before. Eventually, the frog dies, boiled alive. When the frog was thrown in the boiling water, he immediately knew he was in danger. But because of the incrementalism of the heat from room temperature, he didn’t realize he was in danger until it was too late.” Quote from Carl’s Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 by Matt Dinniman
January 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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My longest hold.
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A screenshot of Lights Out audiobook by Navessa Allen on hold via Libby. It shows a hold time of ~20 weeks.
January 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This is book 7 for the year and my first Freida McFadden. Some of the twists I saw coming, but some I didn’t! I’ll probably read more of her work.
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A crochet square sits next to an iPad displaying the cover of Freida McFadden’s The Teacher. It shows a red apple with a knife stuck into it sitting on a desk against a blue background. The crochet granny square incorporates the same colors as the book cover.
January 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The next 2 crochet granny squares (hopefully you’re not sick of them already).
I’m still trying to only work out of my stash so sometimes I’m finding it difficult to match colors or, in the case of God of Fury, having enough shades of the same color. I just hope it still looks okay.
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An iPad showing the cover of Twisted by Emily McIntire sits next to a crochet granny square made with similar colors. The cover of the book shows a large diamond surrounded by abstract whisks of blue and red set against a dark blue and black background. An iPad showing the cover of God of Fury by Rina Kent sits next to a crochet granny square in matching colors. The cover shows a black and white image of a shirtless, tattooed man with long hair holding a necklace chain dangling from his mouth. The vibrant yellow title of the book stands out against the black and white image.
January 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Book 4 for the year and a matching granny square done!
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A paperback copy of Scythe by Neal Shusterman and a crochet granny square sit against a wooden background. The cover features a red cloaked figure holding a black scythe against a cream and yellow background. The crochet granny square mirrors the colors in the cover. Staring at the center there is butter yellow, cream, black, bright red, and burgundy.
January 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Look look look!!! I printed a mini bookshelf for my mini books and it makes me so ridiculously happy!! These are all the books I read in 2024 (plus a book cover designed by my youngest for a book she’s writing).
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A miniature, purple, 3D printed bookshelf sits on a regular sized bookshelf. Inside the miniature bookshelf are 53 miniature books, stacked in various configurations. A miniature, purple, 3D printed bookshelf sits on a regular sized bookshelf. Inside the miniature bookshelf are 53 miniature books, stacked in various configurations. The bookshelf is internally lit with multi-colored fairy lights.
January 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I made some miniature books! Now I need to 3D print a miniature bookshelf.
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3 stacks of 3D printed miniature books in 1/6 scale sit on a full size bookshelf in front of full sized books.
January 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Book 3 was a reread of Dungeon Crawler Carl. This cover has a LOT going on! I went for white and red for Carl’s boxers and a tortoiseshell eyelash yarn for Princess Donut. In hindsight, using the new covers would have been easier! This ended up a little chaotic, but it matches the cover, right?
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A crochet granny square made to match the cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl. The cover of the book shows a man in a leather jacket and white boxers with hearts on them and a long haired cat running away from a spiked contraption with a green goblin driving it. The granny square starts with yellow in the middle to match the title of the book, red and white for the 2nd row, fuzzy brown for the 3rd row, pink for the 4th row, and grey for the final row.
January 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Every time someone sees my bookshelves, they tell me I must read Scythe. So, I am relenting and will be starting it tonight.
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A hand holding a paperback copy of Scythe by Neal Shusterman. It shows a figure cloaked in red with a black scythe, all set against a cream background.
January 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Book 2 and corresponding granny square is complete!
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
I enjoyed this book (minus the underage marriage) and it was fun to compare to what I remembered of the movie. I might have to do a rewatch, now.
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A paperback copy of Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine rests against a pile of yarn. The cover shows a girl holding a large book. In the background are cottages and in the distance is a castle. Next to the book is a crochet granny square matching the cover of the book. Starting at the center, the yarn colors are blue, purple, gold, green, and yellow.
January 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A couple of years ago I thought my youngest was getting into Adventure Time, so I bought this pink BMO Nintendo Switch holder. She didn’t end up really getting into the show, so it’s been in my closet this whole time. I love BMO, so I can claim it for myself now, right?
#adventurerime #bmo 🎮
It looks like an old school handheld gaming system, like the original Gameboy, but it’s pink with anthropomorphic arms and legs. Where the screen would be is an open void giving you room to slide in a Nintendo Switch screen.
January 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I decided to crochet a granny square for each book I read in 2025, marching the yarn colors to the book cover. The first book I finished was Ho Ho Oh No by Jackie Walker. I found this gold tinsel yarn in my stash and knew I had to use it in this granny square (iykyk)!
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A crochet granny square using red, white, and gold tinsel yarn sits on a white blanket next to an ipad displaying the cover of Ho Ho Oh No by Jackie Walker.
January 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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He saw it in a FB group and I fangirl’d so hard when he replied!!
A reply from Matt Dinniman that’s says, “This is amazing! Haha.”
December 11, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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I found some plastic craft ornaments and just had to make one of these adorable crochet ornaments! 🧶
A crochet Christmas ornament using teal yarn that resembles a knit sweater hangs in a lit Christmas tree.
December 7, 2024 at 1:24 AM