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Melanie Richards
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Group Product Manager, Design & Build @Webflow. My personal mission is to help people make fun, interesting, and inclusive things on the web. She/her

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Gonna be porch candy people this year. Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃
A piece of printer paper with the words written in black and orange: “Spending time with our new little boo, help yourself to candy! Happy Halloween!” Next to it I’ve drawn a cute little ghost
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Kicked off @backlogreadathon.com today, so there’s plenty of time to join us in reading your TBR stacks!

I’m hoping to finish these two books in pursuit of SPL’s Summer Book Bingo. Still getting over an illness from last week so we’ll see how far I get #BacklogReadathon #readathon
“Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by V. E. Schwab “Devotions” by Mary Oliver
August 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Tested out my Diamine Amazonia ink sample with a little en plein air drawing! The lighter green is my favorite Ecoline color, Bronze Green. 🌿

#sketchbook #urbansketching #pleinair
A small square sketchbook with a drawing of a tree-lined path in vibrant greens. There’s a cool, fairly dark green for the lines and shadows and a warm green for the mid tones.
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Spring still returns faithfully 🌸🌸
A street lined in ornamental cherry trees dense with blossoms. The thick pink blossoms indicate that their peak is near! A closeup of the cup-like blossoms. They are pale pink with a slightly darker pink along their edges
March 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Anyway I’m having fun with my first colorwork socks! Pattern is from www.summerleedesignco.com/patterns/p/c...

#knitsky #knitting
The cuff of sock with a dark green flower or clover motif, on a background of variegated yarn in bright pink, orange, lime green, and off-white tones.
March 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Finger for banana scale
A bowl of fruit including two tiny bananas shorter than the finger I’m holding up next to them. I have medium-sized hands for an adult.
March 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Second anniversary of our second wedding! I love this photo of Rahul and I laughing with my cousin, who was instructed to bless us.
An Indian man and white woman seated in ornate traditional white and red Hindu wedding garb, and wearing floral garlands. A white man in a turban matching the floral scene stands behind them, wearing a very wide “ayyyyy” kind of grin. The couple in front are laughing with him.
March 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Not me at the library reading the blurb on the book jacket, as if I weren’t going to pick this up simply because “Louise Erdrich” was on the cover! #booksky #currentlyReading
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. There’s a white on black design on the cover that looks like a three-pronged river
March 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A ridiculous and pleasing preponderance of round things
A slideshow of bagel photos with several rows of dots for each slide. The current photo shows a grid of photos with multiple bagels in each photo.
January 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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ICONIQUE
Apple messages AI summary on my husband’s iPhone: Melanie Richards 7m ago, Experiencing headache, sadness, and regret for wasted time.
January 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Year 2 in a Sterling Ink B6 gridded notebook as my "memory keeping" journal. This time featuring a sticker from tomboiclub.com #journaling #stationery #sterlingInkB6
My hand holding a journal the size of a paperback novel. The cover is a very dark green and there’s a sparkly sticker of a plump bird with a strawberry in its beak
January 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Holiday travel went totally sideways, with the result that I did NO reading yesterday and a lot of it today. Went from 11% to 47% in "Nettle & Bone". #BacklogReadathon
The wing of a plane with just a sliver of sunset left on the horizon. A blanket of cloud is dark and fluffy below.
December 30, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Tonight's read for #BacklogReadathon! It took awhile to get this hold from the library, looking forward to it.
A Kobo on a blanket, currently in sleep mode. It’s showing the cover of “Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher
December 26, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Was mildly mocked by my family for bringing my book along for a short Wawa run 😂 In my defense, this thriller just got to the "I need to know everything NOW" part! #BacklogReadathon #BacklogReadathon2024
My hand holding a hardcover book on my lap in front of a wrapped sandwich in Wawa printed paper
December 26, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Baby's first colorwork! I reliably finish one row per episode of Shrinking, so I'm not fast, but I'm having SO MUCH FUN. #knitting #knittingColorwork
A knitted headband with cream ribbing. There is a snowflake pattern being knitted in a dark blue on light blue palette.
December 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Inks of the month! #fountainPens #journaling
A journal page with “December” written in blackletter calligraphy, in a sparkly burgundy ink. There is a dark green ink swatch labeled Diamine Dark Forest, a muted red called Taccia Akasakura, and the sparkly ink is Diamine Bah Humbug
December 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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If you know most of the ink brands that will be highlighted in this video based on the single-color vector icons…you may know too much about #fountainPens (hi, it me)
A thumbnail for a video called "top 5 fountain pen inks for the office". There is a humorous photo of a person adjusting their tie, and 5 ghost icons of ink bottles in various shapes and sizes
December 3, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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My unofficial Finish Projects Fest continues over here as I just grafted the toes on my second sock! Now to weave in the ends and block them. #knitting
A partial view of a sock with a striated bluey green body, and white toes that have been neatly grafted if I do say so myself. A loose end of yarn hangs off the end
November 30, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Living the dream with a candle, lofi, and a cozy book 🥰

Cheers to @amberley.dev for inspiring me to break out my page turner and device stand again!
My Kobo held in front of my chair with a gooseneck stand, as I hold a page turner remote in my hand. My house is brightly lit with warm wood floors, and I have a black, white, and red blanket on my lap.
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Me: I meeeean, it rains less in Seattle than people say it does

Seattle:
The iOS weather app showing a week’s forecast for Seattle. Every single day has >50% chance of rain, with 100% today
November 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Ok, I did the thing. “based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like”

I’m glad to see the me in this universe has rejected computers 😂
An AI-generated, very cozy and warm scene of a home office with tons of books, a typewriter, a fountain pen on an open book, a cup of coffee, and a wintry European cathedral or something out the window.
November 10, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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Washed Out at The Crocodile. Truly was not in the mood to leave the house, but participating in public joy (masked) turns out to be good for me.
A large model skeleton of a crocodile hanging in the ceiling of a dimly lit music venue
November 9, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Happy Halloween! #IVoted this evening in favor of an un-scary next 4 years. If you have the immense privilege of being able to vote in one of the most powerful countries in the world, don’t let this opportunity to shape history pass you by. 🎃🗳️
My hand putting a ballot envelope into the slot of a ballot box
November 1, 2024 at 1:11 AM