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@sayornisphoebe.bsky.social
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26, hockey fan, fannish bookbinder, spacetoaster enthusiast

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Note for authors: if I post a shelfie and your book is on it, DM if you’d like a copy!!

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🧶 This was *nine hours*. Do you know how many stuffies I could make in nine hours. I’m having a great time
In-progress crochet blanket. It’s dark teal, round, and has many complicated stitches. There’s a flower shape in the center.
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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If I were to start making & selling Taylor album lyric books would people be interested in that?? I’ve been working on these for so long I want to make more 😂

Folklore and evermore example photos but second editions are slightly different (thicker books, to match how massive RED ended up 😭)
A photo of a handmade book, open to a page displaying the lyrics to the lakes by Taylor Swift The covers of two handmade books, both showing pages of Taylor Swift. One is from evermore and the other is from folklore.
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Yeah 💙
Photo of my local marina on Lake Michigan
July 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I feel like giving legal analysis on current events is one of the many lanes of the *lawyer* speaker of the house, though
Screenshot of a tweet from C-Span, with a photo of Mike Johnson below. The tweet reads as follows: “Q: “Do you believe that Newsom should face consequences in a legal way?” Speaker Johnson: “That’s not my lane. I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I’ll say that.”
June 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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This fellow!
Screenshot closeup of the loop allowing a single song to repeat.
May 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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And the updated bookshelf!
A bookshelf in three columns, with three shelves each, all full of hand bound books. There are several animal figurines places on the shelves, and a figurine of a Mountie.
February 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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And that’s 56!
Several stacks of hand-bound books in varying sizes and colors
February 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Calico cat, mostly white, in a floral blanket
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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📚 Bookbinding sprint / Binderary week 3 roundup: twelve books! (One not pictured, it’s an example for my class in April so it’s at the library.) Total is now up to 40. Two more and I reach my smaller goal!
Pile of eleven handbound books in varying colors. All are the same size.
February 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Forgot a couple:
Two books. One has a purple spine and a pinstriped cover. The other has a green spine and a tree on the cover
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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📚 Bookbinding sprint / Binderary week 2 roundup: I got sidelined by Covid so major plans had to wait, but I still managed three books! Two early in the week and one yesterday.
A stack of three books on a gray cutting mat. One book is navy blue with white flowers, and the other two have white covers. One has a navy blue spine and the other’s is green.
February 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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📚 Bookbinding sprint / Binderary week one roundup: up to 26! I’m technically counting one here I made at the end of January but I planned it for Binderary so it STAYS
Closeup of two bookshelves. The top one has a variety of sizes, while the lower shelf is full of books that are all the same height.
February 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I had a vision and I am in LOVEEEEEE
In the style of the “For Dummies” books, a handbound book titled “the Single Dad’s Guide to Dating a Spy”. In the style of the “For Dummies” books, additional information about the fic in the book. The summary, story tags, reviews, an author bio, and a QR code linking to the fic.
February 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Binderary day one! RUNAWAY by zulu, my copy of a SMAU I typesetted as part of our guild’s archival effort; two HPRF fics, and two lyric books! The second photo is of RUNAWAY and the larger HRPF endpapers—hand-marbled by Renato Crepaldi.
Five handmade books on a white-marble-pattern countertop. The first has a purple and pink marbled spine and black cover paper, the second has a textured aqua spine with cream paper. On top of the aqua and cream book is a smaller book with the same spine but gold rose pattern cover paper. The last two have recent photos of Taylor Swift on their covers, one with a white textured spine, the other the same in dark gray. Two of the previous books on the same countertop, covers open to the endpapers. One is cream, purple, pink, and gold swirled around, while the other is cream, aqua, gold, and gray swirled. Both have large black dots that look a bit like eyes disrupting the pattern throughout.
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Pre-Binderary shelfie for posterity! Planning on at LEAST 28 books next month, trying to clear out both the queue and the cache. Got the space for new ones cleared today!
Three columns of three built-in bookshelves each. The column on the left contains small books, with two shelves full. The middle column is completely full with small books on the top shelf and large books on the middle and bottom shelf. Below this column ist several painted ceramic animals. The right-most column of three shelves is totally empty.
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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🎉🎉🎉 I’m gonna stop when my sun runs out in a couple of weeks, but I can hold a small conversation with a patient and understanding German! I’ve been super lazy about it lol I should probably have made more progress tbh
Orange Duolingo graphic that says “I’m on a 650 day learning streak!” 650 is much larger than the rest of the text.
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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Crochet project of the evening! Cat-ish amis in yarn inspired by TS albums. So far TS 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Hopefully I can finish the set tomorrow. I winged the pattern but I think especially the later ones are turning out super cute!I think Speak Now is my favorite, it’s the last one I made.
Six tennis-ball-sized crocheted cats, sitting on a bookshelf. In order: light purple, light blue/tan, light pink/purple, marbled gray, orange-brown, and midnight blue. The cats have black embroidered slit eyes, and thinner yarn for whiskers.
November 24, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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🧶 4/5 Christmas stuffies for the kiddos done! This one is precisely to my 4yo NK’s specifications. The bear’s name is Annie and J loves her. I think she’s a lil creepy
Dark blue crocheted teddy bear, with light purple eyes and a lighter blue muzzle.
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Well. It’s late November.
Snow. In the foreground, over grass. In the middle, over bushes, and in the background, over large evergreen and leafless trees.
November 21, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Cruel 😭 so close and yet so far
In-progress dark blue crochet stuffie. Almost done, the top half of the head is missing.
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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🎉🎉🎉
Orange Duolingo banner that reads: “I’m on a 625 day learning streak!”
November 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Crocheting Christmas gifts. Can you tell this is an alpaca? Or if not is it at least cute? I can’t tell anymore
A crocheted chenille speckled stuffie. The body and legs are flecked medium brown, while the nose, ears, and tail are light brown. It has green eyes and a black embroidered nose. It has flecked medium brown tufts of yarn at the top of its head to mimic hair.
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Granny square blanket done! 🧶
Sunflower granny square blanket with alternating flowers and solid green squares, crocheted together with brown stitches. Half of the flowers are orange and yellow, and half are red and orange.
November 13, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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The plan! I’m making headway. And then I can wrap it all up and forget about it until Christmas 😂
On a circular brown rug, twenty fuzzy granny squares arranged to make a blanket. Half of the granny squares are solid green, and half look like sunflowers. Of the sunflowers, five are orange and yellow, and five are red and orange. They make a checkerboard pattern.
November 12, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Current WIP: my mom’s Christmas gift, a throw blanket for her new house!! The flower squares alternate between red/orange and orange/yellow, and the green squares follow the same pattern so they have a fun texture.
Two piles of fuzzy sunflower granny squares, one on a makeshift blocking board, on a dark coffee table. The pile on the blocking board has ten squares on it, the square on top has a brown fleck center, then red, then orange, with a dark green background. The second pile has four solid green granny squares. In the foreground, an in-progress solid green granny square.
November 11, 2024 at 11:57 PM