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Illumicrate #44: May 2026
You were still owed the May Illumicrate from me. This was another one of those boxes where I hadn’t really kept track of what was inside, making the unboxing a real surprise. The theme of the month was Fatal Fortunes, with the slogan: Fortune favours the brave and the bold, but some fortunes may be fatal for all those involved.…
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Read in June 2026
June turned into a month of rereading, devouring audiobooks, and the quick gratification of short stories and novellas. In the end, I finished 9 books in June, totaling 3200 pages. This brings the average June book to 356 pages per book. Additionally, there was also 1 DNF. I put that book aside after 90 pages (28%). Fortunately, that was the…
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College-style jacket
When I started this cardigan in early February, I honestly thought it would be a relatively quick project. A classic style, not too complicated, and above all, very nice to look at. It wasn’t until four months later that it was finally completely finished. It wasn’t a gigantic project in terms of knitting, but it was one that occasionally disappeared…
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Fairyloot Adult #50: May 2026
I completely missed the announcement of the May theme for Fairyloot Adult. Probably because I skipped the April box and time seems to fly twice as fast then? Before I even realized it, I received the order confirmation in my inbox. Oops, lol. I actually don’t really know what I would have done if I had seen the announcement, because…
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The Broken Binding SF&F Sub #5: May 2026
In my previous unboxing of The Broken Binding SF&F Subscription, I already mentioned that the subscription was converted from a bimonthly to a monthly subscription after barely six months. This meant that immediately after the April book, a new delivery was already on the doorstep in May. The theme for May was Ghostly Memories and promised a standalone historical fantasy…
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Page & Wick #10: January 2026
It seems like Page & Wick has been having quite a lot of bad luck lately. I had skipped the September and November boxes, but I had no more skips left for the January one. Normally, I should have received a reset for the new year, but that wasn’t the case on their website at the time, and I didn’t…
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Illumicrate #43: April 2026
The teaser video that Illumicrate posted on Instagram for the April theme actually caught my attention immediately. It started with a stately building, followed by a rather eclectic collection of images: old-fashioned keys, a marble statue in a pond full of lilies, an English cottage-style house among the plants, a tiger, a forest, fairy lights, a detail from a carpet,…
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The Broken Binding SF&F Sub #4: April 2026
Although The Broken Binding’s SF&F subscription started in November as a bimonthly subscription, it was converted to a monthly subscription in April. That means the previously expected six books per year have now doubled to twelve. Although I keep saying that I need to be a bit more selective about the books I buy through my book subscriptions, you absolutely…
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On the go #20
While fewer creative updates have appeared on the blog over the past few months, that certainly didn’t mean I haven’t made anything or started making anything at all. On the contrary! The Alley Jumper (@Fabelknitwear) I have a number of Fabel Knitwear’s knitting patterns on my wishlist, and although many look relatively simple, I often see comments that her instructions…
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Illumicrate #42: March 2026
The theme for the March issue of Illumicrate sounded really cool. Additionally, Illumicrate revealed that their next bookpot would be in this box. Although I have collected quite a few of those pots by now, I really have a soft spot for them. So I was happy that such a pot was going to be in a box where the…
Charlotte on crocheting, knitting, reading and such
