Marian Allen's Blog, page 5
July 26, 2025
Caturday: Chickie Makes It Happen
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #blackandwhitecats #Chickie #MamzelleChickieLaSilk HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! Mommy went away again last weekend and she came home with a black eye! Tipper and I think we should go with her next time. We would attect her. If anybody came up…
July 24, 2025
Thursday Doors: Sara in Segovia
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Here are some more doors from Segovia, Spain, from Sara: Below, from the department of That First Step Is A Doozy: Below, a relic of Rome: A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Something old that catches interest more than something new. MA
July 22, 2025
Food Tuesday: Another Kind of Stuffed Peppers
#FoodTuesday #QuickAndEasy #writingprompt I made these for the convention we went to this past weekend. They’re multicolored seedless sweet peppers stuffed with cream cheese, sour cream, Penzeys Krakow Nights (salt, black and white pepper, sugar, coriander, garlic, mustard, marjoram, mace and savory), and Penzeys dried…
July 21, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Gravity and Books
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt So this happened. We went to another convention this past weekend (Imaginarium, the best creative writing festival ever) and, as I was carrying the very last two plastic bags of snack chips down Sara’s steps to the…
July 19, 2025
Caturday: Tipper Does Yoga
Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #whitecats #Tipper #TipperLordSnowbottom #SirSniffsalot Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma was gone one weekend and we all got SO TENSE. I had to do yoga. Then I had a baff. The girls wouldn’t do yoga with me, so…
July 17, 2025
Thursday Doors: Segovia
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Sara sent me more doors. These are from in and around Segovia, Spain. She calls the one below “Ever So Many Doors”. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: A golden castle MA
July 15, 2025
Food Tuesday: Those Little Cylindrical Rice Cakes
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt So I thought, “I wonder if I could make those little rice babies that are in tteokbokki.” So I found a recipe on Maangchi’s Cooking Korean Food and that they’re called garaetteok and that I had all the ingredients: rice flour, salt, hot…
July 14, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Squids and Roses
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt So I rewatched Season 1 of Squid Game as a writer. I had a feeling I needed to, and I was right. There were so many foreshadowings and resonances, so many motifs and parallels, the rewatch was…
July 12, 2025
Caturday: Adi V Chickie
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #calico #calicocats #scottishfold #scottishfoldlovers #Adi #AdiLadyFluffington #FrauleinProfessorOverknocker Hewwo. Um, I’m Adi, okay? EverMom went away for a whole weekend. She’s done it before, but this time seemeded worse. We all misseded her SO MUCH!!! #1 Hooman Sister came to make sure…
July 10, 2025
Thursday Doors: Palencia, Spain By Sara
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Sara sent me some door pictures she took in Palencia, Spain: Gorgeous! A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Reaching for the sky. MA
