Marian Allen's Blog, page 6
August 21, 2025
Thursday Doors: Spanish Roman Villa
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Here are the last of Sara’s Spain pictures. These are of the remains of an excavated Roman villa. She says there are no doors, but there are spaces where the doors used to be. That counts, in ruins. And there was a model…
August 19, 2025
Food Tuesday: What Popeye Has For Breakfast
#FoodTuesday #isayitsspinachandisaytohellwithit #writingprompt #vegetarian I had some frozen spinach that had been hanging around in the freezer demanding money with menaces, so I defrosted it and squeezed it. Then I cooked some sliced mushrooms in vegan butter and added the spinach, salt, pepper, marjoram, a…
August 18, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Nonsense and Nails
MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram #humor #ScienceFiction #writingprompt I completely forgotted to announce my new publication! It’s the crazycakes science fiction farce that began my Holly Jahangiri (the fictional one) story series and my Holly Jahangiri (the real one) internet friendship.…
August 16, 2025
Caturday: Chickie Afoot
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #blackandwhitecats #Chickie #MamzelleChickieLaSilk HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! I’m claiming Mommy for my own, because I just am, that’s why! I follow her around and I sleep at the foot of her bed and I help her brush her teef and…
August 14, 2025
Thursday Doors: Valladolid
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Sara sent me some photos from her trip to Valladolid, Spain. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Stone spheres. MA
August 12, 2025
Food Tuesday: Po-Tay-Toes
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt Yeah, I’m not supposed to eat potatoes (or rice or white bread), but it’s summer, and I’m not going to miss freshly dug potatoes, especially the little-uns. I like the All The Ways, but a way I’ve recently started having them is Smashed.…
August 11, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: X-Rated Wild Robot and Finally Fluid
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt We tried to watch The Wild Robot on Netflix and turned it off before we’d watched more than 20 minutes. Within that time: cute crab snatched away by bird, decapitated bird head displayed like it ain’t no…
August 9, 2025
Caturday: Tipper At Rest
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #whitecats #Tipper #TipperLordSnowbottom #SirSniffsalot Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma has been home all week, except for the grocery. I get to sit on her lap or in the room where she is any time I want to!…
August 7, 2025
Thursday Doors: Red, Both Tree And Door
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt Some of my driving doors this week, which means a certain amount of wonkiness. First, a red door #spoilednotspoiled by a redbud directly in front of it. Stone besties below: A plethora of doors below, including what my cats would call an imbisible…
August 4, 2025
Just Nails: Paint Behind
#NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt Been too busy to find a good Recommend this week, so please yourselves. My nails this week are very simple: A coral base color with a shimmer top coat on the first finger and a stamp in burgundy…
