Alyssa Taylor
@alyssacreates
Very arty lady. Crochet, clay art, cross-stitch & general arts & crafts obsessed. Book lover, animal enthusiast (show me your cats & dogs 😍), nature lover, plant mum & cozy gamer too.
Been a while since my last book post as this one took me a while but really liked Butter.🙈 Also tried one of the recipes. I cooked the rice with soy sauce & butter. Was really nice. Next review might be a while aswell as I've finally started Lord Of The Rings. #Booksky #2026Reading ##Bookshelf
Book No.15 of 2026. Enjoyed this last book of the Dream Harbour series but still wasn't my favorite but I loved it for all the flowers & plants, lol. Was a lovely place to spend some time but now it's time to move on to something different. #Booksky #Bookshelf #2026Reading
Book No.14 of 2026. Not my favorite in the series so not much more to say except that I'm realizing the tropes in books that I like & HATE & this one was the latter. ##Booksky #2026Reading #Bookshelf
Hey. It's called Xiaomi Mi Portable Photo Printer. It's about £70 new but I got mine on vinted. Got very lucky it was in perfect working order & had extra photos. They are quite expensive too so have a look.
Book No.13 of 2026. Got a new printer so the books can pop in my book journal & I love it. 🎉 Great one to start with too as I loved this book so a massive thank you to @ezeekat.bsky.social for choosing &printing this. Have discovered I love a book from an alternative perspective! Need more. #Booksky
Just got to watch Joe Tracini's show in Birmingham & absolutely loved it & got to meet him afterwards.😊 My smile was absolutely massive when he mentioned @mrjamesob.bsky.social & showed a video of his interview a few years ago, lol. I'm made happy by the smallest things, lmao. 🤣
Book No.12 of 2026. Not my book in the slightest. Not well written & I really didn't like the main character (loved Eric though). This had such good intentions. The storyline sounded fantastic & it could have been so much better but it's just a miss for me sadly. #BookSky #2026Reading #Bookshelf
Book No.11 of 2026. This one was a very quick read which I needed. Enjoyed the story despite the unrealistic quick recovery from trauma from a child but not my favorite in the series. #Booksky ##Bookshelf #2026Reading
What beautiful songs to wake up to this morning. Although it didn't pick up the chickens clucking next door. #MerlinBirdApp #Wildlife #MorningWakeUpCall
Book No.10 of 2026. Really enjoyed this book. It makes you love bees even more & think of a family of bees differently & the world they inhabit.🥰🐝 This book covers so many topics so many tears were shed but loved it. Thanks also to @mrjamesob.bsky.social who recommended it. #Booksky #2026Reading
Last day (sadly) of my week off & I went for a walk in the local park. Everything is in bloom & beautiful!
Have been trying out new recipes recently & today's one is just gorgeous. It said to put on flat bread but I love to use a naan. It was also supposed to be ricotta but I hate the stuff, lol, so I used cream cheese. All the rest the same though. #HealthyRecipes
Omg, I've finally found a recipe that has made me love chickpeas. Never really liked the texture but this is gorgeous!!!! 😋😍 #Dinner
Book No.9 of 2026. My first bad book of the year. I didn't enjoy anything about this book that I didn't even want to waste a sticker on it, lmao. ##Booksky ##2026Reading #Bookshelf #Elsewhere
Book No.8 of 2026. LOVED this series & sad that I can no longer experience these for the first time ever again & I already want to read them again at the end of the year, lol. My only criticism of this series is that there were so many characters &unicorn names that I couldn't remember 1/2 #Booksky
Also had new breed of birds visit me this morning which was magical. Love Mother Nature.😍
Sun is out while I have a day off so I've spent a couple of hours in the garden repotting plants & seeds that are sprouting. No podcast on, just listening to nature around me & I've never wanted to own a home but wow, my heart aches for one now with a garden that I can plant in the ground ¬ pots.
Book No.7 of 2026. I still feel so behind on my reading (this is posted late too, work gettingin the way) but I'm still LOVING this series. Can't recommend them enough!! #Booksky #SkandarSeries ##Bookshelf #2026Reads
My autocorrect changed it, not me, lmao.🤣🤣🤣 You do but we can still miss you & your words at this time. Hope you're having a lovely time off but I'm guessing a lot are looking forward to next Monday where you have to fit 50 news stories into 3 hours. 🤣
Book No.6 of 2026. These books are destroying me. Sobbing at the end of this one which was unhelpful as I was about to head out to work & the beginning of the next one opened with a heartbreaking scene too. Honestly can't recommend this series highly enough. #Booksky #2026Reading #Bookshelf
Book No.5 of 2026. Trying not to feel like I'm way behind on my reading for the year as I'm not in competition with anyone, lol. I was right about where I thought the book was going but again, didn't hamper my enjoyment of it. Will try not to think while on book 3, lol. #Booksky #2026Reading
In my granny self sufficient era, lol. Made potato salad (with sweet potatoes) for the first time ever today. Have recently made mayonnaise & lemon pesto too. Also propagating lettuces & have tomato seeds in my mini greenhouse that I built. #ItsTheSmallThingsThatMakeMeHappy 🥰
Yep, that was horrendous to watch & nothing is gonna change with the government we have now coz it's seems starmer is another shill in the pocket of the criminals!! He's a tory in full view! #DirtyBusiness
Book No.4 of 2026. I've found a new series that is giving me the same feeling the first time I read HP so I know these books will be special & even though I guessed the twist in this &I can see the path of book2, I don't care as I love the story &characters(especially Flo)that I'm invested. #Booksky
@ezeekat.bsky.social A video of yours just popped up on my YouTube feed from 5 years ago. 😲😲😲 Look at that TINY bookshelf!! What happened to the giant penguin & you've clearly always had amazing tastes in t-shirts?!
I can see this being addictive, lmao. A gift can be good or bad.........Hmmmmm🤔🤣
Book No.3 of 2026 Really liked this book but coz I'd seen the TV show,it was a bit bare but I know I would have loved this if I'd read it before & getting to the end, I understand the tv show more now which is a bonus. Glad to have moved onto a happier book now though as this felt too real. #Booksky