Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! You may notice that once again Science Tuesday didn’t go up, but that’s because once again I was making a major purchase for the house. Since we got the new bed last month, and therefore a new comforter to fit the new bed, we broke the motor on our washing machine […]
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Happy Sunday, Aledan Merfolk! Everyone loves that little “ding!” when they get a new email (unless it’s spam), and it’s even more exciting when the email contains an amazing custom pony for the blog! And this custom pony also comes with a whole post on the “making of” said pony, which you can see by
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Happy Friday, Aledan Merfolk! Ripley the hen started laying on Sunday! Her eggs are green easter eggs, so the carton in our fridge is now multi-colored! Wheee! I told the dogs and cats it’s time to step up their game 😉 In other exciting news: I finished the first (really rough) draft of The Fair
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Happy Wednesday, Aledan Merfolk! I don’t normally post on a Wednesday, but I’m so excited that I get to share with you the *gorgeous* cover for my CP Colleen! She helped me so much with Ocean’s story (aka: The Winged Warrior), and I can’t wait for you to see the cover of her debut, THROUGH
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[Photo: Space Zinnia, Scott Kelly/NASA] Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I missed last week’s Science Tuesday, so we have two weeks worth of science news to catch up on. Let’s get to it. Philae lander not responding to scientists’ wake-up efforts: Scientists have tried one last time to awaken the Philae lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but
Happy Sunday, Aledan Merfolk! Today’s custom pony just happens to be the most-perfectly aligned custom I’ve ever featured, since this week a ninth planet was (probably) discovered in our solar system! I’m still #TeamPluto, but the science geek in me is so excited about the possibility of our solar system growing by one. Look at
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Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! Last week I talked about our Lovey Chicken who had started letting us pet her and was close to laying her first egg. Guess what? On Saturday, Princess Mononoke laid her first egg! And she’s laid one every day since! She ran around the yard for hours Saturday morning, being noisy
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This past week has been a tough one, as you all know, with the loss of more than one beloved celebrity to cancer. When the news hit on Monday that the iconic David Bowie had passed away, someone on the pony forums asked to see customs people had made of his characters, and I just
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Happy Friday, Aledan Merfolk! This has been a long, emotion-filled week, so we’re going to keep this update short and sweet. I finished reading FANTASY MEDLEY 3, and really enjoyed each of the short stories (the third one was confusing through most of it, but man that ending!). I definitely recommend buying a copy and
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! Science was a busy little bee this week, so let’s get straight to the news! [Photo: Praying Mantis with custom 3-D glasses, Newcastle University] Four new elements added to periodic table: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has filled out the seventh line of the periodic table by adding