Pepper. Acrylic Gouache on a Postcard (4x6").
Hello! I'm Heather! Thank you for stopping by! I'm an artist and although you'll see some of my work here, most of my paintings live on a different website: HeatherFranzen.com.
current thought
<3 Mashed PotatoesA note about links:
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website news
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November 9, 2025
There are some minor updates to the
Now page.
There are also new book reviews,
starting with
"Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Older reads
from summer 2025 were also added, include "Bloom" by Delilah Dawson,
"The Sirens" by Emilia Hart, "Whalefall" by Daniel Kraus, "The Only Good Indians"
by Stephen Graham Jones, and "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang.
November 2, 2025
Threw up some new pages in the garden, but they're still kind of empty:
ACEO,
Art Books,
Holbein Duo Aqua,
Make Art
November 1, 2025
New Now page for November!
New month also means a new Bookbug book:
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai.
October 29, 2025
It's been a little while! New bookbug review for our October book: The Collector by John Fowles.
There are also a couple other new book reviews:
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming and The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Inglesias.
October 12, 2025
New Now Page for October!
The RSS info page has been expanded to now include instructions on how to create your own
RSS feed.
New recipe for a mushroom potato chowder!
Finally, a new [very angry] book review of The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield.
October 4, 2025
Hi! There's a new book review of Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching.
September 22, 2025
Happy Birthday! There is a [lengthy] bookbug review of Clarice Lispector's Água Viva.
September 21, 2025
There's [finally] a guestbook. It's Heather's birthday tomorrow so maybe leave a birthday wish to test it out?
September 15, 2025
Finally started writing more content for the RSS and Feed Readers page.
September 7, 2025
New book review: Penguin Highway!
Also a bunch of general CSS clean up for my older garden pages... It's taking longer than expected...
September 1, 2025
New tea review (2022 Sambas)
and new book read (The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (UGH)).
Also new book subpage, Bookbug.
Coding To Do:
Fix garden pages
Now Page
Art Pages
Word Generator
Art Pages
Word Generator
TO DRAW:
book stickers
Compress imgs
book stickers
Compress imgs
Fanlistings (idk where to put these yet):
