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Hello! Today I'll be reviewing the third novel in Dune series: Children of Dune .  This novel was published in 1976 and is a sequel to Dune Messiah which in turn is a sequel to original Dune novel. In case you are not familiar with Frank Herbert writing, there are six novels in the Dune series. Moreover, there are more books set in Dune Universe that were written by other writers. I will probably not review those books because I didn't find them interesting and enjoyable enough. I mostly write book reviews for my own pleasure. Naturally, if you have read any of these, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have any book recommendations to share, please do. If not, that's alright as well. We can always talk about something else in the comments. As always, I do my best to avoid spoilers, but since I'm reviewing a series, there are bound to be some. If you don't want spoilers, I recommend just skipping this review.  If you remember what I wrote in my last review...

Hello, dear readers! How are you doing? Today I have another book review to share with you: Dune Messiah by Frank Hebert. This novel is the second book in the Dune series and it is significantly shorter than the first novel. If you remember, I already reviewed Dune . Earlier this month, I published my book review for Dune by Frank Herbert . I promised to review other books in the series as well. Initially I planned to review all the sequels to Dune in one post, but I changed my mind because all of these books deserve separate reviews. In other words, I decided to publish a separate book review post for each sequel. These kind of detailed book review posts sometimes take a long time to put together, but I don't mind. Being a fairy creative person, I also like to play with the visual part of my book reviews and add a bit of bit of my own art and photography. I don't just copy paste my reviews from my goodreads profile, I like to 'polish' them up for my blog.  That is on...

Hello darlings! It's Friday and that means one thing- more fashion illustration talk and work. Read my last post in this category here . Today I have two new fashion illustrations to share with you. I drew both of them using photographs of myself (taken by my husband) as a reference. The medium is once again watercolour pencils ( Staedtler brand) on paper. If you have followed my blog recently, you might have noticed that I often use these pencils for fashion illustration. As you can see, there are two outfits that I illustrated. One is a winter outfit I wore couple of years ago for a visit to Međugorje and the other is a spring outfit I wore for a visit to historical (MEDIEVAL) fair in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina (READ MORE HERE ).  SHOULD YOU USE A REFRENCE WHEN PRACTISING FASHION ILLUSTRATION? Is reference important? Should I drew with a reference or from imagination? My answer would be that you should do both. When I wrote about ten ways to improve your fashion illustration...

Today I'll share with you six February outfits. Styling our clothes in Winter can often be fun  because there are so many layering options. Moreover, we shall talk about the benefit of rewearing clothing items and why it is good for the environment. I always enjoyed reading about different ways of wearing one clothing item because it always seemed like a great way to maximize and shop one's closet. I have published many posts that could be placed in sustainable fashion category during my eight years as a blogger. I think by now, most people know that the textile (fashion) industry is one of the biggest industrial polluters. By shopping our closets and being less wasteful with clothes, we're are also helping the environment. Plus, it can be a lot of fun. I'm definitely not the only blogger that is talking about rewearing and restyling clothes, nor was I the first one to do it.  If you are looking for more sustainable fashion ideas, you might them on the following blogs, ...