January 17, 2026

Fat Envelopes

For putting so much *stuff* into

✉️💌📫

3D Designs • Papercraft • LibraryMonsterMakes
Illustration of a ringed space station that you can see inside with various agricultural and suburban-sprawl type of landscapes.

The Compliment Cart in all its splendor at the library to celebrate the year ✨

Product Rec: Bought the Nothing 3 phone and okay I adore it. Paired with my paid Nova Launcher, I'm actually in heaven. I love customization and for the past month, trying to learn Apple's OS has been... 😔 rough. It's so locked down to uniform design & function that my heart hurts. It's a little computer - I know it can do more! That said, I'm keeping my Apple phone & I will learn to love it for what it is, and for why others love it so much.

Fic Rec: I've been on an MCU kick, watching the films in chronological order starting with Captain America: The First Avenger. So gotta shout out to this stucky fic despite the threatening sky and shuddering earth (they remained) by praximeter (Zimario) which is chock full of hurt!Bucky and comforting!Steve because the premise is like... that mask Bucky was wearing was drilled into his facial bone structure. YIKES but OMG so good y'all.

In planning a fun staff appreciation thing at my library, I made some envelope designs - specifically one that uses the most out of a sheet of 12x12 inch cardstock. It was tricky to make then learn how to work with the cardstock to make sure it didn't warp. I created a little video today in my UglyMonster Studio to help. It didn't go quite to plan, haha, but I wasn't going to make a hundred videos until I got it perfect. Instead, kept it real, fixed it enough to look great imo! See the video below, shared through makertube.net <3

I used my extensive cardstock collection(s) from Michaels, thrift stores, the Waste Shed Evanston/Chicago. Other supplies needed: Silhouette Studio software & a Silhouette Cameo cutting machine would be for the best. A paper folder (bone's apparently always recommended), and thin double-sided tape. For my lovely colleagues at work, I also cut out a magnet sheet and taped them to the envelope flap closures so they had a light magnetic force to close. Came off very polished, I think!

I've added these envelopes to my portfolio page under 3D Designs.

On Etsy, I titled the product, "Fat Envelopes for thick cards, faux book to stuff secret cash & stationary/stickers into! 2 sizes; largest uses the most of 12x12 cardstock" and here are the details:

For gifting thick Valentine Day (or whatever) cards, sticker & stationary organization & storage, and the large ones look like thin paperback book bindings - great for secret bookshelf cash stuffing or saving 👀

FILE FORMATS
Inside the zipped file are PDFs, PNGs, Studio3s, and SVGs. Only the Silhouette Software files have been tested & used; the rest are just screenshots of the design I turned into PNG then SVG then PDF using photopea.com. The designs' proportions (both large and small) are meant for 12x12 inch size canvas - try to scale it to that 👍

DIMENSIONS
Big Envelope
1/2 inch thickness
9.75 inch wide
5.25 in tall

Small Envelope Design (not pictured; easier to make though)
1/2 thickness
6.75 inch wide
5.25 in tall

Link to the designs on Etsy.

I made a how-to video and created the red and white striped envelope seen in the pictures - proof of how you can have perfect alignment with this design.
When darkness overspreads my eyes

by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream;

and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of

Give people courage

The crowd seemed to grow

The sunset faded to twilight before anything further happened. The crowd far away on the left, towards Woking, seemed to grow, and I heard now a faint murmur from it. The little knot of people towards Chobham dispersed. There was scarcely an intimation of movement from the pit.

Hermine hoping for courage.

It was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I suppose the new arrivals from Woking also helped to restore confidence. At any rate, as the dusk came on a slow, intermittent movement upon the sand pits began, a movement that seemed to gather force as the stillness of the evening about the cylinder remained unbroken. Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns. I, too, on my side began to move towards the pit.

Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. I saw a lad trundling off the barrow of apples. And then, within thirty yards of the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag.

May the Force be with you

Let go your conscious self and act on instinct

Partially, but it also obeys your commands. Hey, Luke! May the Force be with you. I have traced the Rebel spies to her. Now she is my only link to finding their secret base.

"This time, let go your conscious self and act on instinct."

Leave that to me. Send a distress signal, and inform the Senate that all on board were killed. "Don't under­estimate the Force. I suggest you try it again, Luke." This time, let go your conscious self and act on instinct. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. You're all clear, kid. Let's blow this thing and go home!

You don't believe in the Force, do you? Partially, but it also obeys your commands. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. As you wish.

The buzz of the little world

A thousand unknown plants

I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath

It wasn't a dream

by FRANZ KAFKA

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

2026 Book Reviews

Librarymonster ate some ARCs nom nom nom

Wherein a certain monster has read some advanced reader copies and reviewed them: Platform Decay: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells and We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

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September & October

Eleventy Billion Things Happened.

#NoKings, Halloween, and more.

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Summer Ephemera

Life & Journal Spreads

Reviewing summer 2025 with a few highlights on school, preparation for the fall, and art journaling with a hefty sprinkling of fannish works.

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8 Credits Down, 32 to Go

And a bunch of final projects to share.

Also I wax poetic on why Severance is so good.

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Severance

3D Printing Corporate Dystopia A E S T H E T I C

My recent obsession with Severance has me getting SO makery. Stickers to transform my work ID card, and 3D design and printing a Severance-themed dock for my Boox e-reader.

Read on...

ChocoBread

Phone Case DIY Project

Hi yessss I made this chocolate bread cell phone case! But how? What supplies and materials did I use?

Read on (there's even a 4 min vid!)

VALENTINE'S & IMBOLC

An elixir, independent art, and self-love

February 2 was Imbolc, first day of spring!

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IN THE LAIR READING

DIGITAL READING JOURNAL AND RESOURCE CENTER

As part of my resolutions for 2025, I want to get back into reading books (in addition to the considerable, tasty amounts of fanfic I read) and diligently tracking it. After all, I am on count down to begin my masters of science in library and information science!

Webpage orientation

NYE

Starring Michael Sheen, written by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris

A topical, interesting, nourishing story about the man behind the U.K.'s National Healthcare System (NHS). Michael Sheen plays Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh minister of health and housing that created the NHS in 1948.

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FACING NOVEMBER'S REALITIES
AND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS

AND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS

Trump won the election. I have some thoughts, some learning opportunities, some tools. Topics include: tarot, decentralizing social media, privacy and security, security and AI, and supporting digital and physical knowledgebases

breathe and lock arms with me

SKI LIFT GONDOLA PAPER ORNAMENT

WITH A LITTLE DOOR

Silhouette Studio design files for this festive winter ski gondola papercraft for indoor decor projects like garlands or ornaments! This has been a month in the making ❄️⛷️

Buy the Silhouette Studio file for $2.00 on my Etsy

HOSTING AN ÁLFABLÓT

A CHRISTMAS FOR THE ELVES

Read an excerpt from The Old Magic of Christmas, Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year by Linda Raedisch about how to host your own "Christmas for the Elves" around early-mid November

Get witchier every month with me

MY TAROT COLLECTION ON DISPLAY

AT MY LIBRARY

All the attention and admiration they're going to get, they're gonna love it! The kawaii tarot has been the most brutally honest and unsympathetic with me, lol./p>

Visit the Cauldron for my takes on each tarot deck

NEW WEBPAGE: THE COLOPHON

LOOKS LIKE A BOOK

Important website source/citation information. I share accessibility love, tool recs, acknowledgements, and design choices about my lil ol' website.

Visit the colophon

GOOD OMENS FIC REC

COUPLES THERAPY - JURASSIC PARK EDITION BY RAINBOWUMBRELLA

As a huge fan of Jurassic Park, and to see someone merging the premise with an interesting AU of Crowley and Aziraphale, I was so there.

Couples Therapy - Jurassic Park Edition by rainbowumbrella on AO3

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