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Layla Hale
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MRI Radiographer | Working on a long term #fantasy #book, making #art and #illustrations and #maps for the #worldbuilding that I craft around the words full of pages. | I take plain paper & glass + ink & imagination = mundane becomes extraordinary!! 🫙🖊✍️🍷
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Layla Hale @hale-the-hare.bsky.social · Sep 29
I was looking in my #sketchbook, and I found another piece of #art I did that inspired a big part of the #fantasy #story I'm #writing.

Death is a single dad to a goddess.

I'm not telling you the rest and spoiling it. 😉🍃🍂

But, I'll leave you with one, critical hint...

Breadcrumbs, a web of them.
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
Have been experimenting with different styles recently with my #glasspainting and decided to do a blue tit on a branch of rose hips.

As much as I enjoy #painting the cartoonish stuff I usually do, I loved how the bird turned out. But maybe be a bit more gentle with the #ink.

#drawing #art #artsky
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️If you are feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders lost and alone ... read The Midnight Bookshop.

The Midnight Bookshop is waiting for you today ... if you can find it.😉📖

mybook.to/O1A7E

#writingcommunity #booksky #bookshop #magic #reading
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Art train ! 🚂🚃🚃
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people !

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"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige. Illustration of a Lich for Pointy Hat's new book "Lich Codex". The image shows a decorated room with tiles and blue arch and the lich standing in front of the arch. They wear a decorated robe and a large golden crown. They have a vulture resting on their arm. Next to them is a devoted follower offering them a skeleton horse as a gift. Below them there are other followers looking at the lich with admiration. The image shows a bedroom with a large bed in the center. A woman is held by a skeleton. She is unconscious. She wears a blue dress and has bright ginger hair. There are cobras at the bottom of her dress. There's a big painting on the wall behind the bed with a unicorn fighting a cobra in a forest. There are three nuns seated on the right side and a big dog laying on the bed. There's a door with a boy in a long dress holding a vase with tulips. He has bright ginger hair. There's a skeleton nun behind him. There's a bear cub walking from the left side of the image. These may or may not be hallucinations the woman experiences wile feeling unwell. The image shows a scene with bright towers, Jinn that looks like a skeleton, the Queen and the angel from my previous illustration "Angel's Whisper" and chessboard floor with chess piece on it. The story is about the Jinn who can duplicate themselves to play mind games with the Queen. There are mirrors in the middle ground showing intrusive thoughts to hurt the Queen. One image shows the angel stabbing the Queen, second one shows the Jinn kissing the angel, another image shows the angel become a skeleton and the last image shows the Jinn try on Queen's crown. The Queen and the Jinn in their material form are facing each other. The Queen is holding a sword and the Jinn is riding a bright red horse. The floor looks like chessboard with red and blue chess pieces. The artwork has a frame stylized in a similar way as the towers in the background. The artwork is mostly dark with green, blue and red accents.
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
I made a small #sketch and a #storyboard for this short story I'm working on.

I've been #writing this #wip for a while and sometimes I struggle to #create ideas for how I want it to go.

So I've done some #conceptart for it to help me draft ideas.

What do you think?

🐦‍⬛🐇

#amwriting #BookSky #books
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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comm for @carska36.bsky.social 💜💜 ur the best ilyyy
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
You know what's really a beautiful thing to me as a radiographer, #BlueSky?

Brains...

Structurally, they all look identical-ish. But the people..?

You have different lives, different personalities. Just, different...

Same structure, different wiring.

That's beauty to me.

#amwriting #inspired
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
A year ago I asked my sister to buy me glass painting pens because I wanted to try a new hobby.

I've been collecting glass instead of throwing it, and transforming them into little art pieces!

I'd like to do something with them involving charity one day. 😁

#upcycling #art #glasspainting #drawing
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
Alright #writingcommunity, I have to admit. Trying to write a book for children is much harder than I thought.

How do you explain something as big and heavy as the topic of death to a child? How do you explain, that they won't see someone again?

I want to get it right.

#amwriting #ideas #booksky
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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'When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti

Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.
Painting by William Ladd Taylor. Title: The Old Clock on the Stairs. A woman who looks as if she might be a ghost is walking down the stairs. White dress and veil. Two figures with flowers behind her on top of the stairs.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Some days, writing feels like slogging through mud. You wrestle with every word and end up cutting more than you add. Other days, it’s MAGIC. Your brain locks in, the words flow, and--gasp!--the scene is good. Both kinds of days matter.

Today was a good one. 💙📚 #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This is the 4th map been #drawing to #illustrate my #writing.

I don't have a name for it, it's simply called the land of the Forest Gentry.

What do you think?

#drawing this area is giving me more buzz, as I've already incorporated it into my #fantasy #wip!

#writingcommunity #BookSky #amwriting
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Meet these great indie romance authors at the Romance Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #romance #writingcommunity
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
It's crazy to me how a lot of people think their lives aren't worth writing about because they think their lives are boring.

But that couldn't be further from the truth...

Because, YOU only say that, because, your life is what's normal for YOU.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #BookSky #inspiration
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Celestial Mage 🌖🌗🌘

#conceptart #characterdesign
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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You know what? Not bad for something that would have been thrown in the recycling. I'm glad I #upcycled it, because out of all the #glasspainting I've done so far. This #floral #abstract design has been the most unexpectedly fun out of all of them.

It's going to be a beautiful vase.

#art #drawing
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm stuck with this children's story I'm working on, and I was thinking about it at work.

I saw a robin fly up to a ward window when on break, sing, then fly down and land near where the daffodils bloom.

People will call it silly, but I definitely feel someone 'up there' is trying to help out now.
October 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Impulse bought a very fine hedgehog house because my sister took a pic of one in our garden. Also, a neighbour's garden may be cleared of #wildlife.

Not #decorated a #hedgehog house before. Did tiny #floral #paintings on the doorway, then some giant #artsy sunflowers and tulips.

Hope they love it.
October 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Alright, #worldbuilding #ideas for the next region of my #fantasy map; Midalladly...

- A mad-man who spent his life carving images of the 'true fae' into the land.

- A small dragon who helped a castle #create the most beautiful gardens in the North with mysterious seeds.

#booksky #writing #wip
October 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Yay to these slow-paced Sunday afternoons where I can just sit and do #drawing.

I'm creating a hoodie made of life experiences, that everyone can relate to in some way.

Not sure what to put on the water bottle or the bag yet. Just making this #art is bringing up fond memories.

#wip #abstract #pen
October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
I was visiting somewhere that was a big part of my uni days. And, I don't know why, but I got hit hard by nostalgia.

I wanted to make something to represent it all. All those 5 years.

The clothes and bag is going to be made of memories and milestones.

#art #BlueSky #drawing #abstract #inspired
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
I was looking in my #sketchbook, and I found another piece of #art I did that inspired a big part of the #fantasy #story I'm #writing.

Death is a single dad to a goddess.

I'm not telling you the rest and spoiling it. 😉🍃🍂

But, I'll leave you with one, critical hint...

Breadcrumbs, a web of them.
September 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
Hello!

If you have purchased any hand-decorated glassware, please find a link to download a maintenance guide. You'll also receive a paper copy with your purchase. But with this handy shortcut, you'll always be able to come back to grab as many copies as you like.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Glassware Cleaning Instructions.docx
Glassware Care & Maintenance Guide Hello and thank you for buying one of my hand-painted glass pieces. I hope you get as much joy and use out of it as much as I loved painting and decorating it. I’ve...
docs.google.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I don’t know where I was going with this, I just wanted to paint something moody and shiny simultaneously. I like 😌
Moody peach
September 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
Well, it's took an entire Saturday afternoon and many cups of tea to keep me going...

But, doesn't it look fab? It's going to make a fine vase. I even added another little hoglet somewhere on the bottle. Can you spot where he is?

#BlueSky #artist #glasspainting #upcycle #creative #British #art
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
hale-the-hare.bsky.social
Translating #imagination into words on a physical page that other people will read, is such a wholesome, wonderful feeling.

Then comes the buzz of working on the next part, and thinking about all the things that place can be. 🥹🖊📃

#fantasy #worldbuilding #BookSky #amwriting #worldbuilding
September 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM