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Lissia
@musingsandmakings.bsky.social
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🇬🇧&🇮🇹 | She/They & a (bi)t gay 🌈 UK living | Expressive artist 🎨 | Cat lover 🐈‍⬛ Charity shop obsessed | Film&TV binger 🎞️
Nap enthusiast | Art Psychotherapist 🎓
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Lissia @musingsandmakings.bsky.social · Nov 21
Let’s see how easy it is to find my kinda folk on here… #cat parent, from the #UK (currently living near the hilly bits & love a #hike!) #charityshop obsessed & love playing with ‘alt’ #fashion & I create lots of weird #art mainly #drawing #painting & large scale abstract stuff. Oh also #lgbtqia 🌈🌈
Two cats sleeping together on a yellow blanket. One is predominantly white with black markings and the other is predominantly black with white markings. They are laying with their faces close to one another looking peaceful. Imagery of English country side in the Peak District. It’s a grey cloudy sky with expensive green hilly landscape in the background imagery. In the fore ground are large rocks, one of which overhangs and has an individual (me!) sitting on the edge of the rock. A selfie taken in a long mirror. I am wearing white, adidas trainers, large, baggy black and white plaid shorts, a black tee and a bright yellow sweater vest over the tee, with my hair in long braids. A mixed media snapshot of a large scale painting. Create using ink, acrylic paint, & newsprint on paper. The colour theme is muted & made up of shades of black, browns and oranges. There is an abstracted face off-centre and lots of illegible writing and brush marks around the face.
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It is so so important that you be both silly and furious right now when necessary
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Crocheted mandala, street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
Photo looking up to a colourful crocheted banner of mandalas suspended between two buildings and against a dark blue sky
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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There’s something about early 2000s pop & R&B that just hits differently, always a guaranteed mood uplift bopping along to cheesy tunes
January 21, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Me & a friend were looking at boujee snacks in a cafe, I said I didn’t like a couple ingredients (i.e pistachio) & she remarked that I just don’t follow the trends. Made me feel cool and not just a fussy eater like nope I’m just going against the ✨grain✨(I do, in fact, just have a bland palate 🥺)
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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www.goodreads.com/review/show/... First book of 2026 finished 💙📚 #booksky
Alicia's review of What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
4/5: Quite different to my usual reads and while slow, I found it a real page turner. Not overly wordy or complicated, just soft insights into each library goers life. I enjoyed that each chapter, a...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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My 2026 ‘to read’ pile 📚💙 Now that I’ve finished my December read I’m not sure where to start… #booksky
A pile of 12 books to read throughout 2026, laid on a grey, animal patterned, bedspread. Titles (from left to right): •Cold Earth (Ann Cleeves) •Preloved (Lauren Bravo) •You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Dr Benji Waterhouse) •The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt) •The Night She Disappeared (Lise Jewell) •Educated (Tara Westover) •What you are looking for is in the library (Michiko Aoyama) •War Doctor (David Nott) •Behind These Doors (Alex South) •A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner (Chris Atkins) •How to Live When You Could be Dead (Deborah James) •Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
January 4, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky 📚💙
Alicia's review of None of the Above
4/5: It feels wrong to review someone’s candid, vulnerable musings on self, wider society and conformity so what I will say is this line spoke to me deeply and made me feel seen: “…Existing in a limin...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Oh just imagine if Roxy is the secret traitor & her game plan is to keep herself & her mum in as long as possible cause she knows she’s a faithful so either way the grab some £££…Keeping close eyes on Roxy & Judy 👀 #TheTraitors
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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The filming is making me think Amanda or Fiona could be the secret traitor but both are far too obvious.

I wonder if it’s going to be someone who slips into the background, like the older fella or someone with big faithful energy like Netty… 🤨

How’s everyone feeling about this twist? #TheTraitors
January 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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boxd.it/cmBIJx Starting off the year watching cheese 🧀 Can’t complain much! #filmsky
A ★★★ review of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
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January 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Texting my therapist right before the appt "coming in hot"
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Spoilers ahead…
Alicia's review of Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
3/5: I started this pretty hooked but the more I read, the more predictable and unnecessarily sexual it became. To begin we are entered into three separate worlds, seemingly unconnected other than e...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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boxd.it/bOCbIR ⭐️⭐️ #moviesky #filmsky
A ★★ review of Your Place or Mine (2023)
Good for what it is, which is a huge ball of rom-com cheese and lots of cringe ‘funny’ parts (Alicia the coffee addict, looking at you…)  But it’s an easy watch, there’s nothing to inherently hate abo...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Alicia's review of Want
2/5: I really wanted to like this…but it just was just ok, eh. I’m not sure about how the letters were organised and created into chapters, it left them becoming repetitive and feeling more mundane ...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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People’s rush hour commute etiquette never fails to surprise me and it rarely surprises me in a good way
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Some pretty pics from this weekends hike 🍂
Inside a cave, the edges of the image are dark showing the cave walls, centrally is the caves opening showing a tree range and cloudy blue sky A woodland step path, with trees green surrounding it, red/yellow leaves on the path and a person walking in the distance A path covered in red and orange leaves with green yellow trees surrounding it A stream in the foreground, with trees around it showing a hilly cave in the distance
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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compliment strangers more !!!! had the sweetest lil interaction this morning that made my day when a gal on the train said she liked my outfits !!!! It’s nice to be nice !!!!
October 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚 #booksky
Alicia's review of The Library Cat
4/5: Random pick up. Flicked through it over two days, nice comforting book to pair with a slow weekend. Enjoyed the photographs, illustrations and end of chapter summaries. Nice little additives wh...
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October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Joined by my own little Library cat, as I start my Sunday slowly with this lovely book 🐈‍⬛❤️ #booksky #catsofbluesky 💙📚@housedoctoralex.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Spent the day hiking (finished w/ 19k walked!) & now in a boiling bath, living my dream 🥹
October 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Have taken in a rescue, Frida, having been found in horrific circumstances. Unsure of little one’s age as she was found very malnourished. She is full of food, play & personality now 🥹❤️ #catsky #catsofbluesky
Frida, a tuxedo kitten, sitting behind to the left of a plastic pink tower ball toy. Frida is looking into the camera and is as small as the toy. Frida, a tuxedo kitten, playing with a plastic pink tower ball toy. Frida has her arm outstretched in one of the toys towers.
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The image is a six panel black and white comic Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..." Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that" Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope" Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine" Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope." Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Catching up on Celebrity Traitors UK…Cat Burns 🥵…that is all. #celebritytraitors
October 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I’ve finally downloaded Goodreads - took me long enough! 😅

Here’s the latest book I’ve finished 📚💙 #booksky

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Alicia's review of In Defence of Leisure
5/5: This spoke to me when I saw it on a bookshop shelf. Having recently trained as a psychotherapist, waiting to begin my first job and being in that awkward end stage of my twenties I found myself c...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM