Nayu's Craft Time #304 Social Media and Me

No idea of this image's origins.

Winter weather is continuing on, with the temperature ever so slowly increasing but not yet enough for my body to get out of hibernation mode.. I'm taking things very easy, mostly gaming at the moment, which if you follow me on Twitter you'll know all about! I usually hop around with games but this week I'm mostly engrossed with The Legend of Legacy for the Nintendo 3DS, which I will talk more about over on Nayu's Reading Corner soon. Craft isn't really happening until I have more energy.

This post is about which social media I use and why. Yesterday I looked into switching the tablet I use Twitter on (I have a few tablets, some hand me downs, not all bought by me). The one I was using is getting quite old, getting much slower, and the camera isn't at all great. If it was going to be a long process, I decided I would leave it until a later date. Surprisingly it was a matter of downloading the Twitter app and logging into it. It took less than 5 minutes! The camera is much better, I now have more space to download images to the tablet, and it's faster than my aging tablet. Success all around! 

While I'm on Facebook, and somehow some posts get automatically posted despite me no longer having a membership with Hootsuite which put posts on Twitter and Facebook for me, I am not really using my Facebook account. It has always been more effort to get into as I do not use a dedicated FB app, simply using it on my laptop. I don't fully 'get' how Facebook works. I love Twitter, I've got over 1000 followers, I show cute pictures of my cat, I use it to chat about games especially when I'm not up to blogging. It is quick and easy for me to check Twitter, unlike Facebook.You can find me on Twitter in the menu to the right of this post, or click here to follow me, I'm Nayuleska.

This is the one bird in my life who doesn't have an anime name.

I know that I could download a Facebook app to my tablet (non smart-phone owner here), but I don't want to. I don't look at it, or really at Twitter to check what friends and other people I follow are doing. I email friends for that info. I have such a limited amount of energy each day I don't want to spend it idling through social media that invariable involves politics/the news which I do my best to minimise exposure to because it is the same depressing things, and I hear it often enough since my family like watching it daily. 

I may eventually get an Instagram account because in principle it seems a bit like Twitter, but for now I don't plan to. I won't be closing my Facebook account down, as it can be useful to have and is the only way I message family in another country since it's easier than email and I refuse point blank to get WhatsApp or whatever it is called. I live extremely happily without using many apps, and I've no intention of doing so simply because so many people think it is something I should be doing. I'm happy focusing on Twitter. It is a chore to post the same thing to several different apps, which is why I used Hootsuite. Unfortunately changes to both Twitter and Facebook policies means multiple posts can't be put  up at the same time. I do understand why, I think it's to reduce spamming people with ads and stuff, it makes it less convenient for me. 

I do go on Reddit sometimes, but that doesn't feel like the same type of social media as Twitter and Facebook so I'm not including it. 

I do need to catch up on Tweeting my posts, I will probably do that in batches classed by genre (mostly book reviews, but different genres of books), but what I'm saying is I'm not going into increase my use of Facebook at all. I'm sticking with what works and is easiest for me, which happens to be Twitter. Now you know why I'm quieter on Facebook, why I prefer Twitter, and why I don't use other social media. I'd love to hear if you don't use social media much, if you mostly post and only browse occasionally. 

Nayu's Craft Time #303 And so winter continues

View from my bedroom window during the snow sprinkling

Hey guys, I hope you were ok if you had snow last week which brought part of England to a halt. For once we were in the crazy zone with lots of snow and chaos ensued as it always does. It was pretty, and got melted away by rain. Oh this is being posted simultaneously on my other blog, Nayu's Reading Corner to save me time and energy.

Because of all the weather I'm having my super strong meds a bit earlier than I normally do - my body really hates snow. So there won't be a blot post for a week, which I know is currently the norm (I'm truly sorry for that, I hate not posting much), but I need the rest to get over the initial side effects of my meds. Unlike my cat I can't just sleep through winter! 

As always, I can be found on Twitter @Nayuleska I tend to tweet a bit less during my mediine down time, only because initially I do get pretty hyper and don't want to be repeating myself or gushing over a game too much. 

The familiar green Yoshi comes in many other colours, but this is the most well known.

I am hoping that we've had our coldest time of year. Our winter usually does come in February rather than December, but I'm praying that's the only insanely cold spell.Warmer weather = bit more energy + can concentrate on stuff = more craft! & other stuff in general. Until then, it's reading and gaming for me. And anime.I'm having so much fun with my game rental service, currently on Yoshi's New Island on the Nintendo DS (or 3DS, can't quite remember) I want to complete it so I can play the next game in the series, and then hopefully the new one out this march! The next one is based on yarn so I'm very eager to play it. The little green dino is adorable, especially the way it can eat enemies and turn them into eggs that follows wherever it goes. 

Love Obelix (left) and Asterix! )

I've got a nice mild romance series to read, along with a pile of Tintin and Asterix books. As for anime, I'm watching the usual favourites of Winx Club and Aikatsu! which I always watch. I'm rewatching Neo Angelique Abyss, both seasons, but in looking it up online I discovered there's another spin off series: both anime series are spin offs from a game series. I'm on episode 5 of the one I haven't seen, and while the rewatch will always have a special place in my heart, the new one is pretty good, and I understand why certain things happned in the one I've seen now I know more backgorund info.

See you on the next one!

Winter craziness

This could have been computer generated, but it's pretty!

Thank you for being patient with my lack of blogging: I hope to resume proper posts soon: it's been super cold, which my body hates, we've had snow, which my body also hates, and now it's just cold & rainy (you''ve guessd it, my body hates rain too!). This is why I hibernate in winter on my blog! I'm mostly gaming as that requires the least thought and effort. Got many exciting posts to share with you once I'm back blogging. Hopefully soon, but it depends on when my body quits throwing a tantrum over the less than balmy weather.

Nayu's Craft Time #302 Boxing Day Sale haul!

Forgot to add Pusheen to the mix (sorry for awful photography, doing this while a bit loopy from meds)

As promise on Monday's post here is my Boxing Day sale haul! It was brilliant! There are quite a few cars but I managed to get parking at the local retail park. I was only going to Boots, because they had some Disney merch, and oh boy everything was 50% off! I went a little crazy...

So cute and fluffy!

...got this cutie, who isn't Disney but I love the alpaca toys. I did try using it as it is intended, as a microwave heat toy. I put the bag in the microwave, and while it did get hot, once inside the alpaca it didn't heat up the toy that well. My previous experience with these are the toys where you put the entire toy in the microwave, so I was a bit disappointed. However it's so cute I don't mind adding it to my plushie collection!

I didn't post a picture, but you can see the velcro where the microwave bean bag thingy goes.

...these Pusheen cookies are delicious! Weirdly the kit didn't include icing or sprinkles, so I raided my family's supplies for those. Ended up with two lots as one was a gift but I hadn't yet had the gifts from family when I went shopping, so ended up with double the yummy Pusheen fun!

...You already know I love Pusheen so it's no surprise I picked up this straw cup! The coolest part is the glitter, look what happens when I tip it upside down. Initially I thought the glitter was just in the cup for decoration and it would fall out, but it doesn't! Drinking water is so much fun now

...I really like swans, maybe because of the role of swans in fairytales (Swan Lake) and other fiction. I couldn't resist this cute cup! Which I now realise was actually bought from Sainsbury's not on my sale shop...oh well! It has a little separate screw on pot that I use to take my meds in.

...This is adorable! I think it's the unicorn from the film series Despicable Me, but don't quote me on that. It had some lip balm inside, but once I opened it it didn't stay inside the unicorn. I don't really use anything on my lips not even lip balm, so this won't get used much. 

I'm pleased I went, and am delighted with my stash of cuteness. I also got some Pusheen cookies to make (without any icing or decoration) but forgot to take a picture, and Googlemail is refusing to deliver the final few pictures including the Marie straw cup (in the first picture on the right) and my sewing update pictures that  I want to show you. Did you many to snag anything exciting in the sales?  

Nayu's Craft Time #301 More posts scheduled this week.

Not sure if it is Snow Drop season, but I love their shape. Picture from online somewhere.

I feel like I'm constantly apologising in my posts, but I am sorry I haven't been able to blog until now. Winter really doesn't like me! Been gaming lots, and reading quite a bit more too. Even rejoined my local library, just so I can read all the Asterix and Tintin books again! I loved both series when I was younger, and want to reread them now. I got interested in them because there's an Asterix video game out, which I've rented (will talk more about the new game rental I'm on over on my other blog, Nayu's Reading Corner at a later date), which of course got me wanting to check them out again as I only have a few. 

I've been doing some craft, which I'll show in a separate post. Usually I don't mention what I get, but I figured you'd like to know how successful my Boxing Day sale trip was, that will be the next post. Today I'm cramming 4 days of tasks into 1 not for the pure fun of it (sarcasm) but because my schedule changed, and doing everything today means I can have my mega meds tonight, but I have posts lined up for you so this blog will not be empty. Next one will be Thursday. Thank you as always for being patient, more coming soon! 

 

I grew up reading about these friends catching wild boor, Obelix is my fave (on the left), his grumpy moods have to be seen to be believed. Dogmatix is adorable. Asterix is ok, sometimes annoying to me.

 

 

Happy 2019!

Credit to whoever the person who made this is.

I hope you have a stellar start to the year! More news soon ^u^ Love this minions themed good wishes!

Nayu's Craft Time #300 I'm being brave

Found this quote online (& cute picture) & it's very relevant to today's post.

For the first time in what I think is forever I'm actually being an idiot and going to a Boxing day sale because Boots has some cute Disney items that I hope get reduced. If they haven't sold out. I am only going to one shop, as I hate crowds with a passion so the experience needs to be as short as possible. I hope I can find something to make it worth while. If you sale shop, I wish you luck!!! (& yes I plan to rewatch Tangled very soon!)

No idea where I got this Rapunzel fan art, but it makes me feel like this is the attitude I need to have when facing the sale crowds!