Month: June 2025

Audiobooks Recommendations – June 2025

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Below are my latest Audiobooks recommendations. This list maybe short but some of the books were nearly 30 hours long.

Dakota Krout – His “Cooking with Disaster” series was fun and different. And it appears his “Damsels in Distress” series will be a fun listen.

  • Grilled Armageddon: Cooking with Disaster, Book 1
  • Sewer Skewers: Cooking with Disaster, Book 2
  • Omelet Endgame: Cooking with Disaster, Book 3
  • Thunderplump: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (The Completionist Chronicles, Book 11)
  • Thesaurize: The Completionist Chronicles, Book 10
  • Tenacity: The Completionist Chronicles, Book 9
  • Red X Wolf: Damsels of Distress, Book 1

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by: Grady Hendrix: Not my typical book. I only picked it for the title. At times the book went on and on, but the ended made it worth finishing.

David Petrie

  • Revelations: Necrotic Apocalypse, Book 6

Scott Meyer

  • That’s Not Right

Yahtzee Croshaw

  • Will Leave the Galaxy for Good: Jacques McKeown, Book 3

Shirtaloon

  • He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure: He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
  • He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure: He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2
  • He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure: He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 3
  • He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure: He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 4

Luke Chmilenko

  • Threads of Fate: Ascend Online, Book 5

Dennis E. Taylor: Even though I listened to Book 5 in the Bobiverse series, sorry Dennis it not making my list. I felt the book spent most of the time describing gadgets.

Around Snow

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I believe this drawing will be placed onto the list as one of my favorite drawings. I created this design using CorelDraw. It all started with a square with curved sides. The squares were duplicated and some lines added, and I had the object to start my design.

After duplicating, rotating, and arranging the objects, I had a very confusing outline to start adding color. That is not a circle in the middle of the drawing. I looked at the file and it just an illusion.

After filling in the some of the spaces with color, duplicating the new object again. I decided to set a transparency and added some shading. Then I added a black background. This is the final result.

Around Snow:

After staring at the original outline of the artwork, I decided to make the outline into two coloring pages named Art of Confusion. One coloring page is a full page of the outline I used. The other coloring page shows the full design.

Checker Flower – Coloring Page

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The Checker Flower coloring page has a lot of potential to be beautiful. You are welcome to download it from the link or my Coloring Page. Color it! Or, use it as a template for a tangle.

I created this coloring page using CorelDraw and here are some examples of how I colored it.

Checker Flower:

Checker Flower: With Awesome Background. The shading really brings out the flower.

Checker Flower: Shades of Gray

Checker Flower: Example of the Template being tangled. With Zentangle and other tangles. Remember the shading really bring out the art.

Playing Around with CorelDraw

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These are the designs I created with CorelDraw. I started by creating a shaped and transforming the single shape into a design.

First was Around Flowers: Drew some lines, added some coloring and shading, now very busy design.

Second was Around Pink: A single flower design in the front with others peeking out from the background.

Third was Around Hearts: Just a bunch of heart shapes repeated and shaded.

Last, for now, was Around Burst: Same design was repeated but it was overlayed with the transparency effect.