📖 new studio, painting challenge, & books I read......... | October Notes ✏️

watch the afternoon sun slowly glide across the back wall as i chit chat about updates from the last month :-) thank you for sharing your day with me, and take care! x

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[leahsfieldnotes]

Love your eye for colour, the walls look so cozy 🥺💞

[NightShiftReads]

With the rise of minimalist interiors, I really appreciate your love of color and knick-knacks ❤️

[swanily]

the way annabelle's comment section is literally the best corner of youtube is everything

[sabrinaestrada]

your videos always feel like catching up with an old friend over coffee ❤️

[FlipperTea]

Annabelle is like the only youtuber left that I have the patience for watching her just talk 💓

[melinaillulina]

I totally get what you say about taking enough time to produce something good - for the longest time I could not go to bed until something was finished. Looking back now, I wish I would have pressured myself less to be fast because the pieces I did had so much potential, but I didn't give them the time they needed. By the way, I also tend to grab different kinds of books depending on the time of the day. During the night I gravitate towards historical reads, eerie & moody ones. Currently, it's the Tenant of Wildfel Hall by Anne Brontë!

[Kathens]

Even though I haven't read a book in along time your descriptions really make me want to pick up one of those books and start reading again! :)

[fegrace_]

Thanks for highlighting used books. There is a large used bookstore in my city and I really enjoy spending times going through there books and finding ones that are out of print. Also my local Goodwill and Salvation Army have great selections. It feels satisfying to give gently used books (even ones that are more expensive online or in regular brick stores) a second home and life🙂

[atheera]

I also like to "screenplay" when I read. almost too much that I fly away and make up my own story and forget the one I am reading 😅

[jenna]

annabelle, i have loved your content and followed you ever since your very early days at RISD. I haven't had the chance to watch your channel in a while, as I became caught up in school, work, friends, obligations.... getting to sit down and watch this video is like meeting again with an old friend :)

[puffeeclouds]

watched this while i enjoyed my apple juice and i must say that i especially love the part where you finished the heart-shaped vegan white chocolate because you were (almost) closing your eyes and you were carrying bambi and the two of you just seemed like in different worlds doing your own thing but at the same time, you're both in the same room, on the same chair. i don't it was just so cuuuute!!! and the books!!! kinda had this vision of me enjoying inferno by dan brown after my pile of school works. this video was very refreshing, thank you so much!

[aines]

The house duties have become my favourite time of the day thanks to these little catch up videos❤️

[drudru]

Annabelle you’ve been so inspiring to me and I’ve honestly have been here for 2 years and to see the way we have both grown! I love u the very most. You probably don’t know this but you’ve impacted my life in such a great way 💓

[akitir]

Yess, i too play scenes from books like a movie, which is why i love narrative, descriptive books more, because they help me imagine things in my head more

[MeganWangart]

your videos are my favorite! Thank you for sharing these aspects of your life, they’re so nice to watch and are such a source of comfort for me right now ❤️

[emmabenson]

I love the way you explain things I just love the way u laid out those books it makes me think about what the book is about and what you took from it and whether I would like it. You explained it clearly and eloquently so thank you!!

[thebirdandthecricket]

Your videos about making your at-home studio inspired me to find my own studio corner in my childhood home too! Thank you so much for sharing that transformation. It's so difficult to be an art student and art graduate right now, but your vides are keeping me hopeful! Tysm Annabelle!

[RAZERUUU]

makes me wanna read again!! 😩 i had reading fatigue for a month and this has helped to motivate me a lot!! i love u

[mikaylashannon]

i’ve been having terrible anxiety the last few hours & this video has provided me some relief and i’m thankful

[absurdgal]

I am also a very slow reader and often have to reread sentences multiple times to understand them. Discovered this year that I'm mildly dyslexic. Made it through all those years of school including grad school before I was diagnosed! Really explains so much about the atypical way my brain works.