Brittney

That’s some top notch rock hounding right there!

They are so cute!

A bright orange bucket bag with a cheerful yellow appliqué face and brown strap sits on a wooden table in front of a variety of real pumpkins.

Happy Halloween! I conjured up a pumpkin bucket bag with a hand-sewn appliqué face, and now they’re all ready to carry around spooky treats! 🎃

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

These are so cool!

Going slowly insane but having fun

flowering familiars

Gray Fox in the Shoreline
ink and digital color

I’m excited to share my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. This is my first marionette and I had so much fun making him, I'm probably just gonna turn into Geppetto now. 🎃

It’s been so fun to follow along on this little boar’s adventures this past month! 😍

Looking out towards Hudson Bay over the hardscrabble of granite boulders interspersed with dry mosses and tundra plants. Bright orange lichen shines on a rock in the foreground.

Back on the tundra for a few days. This landscape always makes me really happy, even when it’s freakishly warm for this time of year.

“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.”

#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books

A dark green knit top with two sets of vertical ruffles in a neon yellow-green and a light grey color.

After seven months of knitting, I finished up my Kore top today! It’s just in time for the cool weather we’ve been having, and I love how electric those neon ruffles are. I’m one very happy yarn goblin right now! :D

A wooly bear caterpillar on a gravel pathway edge next to a brown leaf.

Such a charming little critter! 😍

I spotted this wooly bear caterpillar zooming right along. Safe travels, little friend!

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

A light colored spider with brown markings on the body. It Is resting in the curl of a leaf made by bending the leaf around and securing it with silk. Trees and sky can be seen in the background.

This is a ghost spider hanging out in a cozy spider hammock. The shot was taken using a custom fisheye macro kit that helps show the spider in her environment.
#Arachtober

Brown oval-shaped tray featuring an illustration of a Spotted Towhee amongst poppies.

Spotted Towhee trays!!

Mushrooms be house shaped

When ppl ask me "why mushrooms"?
I'm like ... "Just look at this wee lil homes"

A wet snail on some tiny leaves on the side of a wall

I didn’t even edit this one. Snail looked this good all on their own. Sports Illustrated model of snails over here. Great work snail you’re lookin wet as hell.

Sugar cookies cut out in the shapes of pumpkins, bats, cats, bones, spiders, and zombies with brightly colored sprinkles sitting atop wire cooling racks on a wooden table.

Enjoying some Spooky Season festivities by baking sugar cookies!

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

tea kettle guys

Treating myself to some colors todayyy

Illustration of a wooly (sometimes spelled woolly) bear caterpillar. It's fuzzy and cute and has a happy little smile. There's lines radiating around it and above it says "it's wooly time!" in lowercase hand lettering. The background is a light orange checkered pattern.

I've been seeing my favorite fuzzy friends around! 🍂🐛

Print featuring a orange cottage surrounded by pumpkins

Also NEW to my online shoppe is pumpkin cottage mini print!!! 🎃✨🍂

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

A copy of T. kingfisher’s novella What Stalks the Deep sits on a wooden tabletop next to a cup of coffee in a ceramic mug that features neat leaf litter critter designs all around it.

My copy of T. Kingfisher’s latest horror novella arrived today, and I remembered to start reading it while the sun‘s out! (My awesome leaf litter critter mug comes from the talented artist @jbbartram.bsky.social and felt like the right choice for today’s coffee.)

illustrated bandana design of the lifecycle of the sockeye salmon

Examples of Illustrated funeral cards and stationary for a kit to properly mourn the projects that never made it

Examples of illustrations, top for a mug design that features ravens carrying poisonous plants. bottom, a close up of a turkey vulture funeral card design

Every year I design stuff for the @waywardretreats.bsky.social welcome kit, it's one of the top things I look forward to every year. This time around I got to design a bandana, a funeral kit, and a mug. The retreaters are now outside of cell range so I get to post them. 2025 theme: Exquisite Corpse