FuzziMutt, Still Kickin' ❤️‍🩹

That said, I've been in contact with everyone I owe work to and thank you all for your dear patience and understanding through all this. 💖 I am hoping to be at least on the road to improvement right now if it's not yet full recovery mode.
I am certainly trying. Mostly to exist, lol.

The worst part of all this is feeling like a mere shell of myself: the extreme fatigue, the activity restriction, the uncertainty. 🤕 I'm ready to be better and get my life back on track. Specialist visits happen so slow that this has been dragging out for some time. I don't have the energy for much.

Currently, I guess I'm out of immediate danger, but in a bit of a limbo as far as whether this was an answer to my neurovascular stuff. Feels like a big waiting game, but I'd hate to find out the hard way that this meant little if I have neuro-issues again. 😭 Not to mention the medical bills.

Was in the hospital in June for neurovascular things when they discovered a sizable congenital heart problem. Started the journey to get that taken care of, including a catheterization procedure... only to find mid-procedure that things may have changed between June and now?? It's all very strange.

Hey. I am alive, haha.

My silence has been because of a whole health adventure. I'd been battling chronic illness already, but things got weird and it may have been a heart problem?? (it's an ongoing, very long saga.) But I thought I'd chime in for uh... proof of life. 😬

#commishupdate

One of those days. 💔

I exist.
I matter.
I am loved.
I will get better.
Life is a journey I genuinely love being on.
Don't you forget these things, either. ❤️‍🩹

Rainbow background with word balloon that says, “Shoutout to everyone who is still committed to trying to be an open-hearted and kind person even while having to process lots of heavy things.”

Photo of a group of 7 octopus mini-plush, each in a color of the rainbow plus pink.

Woke up feeling extra gay—ER, UM... rather colorful today! 😂 🏳️‍🌈✨
Happy Pride Month from these retro Octoplush, lol.

YouTube video by Sam Bentley Good News in May (you might have missed)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl5y...

Looks like everyone has gotten a commission update post-FWA, phew! I figured with the chaos of my temporary sales system that things might get murky, my apologies. I'm legitimately still fighting with Shopify to fix this mess and I'm real annoyed.
#commishupdate ← Clients check this tag for progress

I am inspired and re-ignited ❤️‍🔥 after FWA and I do want to work on various new things! Trying to make art and crafting regular again after I hit a slump with work and such. Thanks so much for following along and I hope to be posting more!

So now that I have funds to work with after 3 years away; I can finally explore new media: I have always wanted to offer more art along with my plushies, or stick to more OOAK type plush (ie, quality over quantity, which I've never been a fan of relying on quantity anyway!)

So, issues aside, there's some major changes I would like to make to what I offer in-person. I see all these wonderful vendors with their Makeship/Kickstarter funded plushies and I can't... do that. My whole thing is staying handmade, but there's no way I can keep a table full as a singular maker.

I am slowly catching up with everyone about any commissions! I hope to be working on stuff in the next couple of weeks, but admittedly being back to my day job might make it go a bit slower. I have everyone's contacts to keep them updated, however~ ✨

Quick photo of the last remining plushies from FWA: a pink and black bat; a brown otter; a brown squirrel; a hedgehog; a doe; and an arctic fox

Saturday was great and pretty much everything found homes! 🥰 I only came home with these 6 lil Puffs and they will be going in my online store soon... once I finish fighting with Shopify. Store will be "down for maintenance" until they get it together, which is annoying.

Super late Post-Con Report for #FWA2025 lol. (I went straight back to work and didn't do a proper flop: this was a mistake. 🤣)
Thanks to everyone who stopped by my table! I had a ridiculous false-start because of some issues with Shopify that I'm still disputing, so I was only open for 2 of 3 days.

It was great to see you! ... Honestly, I didn't expect to clean out so fast: I did not bring enough, haha. It's always been a bit of a feat to sew enough to -keep- the table full. :x

LOL I FORGOT AGAIN:
Open for business at #FWA2025! Sharing a table with @lovewin.bsky.social at Dealer's Den Q10 ✨

Meant to announce, but it's already done so adorably! 💖 A return to vending after quite a break for me, in fact. Come see Lovewin and I at #FWA2025 this weekend!

#furryweekend #fursofcolor

I think it's really easy to view conventions as big nebulous corporations, and then treat their staff as such when the cons do things you have issues with.

Con staffers are almost all volunteers who dedicate so much unpaid labor to making these things happen. Please treat them with some grace.

Hi! I work somewhere that boards birds! This is such a perfect gathering of info. Sometimes our staff is delighted to discover that a bird is perch-trained for moving them around or syringe-trained for taking medications if that can be noted somewhere~ ✨

Photo of 3 FuzziPuff penguins: one black and white, one navy blue and white, one purple and white. They sit on a textured purple-hue cloth for a backdrop.

Product photo (white backdrop) of two twin FuzziPuff owls. Some of their unusual features includes small appliqued flat beaks and great horned owl "ears."

Product photo (white backdrop) of two twin FuzziPuff fennec foxes with larger than usual ears and distinctly tipped tails.

Photo of two FuzziPuff fish- one salmon-pink and the other hues of tie-dye purple. They have silly puckered fish lips and sit on a blue cloth with an outdoor greenery backdrop.

How about some more unusual ones? Weird species are always fun #plush to make, LOL.

Penguins! Owls! Fennec Foxes! Fish?!? 🤔

Photo of 3 FuzziPuff otters- two in shades of brown and one in shades of grey- sitting on a bamboo mat in front of a garden backdrop.

Product photo (white backdrop) of a FuzziPuff hedgehog with distinctively textured minky fabric on its back to imitate quills.

Product photo (white backdrop) of two FuzziPuff brown deer. One is a buck with tiny felt antlers, and one is a doe without.

Photo of two twin FuzziPuff cougars or pumas, complete with their distinctive facial markings and dark-tipped tails. They sit on a contrasting blue cloth with an outdoor greenery backdrop.

More FuzziPuff #plush! Forest Critters Edition:

Otters; Hedgehog; Buck and Doe; Cougars/Pumas

Photo of two FuzziPuff dragons- one red and yellow, and the other blue and green- sitting on a bamboo mat in front of a garden backdrop.

Photo of two FuzziPuff rats- one dark grey and one white. Both have cute pink ears and tails and notable thread whiskers. They are sitting on a bamboo mat in front of a garden backdrop.

Photo of 3 FuzziPuff snow leopards. They are made of the same spotted fabric, but are each unique in pattern like real leopards. They are sitting on a craft mat with sewing tools visible as if recently completed.

Photo of 5 black FuzziPuff bats, each with distinctive accent colors in red, orange, green, blue, and purple. They are sitting on a craft mat with sewing tools visible as if recently completed.

Okay! Putting back some missing art, haha. Here's a massive #plush post of FuzziPuffs! These are softball-sized mini plush representing various animal species. I have made SO many over the years and still create new designs as inspired.

Dragons; Rattie-rats; Snow Leopards; and a pile of Bats

Still in a #Repostober mindset, LOL. I never quite got bsky as "up to date" as I wanted. So I might just do a small flood of old art and plush today, honestly.

Photo of a recent FuzziPuff hyena, a round, softball-sized simplified plush; held by the artist.

Product photo of 3 much older FuzziPuff hyenas, piled in a way to show various angles.

Man, I almost missed it! Here's a cute FuzziPuff for #InternationalHyenaDay! They've come a long way since their first iteration, come to think of it. Anyone out there have one? I love to see where they end up!
#plush

Photo of Spanish entertainer, Charo, in her signature pink sequin outfit; presumably from the 1990s

To be fair! She is voiced by and meant to be Charo~

A very ROUND, grey handmade plush bunny with added Easter egg photo elements

Happy Easter from this perfectly round bunny Puff, lol. 🐰
Circa 2022, but still a classic!
#plush #Repostober