An orange and yellow leaf the shape of a mitten (or Michigan 😉) with a wooded background

A forest floor filled with leaves with a decomposing stump with a rock and an animal skull next to it.

Forest finds

The inside of a tree that was struck by lightning. There is a peep hole in the middle showing green leaves and sunlight through the back.

I found the fae throne.

A shot standing on a bridge with metal bars around it, and wood planks on below. The bridge looks like it goes forever. Blue sky with clouds and green trees in the background

A space themed mobile with a metal ring. There is an irredecent sun in the middle and an astronaut, their rocket, two irredecent stars, and planets Saturn and Uranus. Black grey and white felt balls to represent the moons are also spaced between the bigger felt items. This shot shows the front of the astronaut

A space themed mobile with a metal ring. There is an irredecent sun in the middle and an astronaut, their rocket, two irredecent stars, and planets Saturn and Uranus. Black grey and white felt balls to represent the moons are also spaced between the bigger felt items. This has the rocket in the foreground.

A space themed mobile with a metal ring. There is an irredecent sun in the middle and an astronaut, their rocket, two irredecent stars, and planets Saturn and Uranus. Black grey and white felt balls to represent the moons are also spaced between the bigger felt items. This shows the back of the astronaut

A space themed mobile with a metal ring. There is an irredecent sun in the middle and an astronaut, their rocket, two irredecent stars, and planets Saturn and Uranus. Black grey and white felt balls to represent the moons are also spaced between the bigger felt items.

My latest, and possibly favorite mobile I've made so far!

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

If you want to know how a raw marshmallow SHOULD feel and taste like, take a bite of some frozen whipped topping. 😘👌

When two become one

💁💅

A porcelain figurine of an orange and white spotted cat in a planter of a Hoya carnosa crimson queen that has green and white patterned leaves.

Self portrait 2025

Feels

your 30s are just your 20s but you finally have names for all the shit that's wrong with you both physically and mentally. also the silly freak shit you like will still be there. hitting 30 does not turn your interests into mist

So many of us appreciate having a public place that we can feel safe in. 💚

Detroit Specials has required masks to shop in-store since we opened in August of 2020, and we will continue to require masks as long as we're open.

Everyone deserves to be able to participate in society safely.

Photographs of a variety of large, sealed cardboard boxes. One has handles cut into it for carrying. The boxes are propped up in front of a set of full bookshelves.

Time for another large push...

...PLEASE let this be the last furniture I have to assemble for at least the next year 😅

Our hours this week:
1-6 PM Thursday
3-9 PM Friday & Saturday
1-5 PM Sunday

8275 John R in Detroit -- hope to see you!

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.

A reddit response to someone asking for reasons not to flee. The answer reads "The house is burning down, of course you'd want to run out of it as soon as you could. But there are other people who are trapped that need your help."

I stay alive because being committed to kindness in a world so built upon harshness feels like the most meaningful work I could ever imagine. Also, there’s always the chance that the best brownie of my life is yet to come.

The play house before alterations. Beige cottage with a red door.

The front of the same playhouse with the fake stone details painted brown and fake ivy and moss was added to the front back, sides and roof. There is a flower box below the window with purple flowers in it and also two in front on the ground by a gnome.

The back right corner of the playhouse showing more of the painted stone and ivy.

The back right corner of the playhouse showing the stones painted, the ivy and moss as well as a little table

Healing my inner child by giving my best friends kids the magical childhood I dreamt of, one silly project at a time.

Before and after on this step2 play house.

A mixed media art piece of a golden retriever laying on a beach. The dog is a black outline embroidery done in cotton thread, there is actual sand mixed with glitter and glue to create the shoreline, I created a water look and wave texture with an iridescent blue organza fabric applique, all of this is on linen fabric painted into a sunset with purple and orange hues.

(Reference photo of the dog) A Golden retriever sitting on a boat with a sunset and water in the background.

(Reference photo of the dog) a golden retriever laying on a couch with a striped pillow.

I finished 2024 with my first commissioned embroidery portrait.

#petembroidery #mixedmedia

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Sadly this would explain it. I had a gyn that did this.

If you feel like you might need a med adjustment for the sake of your mental health, please do your best to get it handled ASAP.

You deserve it!

I’m rarely a “not all ____” type of person, but let’s call this what it is. WHITE Gen X fucked this up.

One act of kindness a day.

A mobile for a baby's crib with felt daisies, leaves and bumble bees.

A mobile for a baby's crib with multi colored flowers made from wool felt balls and leaves and bumble bees.

A mobile for a baby's crib with pink, brown, green, and white wool felt balls with felt oak leaves and acorns around a felt squirrel in the middle.

Mobiles! These were all so fun to make. I can't wait to finish the one I'm working on, it's so cute already!