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hello i’m alive!!! just deep in rehearsals 💕

HI FRIENDS SOZ FOR THE RADIO SILENCE tech has just eaten me whole and i always forget how exhausted i get during shows lmao, especially understudying!!

  • i’ve included a couple photos from my costume fitting yesterday :3 oh how i ADORE period costumes heheh this was my first time ever wearing a hoop skirt!! i felt like a cake topper, and the iridescent silk was unreal, so beautiful
  • i’m working on the november postcard!!! i’m enjoying this tea wizard a lot
  • and i ...

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orders all done! and i've got quite a bit of leftover product..

hello my sweets!!! we (by "we" i mean me, sweet marian, and my dear friend alegra who stepped in to help crush through the last 400) are finally done packing orders!! YAHOOOOOO i'll be making one final big run to the post office later this afternoon~

that being said, i do have quite a bit of product leftover -- either things that never quite sold out OR stuff where i listed my inventory wrong a...

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089. a very sleepy & boring halloween

hello friends!! apologies for the low energy in this one -- the last month is finally catching up with me i think ;; 

regardless! i hope you enjoy this episode!! we talk about:

  • playing 2 dnd games back to back
  • my total lack of halloween plans/costume lol
  • mulled wine
  • my upcoming understudy gig
  • the last leg of order packing

sending spoopy thoughts your way if you need em~ 

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october sketchbook tour~

hi y'all!! so this month's sketchbook dump isn't huge, but i am indeed still drawing! or trying to get back into the swing of it -- I start rehearsals on thursday, and i'm still waiting on some packaging stuff to come in so i can pack my last batch of orders, so i am very eepy but i still wanna draw?? i feel the itch at least, and so i'm trying to just listen to said itch and scribble scribble scribble

and i drew a new pngtuber!! cute!!! hopefully i'll be able to put that into action so...

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ah, here's my new video!! soz!!!

HELLO HERE IS MY NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO im so sorry i wasn't able to give y'all early access to this one -- these long 4K videos take so long to render & export & upload, so this thing wasn't ready to share until about 3am on friday night lolol but HERE IT IS!! WOOOOOOOOO

enjoy roughly 40 minutes of packing/work ambience! i hope it can keep you company xx 

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need your input on a video thing...

EDIT: THANK YOU for the feedback! based on what y'all said, i'm definitely going to lower the bg music and make the show in the background less intrusive as well. thanks for the help y'all!!

SO I'm in the process of editing my ~packing vlog~ where I pack a bunch of shop orders, but I'm having trouble deciding on what to do with some of the audio. I listen to a lot of my content out loud, as opposed to in my headphones, so the ambient sounds of my packing orders...

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october art mail!!

here's our october art mail (finally) !!

i think it's all very cute, but since it took me a while to get this all done up, the october art mail will be sent out at the very beginning of november. might draw the november postcard today and order that too to cut down on shipping costs HEH

happy tuesday xx

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FINALLY sketched up the october postcard!

god this really took me ages but i finally drew smth for the october postcard! i was looking at a bunch of old sketches from the months/years past, cause my brain was real fried, but i've been thinking a lot about pie so i went back to my roots and drew a tiny lil friend inside an arch with some magic baked goods HAH

the piece felt a little too empty, so i'm glad i decided to add on the lil apple and apple branches :3 now to color! we'll see what happen...

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made some new thank you cards!!

So I had 1000 thank you cards that I ordered from noissue WAAAAY back in the day, but since I came into this shop update with roughly 700ish of those left, I'm gonna run out of thank you cards soon!! so I decided to make some new ones :D 

I took a lil family portrait sketch from my sketchbook and made it into a cute lil vignette -- and I'm leaving enough room on the back of the card so I can write the customer's name~~

something that I feel l...

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new video!!! a lil pottery & drawing vlog

hey y'all! it's a new video! this features some time in the pottery studio and some thoughts and musings on the joy of being bad at stuff, which is a feeling I'm really trying to harness and lock in on. 

i'm still waiting on the okay from Skillshare (editing this video was a whirlwind and I'm actually a day behind my deadline even though I got the video to them on Saturday....we'll see what they say rip), so there's no thumbnail or description yet ;; i'm also uploa...

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088. trudging through the swamp

hello my dears! here is our first october podcast~ I talk about stress, my upcoming understudy gig, my pottery progress, and my frustrations and joys with being stuck!! I think it's a pretty good one and I hope it can keep you company <33

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october sticker!!

thanks for helping me decide y'all!!! here's our lil pumpkin cutie for this month hehe

still trying to decide on the postcard...i've been in Shop Brain mode for so long my creative brain feels very dried out asdlkfj so I'm trying to sketch more to get it all filled up and inspired again. thank u for ur patience!! i almost wanna do a redraw of an old piece but idk if that's too boring or smth....

hope ur well! happy wednesday!

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uh how does one draw again

Hello my dears!! I remembered today that I need to make my October rewards HAH -- order packing really does scramble my brain hehehe. I've got Marian in to help me today, so I've had some time to sketch! It's my first time drawing in like...a month and a half?? And it feels like I've completely forgotten how to do so lmao. It feels so weird and crunchy but I'm PUSHING THRU

I'm doodling up some fun magical DnD type stuff (I want to draw fun BG3 character...

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hello!!! i am alive!!! (and a small photo dump)

Hello my dears! I am alive! I'm so sorry I've been so quiet since the shop update aslkdfj

I lost basically all of last week to editing (I kept meeting some gnarly technical issues, and so the "rainy crochet with me" video took me 4 days longer than it should have sobs) and then I spent a lot of this past Monday doing planning and scoping on how exactly I'm gonna make my way through all these orders, and FINALLY yesterday I was able to make headway and s...

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thank you from the bottom of my heart

Hello!! Here's an emotional thank you video!! I was going to write out a long heartfelt thank you in a text post but I feared it wouldn't get my emotions across so here's this (much longer than intended) lil video with me saying a weepy thank you for all the support during this clearance sale and also just a lil life update, with what I've been up to <33

I decided not to edit this one, cause I feel like it would cut through the genuineness o...

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shop is open!! + EARLY ACCESS PASSWORD

The (virtual) shop doors are open, just for y'all!!! 

Hello my dears!!! Here is the password you need for the site:

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All one word, all lowercase. :o) I HOPE Y'ALL LIKE EVERYTHING!!...

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shop stuff!! & patron early access time

Hello my dears from Shop Brain Land! A place I've not visited in ages -- it is very surreal but also very fun to be back here hehe. I've redone my entire website and am currently in the process of adding my new listings and getting my photos edited. I had a meeting with my bookkeeper yesterday (hi Brenna!!!) to make sure that all my inventory is in order, and Marian has been a real champ helping me count and recount stuff and package up all my new stationery...

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087. sometimes you gotta focus on the fun

Hello my dears!! I hope you enjoy this podcast ep! The first of our September ones~~ It features me talking about how I've stopped doing The Artist's Way challenge and why, my first foray into pottery, and lots and LOOOOTS of me talking about DnD and Baldur's Gate 3. My brain is filled with rangers and vampires and druids and magic and goblins!!! And it's such a joy!!

I hope you're well! Sendin...

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early access ✿ a cleaning/organizing vlog~

Hi y'all! here's my neeeew videoooo! I'm very happy with it, and I hope you like it too <3 it's full of organizing and cleaning and tidying and me buying my first ever plant :D

I've just got the thumbnail to finish, but I've spent the last three days editing so I'm a bit worn out lol. Still trying to find my editing rhythm...I really do think the key is to edit as I go, so I don't have to hunker down in front of Davinci Resolve for such long stretches. My brain (and eyeballs) are soo...

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would like your input for my next vlog!!!

hello my friends! happy sunday~ so my next vlog is basically going to be a BUNCH of organizing footage -- organizing my rolling cart, my dining room, my yarn stash...it's a lot of footage of me moving stuff around lolol. part of me wants to make it catchy and cute and do my editing thing where I line up the cuts with the music, but it's so much footage, that I fear that might cause me to spend an extra 2-3 hours on this video, and frankly, I don't want to do that to future Ch...

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issue with august stickers — will be sending out replacements later this month!

Hi y’all!! So it was brought to my attention by a kind patron on Twitter that the August clown stickies didn’t quite get cut all the way through — I checked a few of the ones I have here still and the same issue was present. I was able to peel up the clown stickers but only after great effort and a lot of wiggling my nails between the sticker and backing sheet. And that’s an accessibility issue!! So, I contacted Sticker Ninja and they are re-p...

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september art mail preview~

hey y'all!! here are our september rewards!! I'm SOOOOO happy with them, I think this is some of my best stuff yet hehe

as usual, if you switch to any of the art mail tiers at any point during september, you'll get your hands on these cuties :o)

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stinky wizard cat is in production! and look how cute the proof is hehe

Stinky Wizard is on the way!!! I should have him in hand around the 23rd of this month, so Sept rewards will be sent out shortly afterwards :3

The proof from Sticker Ninja made me smile so big so I had to share HEHEHE the green stink cloud and the yellow stars are gonna be all shimmery and sparkly!! i'm so excited!! gonna look so extremely magical

happy thursday y'all!! I'll be posting another weekly lil photo stash (I want to find a term other than photo "dump" but idk if "stash"...

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need help figuring out stinky wizard sticker

Hello!! Pls help, I am torn on what to do with stinky wizard cat. The lil green stink cloud is going to be ~sparkly~, but I can't decide what to do with the background color. I initially had the purple, but now I'm thinking pink might work better? Or maybe I should just leave it white...please let me know what you think, both in the poll and the comments!

Now that I'm...

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packaging design ★ making belly bands for the first time!!

Hello my dears!! I got the notification that my belly bands should be arriving this Thursday (hopefully), so I wanted to share them with y'all cause I think they're real cute. :')

I've actually never made belly bands before?? It took me ages to figure out what this kind of packaging was called -- it's what you call the piece of cardstock that is usually wrapped around stationery (or even wedding invites) that holds the merchand...

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086. the persona games give me hope

Hello my dears!! I knew I was going to talk about video games this podcast episode but I didn't expect it to get QUITE so in depth, heheh...I hope you don't mind!! This turned into a big love letter to video games and particularly, the Persona franchise, so I hope you like this deep dive into my little gamer brain. Video games are really cool!!

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life lately ✿ late august photo dump

full transparency -- i saw radhia and fran do lil photo dumps like this, and tiffany posted a cute moving blog and rebecca green has been doing sweet lil process/life blogs, and i want to do more blog posts for y'all but they take me ages, and so!! maybe if i can just throw a bunch of photos at you every now and then with some little life notes, maybe that'll work? as always, i'm trying to find what works for me so that i can consistently bring y'all cool/fun/cute st...

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august sketchbook tour~

Hello my dears!! Here is out August sketchbook tour!! I scribbled a lot this month, so I hope you have fun flipping through the pages :o)

I know I usually do multiple photos for each spread, but I've started taking these pics on my iPad, so they should be higher resolution and easy to zoom in on if you wanna see more details. If you would rather I keep taking multiple photos for each spread, just lemme know!! 

I'm trying really hard to break out of my usual comfort zone and s...

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new video early access!!! a july vlog

Hello my dears!! here is a new vlog for you!! i hope you like it :3 i'm rather proud of it!! i just gotta finish the description

I also have come to learn that videos like this take me a minimum of ~10 hours to edit, so I gotta start spreading out my editing sessions, my little brain is not made to edit videos for 8+ hours in one day lol

it'll be going public tomorrow morning, so apologies it took me a while to get you the early access video!! pls lemme know what you think! xx

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085. i love being a weird kid

Hello my dears!! So sorry it's so late, but here is our first August podcast!! I'll have the second one up on the 30th :D

I really really love this episode!! I talk about the Heikala video, inner child stuff, the status of my Artist's Way journey, as well as my shop clearance plans hehe. It's a juicy one~

I hope y'all are doing so well -- sending all my love <3 xx

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