Clay is HEAVY. Sure, I knew that already but it's still nothing I usually think about. I make mostly small or rather small things but now I'm making a slightly larger thing and need to hold it in one hand to trim it and wow it HEAVY.

Giving names to storms sure makes them sound less threatening sometimes. We are now being visited by "Dave". Dave the storm.

Thinking about the day when the orange dictator-wannabee finally croaks. People are going to celebrate the world over. I wonder what it'll be like. Probably unlike anything I personally have ever experienced before.

It is snowing.

I donated thrombocytes/platelets for the first time yesterday and it went very well! A month ago I didn't even know that was a thing you could do. I thought they just took blood and used it for everything.

Trans day of visibility! (I have nothing to add just wanted to make a post with those words in it.)

"Daylight saving time" is so unnecessary. Why are we still doing this?

Fascinating world of #glass: Glass vessels from the 16th and early 17th century, found in a latrine in Ulm. Latrines were commonly used for waste disposal. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

Working on a clay thing and right now it's just so boring and I want to do something else for a while. But I can't because then the clay will dry out. Sometimes I wish I was sculpting in wood or something. Wood is nice. I like wood.

The sun is up before 6:00 now and it makes such a difference!

Donated blood again today. Always feels nice afterwards. I'm glad I can do it.

Is "Melodifestivalen" actually number 1 on Trending worldwide?

New things from the kiln! (Photo by my mom) I had looked forward to painting these but once the mystery clay mix was done cooking they just look too good to fiddle with. So I'll wait a while and see how I feel about it. #stoneware #clay #figurines

Mixing water into the clay til my hand almost hurts. Trying to start sculpting for hours. Clay now too dry. Mixing water into the clay til my hand almost hurts.

Looking forward to painting those teeth. Almost scrapped this one until those teeth started taking shape.

"Wildflowers" is number one on Trending and honestly that's kind of nice. I hope it really does mean just that though. Otherwise I'll pretend that it does anyway.

Recently listened through ~24 hours of Yale lectures in a course about Don Quixote. I wonder if I am prepared to read the book now.

Meep moop. Clay stuff.

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Photos are weird. The shadows are so light here for some reason and the face looks so different. Taking photos of things is hard. But it's kind of cool how the unfinished side of the face makes it look more like a drawing, without details in the shaded parts.

My next book will be my 10th published book (16th if you count the six I unpublished because my writing got better)! Which is a lot when you consider I didn't ever imagine trying to write anything for the majority of my life. Which is to say, try stuff... you never know!

Happy Friday the 13th to all who celebrate.

Could be time to paint some of them, like, soonish.

Not sure if I like this one or not. But I have decided that if I work on something for a few hours I might as well just fire it. It's not a large amount of clay anyway so doesn't really cost me.

GRRR

Doing a bit of a "cabinet of curiosities" aesthetic, but where I make all the stuff myself. One day I have to get (or make) a proper cabinet to store things in. #stoneware #clay

When you feel like you need a break from the clay thingy you're sculpting but the clay dries out fast so if you take a break it'll be too dry.

Greenware clay skeleton person. Has since this photo dried fully and is now waiting on a shelf by the kiln. #stoneware #clay #greenware #skeleton

And a couple more faces! This time I tried adding facial hair to one of them.

A repost... 'Cat Burglar' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Maple wood with waxed linen and rhinestones.

Making faces! #stoneware #clay #greenware

One thing about working with clay is you'll be aware of how quickly your nails are growing.

I'm mega stuck. If I could take this stuck and turn it into a glue it would be the best glue.

Is "somersault" the only English word for that rolling motion you can do? It sounds aggressive or complicated. Like, sure, it's when gymnasts do it but what is it when normal people do it? Anyway, I was outside today and did a somersault in the snow. Like a child.

"Coffee" and "coughing" sound pretty similar but are very different ways to start your day.

Made myself a cup of tea and a cup of coffee at the same time and had milk in both. Now I'm sitting here comparing colours. I think the tea is slightly warmer and more saturated. The coffee is a bit more grey, ironically.

Opened up vanilla Minecraft for the first time since 2019. I only played vanilla for like two weeks before switching fully to modded. Seeing my old island in the middle of nowhere (it was an interesting seed) feels weird. The more I walk around the more I remember it.

All actions are not created equal and sometimes I don't really like how real life is balanced.

I solved the 'it's still the Year of the Snake, but everyone thinks it's Year of the Horse' problem. It's now the month of the Snorse. #sygnin

Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene, known for her embroidery on metal objects #WomensArt

So today I learned about the pampas cat. The Swedish Wikipedia article says it weighs around 3kg in the wild, and up to 7kg in captivity. Wonder if that's because they get overweight or if they just grow so much larger. (Can't find anything about weight in the English article)

I love behind-the-scenes things like this! Also, hand-drawn animation is cool and impressive and I'm very reminded of that every time I see a rough and unfinished version.

I wonder what is most likely to happen: The USA falls into pieces and states start behaving like individual countries. Trump & Co uses nuclear weapons. The world allies against, and cuts off, the USA. The USD stops being used internationally. Trump dies and MAGA completely falls apart.

Continue doing what I'm already doing but hopefully get better at it. Though that's a boring answer because you can't tell if I've failed so... hm... - Finish a doll. - Make a necklace with at least ten parts. - Hm... make a tarot deck? - Make myself a new profile picture.

Knowing that you are stable enough handle an emergency - the luxury that shouldn't be a luxury. I hope that, in 2026, that will become reality for many more people in the world.

Fireworks are a kind of… I guess guilty pleasure for me. I can't defend them in any way - they're poisonous, they scare animals... But I do like the sounds and the lights. So I can't defend them but I will stay up and watch them at mid night.

Shaping and reshaping the same little ball of clay. Every once in a while it gets too dry and I have to work more water into it. I want to make a little creature of some sort, but it's like doing a summoning spell and nothing happens.

No matter if it's making mugs or large sculptures or bowls or intricate candlesticks or small jewellery… We all have to constantly work with the humidity of the clay. Making it perfect for what we need it to be at that moment. *Pouring some water on my own, dry clay so I will be able to shape it*

I've been drawing quite a lot for many years but when it comes to picking a profile pic I still have nothing to wear. I'm not the only one with this problem, right?

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