White-necked jacobin, Trinidad. #birdoftheday #perfectperch

Some recent commissions 🫖🍃

💛🧡💛Tue, Jan 13 Southern Resident orcas are back inland Puget Sound! They were audible on the hydrophones overnight & currently orcas, presumably them, are moving down the Sound. Good luck! Please share sightings. 📸 J44 Moby launches during their last foray inland. By Jami Cantrell 1/7. #psws

some more progress on this embroidery hoop!

Oh hey! My shop is all updated with Jujutsu Kaisen yarn! Self striping for both Gojo and Sukuna plus themed speckled skeins Cursed Energy and Black Flash

An enchanting canyon that leads to Glen Canyon and the Colorado River. I hope you all have a peaceful day. #OrangeSun #ColorADay #Stunday #Hiking

🫧🐳 Sun, Jan 11 While the orcas have exited Puget Sound proper, we revel in the gray whales who arrived last month & continue to feed in the shallows in the Whidbey Basin. Today Gretchen & others have been reported. 📸 More from 1/7/25 when Js & Ks headed up Colvos Passage. By Jason Cook. #psws

a pod of wild orca, including a tiny calf 🖤🤍 so beautiful I felt like bursting into tears. seen yesterday in the waters around Skjervøy, Norway

"Goldcrest" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork #Stunday #embroidery #WildlifeArt #birds

I finally made it to the border of my project! My favorite milestone. #crossstitch #embroidery

An #artvsartist post. I only managed 8 embroideries in 2025 but I definitely spent more time on the details. It was my hardest year as I had to take time out to look after my family, but I’m very much hoping that 2026 will be better.Thanks for enjoying. Much love.😘🪡🌿🌺 #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

🖼️ painting titled "Pani od gwiazd" (Lady of the Stars) by Polish artist Monika Szpak.

Canyonlands National Park #photohour #eastcoastkin #canyonlands #moab #utah

First cross stitch of 2026 and I am obsessed with it!! 🐝 I tweaked the pattern The Humble Bee by DominionSisters 🧵🪡

Cultures without writing store vast amounts of pragmatic information through song, story, dance - essential for survival. Memory devices (such as skulls) are involved. Why is the role of knowledge systems not included when interpreting performance sites? www.iflscience.com/neanderthals...?

This newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

🩵 Fri, Jan 9 Yesterday morning, Southern Residents Js & Ks exited Puget Sound proper out Admiralty Inlet. Today, a group of orcas are northbound in Colvos Passage, possibly yesterday’s South Puget Sound Bigg’s. 📸 Members of J & K pod - Colvos Passage - Jan 7th by Jason Cook. #psws

Cliff Palace, built by the Ancestral Puebloans, is located in Mesa Verde National Park. #ScapeFriday #landscape #photography #EastCoastKin

Stephen Jay Gould wrote that orchids are “jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.” To my mind, it is from such limits that ingenuity learns to bloom. Wishing you a lovely evening and a fantastic Friday! 💛 #ColorADay #YellowThu #orchid #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

#TBT to last January. #Blackwork #embroidery on 14-count Aida. Pattern here: www.loosethreadstitchery.com/shop/p/pole-... #CraftSky #StitchSky

Brooklyn, Portland, OR #pdx #graffiti #murals #streetart #formlineart

This will be the last WIP pic I post before I finish this but I'm really happy with how it's coming along!

According to Met Éireann's annual climate report, 2025 was the second hottest year in recent memory, signaling an increased risk of severe weather events in the future.

Mid-day at Horseshoe Bend in Arizona. #horseshoebend #landscapephotography #nature #photography #arizona

My cousin is moving into an assisted living facility & are in the process of decluttering. Knowing my passion for textiles & embroidery they are giving me this antique cross stitch sampler which I have admired for years. I had many conversations with Aunt Patsy about this piece.

I made this patternnnnn!!! Testing it before it gets released! #crossstitch

Whimsical #Gardens Grow From Silk Teacups and Mossy Patches in Rosa Andreeva’s #Embroideries. #art #embroidery #flowers Link for more information and 7 other #photos of her work: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/01/rosa...

Got started on some grassy field :) #wip #CrossStitch #Pegasus #rainbow #artsky #stitchsky

Never forget January 6, 2021.

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Bumblebees (genus Bombus): There are 275 species of Bumblebee in the world, a few native to South America & NZ with the majority found across the Northern Hemisphere. Super photo of one of these important Pollinators taken by Ade Reeves in Colorado, USA. 🐝 #bee #bees #bumblebee #nature #bumblebees

Five years ago, Sarah Matthews was working in the Trump White House. January 6 horrified her so much that she resigned. She looks back on that horrible day and Speaker Johnson’s refusal to honor the officers who defended the Capitol.

Remember who set these traitors loose on the Capitol and then pardoned them for their crimes.

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

Executive board meeting 😻🐾😻🐾

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick defended Congress from a violent mob on January 6, 2021. After being attacked by rioters, Officer Sicknick passed away the following night.   My thoughts are with Officer Sicknick’s loved ones and all of the brave first responders who defended our Capitol.

I'll never forget what it was like to be inside the Capitol complex on Jan 6th. We didn't know if we'd make it home to our families. For those impacted—officers, staff, service workers, journalists, members & more—we'll never stop pursuing accountability, starting with Trump.

When in doubt turn the music up! 😎

This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

The Natural Bridge - The Arch. Bryce Canyon, Utah. One of the 14 amphitheaters along a 20 mile stretch in Bryce Canyon. #brycecanyon #canyon #nature #arch #bridge #arch #utah #natural #photography #amphitheater #bryce #december

Aw yeah boy finding my flow. I should stitch more than once a week if I want to finish before I'm forty, but whatever. I don't want to burn myself out on this. 20.33% complete, more or less. Pattern, thread info, and fabric information in the alt text. #crossstitch #craftsky #embroidery

All Americans, and the entire world, must remember. Robert Reich: The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Fisher Towers are a group of rock towers near Moab, Utah, made of Cutler sandstone, capped with Moenkopi sandstone, and coated in a crust of red mud. They’re named after a miner who lived nearby in the 1880s and rise about 900 feet above the valley floor. #utah #desert #landscape #photography #moab

Commissions for embroidered cat portraits are open! 🍄 Join the waitlist here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On this of all Mondays, my soul is resting but my bitch face is ready to go

Ok something positive. I went to an embroidery class today, making a journal for the year. Got some good tips about different stitches.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Today’s work on new cross stitch.

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