I just made miso caramel brown butter cookies and I think my life is changed

A while back I began writing out all of the Frog and Toad books on the daily pages of a 5-year hobonichi so that I can reread them one day and one page at a time as I fill out the rest of the journal

big year for honse soon

anyway if you like artist merch here's a nice starter pack @shop.zandraillustration.com put together a while back go.bsky.app/38cWPBv

I don't think it's a productive attitude or nice towards your fellow artists to make comments like this, like....why deride them like that

unfortunately, click through traffic to my site for merch is always horrendously low on bsky; it's a place great for art engagement but not for merch in my experience there was a period of time I posted at the same effort level as twt on it but proportionally, sales metrics sucked :x

girl your hair is crazyyyyy #wip #art

Big year for honse coming up

once in a while I think back to the time a mutual posted "if an artist's work is not to your liking or not in your budget then it's not for you don't be weird and complain" and then got ppl in their mentions trying to argue that this was somehow inconsiderate and elitist and a bad take

nooooo Jins used to let me order progressive lenses for my glasses online but they don't let me do it anymore 😔 bad eye problems why must you complicate my life

akatsuki no yona ended,,,unsure if I have ever read anything else that rivals the delicious yearning of Hak towards Yona

I know I've said this before but I really hope more people will give To a T a play I don't agree with comments about it being "unfun"; that's highly subjective and I personally found the game "fun" in a very different way than, say, Pokemon or an RPG

home office update!! I sewed a persimmon color inspired kotatsu blanket cover, and added diffused LED strips to the wood panels 🧡

If you want to gain a very deep appreciation for fabric goods you have, just cut and sew an article of clothing or even a pillowcase yourself and you will suddenly Understand

I read that apparently the game To a T didn't sell very well and that partly as a consequence, the director (who created Katamari) may consider leaving the game industry and this is such a terrible shame if so because truly experimental, carefully crafted games are becoming rarer

been focusing a lot on home setup/personal life re-organization lately since I fell way behind on that and had to put it on the back burner for a long time due to work 💦 I finally went and made huge progress cleaning out stuff from my parents house today and spent 9 hours on it!!!

◾ CM finished on stream today 💙 #art

I think I need to start charging for consultations for big projects because I just had another potential client ghost me hard after taking multiple hours of my time, effort, and information catered to their situation

I got a new sewing machine 🌸

🎤unarchived karaoke stream || singing old songs that were popular with youtaite/utaite ?? www.twitch.tv/chirofish

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

every time I try to film video content for work I am reminded of how much I truly despise making short form video content because it's just so tedious and needs so many takes just for people to pass it over in less than 30 seconds LOL

my hands have been doing mostly ok except over the course of the last few days, my fluid blisters started coming back...? 💀I suspect something changes with our water supply in the wintertime because my last huge flare up was last winter I really need to finally install a water softener

◾ CM finished on stream today 💙 #art

[small work session] 🍡 working on comms for a bit! www.twitch.tv/chirofish

*finally* having a bit more time to actually set up my house stuff like my home office (even though it's been more than a year since I moved, oops) and it still feels kind of crazy to me because I'm constantly reminded "oh right, I own this house I can do whatever I want with it"

I cooked entirely too much food for 2 people but idc!!!

my friend said grem looks like a corndog to her

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all I do on bsky is talk about niche artist business struggles tm because all the art moots are on here

I think some people kinda forget that there's just a baseline cost for stuff that can't go infinitely down even if you get a ton of them made, bc there's still a certain amount of material + hours needed for example one design I did, the difference in unit price for 500 vs. 2000 units was $0.47 LOL

every time I receive a sample/sample update where there's a need for another round of revisions I have to go experience a little crash out session because having to redo things tilts me so bad

Just a reminder that the unlimited pre-order (and the combination discount) ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time tonight! There will be extra stock available after this time, but it will be of a limited quantity, and currently there are no existing plans to do a second batch/rerun

y'know what, we've all heard of nightmare clients but I've found a new personal terror: nightmare representative-of-the-client

recent things I made: carrot top pesto pasta with honey balsamic roasted carrots, and seared tuna ochazuke with kazunoko and pickled mizuna + kabu turnips

there are no such thing as true "free refunds/cancellations" because the business eats costs on that (transaction fees don't get refunded), which then goes into the overhead expenses for the business, and then has to be factored into the retail prices again

interior design is so hard I always need to draw scale floorplans/diagrams for myself when planning out stuff to buy for a room

the curse of knowing how to make things and being used to DIY'ing stuff is now I keep giving myself more little jobs for things to make that I want/need, endlessly :x

oh it's "I have an appointment, and therefore I cannot fall asleep out of anxious anticipation" o'clock

#Khillustration #KalceART #clauvicanvas #lumistration #iroiroART #alisadraws #Marillust #girl_dm_art

oh,,,,a designer and maker I liked the work of just posted a sponsored vid for an ai image generator and framed it as all aesthetic and cozy :/ my disappointment ugh

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

If I have any advice on sourcing manufacturers it's literally just that you gotta spend time googling, and then sending prospective manufacturers a message to ask *them* a lot of questions lol you will learn very quickly about what to ask, production processes, what a manu can/can't do etc

pmo when people post "sharing my manufacturers because I don't ~gatekeep~" and it's something like vistaprint. no one is gatekeeping vistaprint. it's on the first page of google. all manus shared in these types of engagement posts are easy google searches

when I try to do a "safer" design and roll it out at the same time as a more adventurous design, the more adventurous one almost always ends up being more popular; I keep getting evidence that sticking to my more unique concepts pays off 💦

I've been So Busy but I'm definitely getting that real strong itch to draw + rig another new updated L2D model for myself when I get the chance,,,

I'm actually kinda bummed that the convention is on halloween this year, because I bought this huge bag of just different kinds of nerds candy to give to kids (nerds is a top tier halloween candy imo) but we weren't home until a lot of kids were probably done for the night :x

I'm at Kumoricon at 1011 in the exhibitors!

I'm in a really awkward corner of the room in this exhibit hall layout, why 😭