In pajamas by nine, hot ginger tea, a Pure Moods cd. One week to 50 and the mothereffing party starts now.

Spent my birthday with Florence a decade ago and did it again last night (my birthday is not for another ten days but I like to start early and celebrate a lot!)

On the blog this final day of April, a month-long gathering of the things what I have sniffed lately. Glamour-cryptids, Gertrude Abercrombie’s snail shell on dark sand under a crescent moon, the ghost of a bloom dueling with its doppelganger...and more! unquietthings.com/april-perfum...

If a gnarly old tree falls on your property narrowly missing your home and and shaking the bowels of your entire neighborhood and sending everyone running out into the streets but you didn’t take a photo and caption it melodramatically did it even happen at all?

I saw Predator for the first time tonight and this was one of the funniest deliveries ever. “…uh. ok…?”

Still have some good stuff left in my little bookshop, friends! And everything is 20% off right now! pangobooks.com/bookstore/gh...

Not mine, but my friend S. Elizabeth's (@mlleghoul.bsky.social) fabulous new art book, The Art of the Unknown, is up now for pre-order! www.amazon.com/Art-Treasury...

Readers, have you made a “personal curriculum” for yourself in the last year or so? How’d you do with that? I wrote about the idea for @ruemorguemag.bsky.social and I pondered my potential studies today on my blog today unquietthings.com/night-school...

ran a bath so boiling hot it gave me heart palpitations 10/10 no notes

Resurrecting an old blog tradition today — Intermittent Eyeball Fodder! A gallery of art that's been thrilling my ocular sockets lately... weird, dark, spooky, beautiful. You know what I like! unquietthings.com/intermediate... (Featured art by @annamond)

roses and roses and roses

My reviews for this year's Lupercalia collection from @bpal.bsky.social are live on the blog this afternoon (along with details for a giveaway!) A graveside Barry Keoghan scene, an exuberant Haribo candy burlesque, Rilakkuma with a purpose and a donut. And more! unquietthings.com/bpal-luperca...

…is it possible…..was this book… created with me in mind…..?

How To Wear A Whole Bunch Of Random Stuff I Purchased In The Last Few Months That Actually All Pull Together Into A Solid Outfit. unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...

I have a new sticker and I gotta find the perfect place for it

You’ve seen the cover for The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained. Now here’s a peek inside! (Including the first page!) This is my fourth book in the Art in the Margins series and it is, I think, the strangest and most sprawling of the lot!

Scent of the day: Rose Quartz Phallus from @bpal.bsky.social conjures delightful visions of a grapefruit Haribo candy burlesque performance, pearled sugar pasties, bright pinky-coral musky-soapy citrus wig.

I wrote something kinda-sorta vulnerable on the blog today, but also kinda exciting in a cheesy way. It's about creativity, reclaiming something I lost long ago, and the freedom and joy of discovering what you're capable of. Read more here: MY ART IS VERY IMPORTANT unquietthings.com/my-art-is-ve...

there are three types of story: - a person goes on a journey - a stranger comes to town - Videodrome

April's perfume tray is brimming with green. Chlorophyll and malachite and moss and violet leaf and sweet grass and fern and emerald spice, verdant and alive and slightly terrifying, soft and honeyed and nostalgic, ancient and stony and swallowing you whole. www.patreon.com/posts/154915...

“….. actually made an arty tumblr into book, amazing” -best blurb ever, courtesy Billy Jane

From 2005-2011, I worked at a tiny health food store in central NJ and they had weekly deli deliveries which included the most delightful curried tofu salad. I’m thrilled to say I have finally successfully recreated it. My life’s work is done.

still life with trifle and dog treats

made my own burger buns nbd

this is right up there with “fix your hearts or die.”

For folks who were asking if there are other places than Amazon to order my new book, The Art of the Unknown, there sure are! My publisher has a page listing several options: Amazon, Bookshop dot org, Waterstones, Indigo, and Barnes and Noble. geni.us/TheArtOfTheU...

screenshot of the author and her madwoman-in-the-attic hair as she attempts to inform her waning TikTok audience of her forthcoming weird art book

Ok I realize that post really revealed nothing about the book itself. Here’s more if’n you’re curious! unquietthings.com/cover-reveal...

COVER REVEAL! I went down so many deliriously art-drenched rabbit holes while researching this book, and like any good rabbit hole, it will not offer certainty or even clarity. That's not what you go down one for. (At least that's not why I go down rabbit holes! I go to get lost!) amzn.to/4sgjy3p

In a world where everywhere you turn your eyeballs are besieged by the garbagey junk of AI slop, just remember that I, a real live flesh and blood meatbag human, wrote thinky words with my own brain noodles, about weird, wild fantastical art that other actual human artist people created!

Just a reminder, you can purchase signed copies of my weird art books directly from me! unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/

Purchasing and actually practicing with this how to draw flowers book is one of the best things I have done for myself this year

March's collection of fragrant musings is up on the blog: the perfume of a Beatrix Potter gingham potholder, an aggressive chocolate mousse makeout session, November as a feeling, a lifestyle, a graveyard where the ground hasn’t yet been broken. unquietthings.com/march-perfum...

If today’s doodle had a sonic texture it would sound like the deep space air ducts of the Nostromo

Scent of the day: Golosissimo by Hilde Soliani. A massive cocoa-dusted angel food cake whose layers are stuffed with thick-almost-chewy chocolate mousse, aggressively strides up to you, slaps you in the face, breathlessly makes out with you, and steals your wallet.

I have read 33 books over the past three months, and I've shared reviews on all of them at the Unquiet Things blog today. To make things easier on the people who might wonder "but what were your favorites?"...I listed them at the very top! unquietthings.com/first-quarte...

omg I just WROTE THE MOTHEREFFING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND HOLY CRAP BOOK NO. 4 IS DONE

the horrors persist but so do i

A peek at a little Midnight Stinks exclusive video today! A few favorites “not exactly perfume” smells! www.patreon.com/posts/153533...

Per annual tradition, a new How To Wear The Vernal Equinox. I am especially enamored of this floral frock, and it's on sale, but I don't need-need it, right? Anyhow, here is a link to over a decade's worth of Spring Equinox ensembles! unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...

Somewhere, there is a mythic, lachrymose storybook from another world where inside, the cast goes about its business with solemnity, a gloomier, more arcane Busytown, every creature with a purpose, every purpose shrouded in mystery unquietthings.com/every-creatu...

my amorphous angora sunset blob is really coming along

Scent of the day: EPC Sable Gris. Ellen Hutter sits at the edge of the grey sea; out on the horizon, where Nosferatu's shadow might gather … is Fozzy Bear. Frothy salt mist and soft wooly warm musk. Ginger, turmeric filtered through static, signals over water. Fozzy is way out there, doing his best.

Richard Bober’s 1978 cover art for "13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV"

Scent of the day: Tom Ford Oud Wood is a ghostly, glacial coniferous rosewood sandalwood melange of chilly, bitter, peppery woods. It is a tiny, sinister statue of a scent in an empty room where the temperature drops suddenly, with no explanation.

I don't know what is going on here in this VanderMeerian-Katamarian scene of vibrant, bejeweled alien maritime absorption and dissolution, but I love it in the way that you love beautiful, terrifying things beyond your comprehension.

Fashionably late to the party, but I still need a moment with the ABODI Transylvania collection, and its boundless imaginary republic of hand-painted gowns, Transylvanian folklore, and a creative director who counts herself among her own legendary creatures. unquietthings.com/dracula-in-t...

Scent of the day (right wrist): Poesie Through Dangers Untold Carnation brash and clove-sharp,, dragonblood resinous and red, smoke and old earth. Bold and sunburned, someone who rides toward things rather than away, who swings a sword and knows the name of every horse she has ever loved.

Scent of the day (left wrist): Poesie Yet to be Written Cold air with an abstract sweetness, smoke from a fire not yet lit, a small sharp thing, a comic-tragic sting in the tail of sentiment. November as a feeling, a lifestyle, a graveyard where the ground hasn't yet been broken.

omg y’all it’s been like 20 years but I should go fo it, right???