Folks, I'm not gonna lie: This is unideal. #rain

The Art is, indeed, on the town. Come see me today now until 5:00pm and tomorrow 11:00 to 5:00! I can take Venmo, Paypal, and cash! ❤️ #smallartist

I occasionally commit the artistic sin of getting too attached to a piece, and that's what happened with this one. I put so much into figuring out suspending the fish, supporting the flower, and creating the illusion of water, that now it's going in the home collection. #goldfish 1/3

ANOTHER ONE. I'm enjoying making these ones where the flower colors are themed on the food packaging. This has also taken an unrecyclable tea tetrapak and made it into a sculpture for a green tea lover. 1/2 #greentea

Come see me this weekend! Finished a new piece for the vendor show just last night, and it won't go on my Etsy until AFTER this show, so if you want first dibs, come see me and it! theragegarden.etsy.com #flowers

This is your reminder that I will be IN-PERSON for my first vendor show in over a year at Art in the Park in Staunton this Saturday and Sunday!!!! Please come see me and my garden of paper flower sculptures. All the ones shown below will be there (assuming none sell online before then)! ❤️🌸 #flowers

THIRD PIECE FINISHED. This one is "UVA House Transported." This house is down 29, partially burned now, and though I don't know what it was, the paint job implies it was something UVA-themed. 1/2 #abandoned

When you're a person with innovative and spicy computer issues. Let it be known that it scanned correctly, and this somehow happened because I cropped it? 😭 WHY. #computers

It's 6:00AM on a Sunday, and I am here with my yearly pitch for wearing one of these painted shirts as a light jacket on the beach at sunset. 👀🌄🏖 theragegarden.etsy.com/listing/7160... #chrysanthemums

Second piece complete, and I'm determined to have the third done today. This is "Dual-Fronted Barn Transported." I have taken it out of its desolate landscape in the tall grass somewhere between here and Wakefield, VA, and put it in a more pleasant one of abstract flowers. 1/2 #abandoned

Beloved artist amongst my friends on substances (the answer to the question was yes). ❤️😂 #flowers

The South Carolina house won the poll, and so it has become the first abandoned house in the reverse of the pieces I've been doing. Instead of abstract flowers over abandoned house landscape, we are now doing abandoned house WITHIN abstract flower landscape. #abandoned

Yeehaw, this is what we're doing tonight: Driving over a mountain to stand up for trans kids at a local board meeting because somebody should let those kids know they're loved. I will love my community for revenge. 1/2 #cardigan

This shirt is super soft, and the fabric is so stretchy and delicate, I had to be very careful embroidering it so that I didn't exactly make the tiny holes I was fixing bigger. 1/2 #community

Was putting these up yesterday and saw someone visibly laugh, which is half the point. Humor me and follow me here because I DON'T WANNA SPEND $5 TO REACH 200 MORE PEOPLE, the notification I seem to get every. Single. Day. linktr.ee/okhismakingart #artist

Made this for a friend's birthday last week! First time I'd carved and printed a full scene in awhile instead of just making stamps for my shirts. 1/2 #linocut

Good news: You can now order all three of these as prints. 🩷💚🤎 Hoping to have higher quality scans in the future, but I've also found that scans wash out my artwork in a what a good photo doesn't. 1/2 #abandoned

Suggestion: Chaotic girl summer. It is almost the season of strawberries and spiders that make sudden movements (and they do hang out in strawberries - ask me how I know). If you need a skirt with both strawberries and a wolf spider on it, I've GOT you: theragegarden.etsy.com/listing/1539...

Trying to find a place to hang your own work when you spend all your time collecting other people's. Laundry room door it is. 🤷‍♀️ #collage

Which abandoned house goes in next art piece (this one will be slightly different than the other three 👀)? #abandoned

I had a conference this weekend, and you know what that means: Art got done (I draw during meetings to stay awake and focused). The third in the series, which I am calling The Revisited Series, is now finished. This is "Alderson Railroad House Revitalized." 1/2

Happy Sunday! Remember that you can love for spite! theragegarden.etsy.com/listing/4487... #community

White tank top has sold, but the other two are in the shop, and all profits from them will go to the GoFundMe's of trans people trying to leave Kansas since they invalidated their driver's licenses. You can find them both here: theragegarden.etsy.com #transrightsarehumanrights

40% off sale ends tonight at midnight! There are still a good few things I'd love to see leave the shop, including these wisteria jeans. Thought about doing a whole line of botanical pants but then realized how hard pants are to sell compared to shirts, which 1/2

Today's the day! Anarchist Ms. Rogers drop in 40 minutes! theragegarden.etsy.com #hope

Tomorrow's the day! 4/26 at 12PM EST is the Anarchist Ms. Rogers drop, named for the combination of community love and spite put into this collection + the fact that there are two cardigans in it. Check back here: theragegarden.etsy.com #community

The bad news? I've been rejected from the local emerging artists' studio program twice. The good news? We're now two for two where they reject my application, and then I immediately know what I want to do with my art next. 1/5 #collage

Reminder that I've got a sale going on until May 1st! I want my old work out of the shop. These things were fun and cool to make at the time, but my skills have progressed, so these are on deep discount (40% off!!!). 1/2 #embroidery

very important purchase

I swore I'd never do another pair of pants again just because they're so much more specific to size than shirts, but these were ripped, stained, and free from a friend, so why not try and give them new life? 1/2 #repair

These are the other two trans rights fundraiser shirts that will be in my next Etsy drop THIS SUNDAY, 4/26 at 12PM EST. All profits will go to the GoFundMes of trans folks trying to escape Kansas since the state's blanket invalidation of trans people's driver's licenses. #transrightsarehumanrights

This shirt sold to a good friend before it even hit the market. They paid $70 in person, so that was all profit, and I donated it to the GoFundMe of a queer person trying to leave Kansas. Of all the anti-queer policy that's come out throughout the country, 1/3 #transrightsarehumanrights

11 days ❤️ Check back here on 4/26 at 12PM EST: theragegarden.etsy.com #hope

SOLD! This little guy is headed to patch the clothing of a good friend! One more patch left in the shop. Check out everything here, and get ready for the 4/26 update! theragegarden.etsy.com #hydrangea

Mark your calendars! These pieces drop April 26th at 12PM EST! I'm calling it the Anarchist Ms. Rogers drop because it's all about community care, and it includes two cardigans. The pink and blue pieces are a pro-trans rights fundraiser with all profits going to the GoFundMe's 1/2

In honor of the warmer weather and the scheduled argument I have with my boss on Monday, I present: the Habitually Difficult tank top. It is currently on sale for 40% off. Get ready for difficult girl summer: theragegarden.etsy.com/listing/1165... #tulip

Custom flowers finished as a thank you to the person (@drooomba on Instagram) who gifted me this incredible rug of one of my flowers! #flower

Yesterday's rage shirt is headed out of the shop and to the perfect person to wear it. However, there is still a metric ton of stuff on sale for 40% off that I want OUTTA MY SHOP. These things have sat too long. They're old work - cute, but I do better/different stuff now. 1/2 #daisy

Consider a (40% off) shirt to express your feelings during these trying times. Find it here: theragegarden.etsy.com/listing/1491... #leopardprint

Care about your community for spite!!! ✅️ Bad people are trying to destroy good things. Every time you defend an existing good thing or create a new one, you are punching back at them. 1/3 #community

It is the day after Easter, and this bunny tank top (+ a whole lot more) is 40% off in my shop right now. Please get these things out of my store!!!! Treat yourself! Christmas shop early! Begone previous works that no longer reflect my skill level!!!! Shop here ❤️: theragegarden.etsy.com #bunny

Happy Easter! This is a holiday about hope, so I figured I'd show you the back of this cardigan that's going in the next drop. This is probably not quite how Jesus would do hope, but I think he'd get it under the circumstances. #hope

Cleanest patch job I've ever done. If there's anything you take away from the next drop, it'll be that I was in the mood to do wheel stitches. P.S. Check out all the old pieces that are on sale for 40% off here: theragegarden.etsy.com #jeans

Taking what feels like somewhat of a risk: Just paid my vendor fee to be in Staunton's Art on the Town (which is Art in the Park this year due to construction - it'll be in Gypsy Hill). Mark yoir calendars for May 23rd & 24th! Fingers crossed I sell enough flowers from 1/3 #artinthepark

Good morning! I put around 27 items on sale for 40% off (my biggest discount ever) on Etsy through the end of this month because I feel like those pieces no longer reflect my current skill level in embroidery/painting respectively. 1/2

I didn't have a photo of this in time for Trans Day of Visibility, so trans people are just going to have to be visible for one more day (then 364 more - trans rights are human rights, and no one is forcing my trans homies into the shadows). 1/2

When I originally listed these on Etsy, I thought about how I would ship them and went "Eh, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." The bridge has been crossed. This is about what I'd always had in mind, and now three flowers are on their way to California! #sculpture 1/2

I have just received a $300+ order for flowers. I am so thankful. These sculptures mean a lot to me - I put my heart and soul into them, and those who know know that lately, I've felt these aren't regarded as "real art" in the fine art world, as if they don't take hours to construct, as if 1/3

320 tiny flowers. At an average 10 minutes per flower, that comes out to 53 hours of work, but I'm pretty sure it was way more than that. Lost a lot of sleep over this thing because the closer it got to finished, the more I just wanted to see the final product. 1/2 #embroidery

Shamelessly "involved" in my projects (no she would not give me my seat back). #embroidery