What do you do to fill your creative batteries? I travel! 🚙 #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings misty.granades.com/2026/04/28/r...

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

What do you do to fill your creative batteries? I travel! 🚙 #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings misty.granades.com/2026/04/28/r...

I wrote about making books last week and I have to say just thinking about it makes me want to just take today and make a book 😂📚 #BookMaker #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook misty.granades.com/2026/04/21/m...

Finished a hat for @chrishubbs.com I sure hope it fits!! 🧶 #CrochetArt #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear #ThinkingAboutMaking #CrochetHat

I took a road trip this past weekend and I love how it recharged my batteries. Make time to get outside and do something new.

My art discord has been laughing about this meme all afternoon. I’m still not over it.

Time with friends. Time outside. Seeing a new place. Eating different foods. I love novelty and a weekend trip gives me that. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #Travel #SmallTownLiving

There is a massive new generation of people discovering the joy of making zines and self-publishing. If some of them make one thing and decide that was all they wanted to make, that's totally cool! But I'm curious about the future lifers and how their work will evolve over many years.

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

I learned this weekend that I live in hipster town. We went to a small town & they had used records EVERYWHERE & they were ones I wanted at reasonable prices! Instead of the picked over, expensive stuff that I don’t want that’s on offer here. I just thought there weren’t good used records anywhere.

Time with friends. Time outside. Seeing a new place. Eating different foods. I love novelty and a weekend trip gives me that. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #Travel #SmallTownLiving

I took a road trip this past weekend and I love how it recharged my batteries. Make time to get outside and do something new.

When I write “What I want to tell you…” I’m thinking of you. With most social media cut from my life, my blog is my strongest communication channel and I want to have meaningful conversations with thoughtful people. I just wanted you to know that. 2/2

I’ve noticed recently that when I start writing a blog I get tangled up writing an intro. So to short circuit that, I’ve started with the prompt “What I want to tell you…” It allows me to jump straight to the point. Once I’m done writing the bulk of it, I go back to the intro. 1/2

I started work at the public library in 1989 for $3.35/h. When I graduated from HS in 1991 and left that job to go to college I was making $4.25/h. I thought I was doing great!! I always had enough to put gas in my car and buy CDs. 😂

Make books. Then make things to put in those books. Make. Just make.

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

I wrote about making books last week and I have to say just thinking about it makes me want to just take today and make a book 😂📚 #BookMaker #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook misty.granades.com/2026/04/21/m...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

I’ve noticed recently that when I start writing a blog I get tangled up writing an intro. So to short circuit that, I’ve started with the prompt “What I want to tell you…” It allows me to jump straight to the point. Once I’m done writing the bulk of it, I go back to the intro. 1/2

“Coach” Tuberville has just made the point that the charges against the SPLC are purely political and have nothing whatsoever to do with fraud or justice.

Making books is sorta like breathing at this point: sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing it. A little history of my personal bookmaking.

Road hat for @chrishubbs.com 🧶 #CrochetHat #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear #ThinkingAboutMaking

I wrote about all the books I make! 📚📚📚 #Bookbinder #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook

Went to lunch with two friends and we ate our tacos on Tuesday and sat outside with our crochet for over three hours. At about hour two, a third friend and her dad happened to show up so we had them sit with us. It was glorious! 10/10, no notes.

I wrote about all the books I make! 📚📚📚 #Bookbinder #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook

Making books is sorta like breathing at this point: sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing it. A little history of my personal bookmaking.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I have straight up wReCKeD my space today for a dumb blog photoshoot. The life of an artist is so glamorous 😂 #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #InHerStudio #ArtJournal #ArtBook #BookMaking #BookBinding #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Monet hired six gardeners, diverted a stream, and spent 43 years building a garden in Giverny. Why would a painter spend half his life on one landscape? The answer changed art forever. 🧵👇 #artbots #monet

Primary Day is one month from today. If you are not a registered voter please register. You have until May 4th. If you are registered go to the AL Sec of State website at myinfo.alabamavotes.gov and check your status.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Sunday afternoon nap. #Corgi #CorgiSky #CorgiCrew

✨generative ai is shit✨ get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

My 22 year old daughter came to me during her spring break and asked me to teach her to crochet. 👩🏻‍🍼🧶💛

Break Anthropic. Do it.

I mean only if you’re allergic to getting laid

Quote post with the best picture you've ever taken of your pet. #Corgi #Corgidor #JapaneseChin

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

I needed to see this today because I got not 1 but 3 rejection emails yesterday.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

I’m rewatching West Wing and there is a certain strange comfort in knowing that 30+ years later we are still dealing with the same issues. I say comfort because these things are hard. Living with and getting along with people takes work. Also, it’s no hardship watching a competent POTUS.

We get to decide. Everyday we get to decide how to live, how to use technology, what we get to do. There is a lot of shouting these days about inevitability and that’s just not true. We get to choose. Don’t forget it.

I have a lot of frustrations with the tech industry but perhaps the biggest one is that they're constantly pushing every new fad as "the inevitable future". It's always, "adopt this, buy that, or you'll be left behind." This worked in the smart phone launch era but it hasn't worked for awhile now.

No one has ever been more surprised supporting the face eating leopard party resulted in their face being eaten.

Pitting space exploration against social services is a false dichotomy. They’re both critically important, and we could absolutely afford both if we stopped dumping money into killing machines and taxed rich people their fair share. Don’t get hung up attacking the wrong people.

The enshitification will continue until every last creative is punished to the satisfaction of the tech bros whose mom apparently didn’t give them enough attention when they brought home their drawings from kindergarten.