Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗🍽️

I’m to the glamor shot portion of this project and I’m not mad at my results. #DrownedBookProject #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

Still drying!!

You know what I would be really thankful for on Thursday? Having a different President of the United States.

Just finished reading this and it’s probably the most validating thing I’ve ever read about my art making process. ❤️

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

This might be my biggest complaint about letting my dogs roam the backyard unsupervised:

This is the Granade family motto. CC: @granades.com @agranade.bsky.social

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

My book video project is going slowly today because it doesn’t want to dry out. I’m hopeful that the warm sun today will finish the job. #DrownedBookProject #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings

Video for the “into the unknown” book project. #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

What an adventure today has been! misty.granades.com/2025/09/16/i... #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

The “Into the unknown” project continues! misty.granades.com/2025/09/16/i... #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

What an adventure today has been! misty.granades.com/2025/09/16/i... #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

The “Into the unknown” project continues! misty.granades.com/2025/09/16/i... #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

Happy TARDIS Day to all who celebrate. 💙💙 #DoctorWho #TARDIS #WhovianForLife #WaitingOnTheDoctor

Let’s gooooooooooo

I’m doing a journaling deep dive into my past creative year and I cannot explain exactly how deeply satisfying it is to take stock of my year in making in this way. My journaling packet that I was working for so long to create has been invaluable.

Today is Fibonacci Day. 🧪🐡🧮November 23 if written in MM/DD format recalls the #mathematician Leonardo Bonaccio of Pisa (c. 1170 - c. 1240 or 50) aka Fibonacci’s sequence (1,1,2,3…) where each number is the sum of the previous two. He used it to describe rabbit populations, but the sequence is 🧵

I’m thrilled to be participating in this event via Women’s Caucus for Art: nationalwca.org/current-exhi... My piece “I pledge allegiance to me” is in Gallery Two.

It means there’s no checks on the unmitigated tsunami of bullshit that we all have to deal with every hour of every day because our government isn’t doing anything to stop it.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. ... One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try." ~Andor ("Rix Road" -- I don't know who the writer was, help a girl out?)

I’m in the process of making “Hating AI” my whole personality.

Here’s the thing, when these companies continually add AI garbage to things, I start looking for an off ramp. I deal with enough BS day to day and don’t want to add that to my pile. You earn my customer loyalty by allowing me to interact with people in the process.

Walmart, I do not want your shitty AI customer service chatbot. Please pay actual humans to answer your phones and sort out the terrible things your app regularly does.

Is anyone actually surprised by the fact that another AI thing stinks?

I am thrilled to say I have a piece of art in the Women’s Caucus for Art virtual exhibit for this event. My work is in the second gallery. nationalwca.org/current-exhi...

Trying a new thing on my blog where I post a monthly roundup of what arty things have going on. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings misty.granades.com/2025/11/18/w...

When a new friend comes to visit.

Feferi cannot believe this dog is getting her treats. #CorgiSky #CorgiCrew #Corgi #Aussie #DogBuddies

I have completed a project that I’ve been attempting to finish for 2 years. It’s a booklet project that I had to convert the original PDF into an editable doc and then swap out a bunch of images for new ones. I’ve been through 3 design programs over the course of it. But tonight! It is finished!! 🎉

Just got done at the doctor and got my prescription for gender affirming care. It should be so easy for everyone.

I’ve been thinking about this since I saw what he said.

Trying a new thing on my blog where I post a monthly roundup of what arty things have going on. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings misty.granades.com/2025/11/18/w...

The life of an artist is so glamorous 😂

Working on my blog post for tomorrow and impatiently waiting to see if the show I’m supposed to be in, I’m actually in or not because I have links in my post and I want to take that section out if I didn’t actually make the cut. 🤷🏻‍♀️

also this dog is very good at using a bed

Finished my “Choose your own adventure” shawl pattern by Haley Herman. It’s story where your choices prescribe the next section of the shawl. Yarn is Knit Picks Chroma Fingering weight in Groovy. #CrochetArt #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear #ThinkingAboutMaking

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

We went and saw a matinee of “Predator: Badlands” and except for me figuring out I am an old because the theater was too cold and the movie was too loud, I enjoyed it tremendously. Found family for the win! I actually teared up when the first Big Thing at the end of the movie happened.

#Corgi #CorgiCrew #CorgiSky

Resharing for the Friday crowd:

So I just cleaned out my closet AGAIN because my clothes don’t fit anymore. I always thought losing this much weight would be exciting but having clothes that don’t fit and trying to figure out what I can wear really puts a damper on the whole thing.

It’s cool but not cold here this morning so I made myself a London Fog with breakfast and then had a Diet Coke and friend, I gotta tell you I can now see the inside of time because of the caffeine I just consumed.

When my kids were small we watched A LOT of Backyardigans and there was a moment when they were singing and dancing and I thought “They have to practice just so much!” And then realized they are animated characters and yeah, it was exactly like this.

But like it doesn’t have to? This is a cash grab choice. You can choose to not subscribe.

I’m not going to read any of those emails. I don’t want or need that garbage in my head. I knew it was gonna be this bad because he told us who he is 10 years ago.

People keep promising consequences. I am ready to see them. Start today. Bring it. For all of them. Strip them of titles & position & wealth. Start prosecution. Jail time. All of it. It’s a matter of political will at this point. Letting it continue makes our entire government complicit.