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.

Today on the blog I share some insights from talking with fellow artists. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThing

After her walk about earlier this week, I’ve been reading about Cognitive Disfunction Syndrome in dogs and this dear old girl almost certainly has it. (She has 4 of the 5 signs.) But for now, she still enjoys sitting in the sun while I play fetch with Fe. #Corgidor #SeniorPets

You knew what he was. He told you who he was on the access hollywood tapes, the times he lingered in pageant dressing rooms, & talking about his own daughter. Acting surprised now that he had a network supporting that behavior with so much money and power makes me think no one was listening.

I love this.

Some things I'm considering about my art practice (and life) after having some wonderful phone conversations with artist friends recently.

Keep posting your Aurora photos, please. They make me so happy and this year needs all the happy we can manage.

I'm so tired of study after study that shows clear economic growth and stability for everyone (UBI, 4 day work week, universal healthcare, etc) but because the richest people in the country get rich faster without them, we all just suffer instead. And this over the top of already obscene wealth...

There is no way on earth someone is going to look at me while I have both of my backpack straps on and confuse me with a high schooler. I look like what I am: a middle-aged white woman who has too many hobbies and regularly carries too many books. 😂

I don’t think these companies realize how fast I will stop spending money with them if my only recourse to resolve issues is with an AI chat bot. At the point I can’t figure out how to solve my own problem, their shitty AI interface isn’t going to cut it.

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

Yesterday my old dog, Anwyn, the yellow Corgidor, slipped out our front door while I was getting a package in. I didn’t know it until a kind neighbor I’ve never met before called me to let me know she was limping around in the cul-de-sac at the bottom of our street.

I am dog sitting my dog sister today and normally my dog and my mom’s dog play like someone might pass a law against it but today? It’s nap city up in here.

Today on the blog I share some insights from talking with fellow artists. #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThing

He missed my cookbooks and the kids books in the bedroom closets. Everyone lives like this, right?