I am being slowly pushed out of my own bed by my tiniest cat

Unrelated to anything else, I've just about cleared out my current commission queue, which means it's a great time to order if you want something custom made! Or hey, just browse what's in stock~ shop.cairosteele.com #BSNM #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay #PetPlay

It was close, but the golds have it! So the final collar will be lilac and navy, with aqua stitching and gold hardware. This is going to be fun to make!!

... Yes I AM still kicking around the idea of doing some basic mental health talks/panels/whatever aimed specifically at queer folks and furries...

Anyway, have some ADHD tips from your friendly retired mental health worker. Many of these also help with other MI too. Thread: - Diet and exercise will not cure your MI but *can* make your symptoms easier to manage

As someone with ADHD and a background in mental health, I have a suspicion that in the next 10 years or so, we're going to discover a strong correlation between ADHD and some kind of dietary thing that probably disproportionately effects poorer Americans

We have a winner and it's aqua! Outside: LILAC Inside: NAVY Thread: AQUA Last one: What color should the HARDWARE be, silver or gold? Reply to answer. Replies close in about an hour.

3 way tie on this one (navy, aqua, jade) so I let the dice decide, and it's navy! Outside: LILAC Inside: NAVY Next up: What color should the STITCHING be? This will run around the edges Reply to answer. Replies close in about an hour.

The people have spoken, and the outside of the collar will be LILAC Next up: What color should the INSIDE of the collar be? I have all these colors PLUS BLACK Reply to answer. Replies close in about an hour.

I wish bsky had polls, I know WAY more people are willing to participate in stuff like this when they can anonymously click a bubble instead of replying 😩

Alright y'all, let's build a new type of day collar by popular choice. It'll be double sided with a stitched border. First question: What color should the exterior of the collar be? I have all these colors PLUS BLACK (I have got to update my swatch photo) I'll leave this open for an hour!

I bit the everloving shit out of my cheek like a week ago and it's still kind of fucked up lmao

I think when I finish my commission work today, I'm going to start prototyping a new style of day collar

(I've actually been slowly feeling the spark of artistic inspiration again and while I haven't done anything with that yet, it's exciting to have it at all after an entire year of art burnout)

#CairoWatchesTheGoodPlace Making a tag for folks who want to filter out my nonsense! Anyway SCORPYOTES?? Scorpion-coyotes??? I need to draw that

Anyway, I love a sassy demon character and Adam Scott does it so well

I love the current state of the internet

I'm rewatching The Good Place while I stitch collars and this show is still so good

I've switched my cats over to dry food for the time being, but I'm still dialing in the amount I need to feed them... they're all chonking up, oops

bring back cravats

Streaming service: Have a funny new haha movie with Dan Levi! The movie: a fucking drama about the grief of suddenly losing a spouse

Hmm… should I open for flogger commissions after I finish my current batch of orders?

Just took an edible and popped a pan of brownies in the oven, awww yeahhhhh

Everyone else is doing it... I'm hoping to check off a couple more states this year

Does anyone else from the 90s remember these? Harper feels just like one of these toys

The last drop of the year is ready to go. Two new collars hitting the shop TONIGHT (12/29) at 6pm est! shop.cairosteele.com #BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furryart #PupPlay #PetPlay

I think my flaxseed might be expired lmao

You guys seem to be liking my sketchbook pages. So here is another one. You can clearly see when I gave up on my visual library and looked up a proper reference for a chicken’s head.

FINALLY got the trash taken off. Maybe I can move before I have to do that again 😩

I have got some BEAUTIFUL projects on the docket this week and I can't wait to share pics!!

Alright, third attempt at taking the trash to the dump. Please let everything just be chill this time

I didn’t think a rotary punch would actually be all that useful, but I’ve had this thing for one day and I’ve already used it a ton

I am HOME and I am SO TIRED why did that take so much energy 😭

I did it, i went to Tandy, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say all of the staff were queer folks. One of them was making a collar 🥺 💜

I need to stop torturing myself by reading a webcomic that I started reading in like 2002 but stopped enjoying a decade ago. It's not going to get better, the artist is not going to stop making mildly transphobic jokes. It was a big part of my life and now it's not, and I need to move the fuck on

Took a shower. Ate lunch. Mentally gearing myself up to go to a store I've never been to before. Why is this so difficult 😩 It's going to be perfectly fine, but it's still going to be my WHOLE day

Oh my fucking god I got my leather order and somehow failed to order one of the things I needed most (more oil). I guess I'm driving an hour to tandy today, ughhhh

I got a great pic of Harper last night

What a hell of a monday. Woke up at 6 to my special needs cat having problems again (she's okay, I've just been slowly transitioning her to a new food and her tummy is very sensitive). Spent a couple hours cleaning up that mess. Took a nap and woke up and learned that my dad caught covid 😬

Okay! Story for @restingdinoface.bsky.social Years ago, I decided that the first time I painted a landscape should also be the first time I painted plein air. I had a decent amount of experience working with oil paints by then, so I went to the little park by my apartment where I liked to jog 🧵

Also something silly that I’m really pleased with in this bee painting: I didn’t use transparent layers for the wings, I just matched the values well enough to give the illusion of transparency

Bonus content: the first oil painting I ever did. It was meant to be a sunset, but turned out like a sunset in hell 😹

Taking down my oil paintings, in a thread. First up, a big bee. This is one of my favorites! Real name redacted. 1/?

Everyone go wish @mama-roxy.bsky.social a happy birthday!!

Tried to take the trash off to the dump again today, but now the truck won't start and dad's not here to fix it (I'm not messing with his truck). Why is our garbage cursed

I think I'm maybe 25% packed, and somehow it feels like I have packed nothing and also everything that I don't use regularly. Which might just be because I live in a tiny studio so I don't really own much that I don't *need*

I have remembered how much packing sucks lmao

They love each other so much 🥺💕

what do you mean it’s not Martha Stewart’s vineyard

Being faceblind is fun, because sometimes I’ll be watching TV and think, I know that guy! And I look them up and it’s no one I’ve ever seen before in my life. And then other times the main character will change their hair and I will have no idea who they are anymore