Very late to the party, but hello Bluesky! My name is Brittany Baugus and I am a kidlit illustrator that loves illustrating whimsical nature scenes, cute animals, and cozy environments. more work here: brittanybaugusillustration.com one of my favorite pieces lately #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration

OH HELLO I AM TRYING HARD NOT TO HAVE A PANIC ATTACK BECAUSE I WAS JUST TOLD MAYBE I NEED A HYSTERECTOMY AND THEN HAD TO SWITCH IMMEDIATELY INTO MOM MODE AND MUST ADMINISTER A SUPPOSITORY TO MY EXTREMELY CONSTIPATED CHILD WHO IS ALSO PANICKING.

IT'S PI TIME This year I'm doing a nonogram stitch-a-long to celebrate-- Every day from March 1st to 14th, a new nonogram will be released on my site (with two on the first day). Each nonogram is one part of a larger design; if you stitch them all together, the full piece will be revealed!

Period cramps and period poos ramping up right as the video visit with OBGYN is supposed to happen, except their televisit website isn't working so it's like a Benny Hill chase scene but with a perimenopausal woman running back and forth between bathroom, phone, and laptop.

Huge news we finally have a wholly worthy target for EVERYONE to be mad at bsky.app/profile/kern...

The Firebird Tarot kickstarter has opened up and I used the last of my swagbuck rewards to get one of the early bird deals. I'm super excited. I felt drawn to it the moment I saw it. I'm Dutch as far back as I'm aware, but I swear sometimes I have a Slavic soul.

Everyone congratulate my uterus on managing a 25 day cycle this time. Just got my new Livia device today too so hopefully that helps keep the pain below an 8.

A single bloom on her Christmas cactus right now.

Grief is wild. Came out of a store and saw the same car my mom drove for over a decade before she died and my brain lit up because mom was here! Except mom's been dead for 11 years so there I was crying in the parking lot of the chicken farm.

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Managed to do another kitchen deep clean. Tackled the oven again, fixed the sink caddy that keeps falling, took everything out of the lady Susan cupboard and cleaned that, sanitized counters and sink, etc. Just in time to make dinner and mess it all up again.

It's the way the disabled white man's rights, feelings, and needs are being prioritized over the Black peoples' rights, feelings, and needs. That's what gets me. Not only at the award show itself but in the discourse. So much empathy for the white disabled guy and a "suck it up" to Black people.

Some native plant art I made for a loved one. 💕

Any other autistic people out there raw dogging life with no comfort shows/movies/books? It sounds so nice to have things you love to watch or read over and over but I just can't do it.

And just like that the world is covered in snow again.

Navy bean soup is done, the pizza was tabled, Puppy Chow was made impulsively. I have never made that in my life. Don't think my mom ever did either. We were a homemade cookie, bar, quick bread family.

Hammy's helping me change my sheets.

Spring roll bowls and salsa done. Taking a good long rest before hitting the navy bean soup.

Halfway through the spring roll bowls and struggling but this is the most labor intensive. So much chopping. This is the recipe I'm using, subbing ground turkey for tofu. I'll use rice noodles instead of wrappers and use the gyoza dipping sauce as dressing. cookingwithayeh.com/rice-paper-d...

This is what I mean when I say I have no idea what to do, and no way to plan ahead. I need to get March's rent in now before they make international shipping illegal or something. If you want a shiny thing, jump in here: oishiny.etsy.com

A big weekend of food prep in store. Spring roll bowls, navy bean soup, homemade salsa, homemade pizza. Will my body cooperate? Stay tuned to find out!

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

Another weekend in a house with a kid with misaphonia and a husband who's a walking noise machine. At least it's quiet during the week now.

Trying not to be angry but... The growing number of concentration camps across this country, in which FORTY PEOPLE that we know of have died, elicit a fraction of the outrage that the murder of white protesters did Watching you all underreact has helped me realize how my family was allowed to die

I've cried at about 6 different tiktoks and 2 different songs today. 1 of the songs wasn't even sad. It was a pop banger. Still cried. I'm going to blame the fact that the weather went from 60 degrees and sunny to 35 with horizontal rain/snow overnight.

I've done one of those grocery shopping orders where I was mildly dissociated the entire time. I do know I got everything to make spring roll bowls for husband's lunch next week. Maybe Miss 12 will like them too. Other than that...just...stuff.

So, uh, just learned what Englush paper piecing is and I think I need to do it. Reorienting myself to my sewing machine has been an executive function disaster for me and I haven't done anything with the hundreds of 4 inch squares of quilting fabric I have.

I've taken three walks this week! The weather will be back to cold and blustery tomorrow so I'll be an indoor squirrel for a while but I haven't managed three half mile walks in a single week since before long covid. It's nice to have the rollator as back up in case my legs start getting wobbly.

Weird question that I am throwing out into the void. Does anyone out there have on BlueSky professional level #crossstitch abilities, and need a new client? I’m looking for someone to help me test my cross stitch kit ideas and create a portfolio of photographs. Who knows…maybe I’ll get lucky! ❤️🪡🧶

The Secret Garden was formative for me as a little girl. Rebecca was a favorite of mine as a tween. A Tale of Two Cities sparked a year's long interest in the French Revolution when I was in college. And Miss 12 adores The Boxcar Children original book and The Mouse & the Motorcycle.

I bought two cross stitch patterns and cosmos and zinnia seeds. Decided against any more native seeds this year since husband won't be around to help me plant things like he used to be. And the cosmos especially gets a ton of bumblebee activity late in the season when not much else is blooming.

this is incredible. portraits of everyone killed by ICE in 2025 (first half, the artist is working on the second) many of them were young enough to be my younger siblings. all of them stolen from us by white supremacist nazis. from grafera.zone/archive/blog...

It is 60 damn degrees out right now. Whatever snow was left on the ground after overnight rain has shrunk to tiny patches in the lawn. If I muster up the energy to go outside, I'd bet money I'll find dandelions blooming somewhere.

‘Remember to wash your little paws’ bathroom cat cross stitch pattern 🐈🧼🧡✨ Link to pattern: samanthalanetextiles.etsy.com/listing/4365... #crossstitch #stitchsky #needlework #fiberarts #craftsky #craft #catpaws

Miss 12 named my new rollator Grace Hyacinth. I will absolutely be getting a sticker for it that says "They see me rolling, they hating."

Apparently we had some big storms go through early this morning and none of us woke up from it, but it took out the power for a while.

Similarly the rise of synthetic oestrogens in the water supply affecting wildlife is not due to the urine of women who're taking the pill but farmers feeding it to cattle for milk.

Had weird dreams last night that just sort of morphed one to the other and ended with me being a teen orphan who discovers her foster father is a vampire but only after she manifests as a...werecrow? Not really sure. Also the mafia and shrimp ceviche were involved (I do not eat shrimp.)

Has this person (not Chuck!) ever talked to someone on the left? We won’t shut up about new tech. What we don’t like are long cons wearing techsuits.

Saw a nifty exercise whereby you do a "get to know you" pull with your #tarot deck. Even though I've been using thisnone for a while, it seemed like a good idea. First card represents what the deck wants to teach me. I pulled The Tower reversed. Fml

The one thing I have not missed about warm weather is the frequent game of "Is it allergies or am I getting sick?" One week of temps in the 50's and I feel like I want to peel my face off and power wash all the nooks and crannies in my head.

Me to my husband for years: I feel like you don't even like me. My husband: That's not true at all. My husband tonight, said nonchalantly: Your entire personality, sense of humor, and approach to romance is jarring to me. Me: There it is!

How is this even possible? Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for #MISen, "seemed generally impressed with the staff" at an ICE detention facility, per the @michiganadvance.com. At the same event, Rep. Hillary Scholten spoke of a man "being kept in a freezing room where he couldn’t feel his toes."

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A thread of cross stitch patterns being released at #NashvilleNeedleworkMarket that I covet. Just a slight avian theme running through most of them. This is so pretty and reminds me of my meadow. topknotstitcher.com/products/con...

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate and happy whatever astrological thing just happened that will make our lives better to my fellow Leos.

Vibrating!!!!! The cozy card game "My Book Nook" I illustrated is now at Barnes & Noble and other stores that stock Kingdom of Threads merch!!!! Screammnms with excite! Designed by Carl & Doug who were awesome to work with!

We're one of the few nations that allows people to be paid for blood or plasma donations, which means that we harvest the blood of the poor at a pretty staggering rate.

I had this one framed! It’s hanging on my office wall now. I love how the frame color worked out.