Katherine Applegate was the sweetest. “You were brave. You were strong. You were good. You mattered.”

“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

I hit my distance goal of 1000 miles on my bike! Went from Raleigh to Umstead State Park and stopped to take some photos outside of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Time to double my goal! (Oops, now I’m behind 😥)

Join me tonight at 7 ET on Twitch.tv/malmakes

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

Join me tonight at 7 PM for a baking stream! I’m making my great grandmother’s cookies for my grandma! 📺 • Twitch.tv/malmakes

I decided to break my longest ride record for my birthday and went 45 miles.

Bike go fast~ (This pollen is awful though, I haven’t stopped sneezing.)

The world is a beautiful place and I am no longer unable to eat pie. @twiabp.bsky.social

Here’s another painting I did this past year that I’m very happy with! This one was a gift for my niece to hang in the nursery. It’s the biggest painting I’ve ever done!

Still in love with how this painting turned out. Pushing it gold was just what it needed.

It’s springtime~ there’s many colonies of Yellow Trout Lilies out in the woods around Raleigh!

Today I took my longest bike ride so far- 33 miles on a loop around Raleigh’s greenway system.

The countdown starts and the sky lights up. January pitches her voice over the noise: last year’s ghosts are dead, that’s reason enough to celebrate. - “January Is an Optimist” Angelea Lowes

Spiced chai mise en place

Love my new shirt~

Found this tree out on a ride

79 Carolinian rolling into RGH

Yeah. I know. 😔

Chuy's knows what I'm about.

Canes win~

He's the best <3

Join me at 7 PM Eastern for the finale of Dark Cloud 2! ☁️ • twitch.tv/malmakes

Thank you all for an incredible #extralife

Happy #ExtraLife Day 2024! Today we’re raising money for McLeod Children’s Hospital on Twitch.tv/stephengeorg #georgextralife

Grandma ❤️❤️

Half (metric) century and a beautiful day~

Just a land Manatee

Join me right now for Chapter 2 in Dark Cloud 2! There’s so many more things for Max to be confused about! Twitch.tv/malmakes

Nice 10k while the weather is perfect~

The various trees and textures were especially fun to paint- this is the largest painting I’ve done since college!

Finished Grisaille~

Tonight I'm going to finish this painting and celebrate my one-year anniversary of streaming on Twitch! 7 PM ET: twitch.tv/malmakes

Going live in a few minutes to work on the grisaille painting! Twitch.tv/malmakes

What if I posted on bluesky again

Very happy to be painting again! I have a lot of work to get done on this painting so I’ve been streaming a lot! I’ll be streaming more of it this week! Twitch.tv/MalMakes

Did a huge walk and it was chilly and rainy. ❤️

Laika is the best dog 🥺

N.C. state fair~

“I *do* want to be baptized in La Croix.” -Hayley

10/28/23 is Extra Life~

Join me tonight at 7PM ET on Twitch, where I'll be making a tiny batch of sugar cookies! 📺 • twitch.tv/malmakes (Ingredients: Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salted Butter, Sugar, Egg, Vanilla)