6"x6" #acrylic on canvas, #Sagittarius #painting; another in my #Zodiac birthday gifts series. #centaur #archer #sagittarius

6yo grandson saved recent vaccination #Band-Aid for me to make requested #VaccinationTrain. Happy to oblige: #ScienceSavesLives! One brown eye for 6yo & one blue eye for his 3yo brother, rooftop universally-recognized health-care symbol, a "crystal" heart, & that cool Band-Aid complete my design.

6"x6" acrylic on canvas, Big Blue Waves Of Water #Libra #painting; another in my #Zodiac birthday giftees series.

6"x6" acrylic on canvas, #Leo The #Lion #painting; another in my #Zodiac birthday giftees series.

#Bionicle #woodentrain projects: "Ben Matoro, Toa Mahri of Ice" & #Jaller (requested name by 6yo grandson), Toa Mahri of Fire. Back/top views show that my coffee creamer pull-off seals come in handy for creating weird little plastic parts for my #woodentrain projects!

#AliceInWonderland #WoodenTrain details: #MadHatter #MarchHare & #Doormouse. Hare & Doormouse = scraps of canvas, painted facial details. Hare's whiskers = bits of thread. Used #miniature ceramic teapot; glued lid to side. Fabric tablecloth, teapot acts as #SteamFunnel (to Doormouse's distress!).

🧵 1/2 2nd of my little #AliceInWonderland #WoodenTrain is done. WAY TOO proud of it. Making the #MadHatter, #MarchHare, & #Doormouse was so fun. The March Hare & Doormouse are made of little pieces of canvas fabric; I painted their faces. March Hare whiskers are bits of sewing thread.

Untitled (so far), acrylic 6"x6" painting. #seascape #landscape

First of two. Untitled (so far), acrylic 6"x6" painting. #seascape #landscape

#Thor #WoodenTrain w/handcrafted #Mjölnir! The helmet was hard - it's made of three glued together tiny things: half a wooden diamond-conical shaped bead, a piece of rubber tread from a broken #ThomasAndFriends #Thumper, & wings I made of fabric. Once all glued, I painted the finished helmet silver.

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1st of my #AliceInWonderland #WoodenTrains is done! This one features the #CheshireCat, #WhiteRabbit, #FlamingoCroquet, & #PaintingTheRosesRed

Couldn't sleep, so at 2:30am made a little Potty for Moana & Baby Groot, to help 2yo grandson as he moves from pullups to toilet (he's doing great, but friends help make everything more fun💓). I know, I know: sleep probably would've been a better idea 😁

I often dream of paintings not yet created. & then attempt to create them. Last night, I dreamt I painted a portrait of a man I loathe: Stephen Miller. It was in my semi-abstract style. It was purposefully dark & menacing, showing the deadness of his Fascist soul. I honestly do not want to paint it.

Made my first "from scratch" #woodentrain bases. Cut the wood, drilled holes, & put in the axles. Compressing the axles together wasn't easy 'cuz I'm not strong. But, some extra force on my part & a big hammer did the trick. These 2 trains will be inspired by my lifelong love of #AliceInWonderland.

I mean it is the administration of the lowest of lows.

Found an old @tompettyofficial.bsky.social cassette that I'd made for my then-fiancee (so sometime before 2003; likely in the late 1990s!), and amazingly it still plays!

#ScarletWitch #WoodenTrain, done!

#BlackWidow #WoodenTrain, done!

#MrBluesky #WoodenTrain project, done! I like it! 😁 #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy

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My little #woodentrain #Groot project is done! I like it 😁 #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #Groot

A painting I did, many years ago, of a battled-scared #Superman logo against distressed blue background.

"Independence With Clouds", a #USA-celebratory painting that I created at a Conner Prairie "en plein air" event years ago, digitally becomes "Distress With Clouds, 04 July 2025". Because my patriotic heart is broken 💔.

Love of #CaptainCarter in a custom #woodentrain ❤️ Old shaky hands = not great handpainting tiny faces, shields, & flag designs (or ANY designs 🤣), but I like her! Designing hair out of frayed beige material & painting a custom-mixed auburn was a fun & crazy challenge. My 2 little grandsons love her!

#WoodenTrain project ~ my #Marvel #IncredibleHulk was relatively easy (4 hours total with all the glue & paint drying times included) and fun. I do love his little hand-painted face & his felt hair 🤣.

#Woodentrain projects #Marvel's #IronMan A challenge; he took five days. I've never tried to make anything as complex as this before. Glad it all worked! My two grandsons, ages 6 & 2.5 yrs old, LOVE them both; they have requested (demanded) MORE #avengers trains! 🤣 I'm in trouble!

#painting for 2.5yo grandson. His love of "Blue Train" comes from #BlueTrain by #JohnnyCash. Made #woodentrain to replicate in painting. Grandson requested: blue castle, based on 3D wooden castle I painted for both my grandsons; Elsa's "Blue Horse of Water" in #Frozen; cardinal flying in the sky.

Oh for the good old days when every editorial board in America LOUDLY demanded the Clintons shut down their charitable organization for fear it would be used to curry favor w/Hillary if she became President 🙃

Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera

Sunset Ireland #BlueskyArtShow #LightAndShadow #Sunset #Ireland #Skyscape #Sky #Clouds #Landscape #Photography

The light & the shadow & the barriers we build to keep ourselves in & All others out When we should really be building bridges not fences #LightandShadow #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #MicroPoetry

Really trying to muster up some creative energy today. #SoManyProjectsAwait

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6yo grandson requested a Cousin Charlotte #woodentrain. She's his mom's cousin (my niece) who's in High School. He said, "Make it a basketball one, red & white for her team, & her game face!" so . . . I tried. His beliefs in my artistic abilities are somewhat belied by actual artistic abilities! ❤️

#Aries #Zodiac 6"x6" mixed media painting

2nd #Dinosaur #woodentrain is done! Again, the decorative plastic rings on store bought cupcakes are handy additions🤣. And yes, I used a toothpaste cap for the train's "cab" 😁

#Aries #woodentrain project is done! I like how it turned out 💜 I used a couple of the finger-pulls on the seals of my non-dairy creamer bottles for the horns. I formed the curls by soaking in HOT water & then QUICKLY curling & clamping & running under cold water 😁🔥💦😁

1st #dinosaur #woodentrain done! Those little plastic decorative rings on store-bought cupcakes are really coming in handy! 💜🤣💓

Wtf

The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. https://go.nature.com/4c2QfuJ

Angus King doesn't buy Gabbard's testimony that war plans ahead of military strikes isn't actually classified information

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Wow- Himes during a heated exchange w/Will Cain on Fox: "I'm not gonna listen to to you tell me that this about a partisan advantage...it is by the grace of God that we don't have dead pilots right now...it makes me want to throw up to hear you turn this into a partisan issue. You just need to stop"

I challenge someone, please screen record how you sneak onto a signal chat

HOLY SHIT, DEMS FLIPPED A PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT TONIGHT THAT THE GOP HELD FOR 46 YEARS!!!!! WELL DONE, JAMES MALONE! SUCK IT, MAGA BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!🖕🖕

If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?

But hang on hang on, are our rights in these states contingent on access to the legal system? Because that's a whole other problem.

No, but it is permission for red states to hurt people to get ahead.