I swear every day I live in some kind of fantasy fairytale land up here in Eureka, CA along the Redwood Coast in northern California.

This is literally the city park. I mean, deep redwoods, 10 minutes away from everyone’s house. It’s like stepping into another world. I keep expecting to see some Big Bad Wolf step out from behind a giant tree.

That being said, there are indeed bears.

They just don’t talk.

As an artist, I can tell you that I am blessed with an overabundance of photo reference. Ha!

#RedwoodCoast #Redwoods #artistlife

This is me with a local jazzcat 🐈
(yes, I used a cat for promo… no regrets)

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✨ Wochenend‑Kulturtipp in Dachau!

👉 Der KunstFrühling26 in den @Kunstwerke_Dachau zeigt noch bis Sonntag die vielfältigen Arbeiten von Katharina Titov, Diana Sandmann und Diana Marisa Brachvogel (Bild von links, mit Gastgeber Richard Wurm).

🖼️ Offen: Sa 15–18 Uhr, Finissage So 29.3., 15–18 Uhr.

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Every time I try to get up she does this.

#AleaTheBlackCat #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #morning #ArtistLife

Got my new business cards today. I’m feeling all kinds of “legit” right now. They’re so crisp and clean!

#art #Artist #ArtistLife #IndieArtist #BusinessCard

Yesterday I learned how to make barcodes for the items I sell so I can print them out and adhere them to the packaging of cards i make.

It took quite a lot of work-arounds, but I eventually got my off-brand thermal printer to print a PDF version of each barcode at the scale i wanted.

So now I have the capacity to scan in the barcode when I sell something in person and keep track of my stock. Now I can actually look at the tracking evidence to see what pieces are selling best, not just guess from anecdotal evidence.

I spent the evening printing and adhering stickers to each of the greeting cards sleeves with items I’ve already printed, and learned how much more work I have to do... I realized a *huge* amount that I was selling in person didn’t have a corresponding listing on my storefront.

Since I got through the cards I’ve made, now i have to turn my attention to card packs and my prints. I think that’s all I’m going to for right now. That’s… a lot.

It’s horrifying how one can think they’re ahead of the game when all it’s really doing is opening up floodgates of more tasks to do… I’m overwhelmed, but it’s a good overwhelm. It’s a hope-fueled overwhelm. It’s all moving forward.

#artist #ArtistLife #ArtForSale #IndieArtist #forward #progress

It's always useful to find out what other writers and artists think about their work. This, from the writer Rosemary Sutcliff:

"The temptation is to try & use everything you’ve found out in…research. That can be fatal, because you…only need to use about 1/10. It’s…like an iceberg…It has to be there, because it gives you the freedom of the period. But you don’t use it.”

This has some relevance to my planning of embroidery projects, especially the #OpusAnglicanum. I need to know something about it, but I'm not trying to do a period-accurate piece, so I have to be a bit careful about what I include of what I know. As I make plans for the border for the #AethelflaedEmbroidery, it is good that that has come to the surface again.

#ArtistLife #Designing #Research

My area is at that irritating point where it's enough pollen to make you tired, but not enough to make the meds neccessary - instead the latter make you a _different_ kind of tired.

#allergies #pollen #ArtistLife

Felt like doodling, and suddenly I'd put lab safety goggles on a snail. Just an ordinary day in an artist's life...

#ArtistLife #ArtOfMastodon #STEM #MadScientist #snail