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catching up on some of the #AvianAugust2025 birds I missed: Laysan albatross, Hawai'i 'Akepa, Pueo, 'Apapane, 'Alalā, Koloa Maoli, and Manu-o-Kū

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Masked boobies (Sula dactylatra) for #AvianAugust2025

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‘Alae ke‘oke‘o (Fulica alai) for #AvianAugust2025

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'I'iwi (Drepanis coccinea) for #AvianAugust2025, featuring an adult & juvenile on a flowering māmane.

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sleepy needle felted gray wolf (in my shop!)

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KITTIES!! in case you missed it, a few months ago the universal cat distribution system gave me Cosmo (pictured top) and then a couple weeks later Cosmo gave me Dark Matter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Asteroid Belt.

i've done my best to give them a good start in life, and now i need to give them to somebody else. if you have room in your home and your heart for a cute cat with a weird name from a random internet artist, please reach out!

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another Avian August repost from a few years ago, in honor of the beautiful little goldfinches who started visiting my yard this summer.

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are you ready for #AvianAugust2025? the prompts are all Hawaiian birds, so we'll get to revisit the 'i'iwi that was on the 2022 list!

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got some stuff in the shop. check it out maybe 👉 asterwild.etsy.com

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Do you plan on selling your super cute shirts in any bigger sizes than a large

Yes! I have some 3-4XL shirts that will be up in a few days -- I intended to have them all posted at the same time, but I've been super busy and am just running behind on a lot of things. I'm also looking out for more blanks in more sizes both online and in-person. I'll post batches of new shirts whenever I finish them, not waiting til the next big shop update, so hopefully anyone who wants one will have a chance soon.

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got some stuff in the shop. check it out maybe 👉 asterwild.etsy.com

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[video: animated sketch of a person holding a tray of dead rats and wearing a ghillie suit that flutters in the wind, and three owls perched above them. one owl scoots along its perch and another bobs its head.]

🦉 I've recently started volunteering at a wildlife rehab facility! since I can't take photos on the job, here is an artistic interpretation of me wearing a ghillie suit to feed some impressionable young owls.

part of giving animals the best chance at a successful return to the wild is not letting them get too comfortable with humans. it takes a lot of very careful work! please contact your local rehabbers if you find an animal in need (and volunteer or donate to them if you have the means to do so!)

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new needle felted sleepy critters will be in my etsy shop JULY 11th!

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total shop update is happening a little later than planned, sorry! but I went ahead and listed the new hats; since they're made and fulfilled by my print-on-demand supplier they ship separately from everything else anyway.

just the bear, raccoon, and bird for now; they're all available in black on the corduroy caps but the bear is also available in green on the classic dad hat. there may be more eventually but I felt like these would be the most popular. the same designs will also be showing up on other things as block prints.

block prints (on paper and shirts), needle felted animals, sticker restocks, and new themed gift packs (replacing the surprise packs) will be coming just as soon as I can finish the last few things and take decent photos of them all.

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I had to retire my old waving bear design a few months ago because the lino was crumbling. there is a new waving bear coming soon, but if you're really fond of this one, don't fret! there's a few prints left in my Etsy shop, and a digitized version of it is available as prints or on various items in my Redbubble and Inprnt.

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as much as I love cats, I do find them hard to draw. but I've got tons of photos of my own as well as shelter cats from volunteering which makes it easy to do studies like these 🐱

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I've mostly been posting photos and videos to my instagram stories (see in the "foster kittens" highlight) but there's a few on my other tumblr as well. come gaze upon their cuteness. contemplate how much cuter they would be in your house. you know you wanna.

meet Cosmo and her little cosmonauts: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Asteroid Belt, and Dark Matter (or Jet, Bell, and Mattie for short)

Cosmo is a very sweet street cat I was able to take in recently. but -- as was somewhat anticipated -- one cat quickly turned into four! the kittens are all very cute and just as good-natured as mama. we're in the process of getting them all fully vaccinated and spayed/neutered so they can go on to new homes in the next month or so. if you're looking for a new feline friend and located in or willing to travel to the southeast US, reach out!