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thechthonicherbalist · 2 months ago

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Cute artsy Christmas gift

In the past months I've been going to flea- and handcraft-markets with my neighbour and getting in touch with a few from my father's customers who were concerned for him and reached out after he became unable to work in the beginning of this year and reconnected a bit to the local queer and art scene through an elderly lesbian inkeeper who hosts different monthly get-togethers for artists, disabled people and queers in her pub a bit. She's very sweet, sadly she said she will likely have to retire in a few years. 😭

But also, her pub doubles as a gallery and I got back in touch with some of the local artists from my former school and the town's tower gallery with them. :3 I shared some of my own art (most of which is ollldddd, at least the handmade stuff) and invited to display a few pieces for sale there. 🥰 I might actually do that. 😂 I also couldn't resist to buy some of the displayed art there as a little Christmas present to myself. 🥺

A sweet woman just a bit older than me, from the scene and I got to talk about these pretty handmade cosmetic bags that were displayed in the pub's window and she knew a lot about them. After 3 rounds of monopoly and many stories exchanged, it turned out, she's the one who made them, when I went to get a closer look and decided to buy two I really loved. 😂

A day later, back at home I realized who they remind me of. Drag-Queen Lestat and Nicki. 🙈 Oops. Tapped into the involuntary-fandom-merch trap again. 😂 I shall tell her about them the next time I meet her. 🥰 For now they hold my smol bun-bun travel hairbrush and hair-products... they've been lying around quite sadly lately in my attempts to practice hair preservation. I am on a medication for chemo that's not supposed to cause too much/complete hairloss like some do. Buuut it's been thinning a bit anyways. 💀 Nothing that won't grow back. (But still - just when I had it grown out past shoulder lenght for the first time in my life too. 😂)

I believe she said the front was acryl on canvas sewn together with other fabrics, that were coloured with ink and acryl. 🤔 I secretly went wild for the white colour stains on the back from her desk. She apologized for them and internally I went like 😭🥵 are you kidding me, that's like the dirty little dripping secret that reveals it's homemade goodness. 😂😂 Much too shy to say that out loud, but yk. 😂🙈

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