#butter carving

[a-literate-chicken]

[miss-rarity-coining]

pear butter (my little pony) stimboard!

📝 with body butter, food, and a bit of green

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💌 - please direct any rqs to @felixisstimming!

[ladybugsimblr]

Art Basel/Design Miami

[intertexts]

what lino do you use cus i tried some random grey lino from my art store and it curled so badly :( ive mostly been using speedball easy carve the pink one but its kind of expensive lol

i am gonna be SO real with u most of what i've been using has been. pretty terrible blick golden-cut lino-- it's what my professor has a ton of, it's pretty sturdy & wont squish in the press, fairly easy to cut & holds a nice clear line, cheap as dirt <33

BUT!! also i recently got a couple sheets of battleship grey from jackson's online + they're lovely.... more expensive (like $5 for a 20x30cm sheet) but heavier & i adore the way they carve... haven't printed anything with them yet but ill let u know how it does when I do!! :]

[arolesbianism]

Mental health shit is kicking my ass but at least I have my silly guys

[peppermintquartz]

There are days when I realize that no matter how depraved my imagination is, there are people out there actually doing worse things to real human beings, and they're enjoying it without a shred of guilt.

And I wish it weren't so.

[weheartstims]

may i request a hollow knight (hollow knight) board with orange slime and black and/or white soap cutting stims? - canopy salad

The Hollow Knight (Hollow Knight) with orange slime and black and white soap cutting!

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[dont-leafmealone]

an overview of my developing whittling skill

Here's everything I've carved in the last couple years. It's not much, but I do it all by hand and collect the wood from the firewood scrap pile, where good pieces can be hard to find!

Here's a spoon, butter knife, and what could probably be best described as a stabber (which was my very first carving project).

here's a spool I made. Not super happy how rough it turned out but it does the job! This piece had actually been burned before, which added some neat charred spots.

and my nålebinding needles (the smallest and largest are from the same piece of wood as the butter knife pictured above):

And finally my hairpins, which were probably the trickiest to get right but also the quickest projects I've ever finished.

i used multiple coats of a 60/40 beeswax/coconut oil mixture for a finish on all the pieces after sanding, and it's held up pretty well!

[halloweeny-autumn-aesthetic]

listening to my favorite spoopy trio from my favorite opera!

it's Halloween observed at my place today!! What's everyone's favorite spoopy track??

[anyonghalimaw]

overcome with the uncontrollable urge to buy some chalk and scrape it into a powder and mix it with water to make washable paint so i can paint on walls like a caveman again

[hepdenerose]

Circles and Circuits (Peasholm Park, North Bay and Old Town)

Thursday presented a different aspect. An overnight resurgence of sinus symptoms and refuse collectors adding to the early din, the weather looked as cheerless as I felt. According to local news, it was sunny throughout the county apart from an overcast North Yorkshire coast. We replenished pasty supplies then circled back to Dean Road, acknowledging the café regulars and contemplating the…

[aricastmblr]

JMJK en morado amarillo(dorado) años

[deerydear]

Where's that one post:

A background anime character says one time: "I like bread."

Online fandom: "omg, bread, bread! My precious bread child. We must all wear hats of bread in honor of Sayako! Bread!

The only thing she eats is bread! Sayako the bread-lover!"

...that's how I feel about the fandom's reaction to Rue Ryuzaki's personality.

[smelly-fozzy]

Oh to run a food truck at a fair. Please let me run a food truck at a fair

[countercharmda]

If I don’t put the song Shade by Atta Boy on a character playlist plz assume I have been replaced by an alien

[inkskinned]

your work matters, and you're not a very good judge of it.

you can have the fancy degrees and the years of experience. you can have zero idea what you're doing and nothing but a song in your heart. the way you view what you write will never be how i view what you write. which is why you gotta write whatever feels real and good and honest to ya.

i forgot this. it's really lonely to be an author. the world you slice through to carve into a page - it can't ever be fully realized. sometimes the sun is butter yellow, and i can never spread it onto toast to serve to you. i can never describe fully the feeling of a new england october, only that a place that is often too-cold is suddenly full of a strange and visceral warmth. if you're not a writer or an artist, the experience is like this: take a flower and study it. without eating it, cook me a meal that tastes like this flower.

so i didn't know how good the book is, only that i hoped beyond a hope that anyone out there might get a kick out of it. maybe someone nice will review it every few days, i thought. i just want it to help any 1 person.

i did a reading recently where far too many people were kind and thoughtful and so gentle with me that i got into my car and burst into tears. i've had a very rough year, and this experience felt like a hug. so many people telling me they love what i read from the book. and in it, listening to the laughter as i read - at jokes i have long since stopped thinking are funny - it sent a bird straight through my heart. oh shit, i thought. i've been so unnecessarily cruel to myself.

you have no idea how many people read your work and don't respond because they are too shy or busy or unsure. i have webcomics i've never commented on that i've been checking on weekly for actual years. there are artists on spotify i will never be able to see in concert. there are paintings in galleries that i couldn't afford but wanted to kiss. i love what you have made, and i have no idea how to tell you. i love you, and it hurt me and helped me and also sent me back home. i wish there was more time and more ways to shine the light back to you.

be gentle. you have no way of knowing if you're good enough, so you might as well make something that feels good to make. someone will love it. and that love is never wasted.