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It's Daisy posting hour

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WARNING: APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW!!

(Apologies for not making this post week ago the mod was severely distracted)

Thanks to all of you and your quick thinking, we've received over 70 applications total!! Amazing!! The party will be full of familiar characters and new faces :3

However, that doesn't mean there isn't anyone left to pick! For instance, we're missing these lovely people to complete our sets:

Animal Friends' partners (Pick, Mine, Shiro, Nyupun and Pitch's Mama)

Meta-Knights (Axe, Mace, Trident and Javelin Knights, as well as Captain Vul)

Gorimondo and Sillydillo

Sir Ebrum

the rest of People of the Sky fairies (yellow, white, red and blue)

As well as others who can be seen available here in this helpful sheet!

Quick reminder - if the character of your choosing isn't listed, it doesn't mean it's not available! The sheet is a guide, not a hard requirement.

To apply for collab, head over to this form! You aren't required to have a Discord account, but it is very helpful if you do. Please make sure to accept friend request from the mod once your application is sent!

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Hermit-a-Day May, day 18: JoeHills. Today's style/medium is puppet-making! Or mostly sewing with a few other things thrown in. I had a ton of fun with this one, even though it took...so much time to make. I usually explain why I chose a certain medium but this one is...pretty self-explanatory, I think. If you have any Joe clips you want to see a puppet show of, send them my way! Details, materials, and a couple more pictures under the read more.

Materials: this pattern by Abby Glassenberg and all of its required components (minus the eyes), googly safety eyes from Amazon, baby clothes from a local thrift store, and white fabric paint.

I was originally going to try to get doll clothes to dress the Juppet in, since I didn't want to sew the outfit from scratch, but couldn't find any that were quite right. After a couple unfruitful trips into stores, I stopped by a local children's thrift store and poked around their newborn and preemie section until I found an orange onesie and gray jacket/cardigan that were close enough to the right colors. I know the jacket on Joe's skin is probably a hoodie, given the pocket placement, but surprisingly, few people seem to be manufacturing hoodies for newborn babies. Once I got home, I hacked off the bottom of the orange onesie, hemmed it, and painted the at symbol on the back with fabric paint. The front (now back) still says "daddy's mighty guy" with a picture of two dinosaurs on it and that amuses me greatly.

The puppet pattern itself was a little tricky, and there were a couple spots that I think could have used some more explanation, but I made it through. In hindsight, I wish I'd used bigger eyes, but I couldn't find safety eyes (the kind that pokes through the fabric and gets secured with a washer) in a larger size and the style I wanted, and I didn't want to just glue regular googly eyes on because I was worried it wouldn't be sturdy enough (and the edges might look messy). I ended up having to hot glue the felt pieces to the inside of the mouth, even though the pattern recommended normal craft glue for that part, because it would not stick no matter what I did. If I were to make the pattern again, I'd probably try to sew the roof of the mouth and tongue pieces onto the pink felt before attaching it to the head, rather than gluing them on after.

Honestly, there are a lot of things I would do differently if I were to make another puppet, but I'm pretty proud of how this one turned out, especially for my first time doing something like this! I just. have a Juppet in my house now. I don't know how to feel about this. I know this is a pretty complicated piece, so if you have any additional questions, feel free to message me (or send an ask, or reply to this post, or send the message by carrier pigeon--whatever floats your boat).

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You think “oh it would be useful to learn how to identify my thrifted yarn and clothing” and before you know it you’ve been recruited by fiber witches giving out their spells willy nilly, again

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My maternal grandmother could crochet.

Nothing complicated. Basic granny squares and double crochet, but she was the one in the family who made blankets for her kids and grandchildren. Dementia hit in her nineties but she still remembered how to make granny squares and made dozens. I asked her for one last blanket but by that point the dementia had taken how to join the squares. They were stacked in piles around the dining room table and when she went into care, into a plastic box for storage.

When she died, I asked for them. By that point I could crochet but didn’t know how to join, and figured, someday, I’d learn.

It’s at least a decade later. I’m the one who makes blankets for my nephews, for my cousin’s children, for pregnant coworkers. Last year I made seven blankets, three for Project Linus, the rest for family and a friend. I can follow crochet charts, filet crochet, do clusters, fans, basic lace, amigurumi.

The world, as is its wont, is on fire. Tonight, I have opened the plastic container for the first time in a decade. I’m sorting them into piles by color. I know now how to look at them and see where her memory slipped or areas I’ll need to repair. There’s no printed pattern but if I need more I have the skills to copy the pattern.

Each square is 5 inches. Blanket size for Project Linus is 40x60. I’ll see how many people I can give her last crochet legacy to.

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he looks funny right? you think he looks funny.

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Day 3088 Bandana Dee

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dad dedede and mk headcanons are always funny to me because its canon that the best efforts of the both of them combined arent enough to stop kirby from doing whatever they want

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dad dedede and mk headcanons are always funny to me because its canon that the best efforts of the both of them combined arent enough to stop kirby from doing whatever they want

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Finally wrapping up Daisy's first day in Dream Land. After getting dragged around by Kirby and introduced to like everyone he knows, Daisy finally gets some time to relax.

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Work in progress

Why I went for a semi detailed background that I'm now gonna have to include in every panel after this one, I have no idea. I already regret it. But I like the room

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(Tumblr absolutely butchered the quality of this one, nice)

Comic thingy! It was supposed to be a simple shitpost, but it ended up more serious than expected so uuh

Edit : Adding the fourth panel separately for better quality because I'm really happy about how the rendering came out :)

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AHHHHHHH HIM 🥰🥰🥰

..I accidentally made him cute

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Self care is always marketed as bubble baths and massages, which maybe are useful if you're the kind of person who needs a reminder to allow yourself the little joys. But a reminder for those who need it, for some of us "self care" is things like going to bed on time (even though you don't want to), setting an alarm to remember to eat food and drink water (because it's easy to forget), and making yourself get a shower or brush your teeth (even though you're not feeling it).

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Sending love to everyone who is just... tired. Life is a lot, and sometimes the answer to it all is to just be still and silent for a while. Give yourself space and grace. Whether it’s decision fatigue, anxiety fatigue, information fatigue, routine fatigue, getting life back together fatigue, career fatigue, social fatigue, financial fatigue, or physical fatigue—take a moment to breathe and recharge. You deserve it.

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My beautiful round weirdo and her bug 🥰

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DARAT

It's DaRat, you know, from the hit game Kirby Squeak Squad?

Rat pattern by @nichet-crochet but hat and cape freehanded by me.

stupid video under the cut, too much motion warning