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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 8h

Those eyebrows!! 🤩

Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 9h

This thread on creativity is just excellent! And I love the process of making just as much as Chira. It’s one of the things that is getting me through what’s happening right now.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 10h

in a session with my therapist, she was commenting how she can't draw a stick figure -- then recalled a time when she could envision exactly what she wanted and it came out easily on the canvas. and she had no idea how she did it.

I was like, yeah, the flow state. you know, like athletes and gamers

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 9h

Look at these colors!! 🌈
#CrochetArt #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear

A photo of my current crochet work in progress in a wooden bowl on my gray Boppy/crafting pillow. Part of the pattern is visible on my iPad on the left. The yarn is Frabjousfibers Wonderland Yarns Blossoms in Fuchsia Macrantha #45. The pattern is Falling Blossoms Shawl by Ana D Crochet Patterns.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17h

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 11h

My hammock reading is from @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social and the two stories in this are so good and the object itself is on my short list of nearly perfect handheld objects. ❤️📘

A photo of a tiny book of two short stories by Elizabeth Cobbe called “We meet at the center”. When you flip it over there’s another story!!

A photo of a tiny book of two short stories by Elizabeth Cobbe called “Alignments”. It is the flip of the book from the first short story.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 11h

Friday after work @granades.com and I are in the hammocks with a drink and a book.

A photo of a blue and green striped hammock with an ensconced Stephen looking out at Feferi, the red and white Corgi, who is eating grass. There’s a small wrought iron outdoor table with a citronella bucket candle and a beer beside the hammock. The photo is sun-drenched with the green of the grass and trees shining.

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Eli~The Craft Roam @eliharlan.bsky.social · 12h

Tiny book. Happy thoughts. Large tassel. Right!?!
#repost3aday #supportartists #tinyjournal #tassel #wordsmatter #happythoughts #handmade #makestuff #makersgonnamake #createdaily #onpaper #humanartists #artformentalhealth #onlybeautifulthings

Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

Thinking about and naming things that make you happy in this moment is important. So today I wrote my list of happy things in this tiny book I made and then I made it a giant tassel because tassels also make me happy.
#MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
#ArtBook #CrochetArt #YarnLove

A photo of a 2” tag book that I made. I’m holding it in my flat right hand. It has magenta and teal watercolor clouds on the cover and says “Happiness” in black ink. Attached to the book via the hole in the tag is a giant magenta tassel. The tassel is almost three times the size of the book but the whole thing still fits in my hand.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 12h

Thanks!! 😊

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 15h

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 17h

Yuuuup!

Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 19h

100%

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 19h

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 19h

They watch me pee so now we’re even! 😂

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

Thanks!

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

I made a book today that holds a list of things that make me happy. I made a tassel to go on it that’s bigger than the book because tassels also make me happy.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

Oh I like that idea too!

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

That is so good!!

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

Thinking about and naming things that make you happy in this moment is important. So today I wrote my list of happy things in this tiny book I made and then I made it a giant tassel because tassels also make me happy.
#MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
#ArtBook #CrochetArt #YarnLove

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

Dogs, inside, “But like what if we went outside? Outsiiiiiiide!!!”
I get all set up outside to crochet, “Outside is the wooooorst. Mom, Mom, Moooooooom we need to go insiiiiiide!!”

A photo of Anwyn, the blonde Corgidor, on the left and Feferi, the red and white Corgi, on the right facing the closed backdoor but begging to go back inside.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

I would not only vote for that candidate, I’d campaign for them in Alabama.

Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 1d

This title and the hidden structure hinting as some sort of mechanical thing happening on the inside gives me chills.

MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 1d

Thea Djordjadze, She didn't have friends, children, sex, religion, marriage, success, a salary or a fear of death. She worked., 2013-14
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137642

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 3d

This week I'm reflecting on a thing I keep forgetting over and over again. All progress counts, even the babiest of steps.

Baby Steps

This week I'm reflecting on a thing I keep forgetting over and over again. All progress counts, even the babiest of steps.

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 2d

Trying something new this week. Making art everyday this week & writing a bit on my blog post everyday as well.

Also need to do a video of the weaving process. I feel like it will take so long I’ll need a separate camera instead of my phone!
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 2d

I'm all in!! Let's goooooooo!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 2d

Thanks!

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