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Laura Salamy
@lsalami.bsky.social
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Fiber artist, dog lover, high desert dweller. Rug Hooking and punch needle rug hooking instructor. Website: highonhooking.com.
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Octopus could be the next commercially farmed seafood. Should it be? — Fast Company
They’re clever, they’re otherworldly, and if a growing band of companies and scientists have their way, they’re going to be raised for human consumption. Inside the birth of a new and controversial in...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Contour sketch, mostly blind
Pen

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Pen and ink sketch of a prairie dog.
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
The so-called “war” with Venezuela was supposedly about stopping drugs… yet they’re out there seizing an oil tanker.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
I got my measles booster!

You can too.
Photo of me with a bandaid on my shoulder where I got a booster of the measles vaccine
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
Cerro Pedernal
Pen

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Pen and ink sketch of Cerro Pedernal (New Mexico) landscape.
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
Krampus stuffing a little boy into a basket. (Taken from a public domain painting; artist?)
Pen, colored pencils
Mostly blind contour sketch

#dailysketching #sketching #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Continuous line drawing of Krampus stuffing a kid onto a basket.
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
"An easy evening is appreciated appreciated. "
Pens

Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 7
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Black and white sketch of a tulip-shaped flower and leaves.
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
He says the men they murdered are on a list.

Let’s see the list.

Let’s hear their names.

Show us the evidence.

If you have any.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
"Time to pick the flowers"
Pens

Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 6

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Black and white sketch of a man's bending down and picking flowers and putting them into a handbasket.
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
2 Mules inspired by having tapas and riots at @mulas_corrales in Corrales this evening. 👍👍👍
Pen, colored pencils
Mostly blind contour sketch

#dailysketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Rough, blind contour sketch of 2 mules in grays, browns, whites, and blacks. Green and blue background.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
Apres yoga (drawing quickly without thinking; hand working on its own, clearly)
Pen, markers

Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 4.

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Colorful cartoon of a weird-looking man (?) Sitting in a yoga pose.
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
The Nodfather.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
A new kind of Electro Who-Cardio Floox (Thank you, Dr. Seuss!)
Pen, markers

Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 3.

#dailysketching #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Colorful sketch of a fantastical instrument.
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
The Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority Tumbleweed Snowman is back!
Pen, colored pencils, white charcoal pencil

#dailysketching #sketching #crosstraining #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Sketch of a snowman made out of painted white tumbleweed, blue hat, turquoise and red scarf, sticks with brown gloves for arms/hands.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
Drake Maye leads the Patriots on MNF
Pen, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing, mostly blind

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Continuous line drawing, mostly blind, of Drake Maye, football player (his head and shoulders, one hand. Red jersey with blue and white stripes.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Oops! Yesterday's post.

Tonight's HOME Sketch:
My kitchen counter as I make after-Thanksgiving turkey stracciatella soup.
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Rough sketch of kitchen counter with soup makings: wine glass, mug, scissors, knives, greenery lemon, grater, and recipe.
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Messy kitchen counter while I prepare turkey stracciatella soup tonight.
Pen, colored pencils

#dailysketching #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of a kitchen counter: Wine glass, mug, scissors, greenery on cutting board, knives, grater, recipe...
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
"That day in February, 2016, when the hot tub was delivered"
Ballpoint pen

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Rough line sketch of a guy shadowed under a hot tub being delivered into a walled yard via a crane (unseen).
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
Our house before it was our home.
Pen, white ink, charcoal pencil, Graphite pencil

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Line sketch of a one-story, three-car garage home in the Southwest US.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
lsalami.bsky.social
Tonight's HOME Sketch:
The pumpkin pie did me in.
Pen, colored pencils
Continuous line drawing

#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #homesketch #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
Sketch of pumpkin pie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM