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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 13h

Some humble beginnings...

🎃🎃🎃

Photo of art work table. A hand holds a tin foil ball in the lower left corner. Smaller balls of grey clay are above that. More tinfoil to the right. A sketchbook at the top, with doodles of jack-o-lanterns in jt.

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wyliebeckert.bsky.social @wyliebeckert.bsky.social · 14h

Sketch for the latest print run; final art soon. #illustration #pencildrawing #sketchbook

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 17h

(new 📌 post for the profile!)

"Shackling" has funded! 🎉
The campaign for my new book runs through October 30! Don't miss the fun exclusives ~ and you can help bring this weird little book to life! 💖

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

#fantasyillustration #babayaga #witches

Mock-up info page with text running top to bottom and three examples of book layouts. The book pages appear to have graphite drawings of chicken-legged huts on them. The text top to bottom reads:
Shackling
Tales from Baba Yaga's Garden
New Book!
52 pages of:
Story & Art
Divination Spreads
Sketches
Chili Recipe?
Runs through Oct 30
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 14h

💖 thank you!!

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Sheila Rayyan @sheilarayyanart.bsky.social · 15h

Today’s mood.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 17h

(new 📌 post for the profile!)

"Shackling" has funded! 🎉
The campaign for my new book runs through October 30! Don't miss the fun exclusives ~ and you can help bring this weird little book to life! 💖

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

#fantasyillustration #babayaga #witches

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 19h

✨🌿🍄 Meet the Shacklings 🍄🌿✨

I haven't counted exactly yet, but there are a few dozen stories of these little huts in my new book. Would you like to meet a few of them?

You can help create more weird little stories! Join the fun:
Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Graphite drawing of a chicken-legged Baba Yaga hut with an eyeball over the door and a little stone stovepipe. Text below reads, "This hut was an independent Shackling. They would spend most of the afternoon alone, dozing in the squash leaves or nibbling at my cucumbers. In the evenings, though, they would come in to sit by the hearth and help me spin yarn. I'd sneak them little pieces of pickled vegetables when the others weren't looking.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago!
Go to Quimby's tomorrow!
@maxbare.bsky.social is in a show there with all these other lovely folks. Tacos after? Probably! Let's go!

Quimby's Bookstore @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social · 5d

Friday 10/10
FULL BLEED gallery show
reception 5-7pm
at Quimby’s Bookstore!

Featuring Full Bleed contributors; Jim Terry, Melissa Kelly, Tyrell Cannon, Mr. Walters, Max Bare, Jcrash Charles Huth, Austin Winstead, Stuart John Marsh, Tony Recktenwald, Eerie Ed, Spencer Drew Bogart! & maybe more!

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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 1d

mother Goethel, 2025

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower

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Olga Vyshnyvetska @mrspacelobster.bsky.social · 22h

Mushroom picking season!

www.mrspacelobster.com/category/all...

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 21h

It's gettin' on Meatface season...

I haven't made one in a while (everyone hated him anyway),
but I think of him often and dream. Maybe this year I'll get the cream cheese out and he'll live again.

These were the best (right) and the smol'est (left) of Meatfaces past.

Photo of me holding an oval platter with a small demon head on it. I have pink hair and a leather jacket. The demon head on the oval plate is made of prosciuitto, with olives for eyes, a cheese-ball center, and teeth carved from almonds.

Photo of a black tale with a black oval plate on it. Sitting on the plate is a face made of prosciutto with bulging eyes (cream cheese and olive slices with capers for pupils), a tongue sticking out (sculpted cream cheese covered with meat), and big teeth (sculpted from almonds). I guess it's pretty gross.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

"Rest a Spell"
🌙 🌿 ✨

Taking the night off to wind down ~ sitting with my knitting and chamomile tea and dorky monster movies on the tv.
There's so much to do, but don't forget to take wee breaks when you can.

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(also one of the mini prints available only through my kickstarter - link in bio!)

graphite drawing with a white border and small grey text underneath. The drawing is of a sleepy looking small chicken-legged Baba Yaga hut with an eyeball near the peak of its roof. It's standing in some grasses and looks a little bedraggled. The text underneath says "Melissa Sue Stanley" (me) and "Rest a Spell"

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone loves the Mother F'n Catalina Wine Mixer.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

I was lucky to snag one of Nicole's little originals a while back - lemme tell you these paintings are are an absolute DELIGHT in person.
This is a wild deal and you should buy this asap.

Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 2d

🎃Green Pumpkin Patch Cottage🎃

Acryla gouache painting on watercolor paper

Size: 3.5 x 4 inches
$75 (US shipping included)
DM to claim (Venmo/PayPal preferred)

Painting of green cottage with green pumpkins.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Shackling, Tales from Baba Yaga's Garden - my new book - funded today! 🎉💖🎉

You can get in on all the weird fun:
kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 17d

In two weeks we start the campaign for Shackling!

This book will be full of:
🐓 drawings
✨ stories
🔮 tarot spreads
📚 recipes
🍄 lots and lots of lil' huts on chicken legs.

Hit the "notify on launch" button below so you don't miss the Early Bird goodies!

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Coming soon: Shackling

Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

www.kickstarter.com

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Vanessa Ramirez @vanessaramirez.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Hairy Seahorse. This is one of ten new pieces for my solo show Uncharted Waters @strangerfactory it explores the furry monsters of the deep. Online sales are now open
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
#strangerfactory #vanessaramirez #sculpture #UnchartedWaters #originalart #seahorse

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

:D You were! Thank you so much!

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Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social · 1d

I’m excited to share my finished Skeleton mask! I made the t-shirt too and I love how spooky they turned out. This is the first of a few Halloween pieces I’ve got planned this month. 🎃 #sculpting #sculpture #folklore #skullmask #skeletonmask

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey! Yes, I'm so bummed about ... everything? going on with that. I'm going to try to do something like that early next year 💖

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

:D Thank you!!!

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

💖 Thank you so much!! 💖

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 1d

“Man in the Moon,” watercolor- one of my first (and still a favorite) haunted house pieces.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/maninth...

Watercolor illustration of a dark old house and tree silhouetted against an orange sky, with a giant moon above. A ghostly screaming skull appears in the moon.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO OMG
my heart, it will 'splode

text on a white background:
"$2470 pledged of $2500 goal, 57 backers"

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

🐓 ☀️ 🌿 Good Morning! 🌿 ☀️ 🐓

The early bird special for the Artist Edition of my new book ends in one hour ~ 10am CT. Go get 'em!

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

I'm SO excited to make these, y'all - this is going to be so much fun. 💖

Mock up of an open book lying over a closed book, with some text at the top. The open book shows a couple drawings of chicken-legged baba yaga huts. The closed book is dark green with a drawing on it and the word "shackling" - it's a little fuzzy tbh. The text at the top of the whole thing reads: "Artist Edition, Early Bird Special" with an arrow pointing to the inside left page of the open book where a drawing has been made on the page with some unreadable text and a signature (a signed and sketched copy of the book)

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 2d

It's a very strange time to be making weird little art projects and I'm so grateful for all the support this has gotten so far. Creating my own stories and sharing them is my dream and y'all are helping me do it. Thank you.

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