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Fiddler Meg
@fiddlermeg.bsky.social
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Irish fiddler, classical cellist. Theatre professor with a chemistry degree. IATSE Local 13. Staunch defender of the Boundary Waters.
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May I offer you a babushka dog in these trying times?
A black dog has a white towel wrapped around her head. She is staring somewhat mournfully at the camera, wondering why I can't make it stop raining so that she doesn't have to be wrapped in this stupid towel every time she comes in.
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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My scenic design for Much Ado About Nothing.

#ArtAdventCalendar
A view from downstage left of my set for Much Ado About Nothing. There's an octagonal bench center stage, topped with a small statue of Cupid on a plinth. Green painted areas on the floor suggest a formal garden. A wisteria-covered arbor bench is by the proscenium stage right. A blue and white checkered floor leads to a wall with a series of archways, and behind the arches, a balustrade with more wisteria.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Northfield, too! Came out at rehearsal's intermission and did some sky-gazing.
Vertical green streaks of light above (overexposed) bare tree branches. A huge swath of red shimmers in the night sky, dwarfing a low stone building.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Resetting the clocks is easy. Resetting the dog. . . .

#DogsOfBluesky
A small black spaniel-ish dog is lying on a black leather couch. She's smiling a big doggie smile, and you can see a bit of her white ruff peeking out below her very pink tongue. She looks very alert!
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The dog -
A small black spaniel-ish dog with a white ruff is looking at the camera. Her mouth is open in a slight doggie smile.
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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My pendant from @oishinythings.bsky.social arrived, and it is so lovely! The wirework is much more delicate than I had thought, based on the photos. And labradorite is a magical stone - it fools you into thinking it's not that special, and then the light hits at just the right angle.
A delicate silver wire net surrounds an oval labradorite cabochon, which is a little bit bigger than the width of my thumb. There's an elaborate silver wire bale at the top, and the pendant is on a leather cord. My thumb is angling the pendant so that you can see the flash of green/yellow/blue in the stone.
August 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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My earrings arrived from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social today! What you can't see on the photo is that there is the most subtle hint of glitter in the blue drops. I love them!
Earrings: Pointed oval turquoise blue drops hang from long, vaguely sword-shaped silver filigree.
August 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I couldn't see why traffic was held up until they got to the other side of the road. I was impressed that they were using the crosswalk!
A half dozen wild turkeys using the crosswalk to cross a busy street.
August 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Kate's in!
A small black spaniel-ish dog with a white bib on her chest has her head tilted back in the classic howling-dog pose. She is, indeed, howling. Her ears are flying out from her head and you can see their pink insides.
August 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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My spaniel + dachshund? + shelti? absolutely stops and considers what's in it for her when I give her a command.
A small black spaniel-ish dog wearing a blue harnessing lying on a black leather sofa is looking at the camera with her head slightly tilted and her tongue hanging out in a doggie smile.
August 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Squirrel!
A small black spaniel-ish dog is looking intently out through a screen door. Cedar trees and a bit of the lake are visible through the door.
August 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A frog turned up on my printer at work one day. I thought he was a large dust bunny until I lifted the lid. He was relocated to the nearby pond after getting his picture taken.
A small frog is sitting on the edge of a printer, just below the edge of the scanner bed.
August 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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My dog vs the neighbor cat.
July 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Kate is celebrating!
A small black spaniel-ish dog is lying on a tan-patterned sofa with her back paws in the air. She's looking at the camera, and one ear is hanging off the edge of the sofa.
June 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I can highly recommend Anne at Scandia Quilt Studio.

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She does very good work and is great at coming up with different ideas for things. This is a detail of one she quilted for me.
The corner of a quilt in grey, red, yellow, and black. The design is based on the Storm at Sea pattern. The background is shades of grey, and there are ribbons of red and black running behind yellow heart shapes. It's quilted with a medium grey thread in a wavy, leafy pattern.
June 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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My earrings arrived from @lionesselise.bsky.social!
Lovely, as always!
Ea-nasir's Cat: Cobalt blue earrings with copper accents. From top to bottom, the beads are a blue 3D cat figure, small round copper bead, faceted blue bead, small copper bead, blue rectangular bead, small copper bead. All are strung on silver wire that's finished off with a little spiral. Return of the Whisper Bird: translucent pale green beads that are a shade somewhere between grass green and blue green. Three sizes of there are 4 faceted beads on the silver wire, separated by small round silver beads. The middle bead looks green but has an iridescent flash. The earrings are finished off with a small spiral.
June 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This is Kate. Kate is currently hiding in the closet because the neighborhood jerks are firing off firecrackers already.

#IHateFirecrackers
#DogsOfBluesky
A small black spaniel-ish dog with a white ruff is smiling up at the camera.
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Wow! That is some static! My pup wriggles around on the carpet to get charged up, but never gets close to that.
A small black spaniel-ish dog with a white blaze on her chest is staring at the camera. All of her "feathers" are sticking straight out from her body due to static electricity.
June 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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We live 2 blocks from a fire station, and Kate always sings to the sirens. We sing, too, and now I have to consciously stop myself from howling to random sirens when I'm by myself.
May 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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My earrings from @peculiarityshop.com arrived on day 12 of my 12-1-6 work schedule, perfectly timed to give me a much-needed boost! As usual, their work is gorgeous!
Two pairs of earrings lie on a background of black fabric. The fabric has tiny cat heads and stars in rainbow colors that pick up the colors of the earrings. The longer pair on the left has blue and white beads, ending in silver Saturn charms, complete with rings. The pair on the right has mostly green beads, gold-toned metal, and green enamel Saturn charms at the end.
May 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ooh, are you double-knitting? I did a scarf that way - it is slow, but I really like the result. Have to really concentrate on it, though!
The ends of a double-knit scarf, made in black and tan alpaca yarns. One side of the scarf has a black raven on a tan background, with black raven footprints leading up the scarf. The other side is the same pattern, except that the colors are reversed - a tan raven on a black background.
February 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A very staticky dog who just finished rolling around on the carpet.
A small black spaniel-ish dog with a white ruff is looking straight at the camera. Most of her fur is standing straight out from her body because of static electricity.
February 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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When your bed isn't quite warm enough.

#DogsOfBluesky
A small black spaniel-ish dog is lying on top of an old-fashioned hot water radiator under a window. If this were a video, you could see her fluff floating in the warm air currents. Her bed is on the floor below, against the radiator.
January 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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One final #ArtAdventCalendar posting - a train set piece that I designed and painted for a production where I teach. The headlamp lit up, and we rigged a fog machine behind it so that "steam" came out of the smokestack.
A 10-ft tall, 2-dimensional set piece of tge front of a steam train. The body is grey with gold trim and the cow-catcher is bright red. The headlamp is a theatrical PAR lamp. There is an 8-ft orange ladder beside the train for scale. The same train set piece as in the previous photo, before all the highlighting and shadow details were added.
December 24, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Quilt made to celebrate my brother's high school graduation. After we discussed patterns that he liked, I designed the pattern, and he chose the colors.
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#quiltsky
A long twin-size quilt. 3 golden yellow hearts are angled from upper left to lower right - the lowest one is upside down. Red and black ribbons criss-cross the quilt and tie the hearts together. The background is a mosaic of light Grey's. There is a narrow inner border of medium grey and a wide outer black border.
December 14, 2024 at 6:38 PM