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Laya 🌿🍄
@layahimalaya.bsky.social
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Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books! she/her layaroseart.com/links overgrowncomic.com
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Apr 12
I’m Laya, an artist who loves fantasy, nature, & books!
I design/illustrate covers/picture books, make bookmarks/stickers & other merch, and do lots of book fanart!

🌿 layaroseart.com/links
✉ layaroseart.kit.com
Photo of a bunch of paperback books, spines visible, with some picture books (cover forward) on the right, with some aesthetic vines and mushrooms around. The books include: Xenocultivars, No Man's Land, Errant, There's Magic Between Us, Common Bonds, Once Stolen, Ngake Me Whataitai, and The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke. illustration of two girls in a spooky forest, surrounded by glowing mushrooms and moss and animal bones. The girl on the left is taller, with brown skin and braids, and is holding up a bone knife and protecting the other girl, in a thin dress with blank eyes and a white streak in her hair. Behind the tree trunks behind them is the silhouette of a large raven with its wings outstretched, blending into the sky, with glowing eyes. Illustration of red and blue from this is how you lose the time war. They are floating on a white background, hands clasped, with the other hands on a knee and in the hair. Red is robotic, with a full face visor and black short hair with red tips, chest armour and armoured arms with cybernetic patters, a red hood, and a long split skirt over legs that go to points. Blue is planty and animalistic, with a mask-like face with 6 yellow eyes and fangs, long curly dark hair, insect wings, four arms with vines going up them and bent back feet. She is wearing a short sleeved top and long skirt. flatlay of various prints stickers and bookmarks, all green/cream with bug and moss themes. There's a moth book spine bookmark, two moth stickers, a snail sticker, a sticker and print of bug themed book spines, and a sticker sheet of mossy skulls with a couple bugs, and some cicada wing earrings. Also a bookmark of a snake around a gold dagger (snakes can be bugs).
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 10h
some beautiful art I got recently from @evenlyevi.bsky.social!
photo of various illustration prints, mostly in blue tones of plants and flowers.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 3d
again today! i am a mushroom
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 4d
i’m at great games with pals this weekend! if you’re in wellington come to the dominion museum 10-4 both days!
photo of me at my table, with lots of bright fantasy and nature themed art and a banner that says laya rose art close up photo of my table showing my bookmark stand and some of my stickers
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 4d
2 more hours today i just forgot about this site. tomorrow tho! also zinefest is just down the road to visit also!
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 4d
i’m at great games with pals this weekend! if you’re in wellington come to the dominion museum 10-4 both days!
photo of me at my table, with lots of bright fantasy and nature themed art and a banner that says laya rose art close up photo of my table showing my bookmark stand and some of my stickers
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 7d
hahaha thank you!!

Also I listened to Audition For the Fox a few days ago! Enjoyed it a lot!
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 7d
also rue my beloved!

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20
digital illustration of rue from a court of fey and flowers, a green owlbear from the arms up, clutching a scroll with closed eyes and hearts. They have some pink roses on their shoulders and head. the background is green, with a swirly border.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 7d
they really are. absolute chaos...
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 7d
i watched acofaf earlier this year and loved it a lot! here are the lords of the wing, gossiping about something...

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20
digital illustration of lord squak and lady chirp from a court of fey and flowers, with a hand over their smiling mouths, head together and looking at the viewer. there is a banner below them reading: the lords of the wing.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 7d
thanks!!!
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
new earring designs theme: stuff i picked up off the forest floor

#art
photo of many laser cut earrings in a random pile on a green background. They are mostly textured wood in the shape of dead leaves, with a few cicada wings and white basket fungi.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
haha thanks! not on my store atm, I might put them up in a week or two (but can’t ship to some countries)
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
I don’t even have pierced ears, I just use clip ons 😅
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
the cicada wings I first made in 2018, but they're back in stock
photo of some clear acrylic earrings in the shape of cicada wings, on a backing card that has a cicada body on it so it looks like the wings are attached. photo of the side of my head wearing a cicada wing earring.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
and also basket fungi 🍄
photo of white acrylic earrings shaped like basket fungi on a background of dead leaves. photo of the side of my head, wearing a basket fungi earring.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
I love leaves........ they all pair or they can be mix & match!
my hand holding a pair of wood earrings shaped like old oak leaves on a backing card 14 wood earring designs of various dead leaf shapes on a fuzzy green background.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d
new earring designs theme: stuff i picked up off the forest floor

#art
photo of many laser cut earrings in a random pile on a green background. They are mostly textured wood in the shape of dead leaves, with a few cicada wings and white basket fungi.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 9d
now im more annoyed i forgot to restock the large one with my last sticker order 😫 there's like 2 left
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 9d
oh HELL yeah bird of the year 2025!!
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Oct 22
My kārearea stickers finally arrived! These two designs are based off Scout, the advocacy bird at the Kārearea Falcon Trust. some of the profits from each sale will go directly to the trust!
two nz falcon stickers on a wood background. One is standing with wings tucked, and one is flying, wings and claws outstretched. The same two stickers but with a book page background, and my hand is holding the larger flying sticker. it's about 11cm long.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 10d
okay yes tomorrow. 20 hours to go. can we get it to $200???
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 10d
i think it’s tonight. time zones. maybe tomorrow. soon, anyway
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 10d
this ends tonight!
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d
The Unbound for Gaza auction is on now! I'm auctioning a set of all 36 of my bookmark designs - bid now for the chance to win them. Auction runs from september 26-28.

www.32auctions.com/organizations/131334/auctions/185672/auction_items/6340746
photo of many brightly coloured fantasy bookmarks arranged diagonally and overlapping. 36 bright fantasy bookmarks, designed like daggers, fungi, and book spines, arranged in rainbow order.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d
The Unbound for Gaza auction is on now! I'm auctioning a set of all 36 of my bookmark designs - bid now for the chance to win them. Auction runs from september 26-28.

www.32auctions.com/organizations/131334/auctions/185672/auction_items/6340746
photo of many brightly coloured fantasy bookmarks arranged diagonally and overlapping. 36 bright fantasy bookmarks, designed like daggers, fungi, and book spines, arranged in rainbow order.
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d
many other books & book related art items available, with donations going to The Palestine Red Crescent Society,
Gaza Soup Kitchen, and World Central Kitchen - Chefs for Gaza
Unbound for Gaza
Silent auction 'Unbound for Gaza' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d
The Unbound for Gaza auction is on now! I'm auctioning a set of all 36 of my bookmark designs - bid now for the chance to win them. Auction runs from september 26-28.

www.32auctions.com/organizations/131334/auctions/185672/auction_items/6340746
photo of many brightly coloured fantasy bookmarks arranged diagonally and overlapping. 36 bright fantasy bookmarks, designed like daggers, fungi, and book spines, arranged in rainbow order.
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