AvantKat

Happy thanksgiving! I hope your holiday crafting season is going well.

My kiddo gonna enjoy my fall clean up fun!

I set up a fun craft for my daughter’s class party tomorrow. I am so excited to see their spooky creations!

Brought in the warmer climate plants last night!

My studio up and running again.

Had fun making monsters with my daughter

I am very excited. My daughter, partner and I painted some pumpkins last night.

I’m getting lots of residents in my bee 🐝 house 🏡 #🐝

My hibiscus gave its first bloom since I brought it home. The colors delight me.

Found a little buddy in my strawberry bush today. What should we name them?

>.< hehe sometimes

Long read but worth

Long post!
~Anakin Shadowhunter

Craft is resistance in a late stage capitalist society! What have you been crafting lately?

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digital illustration of a woman with long brown hair wearing a jean jacket and purple sweater. She’s sitting at a craft table with zine making supplies. Text reads, ‘craft is resistance in a late stage capitalist society.’

What a cute pumpkin idea!

Image I’d: pumpkin cut into sections and drawn on with a silver sharpie to look like a turtle, is in a bed of sand

Here's A Neat Idea 💡 🐢 🎃

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A seeet gesture for a great tragedy

This man spoke with every parent in Uvalde, Texas to build personalized caskets for all 19 children who were killed. His name is Trey Ganem Posted in r/BeAmazed by u/--CoCaCoLa-- • 30,219 points and 1,117 comments

Took my daughter fishing today catch this gem, no fish though

Made with love... and my hair 💇‍♀️

"Here’s the thing, guys.

It doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter when life begins.

It doesn’t matter whether a fetus is a human being or not.

That entire argument is a red herring, a distraction, a subjective and unwinnable argument that could not matter less.

It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about a fertilized egg, or a fetus, or a baby, or a five year old, or a Nobel Prize winning paediatric oncologist.

NOBODY has the right to use your body, against your will, even to save their life, or the life of another person.

That’s it.

That’s the argument.

You cannot be forced to donate blood, or marrow, or organs, even though thousands die every year, on waiting lists.

They cannot even harvest your organs after your death without your explicit, written, pre-mortem permission.

Denying women the right to abortion means we have less bodily autonomy than a co**se."

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Todays art prompt was simply music. This is a prompt I have been given many time before and it is fantastic. This seemed like the prefect prompt to get my daughter involved with. So I set up some paints, let my daughter pick a song and we painted what the music told us. My daughter picked “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus and wanted a rainbow of colors to work with. She started by making the yellow figure putting their hands up. I started by making lines of color. She decided to join me with my colored lines saying they were the party in the USA. I had a lot of fun sharing this process with my daughter and it is definitely an activity we will repeat again because she enjoyed it so much.

We go the opposite direction with this prompt was things that should never go together. My daughter fought a was to long walks home from school while flair jeans were all the rage with all the rain and puddles. Given I would go jump and play in the puddles on my way home, walking back with cold soggy jeans soaked up to my knees was not a great combination.

Todays prompt for your art matters was 2 things that must be together. I took inspiration from one of my daughter’s favorite foods for this sketch mac and cheese. Look how much this noodle is enjoying the cheesing process.

It has been a long time since I have been posting regularly, life has been taking me in many different directions as I have found myself at a crossroad in my life, as I have many time before in my life. That brings me to what I am posting about today. I am participating in your art matters week. Today prompt was “art is…”. This is something I have participated in debates, defined for academic work, and pondered over for various other reason in my life. I have always stuck to a more general and technical answer when it comes to defining art, but today I am going to address it on a personal level. Art is always there, it can comfort when life has been hard and channel excitement when exuberance gets the best of us. It has always been a way to express myself when words have failed me (which can often happen as a dyslexic). I have lived through major depressive episodes, and my art was there to express myself, to lose myself in when dealing with the present moment was too hard. It is something I have done to capture the moments that bring me great joy. It has helped me communicate what happens in my head to others.

Now, I have been busy getting my new work area together, working on a few commissions, redesigning my website (which now hosts its own store), a hectic holiday season, and other various research and development tasks. More information to come on my works soon. Thank you for following and reading along. For now I leave you with how my new work area is set up. I love that I have places to put works aside and work on multiple projects; yet still be able to see all the things I am working on.

Just added 2 fish and a snail to our family