Hi, I'm V! #introduction

I am a late-fifties white, fat #disabled #nonbinary person. I live with my partner D & his partner, E, who also hang round on fedi. Sadly, we currently have no pets, but we help out our neighbours & friends with dog walking and pet sitting.

I have a bunch of chronic illnesses & conditions that limit my energy, so posting & response times can be slow and sporadic, but I do my best. I will CW when appropriate and provide image descriptions. I don't boost images without descriptions.

I love the #fediverse; however, I am aware of the problems this place has, especially for #BIPOC . I try to use it critically & thoughtfully and do my best not to be part of the problem. I do appreciate being called out/in if I fuck up, but I recognise that responsibility is mine to do better.

I am trying to unlearn a whole bunch of #racist #colonialist crap amongst other things, so I can be a halfway decent human. BTW Fuck whiteness, white supremacist, nationalist bollocks in any form or shape. I won't argue with you, I'll block & report you.

I like #sewing , #art , #gardening , #craft, #photography, and #Slowmaking stuff in general.

Nouvelle obsession : la sculpture de figurines en bois. Un bout de doigt en moins mais des premiers essais super satisfaisants, je suis super preneur d'échange/ressources sur le sujet #craft #woodcarving

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hey #colorful people, I made some things I think are pretty! Honestly, I am enjoying making them, but I have more than I could possibly wear already and I would love to sell some of them. so i'm wondering what it would take for you to buy those at a #craft show or farmers market. What would make them more saleable? #crafts #boho #clothes #farmersmarket 1/2

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Learn

11 March 2026

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/learn-2

#AI #Craft #DIY

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Et hop, suite à mon article, j'ouvre les carnets personnalisés <3

Tu peux maintenant me demander quoi écrire sur la tranche de ton carnet 😻

#bookbinding #streamer #craft

https://shop.cupof.coffee/products/carnet-personnalise-a5

Don't bite into that Butterfinger! Elizabeth Saloka's vibrant painted rocks and rubble are playful interpretations of everyday items.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/elizabeth-salokas-painted-rocks/

#art #craft

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Arino Borevich has an ambitious dream to sculpt every one of the thousands of known nudibranchs in colorful felted wool.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool-creature-lab-arina-bovenich-felted-wool-nudibranchs/

#craft #nature

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I've done some embroidery. Unfortunately I ran out of yarn, so I had to leave some spaces empty. Still looks nice, if you ask me.

#artistsonmastodon #artist #craft #embroidery #fcknzs #forgetmenot #flowers #tatimitstift

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Deux artisans qui étaient à l'autre bout de la France (lui la Normandie, elle la Provence), des savoir-faire qui se sont trouvés : il forge, je sculpte et nous voilà 8 ans après avec des tas d'idées et de créations communes ! Nous nous sommes rencontrés au Québec, nous vivons et travaillons en Normandie. Je crée le design de nos pièces, Benjamin vous accueille lors de sessions de forge. Bref, nous sommes complémentaires ✨

#atelier #crafts #skills #mastery #normandie #handmade #artisanat #craft

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My pompom making escalated, I made a hat! Learned three new skills today! #knittingmachine #craft @xHain_hackspace

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Hope you enjoyed your stay! Miniatures via Michael Pederson

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/michael-pederson-miniature-installations/

#art #craft

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I know a woman who just retired and does a lot of interesting crafts - ceramics, sowing, book binding and gardening - and she's tired of Meta. I think she would be an interesting addition to the craft community on the fediverse - and for all others who like to see images of craft. What platform (Mastodon, Pixelfed) and especially instances specifically would be an appropriate place for her to join?

#Craft #Ceramics #BookBinding #Sowing #newonfedi

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Yesterday the postman brought me this treat of a new book by @matratype and @blaft. Stock has also arrived in my online shop.

‘India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture’ is now ready for orders and you can read all about it here:

https://shop.bl.ag/products/india-street-lettering

Congratulations Pooja on a fabulous publication; it is quite an incredible book!

#Signs #SignPainting #Lettering #GraphicDesign #India #Typography #Type #Craft #Culture

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I have been wanting to play with these weld bends and bending my handwriting. There is an old neon tradition of "block out tubing" that was actually spliced in so that there would be no paint to chip.

I like the idea of using darker colors as the "block out" glass for all the connections. Its certainly an extra challenge, but I am liking the look.

I am gonna be bending neon at Brooklyn Glass's Hot Glass Cold Beer on Saturday. I get most of my neon tubing from there (they import from Italy) and I think this would be nice in a nice warm white and non coated cobalt blue. It took me 1, 3/4 hours to make "CHOOSE" out of scraps I had (whoops, got the whites mixed up :) )

My mom used to preach this to me when I was in high school. It changed my life... but I still sometimes feel like I can delude myself into feeling happy about a crappy situation.

https://brooklynglass.com/index.php/hot-glass-cold-beer-2/

#neon #brooklyn #event #handwriting #handmade #craft #glass #color #scraps #hotglasscoldbeer #attitude #test #studio

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Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft

#Art #Craft #Jewelry

This year's portfolio pictures from the awesome Cole Rodger. If you are a jeweller, you need to her to photograph your stuff.

https://coleimage.com/

New introduction for another new batch of followers.

I'm Blake from Houston,Tx.
I make weird modernist art jewelry and have a thing for small silly cars. I post lots of #weirdcarmastodon stuff.

My work is posted under the #art #jewelry and #craft hashtags

"You get AI that can make you like 90% of a thing! 90% is a lot. Will you care about the last 10%? I'm terrified that you won't."

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

#ki #ai #slop #tech #craft

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Confectionner une boule de papier avec ouvertures en forme d'étoile à cinq branches
⭐ 🖨️ ✏️ 📃 📝 ✍️ ✂️ 🤌 🫴 🫳 👌 ⚽ 🤩
Polyèdre cousin de l'icosaèdre. Patron à imprimer. Décorations à dessiner. Dégradés de couleurs.
#patron #découpage #pliage #collage #faitMaison #diy #MastoArt #craft #polyhedron #folding #3DArt
Genèse et autres patrons colorées sur http://antonin.roussel.free.fr/g/?atrt

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Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI #VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity

Question for the #Art, #Craft peoples out there: I am looking for a material that can be used to line the bottom of a box that catnip(or any herb) would cling to, but would be safe for #cats to both roll on and lick.

I am trying to find an adequate surface for outdoor catnip placement. I have been using icy surfaces, as it easily sticks, but still comes off in small amounts when a #cat rolls on it. Instead of going through it with the first cat, a sprinkle lasts around 2 days on ice. #FediHelp

My latest bookbinding adventure.

Paper cover and printed edges.

"The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"
German Edition

#bookbinding #bookbinders #booklovers #bookstodon #art #artists #artistsOnMastodon #craft #upcycling

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I wanted to share some of my work for #PortfolioDay. I do #bookmaking and #bookbinding in my spare time. I love doing something with my hands. I've had to take a small break since our child was born but I hope to get back into the swing of things in the new year with better paper, new ideas, and more patience. Please see the next post with links to over a many projects from over the past year!

#Handmade #Craft #Books #Bookstodon #Art #MastoArt #Handcraft #Paper #Stationary

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