Spilled Ink

Junicorn 2, Fleabitten Grey and nodding onion flowers!

"... I lived in the world of the spirit,

the world of the gray rain,

the lost,

the remembered."

-Louise Gluck

I've been looking forward to Junicorn for half a year and i can't even participate properly as i'm busy with other art + art fight preparations 😩

it's been there for years and they never "stock" it so it's just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

squirrel REAPPEARED today... NOW PAINTED

a few weeks ago i sculpted a new patron:

and put him in the bar. the next day he was gone. a couple weeks later he reappeared painted... but with ANOTHER new guest: a 3D printed squirrel based on the first one i sculpted (with a bottle!)

For a number of years, my husband and I have had a running joke about trying to find the stupidest and unsexiest tramp stamp possible. Some of the contenders were Grandpa's janky bed from Stardew Valley or maybe SuperGrover, but none of them seemed quite right.

A year ago I noticed in the notes that my infamous bear post was 9 years old. I joked to my husband, "What if I got that as a tramp stamp?" We laughed. We paused. "But no, for real maybe I should do that," so I set a challenge. The post had just over 400,000 notes at the time, and I thought, "Maybe if it gets to half a million before the 10 year anniversary," but then decided, "That's too easy. They'll do that in a month or two." And you would have, so I upped it to the next nice round number of a million, knowing 2 things: 1: you'd never make it to a million (especially since I had comments turned off for the first six months until I figured out how to turn them back on), and 2: I was always going to do it anyway.

I was hoping to get more of it done before the deadline and was even scheduled for another session, but then my husband broke his foot and I had to reschedule and my tattoo artist left for France, so I won't be able to get it finished until probably July or August. There's more to be added and cleaned up, including colour, but here it is right now. I did not want to share my butt crack with the entire internet, so please enjoy the surrogate butt crack.

So I love stardew valley and I play it with a lot of people, and it always comes up how I see the traveling cart merchant as a guy, apparently most people see them as a girl?

For those in vet med, if you hear the presenting complaint involves a litter of pups or any young unvaccinated dog with diarrhea, ask if they are also vomiting. If so keep the patient(s) in the car and Parvo test before ever having them inside. This prevents A LOT of cleaning. And you can bring the patient directly where it may stay for hospitalization or keep it at the car for work up and treatment if attempting at home care.

For those not in vet med, please let your vet staff know if your pet is having not only diarrhea but also vomiting and the vaccination status of you pet. Especially if they are a young puppy.

Sincerely,

At the vet hospital I work we also take a cat scale out to the car wrapped in a clear plastic garbage bag. That way we can get an accurate weight without super contaminating a scale.