Not trying to be a nuisance about this, just I'm an adult queer who's finally making a life for herself and part of that is I would like to be able to start to pay for groceries and bills and in general earn my living. And it would mean a lot to me if I were able to do that through something I love.

Here you are at last, @moonlightpirate. I have been feeling bad it was taking so long but now seems like a good time for it. I hope it makes you feel at least a little better. I love you very much and you know where I am when you need.

(so I thought I'd posted this one??? apparently not yet...) 'But, if I see further than others, it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

One of my other favorite Joeys in the whole wide world.

This one's rather bittersweet, so bare with me.

I was recently watching a kids show and they all wanted to make something that would last forever, like a monument. They decided to make a sandcastle. But of course, a storm came and the castle was destroyed.

Having reached some very painful endings to things that meant a lot, that's when it dawned on me. This song, and sandcastles.

What happens when things don't last. When they break or get wrecked or fade away with time. Hopes and dreams, getting swept by the tides. People drifting apart. And what you do with what's left.

The kids built another castle, in the end.

And in the end of Ruin, they decide to rebuild.

once again on I really must have a sixth sense: so I've been working on this for weeks now and, here they are. on Halloween, no less. that's what I call Amazing.

background here is I've recently been getting into embroidery, found these absolutely gorgeous Elizabethan flower designs in this book by Susan O'Connor.

and as luck had it the shop I bought it from had project classes for it. you picked three different projects - a scissor sheath, a pinwheel, and a needlebook- along with the flowers you wanted on them. one of the designs that captured my heart was of primrose & thistle. so close to the title of the TAD song, I decided my needlebook design would have this lyric. that's what you're looking at, an illustration of this design plan.

and here are the almost finished flowers in the flesh. silk thread on duchess satin.

when... when I think of these words, I think of how I'm the person who always does everything she can to darn or mend the people around her. bring healing, love, comfort to them; be there for them. I could never leave anyone alone when they're in need.

but. that it's easy for them to leave me. that I'm always left trying to mend myself.

A Yen, for @dancingwiththefae's birthday when it came time. Ah, this turned out so gorgeous, s h e!!!

A sleepy Joey drawing, really good for my first time in a bit !

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Sliiightly deviant from the ongoing saga of 'this person in this artwork', only because an actual picture of him looked so much like the artwork that I more merged the two.

Alba reading by Erin de Burca.

And of course, this picture of Joey Batey.

Pretty straightforward really, a nice break from some of the more complicated ones I've done. Had an issue with his face at first but when I noted the puff of the pillow in his picture, it got fixed. Then I like literally last minute decided what I was going to put in the photos and on that little booklet, and what it is is like - small sort of mimics of Madeleine Hyland's brilliant artwork she's done for TAD.