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Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Party Wall Design Challenge: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/party-wall-2024-05/vote Voting is open until 3pm on 7 May 2024.

my entry: pansy party You don’t need an account to vote, but it requires a captcha.

#Spoonflower #design challenge #party wall #pansy party #sarahkdesigns #Sarah Knight #vote #vote for me #please vote #floral #party #colorful

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Went back up (sideways?) to Watkins Lake outside Manchester, to see the swans, the Canada geese, and some common mergansers… and a beaver.

#wild life #swans #Canada geese #beaver #water fowl #geese #lake #water #nature #rural #outside

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The eastern bluebirds checking out the nest box… with a lot of preening. Frigging mites.

#eastern bluebirds #bluebirds #sialia sialis #backyard birds #birding #wild birds #my big backyard #photos #photography #birds of North America

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The Queen.

on Society6: https://society6.com/product/jk-rowling-portrait_print?sku=s6-28241046p4a1v45

on Imagekind: https://www.imagekind.com/JK-Rowling-portrait_art?IMID=010b65c1-d8d2-4ae9-8b31-2936256c2067

on Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/the_queen_portrait_t_shirt-256887270140023620

#JK Rowling #J.K. Rowling #the Queen #Sarah Knight #Society6 #Zazzle #Imagekind #feminism #women's rights #author #feminist icon #gender critical

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Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Treat Yourself Design Challenge: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/treat-yourself-2024-04/vote Voting is open until 3pm on 9 April 2024.

my entry: ranunculus & fruit cupcakes You don’t need an account to vote, but it requires a captcha.

#Spoonflower #design challenge #vote #sarahkdesigns #treat yourself #cupcakes #fruit #sweets #repeat pattern #fabric

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Technically, it's Easter dinner. It's also what's for dinner — until we run out of ham. Ham, BTW, for those in the MI/OH/IN area is on sale — the spiral sliced variety at Meijer for 89¢/lb. So, yeah, we're having ham. We'll still be eating it on Easter. It was my turn to cook.

Rounding out the feast are sliced carrots, baked beans (with an assist from bacon bits), biscuits from a tube, cherry-tapioca jello salad, and cake.

Normally, I would make a carrot cake. But, I stood in front of the cake mixes at the grocery store — and Pillsbury decided to get creative. The cake is "creamy almond" flavored. The frosting is "caramel latte." For the cake snobs out there sifting flour — why are you still reading this? I'm unabashedly unashamed to make cake from a box mix. Ha ha. That being said, if you know what the bottle of almond flavoring tastes like — that's what the cake tastes like. The caramel latte frosting is better than the salted caramel flavored frosting that they used to sell. "Salted caramel" tasted like chemicals, this new caramel version actually tastes like caramel as we all know it from the Kraft caramel candies.

#Easter #dinner #supper #food #ham #carrots #baked beans #jello salad #cake #caramel #almond cake #my turn to cook

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By the time I got my camera to focus on the male eastern bluebird instead of that branch or a random magnolia bud — he was like: I got shit to do today.

Filter provided by double paned windows from the seventies that definitely accumulate moisture between the 2 panes of glass.

#eastern bluebird #sialia sialis #bluebird #backyard bird #song bird #bird watching #nest box

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Well, I just drove all the way out to Manchester for an appointment that, it turns out, is not until next week. So, I drove a little further, past the road I was supposed to turn down, turned around, then proceeded to drive past the road I should next should have turned off on — which required turning around twice… and I finally made it to Trolz's farm, which I'm sure is no longer called that.

The barbed wire fence that used to be along the road? Ha ha ha. Not any more. It's just an almost 1.5 lane wide dirt road surrounded by water.

Nothing particularly interesting. Just Canada geese, and what according to the first thing that came up when I typed in "duck with green head, white body, and red beak" is a Common Merganser.

#Canada geese #Common Merganser #geese #spring #Manchester #Michigan #lake #water #water fowl #birds #photography

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Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Leap Year Frogs Design Challenge:

https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/leap-year-frogs-2024-02/vote

Voting is open until 3pm on 27 February 2024.

my entry: pansies and green tree frogs You don’t need an account to vote, but it requires a captcha.

#Spoonflower #design challenge #vote #please vote #frogs #green tree frog #pansies #illustration #art #frog art #Sarah Knight #sarahkdesigns #contest #vote for me

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Happy Valentine's Day!

#valentines day

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Oh, it's bird knick knack repainting season: bunting addition. House finch (brown/red), indigo bunting (all blue) painted bunting (yellow = female, multicolored = male).

#birds #knick knacks #repaint #repainting #craft project #crafts #painting #figurines #home decor #painted bunting #indigo bunting #house finch #finch #buntings #work in progress

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And then there was a frog and pansy pattern that repeats with stems and leaves and a dirt/rock background.

#pattern #repeat pattern #surface pattern #pansy #pansies #floral #flowers #green tree frog #frogs #illustration #drawing #photoshop #PSD #art #work in progress

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Working on illustrating some American tree frogs.

#illustration #illustrating #american tree frogs #tree frog #frogs #leap year #drawing #pen and ink #digital color #Photoshop #work in progress #PSD #Sarah Knight

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The great hummingbird repaint 2024.

I buy bird figurines (aka garden statuary), and then repaint them to look like real birds. This year's purchase was a lot of hummingbird figurines. I made a Costa's, Anna's, rufous, ruby throated (2), bee hummingbird, and calliope (2).

#craft project #repaint #hummingbirds #bird figurines #knick knacks #crafting #painting #repainting #makeover #before #after #home decor

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Spent a quality 5 hours in the kitchen today. The batch of heart shaped sour cream cookies for Valentine's Day. There were 163 cookies (I know, I tried to mostly use the giant heart cookie cutter). Only 4* colors of frosting (until I ran out of 1 color and then had to mix more). The frosting is cherry flavored.

Sour cream cookies recipe

2 cups sugar

1 cup shortening

2 eggs beaten

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

4-5 cups sifted flour

Cream sugar and shortening together well. Add eggs, sour cream, baking soda, vanilla, and salt — stir thoroughly. Add flour gradually while stirring. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes. Roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness, cut cookies. Bake cut cookies on baking sheet for 5 to 8 minutes at 350˚F.

#cookies #sour cream cookies #frosting #heart shaped #cookie cutter #sprinkles #holiday #treats #sweets #decorating #Valentine's Day #baking

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Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Forest Biome Design Challenge: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/forest-biome-2024-02/vote

Voting is open until 3pm on 13 February 2024.

my entry: forest with birds and squirrels You don’t need an account to vote, but it requires a captcha.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16441580-forest-birds-squirrels-by-sarahkdesigns

#vote #please vote #spoonflower #design challenge #forest biome #squirrels #cardinals #chickadees #woodpeckers #birds #bird art #sarahkdesigns #Sarah Knight

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Working on some cardinals for the forest biome pattern.

#cardinals #illustration #illustrating #work in progress #working on it #bird art #bokeh #northern cardinal #Sarah Knight #drawing #prismacolor #colored pencil #drawn on print #WIP