I opened an Etsy shop!

It’s called FurGems. I make cute animal things. Ultimately I want to sell art dolls here, but I’m still learning how to make those so for now I’m making cards and laser cutting jewelry and keychains.

Making an Artdoll

I recently crafted an artdoll using a variety of techniques, including sculpting, felting, and flocking. The process was a lot of fun, and the results were pretty satisfying. As I improve, I’ll start posting breakdowns of the creation process. If you want to follow my work I try to put up videos each week on TikTok.

Pandemic Projects

Over the past year, I wrote a novel and hibernated an early project called the Existential Crisis Hotline, which was an experiment in ARG recorded menu stuff that I just didn’t have the energy to maintain during a global pandemic. I’d just gotten the twitter bot for the project behaving well enough that I wasn’t receiving calls from actual people in crisis, and I didn’t want to try maintaining it when so many more people were suddenly in crisis.

The phone line still works if you want to call it (the project website is linked above). But for now, it’s in a holding pattern and the bot has been deactivated, and there’s nothing driving anyone to the number.

The novel I wrote is complete except for the last editing pass and formatting, and will be available for beta readers by the end of March. Preorders will start in April. If you want to be a beta reader, you can sign up at EdgeAnomaly.com

I’m also working on an animated tiktok project to promote the book. If you join the book waiting list, you’ll get an announcement when that launches. Here’s a little sample, it’s going to be cute:

Purridot

My first attempt at fan art happened as a result of having inherited a gem collection from my Aunty Jean. Turns out there are a lot of peridots, garnets, a couple amethysts, a bunch of emeralds, some rubies, a bunch of topaz and rhodenite (which I guess is a kind of garnet?) some sapphires, rose quartz, and even an aquamarine.

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Anyway, turns out when I try to sketch stuff it automatically turns into animals. So here's Purridot. Maybe I'll do Amyth-Hiss, Garmitts, and Steven.

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The reason I tried to draw Peridot at all is that I thought 'Maybe I should make little resin cast Peridot models and put actual Peridots on them.' Because obviously that's what you do when you have a inherited gem collection and you love Steven Universe.

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I'd love feedback! Let me know if you wanna see more SU cats, some little gem sculptures, or anything else. :)