Anna McDuff
@annamcduff
Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in embroidery, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
Denial is so key. They can both overvalue the good they can do either the money and they can pretend Buckfast works like this
Timeline cleanse: This is the best photo I’ve taken this week - a monarch butterfly on a dahlia in the flower field at my CSA farm, which has a pick your own add on. Getting to pick my own bouquet each week heals me.
Last year I made a tree that I can put a candle inside, this year I might make one I can poke string lights through if I can figure out what size hole is needed for the string lights!
Wow, I loved this book. I tried to read it casually but ended up gulping it down then paging back after I finished when I could see the whole shape of it. It’s beautiful. Follow along as Death (AKA Travis) experiences the joy and sorrow of life. Warm, funny and astonishing. #booksky
I spent my afternoon in the #pottery studio dreaming up this goofball dragon. He’s now wrapped up tight to equalize, I will smooth him out when he’s a bit less fragile. I used standard 182 with grog. And yes, he’s hollow.
What a fabulous, charismatic boar on a rampage! Here he is with alt text.
Here is my stoneware whale on top of my car - it really accentuates the blue! #pottery
I am so happy with how my stoneware whale came out - white clay glazed with slate blue and dark blue. #pottery #happiness
And here’s one of my pottery whales, thinking about the deep sea. Yes, he’s hollow.
Whales! thinking about whales, crafting whales, these things have been giving me so much joy. I’ve made several stoneware whales that I have yet to glaze and this week at a residential metal working craft class I made a mother and baby whale chain.
I’m currently at a residential craft school learning metal working and jewelry making. Silver is too expensive for us to learn on but I have copper and brass- here is my first piece #snowfarm
Here’s a side view so you can see - it’s four amethysts along the top and then they end, so it’s very comfortable to wear! Nice comfy band too.
Out at the Farmer’s Market wearing my new swirly dotty silver ring from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social . I got it yesterday and the first time I put it on it felt like it had always been mine. The other, amethyst and marcasite, ring is also a Peculiarity vintage refurb!
I’ve got a heavily defended (9 foot fence!) container garden going on in a small part of the garden. The deer can eat everything else, everywhere else, but here is where I keep the tastiest morsels all for myself.
Mountain laurel blossom is so beautiful, and it’s a rare sight. The trees them selves are twisted eldritch things, it’s such a joy their flowers are so pretty.
Lovely! Here’s my first dahlia! I’ve got another one I bought as a corm, it’s out up a couple of leaves already! (The growing season here is behind you, we only just stopped having temps below 50 at night!)
Reeses, the beautiful friendly cat at the Kunz greenhouse in Port Jeff Station.
Happy Birthday! Here is a notes app sheep with big horns and lots of wool.
Fresh from the kiln! I’m so happy with how these two came out. I made these, then splashed thin colored slip onto damp newspaper, made myself a little Jackson Pollock. Then I rolled my greenware on it! This is after bisquing, and glazing in clear. #pottery