Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)

@vicky

The friend you send bug pictures to. Also accepting dead-thing-on-beach pictures, dog pictures, and stories about your cats.

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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· 16d

Omg omg this absolute CUTIE of a spooder in my narrow-leafed milkweed. Tiny bee stripes, itty bitty lil face, what a sweetheart! @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social

Photo of a tiny yellow and black striped jumping spider perched on a pale-skinned thumbnail.

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· 17d

My little ocean baby ❤️

A woman in an oversized green shirt, sunglasses, a big hat, and blue pants rolled up at the knee crouches on a sandy, crowded beach holding a baby in a light blue full-body swimsuit, face obscured by a pink sun hat. The baby’s feet are in the wet sand

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jul 8

Also, look how sweet and innocent this bear looks! Just a lil guy making wishes on the dandelions by the side of the road

Photo of a black bear standing in a cluster of bright green shoulder-height dandelions along the side of a gravel road. The bear has one long dandelion stem in its mouth, with its poofy head out. Long ears perked quizzically, it is looking directly at the camera with more dandelion seeds decorating the top of its head

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jul 4

Rules for my Bluesky account:

Metal sign post with a yellow and white sign attached. Text in black on white reads “reduce speed” while black icons on the yellow part of the sign show a bicycle, a person walking a dog on a leash, a tiny man and a large man chasing a ball, and a moose.

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jun 13

Not bad for a rookie I think

Photo of a plate of upside-down pan fried dumplings, arranged in two circles. They’re golden brown and glisten with a slight sheen of oil

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jun 13

It’s my most labor intensive dinner but also my favorite one Lacks something when it’s just me making them though. Really should be 3-4 generations of us rolling and wrapping and frying and eating

Photo of neat rows of uncooked pleated potsticker dumplings, resting in a worn and stained baking tray on a dusting of flour

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Apr 27

Freehand knitting a silly duck hat for my baby but she’s too wiggly to try on (especially with four aluminum needles poking out of it) so this friendly octopus with a convenient-sized head is standing in.

Photo of a toy octopus in plush gray material with two black eyes and a smiley face wearing a yellow hat, still on a set of double-pointed knitting needles and attached to a ball of yarn. The hat has a sort of knob shape protruding from the top that will be a silly duck head when a beak and eyes are added

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Apr 9

Saw a nice bug today

Photo of a gray and brown beetle on a coast live oak leaf

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 27

It’s FINISHED! I ended up reworking two shark knitting patterns plus learning three new kinds of decreases/increases because I wanted my shark’s head to be symmetrical, but I got there eventually. I love her. #whaleshark #marinebiology #knitting #sciart

Photo of the dorsal side of a knitted whale shark toy in light and dark blue, held up against a tree background

Photo of the face of a knitted whale shark toy in light and dark blue, held up against a tree background

Photo of the right side of a knitted whale shark toy in light and dark blue, held up against a tree background

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 21

Making some patches for later mending shenanigans

Rows of printed black icons on plain beige fabric. There are insects (bee, butterfly, dragonfly, ladybug), an acorn, and several Studio Ghibli-style soot sprites

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 20

Ok but here’s the real reason I decided to print on fabric: my baby, now nearly 4 months, is obsessed with our ceiling fan and so I decided to make her FAN MERCH

Photo of a green striped baby bib and a white onesie bodysuit for an infant, on a wooden table. The bib has a single ceiling fan motif stamped in black ink on the middle of the front. The onesie has a nearly all-over repeating print of the same fan stamp in black ink

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 20

Hi sorry but I’ve decided to restructure my whole personality around the fact that I just learned how to print tiny hand carved bees on my own clothes, and I plan to be insufferable about it

Photo of a woman with dark hair and big glasses smiling. She’s wearing a light gray linen vest open over an orange top. On the corner of the vest collar is a tiny black bee stamp

Close up of the collar and the bumblebee stamp

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 15

🥧

Stacks of racks of cooling pies in a yellow-tinted room

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Mar 14

Just knittin’ up a shark, what are the rest of you party animals doing on a Friday evening? #knitting #marinebio #overlyelaboratechildrenstoys

Photo of a knitting project on a spiral-bound notebook. The knitting is on circular needles, size 7, and consists of a trapezoid-ish shape of dark and light aqua blues in alternating spots and stripes. The notebook lists the project as “Whale shark knitting pattern fixes” in blue ink

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Feb 22

Particularly in love with this beauty. Yayyyyy arttttt

Photo of a hand holding up a card that features a painting of a keenly focused black bird, probably a crow (?) against a moody brown background. Light on the bird’s feathers carves out each individual plume

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Feb 22

🎶 These are a few of my favorite things! 🎶 (Just got a lil brown paper package tied up with string from @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social full of *gorgeous* bird art, congratulations to me and anyone getting mail from me I the next several months that will include the prettiest card!!)

Photo of a hand holding a brown paper-wrapped package tied with a piece of rough twine. The package has a business card taped to it, partially obscured by the twine but it features a painting of a wolf. In the background a window and a blue curtain in front of a blue sky

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Feb 13

Anyone know what dolphin species these are meant to be? I’m assuming they’re lags of some sort but am not super familiar with Arctic species! #marinebio #cetaceans

Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jan 5

For my bean’s new and growing book collection #art

Photo of a hand-carved circular stamp in wine-colored ink that reads “from the library of Beatrice brownman” and features a bumblebee

Drafts of the stamp on paper and tracing paper

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jan 5

Evening after rain

Honey colored mushrooms from below, droplets of water lighting the grasses under the big gilled umbrellas

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jan 5

Pretty ‘shroomy in my backyard today

Photo taken from very low to the ground angled up into the overlapping gilled caps of honey-warm tan colored mushrooms sprouting out of green clovers against a gray sky

Same mushrooms seen from a higher angle, showing several clusters of 20 or more each

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Jan 1

Opening 2026 with my daughter snoozing on one of my favorite pajama shirts, which my dad bought from Crazy Shirts in Honolulu sometime in the 90s and used to wear while baby me snoozed on him.

Photo of the back and side of a month-old baby’s peach-fuzzy head and tiny ear resting on a light gray shirt that features a color print of a cartoon gray tabby cat reclined on a blue couch while a tabby kitten sleeps curled up on its stomach

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Dec 24

Happiness is hand-knitted baby socks that match mama’s. Or at least that’s happiness today. Tomorrow it might be more about a whole four-hour sleep, or an especially satisfying burp. But anyways. Wishing you joy and warmth and safety.

Photo in black and white of two tiny baby feet in finely knitted socks folded over at the cuff. The baby feet are on a sweatpants-clad lap and in the background at the end of the sweatpants-clad legs are matching knitted socks on an adult’s feet

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 19

It is the season of decomposers and eroders

Photo of the same gray mushrooms but as seen from underneath, where their delicate gills are obvious. Behind them in the background a signpost echoes their shape and coloration, reading “prevent erosion, stay on trail”

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 19

Please imagine this video accompanied by the “boingoingoingoingoing” soundtrack of your choice

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 18

The Turkening Begins

A plastic wrapped turkey in the foreground with a label reading TURKEY, RUBY’s KITCHEN, in an industrial kitchen background with several people working at stainless steel sinks

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 11

Things have been BUSY — lots of folks need our help right now and we are lucky to be able to lift the load a little. 600+ tasty dinners today, and more tomorrow!

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 7

The rains have returned. I know other places have good reason to worship the spring but watching pipe-cleaner limbs sprout back from charred forests of redwood trees and mushrooms burst out from damp soil, I can’t help but give my whole heart to fall. (Do you see the people in this picture?)

Photo of too-thin conifer trees, with branches emerging like green peach-fuzz from their tall trunks. In the far distance, tiny people are walking toward the base of one of the trees

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 7

Even at my regular size I still dream about the tops of these trees. I love you, California

Photo of an enormously tall majestic coast redwood tree soaring into a forest of similarly tall trees

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 7

I could hitch a ride on the banana slug bus when I didn’t mind taking my time

Photo of a yellow slug inching down a tree trunk with a smiling person in the background

Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)@vicky· Nov 7

We’d visit the oyster mushroom (Pleurotus sp.) cathedral when we needed to feel small(er)