⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓Museum Art & An Old Log Church᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔

Today, I am writing an extra special post because I am actually in the car on our way home from my husband and I’s visit to my art in its very first art museum debut!!! The art museum itself was located in Bedford, Pennsylvania, and honestly, I couldn’t have picked a better place for it to be. The area itself was historic and gorgeous and extremely friendly! (Though not very vegetarian/vegan friendly ≧ᗜ≦…) Nathanial and I dropped off our kids and Ozzy with my parents Friday around 3/3:30 PM. Directly from there, we headed to Bedford and our hotel, only stopping for some food on the way (and bathroom breaks). We got into town at 1 AM and went right to bed. We both ended up getting up WAY earlier than we normally would, especially on vacation, so we got an early start and got to see a whole bunch of local sites. First we had breaky, and friends: pumpkin pancakes are in season! They were amazing. We then went to visit the “Giant Coffee Pot” which is essentially a one room hut made out of cement in the shape of a silver coffee pot! It was built in 1927 and has been moved a few times so, you can imagine, it is not in the best of shape… but it was still really cool to see! We drove around, enjoying the sites and checking out some antique shops. We stopped by and looked at the “Old Log Church”, a building from 1806 that still stands and has original pews/pulpit, and is completely surrounded by a cemetery that held centuries old history. We got to go INSIDE the building thanks to the nice, older volunteer couple that were there to do quick maintenance and let us know that we were allowed to poke around! The pulpit seemed crazy how high up the pastor would have been over the congregation… but then there was a balcony space for even more people above him (tiny people, seriously, Nathanial could not even sit down properly). The pews had graffiti ALL over them, riddled from all aged people from years dating back to the early 19th century. It was really beautiful and really powerful to sit down (or try to sit, in Nate’s case) where people some 200 years ago had sat listening to a Sunday sermon. Just imagine what sort of things they would have been thinking while sitting there.

We then took a trip to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in downtown Bedford. It is literally right next to the Bedford Fort Museum which is the site of an old fort built in the late 1700’s, some of the older log walls were still standing. The Art Museum itself is housed in a building titled the “Anderson” house, which reminded me of the historic buildings on Bourbon Street. It was built in 1815, and was originally a bank for the first 15 or so years. The old money vault and iron doors were still intact and could be found inside the gift shop. As well as absolutely stunning fireplaces in each room. I was SOOOOO thrilled with the Biennial show but also just really proud of my own artwork. It looked great in the room, next to its companions. Was I a little scared it would look like it didn’t belong there? Yes. Yes, I was. Luckily, my husband was with me to tell the employee that I was the artist because I was way too shy or nervous and terrified to say anything. And then we, OF COURSE, got stickers and pins from the money vault gift shop!

After we left the museum, we went back to our hotel and relaxed for a little while. I read a bit of Frankenstein (I have so much to say about that, but I’ll save it for another time) while my husband took a quick power nap. He was the driver for our whole trip & deserved one! Then we visited the Jean Bonnet Tavern, a structure that was built around 1762–older than our country. The building has an incredibly rich history and was a fun place to go have a drink and read about! We checked out the gift shop and got a shirt for my dad. I was thankful we were having dinner later in the evening because it was EXTREMELY busy there and it would have been a long wait to get a table. Luckily, we just wanted an “ale” and got to go right into the tavern side and get out before the real rowdy minutemen showed up with their front-load muskets and their rebellious talk of freedom! They even had goats on the premise that loved getting pets! I also want to note that the NEXT WEEKEND is Bedford’s fall festival and apparently, it is a BIG DEAL for the area, so we are glad we missed the chaos and got to see the sites while it felt private & off-season.

After our tavern ale, we visited the Giant Quarter. Do we pay for giant coffee with giant quarter? While waiting for our dinner guests, we walked around a few trails and got to check out the gorgeous nature of Allegheny Mountains… the elevations and views were gorgeous. And you know, I love a good rock! My husband and I were both surprised at how little wildlife we saw… We heard bugs. We saw some squirrels and a giant slug but there were no fish in the water, or frogs, or turtles, or birds… Not even many bugs. It was weird! Is it Pennsylvania nature and I am just used to the teeming West coast of Michigan or something is it a sign of something more ominous? Who the heck knows. ¯\_(•_•)_/¯

So our final event of the evening was meeting up with my twin brother and his partner! They live in Philly and drove the 3 hours to come have dinner with us and were staying the night in town so they could visit the art museum and see my piece while it is up! We left from our hotel & a really shitty continental breakfast around 7 AM. It is now 5 PM and we are still an hour away from our house BUT we have our kids and our pup & we are looking forward to decompressing and getting some rest before a busy Monday starts back up. This week I hope to finish Edna and the Bee’s and take a look at what Halloween inventory I have! I hope you all have an incredible week! Be good to yourself!

xxx-Kanda ✩𓃦☽⋆⁺₊✧

Photo Captions-Alright, I apologize: this one is going to be long! Photo cover- Old building off of the Lincoln Highway. Photo 1: A picture of the girls we recieved while they were with my folks. ♡ Photo 2: Ozzerboi on the way to gramma’s. Photo 3: Giant Coffee Pot! Photo 4: Funky mannequins while out antique shopping! Photo 5: Bedford Fort Remnants Photo 6-8: “Old Log Church circa 1806” Photo 9-12: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art featuring MY ARTWORK (and us in the bank vault!!) Photo 13: Jean Bonnet Tavern Photo 14: Cute tiny boob-shaped mushrooms covering a long in the forest. Photo 15: GIANT QUARTER! Photo 16: A scallywag bunch of patriots! Photo 17: Edna and the Bee’s wrapping up.

꧁𓆩༺✧Monster Trucks & A Cheer Mom✧༻𓆪꧂

Happy Sunday, friends. How are we doing? Hanging in there, I hope? Things have been quite busy around here and I do believe I’m fighting a cold on top of everything else. Tis the season! Our girls have started their actual cheer season and though we absolutely love watching them, it makes us unable to have Saturday plans for a few months. As it is, we are skipping next weekend so that my husband and I can take a quick weekend trip and drive to Pennsylvania to visit my artwork hanging up in a museum there. I’m SOOOOO excited. This will be my first art museum appearance, and it feels like a really big milestone. OF COURSE, I will take a picture for you scallywags! ˙𐃷˙ I’m also still REALLY trying to finish up my newest painting in my Retrospective Infringement series: Edna. It is a 16×16” acrylic on canvas done from my previous drawing with the same title. I need this one finished up soon because I have to take “Pathogen” down at the Arts Council where it is currently hanging and send THAT piece to the Northville Art House in Northville Michigan for their upcoming exhibition: Art That Pushes Boundaries. I am so excited for that as well. (Now, if only people would start buying my original work!)

I know I mentioned I was going to begin rereading Frankenstein, I had read it in high school and liked it but I’m on a really strong 19th century gothic literature kick and this seemed like the perfect time to reread. You may already know I’m a little weirdo about having to do a full history lesson on the author when I’m reading them… so I had already known Mary Shelley was 19 when she wrote the book. I knew that she had married a Percy Shelley who was also an author. I knew that Frankenstein was created because of a writing competition between them and Lord Byron in the summer of 1816, when the “summer with no sun” occurred due to volcanic activity in Indonesia. But the things I learned about Mary Shelley’s life were somehow even more dramatic than her book. I’m going to regurgitate it here so PREPARE YOURSELVES. First, Mary Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was also an author and a practicing ‘feminist’ before that was a term. Mary’s mother had a previous relationship and conceived a daughter named Fanny Imlay. Mary’s mother met Mary’s father, William Godwin, and they were married. Godwin adopted the then 3 year old Fanny when Mary’s mother died in child-birth with Mary. So Fanny was kept in the family, though Mary was only her half-sister and Godwin, Mary’s father, had no real family tie to Fanny. 4 years later Godwin marries a Mary Jane Clairemont who has two children from a previous relationship, one being Claire Clairemont who is around the same age as Mary. So 3 girls in the one household, mkay? Now, we are going to talk about Percy. Anyone who knows the history of Percy is just like… what the fuck is up with Percy?! So Percy is born to a decent family, and grows up fairly good (though lots of records say he was bullied in school), he went on to college where he was kicked out of Oxford for writing antichristian propaganda. He had a lot of radical ideas on things like the institution of marriage, religion, and organized governments. Which is when he went seeking… a 16 year old Harriet Westbrook. They eloped against their parents’ wishes so were cut off financially. They struggled with money but had a child in this time. Percy went to seek financial aid for essentially a cult village he wanted to create and decided to ask William Godwin, Mary’s father, as he was also an author with similar views and revoluntionary ideas. After meeting MARY at 16, Percy started wooing her against her father’s wishes… oh yeah, and with a pregnant Harriet and their small child at home. Percy did not believe in monogamy and made a point of indulging himself. Mary, being smart but just a girl, fell for his crap and eventually ran away with him, bringing her STEPSISTER Claire, for some damn reason, and leaving Fanny home with a miserable stepmother. Claire and Percy were also VERYYYYY close. Like, really close. Mary eventually elopes the already married Percy (though he doesn’t believe in marraige, remember?), she is pregnant and very sick with her first child when she writes Frankenstein. She has had 4 children all together, and sadly only one: Percy Florence, makes it to adulthood and many historians believe Mary’s children could have survived if Percy hadn’t been dragging his young family all over the continent during times of war, famine, and heat waves. Both Fanny and Harriet end up taking their own lives due to their sad circumstances left to them. Percy ends up dying in 1822 due to an unseaworthy boat he had specially built going down in a storm. Mary Shelley lives out her life writing, taking care of her son, and dies from a brain tumor at 53. Isn’t that all bizarre? Sorry that was long- that was the freakishly, over-simplified version of it too!

Photo captions-Cover Photo: Gorgeous morning at Medberry Park. Photo 1 & 2: My lil’ cheerleaders ♡ Photo 3: Kinger is the 23rd butterfly I’ve hatched this year! Photo 4: My baby girl at the Harvest Day festivities at her school, this was the first year Nova wasn’t there and it was hard for mama bear! Photo 5, 6, 7, & 8: We went to see a live Hot Wheels Monster Truck show last night and it was INCREDIBLE! The vehicles are so cool and smashing the crap out of tiny cars is a DANG GOOD TIME! My girls kept saying how much they love being in the city too! ࣪ ִֶָ☾. Photo 8: Edna WIP, the strawberry leaves took forever but I’m finally beginning on her. Photo 9: Again, am cheer mom, am proud!!!

Alright, since I took a whole bunch of time explaining Mary Shelley history and how much Percy kind of suck, I’m going to wrap this up and let you know that I’ll see you next week! I hope you all have an excellent week! I can feel fall in the air and it has me reaching for all the apples and donuts! I freakin’ love fall! Okay, bye frannnnnss!

xxx- Kanda 𑄝੭

⋆｡‧˚ʚ ୨Butterfly Fins & A BunBunৎ ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Wow, friends! Where have you been? Oh wait, that’s me! I’ve been MIA! I’m currently watching the Lions in OT… biting all the fingernails (hypothetically of course, these nails are too gorgeous to do that.) This week I did a LOT of painting and, though I had planned on writing a make-up post from last Sunday during the week, I never felt like sitting down and writing. Today I am hella distracted too but I’m determined to keep my promises! This week saw a LOT of productivity. I have formatted new 2026 BunBun prints for my online shop (here), I have been working SUPER diligently to finishing my 16×16” painting of “Edna” because later this month “Pathogen” will be sent to Northville Art House for their Art That Pushes Boundaries exhibition and I REALLY don’t want to put up an older piece in its place at the Arts Council where it currently hangs. PLUS, I have formatted 3 of my paintings from this year to have prints made up BUT I REALLY need to make some money before I’m able to justify purchasing more prints. I know all of my small biz art friends are feeling the financial hit of a country that has no idea where it is headed. It feels like no one has any extra cash and if we do, we are spending money on experiences…and necessities that cost ABSOLUTELY way too much right now. WOOT, the Lions just won 31-30 in OT!

Anyway, I stopped reading Middlemarch after a few chapters because… zzzzz… but I’ve also read WAY too much this week and finished The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. I began this one because I’ve decided that the last few gothic literature pieces I have read, I have really enjoyed. So upon investigating the genre, I found that a lot of historians believe that Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto is the birth of gothic literature. Walpole was not exclusively a gothic author, and a lot of critics have debated over this authorship being pretentious and immaturely devised. The story itself was written from a dream he had of a giant’s hand in a glove of armor resting at the top of a banister and only took 2 weeks to complete. That being said… I freaking loved it. It was bizarre. It was dark. It was dramatic as hell. The very beginning of the story starts with a prince’s kingdom preparing for his son’s wedding to another noble family’s daughter of the area Otranto, Italy when the boy is murdered by a giant knight’s helmet that apparently came from… nowhere. It only gets stranger from there. Highly recommend! I’m also starving for more gothic literature so if you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them! I honestly think I might pick up Frankenstein next… I enjoyed reading it in high school, and I feel like I will get a whole new appreciation for it now!

Photo captions- Cover photo: BunBun prints, 2026 edition! since my other ones had sold out! Photo 1: Butterfly-Finned Seahorse, the piece in the 4×4” show in Nevada but also a new mini print I’m working on. Photo 2: Butterfly-Finned Sharky painting that has been formatted for prints. Photo 3: Nova smashing a footlong hot dog! ˙𐃷˙ She did not finish it but tried very hard! Photo 4: Edna in progress… lots of strawberry leaves.

Alright, for goodness sakes I’ll be back next week with more to share! We are going to a freakin’ MONSTER TRUCK SHOW next weekend, it’s a Hot Wheels Glow in the Dark thing and I’m SOOOOO pumped! ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) I’m also being super spicy and gently bullying local businesses to start carrying more vegetarian/vegan options. It’s kind of ridiculous how hard it is in this area to eat plant-based and I’m sick of it. It’s not that hard to have one or two ACTUAL options (and I’m not talking salad, bro). So, to achieve this I’ve been calling a few local restaurants and just ASKING if they have a vegetarian option. Of course they say, “we have salad” and when that happens, I go “oh, nevermind. Thanks anyway.” And that bothers business owners. Hopefully enough to think about putting some more options on their menu. I’ve got a couple people helping me do it so it’s not all from the same number and person. Wish us luck. We are poking the little cubs first before we go poking the big bears, but change always starts small. And not eating animals is the future… •⩊• Love you, my Kandarchist babes. Behave yourselves! ♡

xxx- Kanda 𑣿𑣿𑣿

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*IOU: Again?!･°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Babes, I’m SO SORRY! I’m doing that thing where I owe you a post in the week because I’m not feeling posting just now! I hope everyone is having a nice, long weekend & being safe! I’ve been doing a bit of yard work and plan to clean my kids’ room still. Send good vibes ( - ᴗ •́ ) See you soon!

xxx-Kanda 𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔

── ⋆⋅── ⋆⋅☆Ren. Fest. & A New School Year☆⋅⋆ ──⋅⋆ ──

Well, howdy y’all. It is now the first Tuesday of the month and we are welcoming September with a really sticky heat wave. Is it the corn sweats? Is it summer trying to hold on to us a little longer? We also began school this week. Today was our first full day and I’m thankful I’ve had my husband home with me or it would have felt WAY TOO quiet without my babies running around. Every parent knows exactly what I mean when I say I was excited for them to start but was also extremely dreading it because as much as they drive me bonkers, I absolutely love having my kids with me all day.

We finished out our summer season with a camping trip to Holly, MI’s Renaissance Festival with some friends, which was our first time visiting the park. OF COURSE, we dressed up. It was a BLAST. My kids had several fits throughout the day and to be honest, reflecting now, so did I. It was a LOT of over-stimulation, a lot of walking & waiting, and a LOT of people. But it was well worth the trip! Some of our favorite parts included the playing of the carillon, the wild jousting and sword work show, the many many MANY vendors and shops that had literally everything whimsical and swash-bucklin’ you could ever possibly ask for, everyone’s costumes and good humor, and the pickle man constantly yelling to sell you pickles. He yelled “Bigger than your boyfriend and just as cheap! Get your pickles here!” into the crowd- He probably sells an abundant number of pickles. I also slightly swooned over a merman who let me cut everyone in line because he thought Ozzy was adorable! (Picture for proof below!)

Photo captions-Cover Photo: A wee little butterfly on the Truffula flower on my porch. Photo 1: My big 3rd grader -`♡´- Photo 2: My big 6th grader -`♡´- Photo 3: The entire family, YES INCLUDING OZZY, at the Ren. Fest. Photo 4: My girls & I in our costumes! I could not believe how all out some people go, it was SOOO much fun! Photo 5: The noble maiden lady with her forbidden archer lover her daddy will never approve dowry unto Photo 6: My girls by the wishing well Photo 7: See?! Merman. Photo 8: The hibiscus hybrid I planted earlier this season is finally bloomin’ (as long as I can keep the deer off of it…) ˃ ⤙ ˂

I am a little disappointed because I am putting my large painting of “Felt Cute, Might Usher Souls Through the Underworld Later… IDK” on hold BUT it is for a good cause: Since my painting “Pathogen” was accepted into Northville Art House’s Off-Center: Art That Pushes Boundaries exhibition happening the entire month of October, I will need to make a smaller piece than the one I had started to fill the empty spot where Pathogen now hangs at the Arts Council of White Lake. That also means I do NOT have a bunch of time to work on this new painting, but it doesn’t mean I can’t try! This piece is a 16×16” canvas & will be a painted version of Edna, my strawberry anglerfish! I’m excited to give her the time she deserves. My daughter asked me today why I’m “not making anything new”. And I don’t necessarily look at it that way, I see it as revisiting pieces I’ve already loved and bringing them into a new light they deserve to be viewed in. To be honest with you, every time someone saw my art, they would say: “That would be a great tattoo” or “you should be a tattoo artist!” and, yes, that is a compliment… But I wanted my art to be good enough to stand alone. To be viewed through the lens of “fine art”, but because of my subject matter, or the execution of their drawing, or perhaps a combination of the two, no one took my work too seriously. However, by revisiting them in paint on canvas, i feel I’m challenging the “timeless fine art” one sees in museums and my own ‘art niche” and blurring the line between the two. It has already proven successful; my gallery appearances have already multiplied significantly, and this has been my entire goal for my art this year! I went in not expecting much, hoping to feature in ONE gallery in 2026. As of right NOW, I have been accepted into FIVE including one art museum! ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾

Alright, I shant keep you any longer but I WILL be back with you very soon! Enjoy the rest of your toasty week, friends! & behave yourselves! ᓚ₍ ^. .^₎

xxx- Kanda ꫂ❁

✦•┈๑⋅⋯Art Prints And A Cat Tooth⋯⋅๑┈•✦

WOW, really?! Another IOU!?! Yes. I’m so sorry, I was out of town all weekend visiting my folks and my twin brother who was visiting all the way from Philly. I got back JUST in time to have a few friends come over and craft items/work on costumes for THIS weekend’s Renn Faire festivities! I’m so excited! We have never been to Michigan’s Renaissance Faire before and are really looking forward to dressing up and seeing what it is all about! Of course, I’ll share pictures! I also will come back and give you a true post this week… you know I’m good for it!! See you soon! -`♡´-

Photo captions- Cover photo: a beautiful (and delicate) moon flower opening at my mom’s house. Photo 1: Jovi and Cheddar Bob snuggle party! Photo 2: I got cute one day and took photo evidence. Photo 3: I have been formatting some more of my stocked prints that I had laying around but weren’t available for sale! They are now ready for listing AND I finally received the “BunBun” prints that I have been waiting for so new 2026 editions of the best-selling “BunBun” will be back in shop shortly! I also did the same for my stickers and realized I REALLY need to put in a new sticker order. I will do new stickers and new prints soon!

Update: Howdy, I’m baaaackkkkk! But I won’t be on for long! I’m going to make this post short & sweet. ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎ This week has already been one hell of an emotional roller-coaster. All these good things have happened, along with a few bad, a few large changes, and then you add in my hormonal surge and you’ve got one crazy week. I’ll start by letting you know I’ve been accepted into TWO gallery exhibitions-ACWL’s Visual Language and Northville Art House’s Off-Center: Art That Pushes Boundaries! I ALSO was approached by the city manager of Montague to possibly be doing some artwork installations for the town!!! ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;)  How CRAZY is that?! I’m so excited! BUT THEN, BOOM. We lost Dolly. and BOOM. We lost Tim Curry. And YEESH, my kids are going back to school next week with their open houses today, and my baby is heading into middle school. It’s just been ALOT. I hope you won’t mind that I keep this one shorter and I also hope you don’t mind that I may be late this Sunday as well… We are heading to the Renaissance Festival and plan on camping until Sunday. If I’m too burnt out, (I’m peopling ALL WEEKEND, okay?!?), I will get you this week! Happy Hump Day, friends! 🐫 Please have yourself a good rest of the week!

xxx- Kanda 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃

✧₊⁺🕯⋆.˚୨ৎButterfly Wings & A Cowboy Spider୨ৎ˚.⋆🕯⁺₊✧

Well, well, well. Look who it is. It is already Wednesday and I feel our summer dwindling. I’m getting a massive number of emails from the schools and I am NOT ready to be going back into the swing. My girls are really excited to go back, which is really great. I’m not looking forward to the days when it will be a drag going back. (That started way earlier for me.) I cannot believe I will have one child in MIDDLE SCHOOL. I remember older folks always saying that time flies but now I truly understand what they meant. It’s bizarre how it feels like just yesterday I had my first baby girl and, at the same time, feels like an absolute lifetime ago. It was only 11 years ago but we were in a totally different position than we are now. We had just moved to West Michigan, we were renting a trailer, I ended up having to work retail out of necessity (ew), things were very touch and go. I’m thankful for the growth, the stability, and the comfort my family & I have found, or rather created, since then. I hope you all have good people behind you. It is so hard not to take for granted the things (and people) you have grown accustomed to but things like a stable home life is one I try not to overlook. So if you are in a shite family situation… come join ours! Leave your petty baggage and toxic relationships at the door! ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

A small artist update for you: if you recall, I am still that… ( •᷄ᴗ•́) I began my LARGE 24×36” canvas for the revisit of “Felt Cute…Might Usher Souls Through The Underworld Later… IDK”, a drawing of mine from 2019 that depicts a Grim Reaper sitting on a unicorn floaty in the River Styx… because even necromantic ferrymen need breaks sometimes. I’m thinking of having him enjoying a beverage as well… I haven’t decided. If you think a beverage is a good idea-what beverage do you think he would be enjoying? A can of Diet Coke? A glass of Mai Tai? The canvas has its base coat, and I have the edges detailed with filigree so that it is interesting from all angles. I am now kind of stagnant as I wait for my kids to head back to school and I can focus a little more on the larger piece. (Ozzy is going to be SO excited to get his walks back too… he has been such a little mopey asshat.) I’ve also still got THREE separate exhibit applications out in the world and the end of this month will let me know if I got into any of those… fingers crossed! ♡ ︎

I read a historical fiction mystery novel over the weekend entitled “Oscar Wilde and the Death of No Importance” that I borrowed from a friend after seeing it on her shelf (because Oscar is intriguing, okay?!?). It was really fabulous and was also a very easy read… I recommend it! I’m ashamed to say that I did not know who the murderer was, though after the case was solved, I saw all the clues lined up and just felt *palm to forehead* DUH. Sherlock Holmes would be so embarrassed. I do have to admit that I struggle with historical fiction works… If they have names of real people in them, I always blend all the facts with the fiction and get turned around with what is actually the historical truth. (Or the “truth” we were given, anyway-”History is written by the victors” or something like that, amiright?) So after reading this intriguing novel that followed a fictional version of Oscar Wilde, I’m going to have to get my podcast on and do a little research to find the real Oscar through versions he’s written himself and others’ accounts of the man. What a nerd, huh? What I DO KNOW for a fact is that Oscar Wilde was jailed for 2 years in England after going to trial for “gross indecency” (homosexuality was not a word used at this time) after being accused of having an affair with a nobleman by ANOTHER nobleman (petty bitches, huh?) He was already a celebrity at the time and after his release, he moved to France where he lived out the rest of his life in “voluntary exile”. Poor fuckin’ Oscar. I must know more about him! I also know, just by the reading of Dorian Gray, that he held beauty to a very high standard. As did MOST Victorians- they all had a weird obsession with image that never went further than skin deep. You and I know VERY WELL that good looking people can be SUCH assholes… so that disproves their whole ideology right there. I want it noted that homosexuality IS NOT and SHOULD NOT and SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN a crime. In Queer Enlightments, I read a very real historical account of Gabriel Lawrence, a widower in early 1700’s London, who was HANGED for having a physical relationship with another man. And, as my heart breaks for Gabriel and all those who have lost their lives just for being who they are, I’m reminded that this is STILL happening in the world, even close to home. Queer people are not the problem, nor have they ever been. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk… What’s funny is I had planned on writing about RACISM in classical English literature today, but I went on a gay tangent so maybe I’ll bring back the racist rant for another time! Rest assured, IT’S COMING!

Photo captions-Cover Photo: Beautiful Monarch on a bush outside my front door! Photo 1: It is good to have friends with pools! We love to come crash the house with a pool. Photo 2: I’m highly recommending the U-Cut flowers off Fruitvale Rd near the intersection of Old US Highway 31. Their fun-colored sunflowers are open as well! Photo 3 & 4: My big baby girl at her birthday party! 𐙚⋆°｡⋆♡ Photo 5: My family got me all the main characters from my favorite show, Bob’s Burgers, and now I need to make them a shelf that looks like the restaurant front! Photo 6: Edges of my newest painting Photo 7: A cute rainbow cowboy? spider window hanging that my mom’s friend made for me, I LOVE HIM! Photo 8: our butterfly egg that hatched (that we lazily named Egg) has now turned into a chrysalis! I’ve got two more chrysalids and have helped 19 butterflies metamorphosize! I hope to do it again next year! My mom says I’m “saving the world one butterfly at a time!” ◡̈

Alright, I got you a better update like I had promised! Sorry I’ve been slackin’, but I’m soaking up what summer we have left! I’ve been consulting with different sites to try and find better ways of promoting this blog as well as coming up with out-of-the-box ways to advertise my artwork without being on social media. It’s soul sucking and not worth the hassle anymore. And, good lord, I cannot express how much better my mental health is after dropping them. It is NOT going to be easy but it IS doable to be successful without social media apps. Send some good juju my way, and I will send all that I can to you! Stay safe and sane, babes!

xxx- Kanda ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗

P.S. An employee of the Frauenthal Center in Muskegon READ MY JAWS POST about visiting the theater and has invited me to vend at another Free Family Movie event!! So, there ARE people that are reading this blog!!! Not just my mom. (I love you, mom!! ( ˶˘ ³˘)♡ ) That is exciting as hell! Okay, bye!

⋆⊱༻𖥸Dracula & A Canvas Kraken𖥸༺⊰⋆

Happy sleepy Sunday, y’all! How are you doing today? Was the week kind to you? Today is my baby girl’s ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY and I have been fighting back tears and emotions ALL DAY. I literally can’t believe it was 11 years ago that I became a mom. 11 years ago we had just moved to the Muskegon area from Mount Pleasant. We moved into the trailer park off of Pontaluna Rd. which is where we first became parents. We were young, and inexperienced, and broke as hell, but even then, I was so in love with my little growing family that it felt like all our struggles were covered in gold. Maybe that is just the memories being gilded over time. Anyway, ꧁ᴴᵃᵖᵖʸ☆ᵇⁱʳᵗʰᵈᵃʸ꧂ to my sweet baby girl!!!

Yesterday we successfully threw our Sculpture Garden Shindig at the Marilyn Voss Garden for Sculpture in Montague. This was our rescheduled date as the original date ended up being smoked out by the northern wildfires. I think it went really well and, though, we really didn’t get the numbers we had wanted, the people that DID come through had an incredible time! We had rock painting and chalk, we had a ceramic artist with clay to get hands-on with, we had the Urban Sketchers of West Michigan out doing plein air in the garden as well as supplies to do your own plein air work, we had free wildflower seeds, AND a free polaroid picture opportunity in front of the backdrop I painted earlier this summer. I had a TON of compliments and a few people took my cards for more artist info. We also decided to name the giant kraken monster Jephrina… She is beautiful and was the belle of the ball. There was also a music act that played and THEN my daughter grabbed her mic and got her karaoke on! I hope everyone had a great time, I sure did. BUT I’m also thankful it’s over and I can focus energy on other things! ( •᷄ᴗ•́)

Photo Captions- Cover Photo: The polaroid of Nova and I on our sea expedition (the boat sculpture with the canvas backdrop I painted!) Photo 1 & 2: Bowling yesterday at Pigeon Hill’s SociBowl for Nova’s birthday! We had a great time! I won no games. ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ Photo 3: The polaroid opportunity at the sculpture garden from Saturday (Jephrina) Photo 4 & 5: BOTH my girls had artwork in the “Water Wonderland” exhibition this month and I’m SO proud of them both. They are incredible artists! Photo 6: I ALSO worked with kids and a nonprofit program out of Muskegon this week and we made collaged gratitude cards for someone we are thankful to and discussed what it means to practice gratitude. Photo 7: I found this tee at a thrift store and assume it meant “rip waves” but 💨>ᴗ< too funny. Photo 8: This week I stopped into the jewelry store to have some pieces looked at and LOOK AT WHO GREETS YOU WHEN YOU WALK IN. Bless. Her name is Bailey and she is the best employee there!

I am still chugging along on Dracula and am REALLY enjoying it. I did NOT realize that Nosferatu IS the story of Dracula… Did you know that? So Dracula (Written by Bram Stoker) was first released in 1897. The story itself was instantly popular but then a few years down the road, Nosferatu (1922) which was a German Expressionist silent film version of Dracula popped out… but this was highly adapted for a German audience (and I don’t believe had full permission to use Dracula.) This first version was a silent film. Then in 1979, another film adaption was released that played further into the plague aspect. Then the 2024 version came… which was… a weird sexual version of the original Dracula story. But in ALL these versions of film, they play into the count’s role as a bringer of the “plague”, portraying the actual pestilence sweeping through the city. Specifically in the 2024 film version, the Count brings the “plague” with him and decimates the population with the illness. I don’t think they ever come out and SAY “bubonic” but the portrayal of rats WITH the illness is indictive. However, in the book, the time period would have seen the CHOLERA epidemic and Count Dracula’s move to London from Transylvania and feeding off of humans and filling them with fear was actually a metaphorized concept OF the “Blue Death” (cholera epidemic) infecting westward. I listened to an interesting podcast that contemplated if Count Dracula’s pilgrimage to London from Transylvania, bringing with him horror and uncertainty, was Bram Stoker’s (and much of the country’s) contemporary attitude and prejudices towards the groups of people moving from their seemingly wild and rural western homelands to the “civilized” East. Bram Stoker was a prolific writer of his time, and though he is really only remembered for Dracula, he has more incredible works out there as well as being in the same circles with other greats such as Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. However, his final work, published in 1911, was deemed his WORST work and was written as a horror novel but was so bizarre and confusing that most found it either insufferable altogether or comical. (It was even adapted into a comedy film in 1988.) Many historians believe that this book was a result of Stoker’s declining brain functions from syphilis, and, unfortunately, from these complications he died the next year. I kind of want to read it even though H.P. Lovecraft stated: Stoker “utterly ruins a magnificent idea by a development almost infantile.”

Okay, sorry for the nerd fest up there. I usually go all in when I’m reading. That’s why I’ve enjoyed reading 19th century literature, there is always such a rich history behind all of the works and the authors. I also am absolutely enthralled with the idea of art outliving it’s creator. When you think of “Dracula”, you think of a pasty-skinned, pointy-fanged, cloaked villain. You may think of horror films or Halloween costumes. You’ve also heard the names Van Helsing and Renfield BUT you may not have had any idea that all 3 of these characters were written up by Bram Stoker in the late 1800’s and put inside his novel. I hope I can make something timeless that will LONG outlive me. ( • ᴗ - ) ✧ A gal can dream. Alright, friends. I’ve cut it real close tonight, as it is almost 11 PM! I hope y’all have a fabulous week and I will see you next Sunday! ♡

xxx- Kanda𓏸𓈒𓇼𓆉𓈒𓏸

𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆Snazzy Haircuts & A Drawing Class⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ

Hi, friends! And welcome to August. I’m not entirely sure where the summer ran off to but I’m NOT AT ALL ready for the school year to start back up. COME ON, LAST A LITTLE LONGER, SUMMER!! Let’s make the most of it! We still do have a few more plans before school starts including celebrating my daughter’s 11th birthday next weekend (HOW?! .·°՞(ᗒ□ᗕ)՞°·., camping at the Renaissance Faire, and a monster truck show in Grand Rapids! I put my yard project, where I was going to transform a corner of our yard into a hammock hang out, on hold. I’d say it is because it’s been too hot but honestly… I have just not been wanting to do hard yard work. I am going to hopefully find some new-found ambition in the fall for that. We also still have our insane renovations happening upstairs in which the whole kitchen/living space/bedrooms will be getting work done. It is a SLOW process and at this point, we wish we could hire someone to just get us moving on it again. (A small side note for anyone new around here: My husband is a licensed contractor and works full time. It’s hard to go to work and then come home to work some more… BUT I’m also like… you tore up my house so put it back together, mkay?! I DO know it will look FABULOUS when it is completed. I will continue to be patient.

Did y’all watch Shark Week 2026?! Of COURSE you did! I felt like this year was really great up until about Thursday which is when they started airing “My Strange Shark Addiction” and also a professional cliff diver, sponsored by Red Bull, jumping into a shark cage from a helicopter… I mean, that’s bad ass. And that girl was adorable as hell. But WHAT?! ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ They also had “what shark attacked” which was a show that used “evidence” to decide what shark bit its (filming) victim… That’s just dumb. I’m not a shark expert and I knew which shark bit each person. BUT I REALLY loved the episodes where they talked about prehistoric sharks and had their fabulous computer renderings of them. I also really liked the hunt for fossils that had proof of shark predation. How about when Dr. Craig O’Connell caught the pelagic thresher shark’s tail whip on camera?! Fucking legendary. I always get really sad when #sharkweek is over… and my family is thankful they can have the TV back.

This week I taught a youth art class in which we drew sunflowers in pencil, added dimensions to them with shading in ballpoint pen, and then we paint with acrylic on top for the color. The kids did really well, and I love seeing all the different interpretations. Teaching kids drawing can get a little tricky because there are some students that are SUPER in to it and take their whole time and really want to get it right. And then there are some that finish their assignment extremely quick and then go and draw something on their paper that they are more comfortable with. I’ve talked with the director at the Arts Council and I’m going to look into getting certified so I can actually host home-schooled kids at my house to do art lessons! How cool would that be?! Now, I REALLY want our renovation moving forward. >ᴗ<

Photo Captions- Cover Photo: My hydrangea blooming, I had no idea they had tiny flowers on their center! Cute. Photo 1: My baby girl at my drawing class. Photo 2 & 3: Both my beautiful girls got their haircuts this week and feel SO confident, love it!!! Photo 4: “It hurt but… You’ve grown.” framed and ready for its exhibition… (Fingers crossed!) Photo 5: Jovi snuggling Cheddar Bob, the cutest most wholesome thing. Photo 6: I loved this license plate, lolololol! Same. Photo 7: I finally found a monarch butterfly egg!!! It took me forever, but I finally found one!! It hatched and now we have a tiny little caterpillar!! I currently still have 5 chrysalids and 2 caterpillars and have released 14 butterflies!

Another art announcement: I created another piece for my “Retrospective Infringement” series from ANOTHER series called “Knack-Romancy” that was created in 2020. This piece is for the newest Arts Council of White Lake exhibition called “Visual Language” and I’m hoping that this piece titled “It hurt but… you’ve grown.” will be accepted. “It hurt but… you’ve grown.” is of a cicada emerging from its husk. It is literal but also representative of the struggles we go through, and though our tribulations can be difficult and life-altering, we can emerge from them better than we were before. So, I now have 3 of my babies that are out in the world… waiting to be seen… waiting for their chance to shine. And I have to sit here and worry about if I’ll ever feel good enough to be a “real artist”. Lord help me. Anyway, I hope y’all take good care of yourselves. Next week, I will have an ELEVEN YEAR OLD BABY GIRL -`♡´- I can’t believe it!!!

xxx- Kanda ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

⛧°. ⋆༺Fishy Fingers & A Hidden Train༻⋆. °⛧

YOU GUYS!! We just got back from watching Jaws on THA BIG SCREEN! It was the first time I’d ever seen Jaws at a theater, and it was an absolute blast! We ended up bringing the girls which worked out because I could cover Jovi’s ears/eyes for the creepy stuff & let Nova know what was going to happen, so she knew what to expect! They did great and we were the ones that started the cheering and clapping in the whole theater after Chief Brody blew up the shark! I (of course) wore some of my shark gear! (Huge thank you to my online friends Sonia for the shark hair clip & Daren for the Jaws shirt!) I was bummed because there was a discussion afterwards about the movie as well as a guest Great Lakes scientist who was speaking about whether there ARE sharks in the lakes…. But my girls sat for 2 hours for the movie, and I wasn’t going to ask them to do even more after they were fantastic for the whole movie! And also, what a FABULOUS way to begin Shark Week 2026!

I’ve currently got Shark Week playing on in the background while I’m sitting here with you and I’m just thinking “I guess you need to be a gorgeous K-Pop Grammy nominee to get on Shark Week.” I’ve tried SO hard to get on #sharkweek with my shark art. I actually have made contact and acquaintance with a few of the Shark Week bigwigs and THEY have my artwork! That’s a damn big deal, okay!? I’ll continue to brag about it until everyone stops listening to me. Also, A HUGE shout out to T-Mobile and Hungry Shark by Ubisoft: I received awesome sharky merch bundles from both companies a few years back and those gifts are still so special to me! Discovery, where you at?!◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜

Photo Captions-Photo 1: The original drawing of Pathogen from 2019 Photo 2: Camping boi Photo 3: A train hidden in the woods Photo 4: Can you believe how tiny monarch caterpillars start?! (yes, am still being crazy caterpillar/butterfly lady. I’m up to having released 11 butterflies thus far! I also still have 4 chrysalids and 5 caterpillars.) Photo 5: We bought those rainbow campfire packets, and our fire was absolutely MESMERIZING! Highly suggest. Photo 6: My Jovi catching herself a fish! Photo 7: Barnaby being let go & drying out their wings. Photo 8: Ozzy LOVED to put himself to bed early during camping, it was so funny. He would stare at the cabin door and quietly whine. Then once we let him in, he’d instantly get cozy on the bed. Photo 9: Nova fished LITERALLY all week! She caught so many fish including a couple good sized bass! It was catch & release where we were camping and the fish were so spoiled + well fed that they preferred hot dogs and pancakes to worms. Photo 10: Again, Ozzy loved camping. Now he needs a bath. Photo 11: Jump pillow shenanigans. Photo 12: Current read, a very pretty edition of Dracula by Brom Stoker. Me and the girls and my mom also got our nails did… while camping. ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ Bubblegum Pink, baybay! Photo 13: Are you KIDDING ME?! This bouquet is absolutely gorgeous (and heavy) & I could not leave the store without it. Photo 13, 14, & 15: JAWS at the Frauenthal!!!

This week, I will be teaching another drawing class for 12+ aged youth! We will be using a real sunflower as reference and drawing its contour lines in pencil and then going in and add shading + details with ballpoint pen. Then we will be adding color to these drawings. I’m super excited as this is one of my favorite cathartic things to draw and I haven’t in quite some time. I also will be searching for a placement for the newest painting “Pathogen” AND looking forward to seeing “The Cactus Hollow Hotel” as the SAMA Biennial 2026 show starts this week! My husband and I are really hoping to get the chance to head to Bedford, Pennsylvania in September sometime to see hanging in the art museum in person (and get a picture next to it-duh!)

Also— HEY, thinking about maybe doing some sort of shop update! Good lord, it has been a really long time since I have updated any products and EVEN LONGER since I’ve made an online sale. What sort of things would you be interested in seeing available? Prints? Small affordable originals? Merch? Okay, that’s all I’ve got for tonight, but I’ll be back next week OKAY BABES?! Be good!

xxx-Kanda ⊹ ࣪﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

⋆. 𐙚˚࿔ A Special Post of Pathogen 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

Welly, welly, well. Look who it is?! I absolutely apologize for slack-a-lackin’ this last week on my usual posts. We had our camping trip this week with my mom and I brought my laptop with every intention of finding a cozy spot by the lake to write but I didn’t ever feel inspired to grab my laptop… In fact, I did not do a whole bunch of anything this week and it was FABULOUS. I read a book that my 10-year-old had read called “Dress Coded” which reminded me of all the crap I endured as a girl in middle school AND of what I need to expect with my baby going into 6th grade ｡°(°.◜ᯅ◝°)°｡! I also began the classic “Dracula” by Brom Stoker. ANYWAY, this post was NOT going to be a regular one… I’m going to write a regular one in a little bit with all the updates & pictures & attitude & goodies I usually add in BUT I’m so excited to finally share the finished 16×24” acrylic painting of “Pathogen”, the piece inspired by a pen drawing I did back in 2019. (I’ll share the older one in my next post!) This piece was inspired by the cordyceps fungus, or “zombie fungus”, that specifically invades insect hosts and grows flowering bodies from the inside out of specific bug species. This piece is if the fungus began mutating from just parasitic to insects to larger animals… Creepy. Do you love it?! Of course you do. This piece I will be applying to another exhibition… which I will be on the hunt for (hopefully) this week! For right now, she is up at the Arts Council of White Lake in downtown Whitehall, MI! Thanks for looking, babes! See you soon— I’ll be back later tonight!

xxx-Kanda ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

˖⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏Sandy Toes & A Daisy ﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

Hello, you mischievous minxes! How are my Kandarchists doing? Have you had something good happen to you this week? Something shitty that you didn’t tell anyone happened, but you will stew upon for a few weeks anyway? Or are you literally just vibin’ in this summer heat? Either way, I’m happy to have you here. Pull up a seat, let’s unwind for a minute.

I am not going to have much to say this week, unfortunately! I’ve been going hard all week try to wrap up “Pathogen”, as well as preparing for our Art Walk Committee’s sculpture garden event that is this next Saturday. I’ve been trying to do fun things with my kids in between all of that and they are going absolutely stir crazy and making us all insane! After next week is over, we’ll have a weeklong camping trip and a lot freer time to play around. I also received (yet another) exhibition rejection letter for poor “Butterfly-Finned Sharky”… This guy is not getting the love he deserves, that is for sure. I DID entitle my newest painting series, “Retrospective Infringement”. It’s an extremely fancy title because I’m applying extremely fancy, painted detail into pieces that I have already previously drawn. I’m revisiting my old artwork through a new lens and implementing newer techniques and skills I’ve learned with acrylic paint for more “gallery” functionality. Is it working? Well… Slowly, but yes. I also thought it would be a really neat exhibition (maybe one day… far away from now…i can dream) to have “Retrospective Infringement” as a solo show and have both, the newer, more high-end & detailed paintings, hanging beside their older drawings that became their “concepts”. So far for this series, I have done “Butterfly-Finned Sharky” and am working on “Pathogen” now… my next piece for the series will be “Felt Cute… Might Usher Souls Through The Underworld Later… IDK.” Does anyone remember this piece?! I’m SOOOOOO excited to paint this. I’m thinking BIG! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

Photo Captions- Cover Photo: Very unafraid deer on our walk the other day. Photo 1: How Pathogen looks right this minute… Hoping to wrap ‘er up this week! Photo 2, 3, 4, & 5: Beach Day from last week! I finished my giant volume of Sherlock Holmes while we were there…Ozzy went too. Photo 6: Ya girl is in the newspaper… I did the work for free so I’m glad I got a shout out! ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ (Also I have Nicholas highlighted because he is my cousin and I sent this to him because neither him nor I would have guessed we’d be in the same newspaper article as adults together :D Life is weird.) Photo 7: How Ozzy be watching out the window during our reno Photo 8: You must admire my pretty porch Gerber Daisies…and my pretty minty nails. Did you admire them enough? Photo 9: Are you kidding me?! I was dying!! ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) At 5 Below if anyone needs to Farquaad and find out!

That’s all I got for you today, my scallywags. I told ya, short and sweet today! I promise to have a better read for next week (which is also when we will be going camping)! Until then— behave yourselves!

xxx- Kanda ✧˖°.

✦•┈๑⋅⋯Butterflies & Bonfires⋯⋅๑┈•✦

Friends, happy month of July and how weird to be here typing on SUNDAY but I’m hoping this will work out a bit better for my schedule! (And maybe for you too?!) This summer has been all over the place already. Did everyone enjoy their 4th of July festivities? Hopefully everyone has all their fingers still >ᴗ< ! Though celebrating our country while our country is tearing apart at the seams feels a little…redundant? I just decided that I was going to celebrate the incredible people that make up this country and honor the potential we still have as a collective. There are still incredible individuals everywhere you look. That being said… what the hell? Why is all of this being allowed? We’re not going there today, okay? We’ll have that discussion another time. So anyway, we celebrated with our newly made friends at the park on Friday. We had a bit of a cookout and then waited around for the fireworks show and had a really great time. Then yesterday, we got our kayaks out for the first time this season… and decided our 10-year-old was ready for her own kayak. We had a great time, the weather was perfect, and Nova caught on extremely quickly with her kayak! After we finished kayaking, we went to more friends to have a bonfire cookout and play cards! We are blown away that we have friends to do things with… it is very weird for us ˙ᵕ˙ But I love it & hopefully it will continue to blossom!

This week I sent out my piece “The Cactus Hollow Hotel” to Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Bedford, PA!!! I’m so excited to be a part of their Biennial exhibition and am hoping this means my foot gets a little more stuck in the door! My husband and I are planning a trip to see it hanging later in August. I’ve also been steadily moving along on “Pathogen”, though I will be honest I have been dragging my feet more than I should be. The edge of this piece took quite a while longer than expected but was well worth it! It has been difficult having my kids home and trying to balance painting, keeping up housework, and also making sure we do fun things! I know lots of parents know that feeling!

Photo Captions- Cover photo: Pretty dark wings on my canna leaf. Photo 1: Poolin’ at the campground Photo 2: We had one caterpillar and I checked our milkweed for more and I’ll be danged if I didn’t find a BUNCH-We now have 8 bbs. Photo 3 & 4: WIP Pathogen Photo 5 & 6: Our caterpillar changed and was let go ❤︎ Photo 7: ARTWORK BEING SENT TO MUSEUM!!! Photo 8: Bonfire party Photo 9 & 10: ‘yaking together Photo 11: Nova took this photo of the fireworks Friday!

I’m going to do something different in this section every time. I haven’t figured it all out yet. I like that this blog is forever changing so that it will always be what i want it to be. That was the reason for my leaving all other social media and beginning this blog in the first place. Since making the switch, I’ve noticed a LOT of positive changes and I feel hope blossoming where despair felt rooted. So, for TODAY this section is going to be a recipe share! I told you about the spinach artichoke wontons that we had at a date night recently… well I made them for both celebrations and they were SUCH a hit! And extremely easy to make so I MUST share it. The recipe I am sharing is also located here.

Ingredients

• cooking spray

• 18 wonton wrappers

• 6 oz or half bag of frozen spinach (thawed and squeeze dried)

• small jar of marinated artichoke hearts (drained and finely chopped)

• 1/3 cup mayonnaise

• ¼ cup sour cream

• 2 ounces of cream cheese (at room temperature)

• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese

• 3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped/smashed in paste)

Preheat oven to 350. Using two cupcake pans, spray bottoms of 18 cups. Add wonton wrapper to cups, pushing down into the bottom of cup with edges sticking up. Spray tops of wrappers with more spray. Place empty wrappers in the oven for 5 minutes. Mix up filling well. Once the 5 minutes is up, use a cookie dough scoop and add filling into each cup. Bake for another 15 minutes! Boom. ENJOY! RECIEVE COMPLIMENTS! MAKE MORE! 𓌉◯𓇋 • ᴗ -

Okay, babes. I’ll talk to you next week! Until then— BEHAVE YOURSELVES. ദ്ദി˙ᗜ˙

xxx-Kanda ᯓ★

. ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡Pride Flags & Fried Snacks⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁.

Happy Friday to ya, friends! This week felt like a long one, I did a LOT of things and yet finished absolutely nothing, so it felt a bit like a dud. Not that anyone needs to complete anything to be accomplished. Just existing is an accomplishment and DON’T FORGET IT. Not to mention the weather has been bizarre, rainy, cool, and breezy, and I’m in some kind of funk at the moment. I’m also sitting here fighting for my life with the worst menstrual cramps I’ve had in a while. I told myself I wasn’t going to mention them in this blog but HERE I AM, literally unable to think of other things besides my body yelling in agony. PLEASE kick in, pain killers.

This week saw the beginning of my newest painting, Pathogen. This piece is actually based on a drawing of mine from 2018(?) of a large owl perched on a dead branch however, instead of a head, the owl is growing a large mushroom from its torso. This concept was inspired by the fungus Cordyceps or “zombie fungus”. This specific fungus is parasitic to many insects, infecting its host with mycelium that replaces body tissue. The infected insect’s brain is hi-jacked and is forced to climb to higher altitudes. Once the fungus is in matured and in place, the fruiting fungus fatally breaks through the insect’s exoskeleton where it may spore and infect more of the same insect. Because these fungi are so specialized, some insects even use them as protection as they don’t have to fear being infected (i.e. a drab stinkbug from East Asia uses cordyceps by placing them near their eggs to protect them from parasitoid wasps-which will be infected by the special kind of cordyceps the stinkbug harvests.) Pretty bad ass, right? I’m extremely glad that this occurs only in invertebrates… This painting is if it DID and I’m using a lot of real bright greens and yellows and oranges to make it feel extra toxic. As of right now, I have a gallery in mind to apply it to but I’d like to finish it first and see where I stand with ‘er. I also have a large space at the retail gallery that needs filling… Someone needs to get to work. •𐃷•

Photo captions-Cover image: cute Pride banner downtown Muskegon. Photo 1: The beginning of 18×24” “Pathogen”. Photo 2 & 3: I was given a small budget to spruce up the planter box that is in front of the Arts Council… I honestly did not even know it was there as I always go in the back but once I saw that it was a sad patch of dirt I HAD to come to the rescue. Now it’s FABULOUS! Photo 4 & 5: Our art supply rummage sale was last weekend and we raised $450 for art class scholarships!! I made this chalk sign for it and decided I needed to come back out and make another sign for this weekend… Once I was out there with my kids, using chalk, we got an art class that was going on to come out and draw too and it ended up being a sidewalk chalk party which was fun! If you’re going through downtown Whitehall, check out all the work! Photo 6: My forever date and love of my life. Photo 7: Some supplies I told myself I WOULD NOT bring home from the art rummage sale (ᵕ—ᴗ—) I should know better. I love art supplies and I LOVE sifting through other people’s weird shit. Photo 8: My favorite person and I on a date last weekend. Photo 9: We went to the SociBowl by Pigeon Hill and it was a super good time! I think I only won one of the games we played BUT I only took a picture of THAT screen so it looks like I won the whole night… ☑ Photo 10: I had spinach and artichoke rangoons and DeAr GoD, tHeY wErE gOoD!!! I’m going to try to make them for our 4th of July festivities. Photo 11: Earrings I made from my art supply rummage sale purchase. I was SO excited about these weird baby-faced, glazed ceramic medallions someone had donated that I had to make earrings out of them the second I got home! ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

Staying offline has been SO rejuvenating. I have to say it is EXTREMELY hard in the beginning. The constant FOMO, missing the instant gratification that comes from sharing a photo, missing the connections I made with people from all over the world. BUT it has taught me to appreciate what is in front of me, to stop comparing my journey to others, to branch out and speak with my neighbors, AND go out of my comfort zone to make plans and follow through with them. I’m in a group chat with two other mom friends and I know that sounds like such a miniscule thing but I don’t think I’ve ever been in a group chat with just good friends. At least not since I was young. I’ve been dealing with toxic friendships my whole life. I was always the reliable friend that dropped everything and eventually it became very one-sided. It wasn’t until I married my true best friend that I realized the people I had in my life were not the people I could rely on. My “best friend” missed both my children’s births… she used my wedding reception as a pre-party to a regular bar night for her. It’s taken me 8 years to work on opening up to people again but also not being everything for them. I have a hard time not going all in for people and I tend to gravitate towards the people that exploit that, whether they are conscious of it or not. I’m working on cultivating healthy adult friendships! That sounds dorky as hell but hey, life is weird. Here we are. >⩊<

I’m changing the format of my beautiful blog. I hope I still have a few human souls reading my words but it doesn’t really matter if you are here or not... I’m still going to post. ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ I’ll be posting on SUNDAY’S from now on, Fridays have gotten too busy this summer so SUNDAY will be my new post day! I hope I see you then! I’m going to bring back a new ‘CORNER’ as well…. Stay TUNED! LOVE YOU BYE

xxx- Kanda ₊˚⊹ᰔ

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔Art Class & A Cactus:･°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Friends, it is the end of the week! How are you holding up? Has your summer officially begun? This week has been a bit of a whirlwind with everything going on. I taught my first youth art camp of the summer, we are preparing to have a rummage sale at the arts council this weekend (which has taken a bit of work to set up) AND I’ve been trying to work on, both, my own writing and my newest painting. It has been helpful that my kid’s went to their grandma’s so I could focus on this busy week. Next week will slow down a bit, thank the lawd.

The youth art camp this week was a success!! I had such a blast teaching it and the kids were SO receptive to the ideas that I was throwing at them. This class was a “Artists Styles Exploration” in which we used a popular character and applied famous artist styles to them. The first day we learned about cubism, impressionism, and surrealism. The kids ZOOMED through the project (and, I think, really understood the assignment) so much to the point where I had to make a whole separate rubric for the next day BUT that allowed us to look at EVEN MORE styles and apply them to our art. The second day, we learned about Baroque style, expressionism, and art deco, and we chose a whole new character to apply these techniques too. I also was a huge nerd and made them tests for each day where they had to view a piece of art and decided which style it belonged to. They did AMAZING with those and we had a really great discussion afterwards. Kids are awesome.

I know, I know, I KNOW, I promised to give you a wee sample of my writing. I had PLANNED to sit down and work on a short story this week. I HAVE the idea totally finished in my head BUT I only have the first paragraph of said story written out… But I’m willing to share that tidbit with you and will be happy to share more later on…. So here goes:

In a small, desolate corner of the old country, behind achromatic rolling hills and the forests of skeletal trees, situated a bleak town with the only attractions consisting of a butcher’s shop, a tavern, a cornerstore, and a library. The infrastructures themselves were all very dated, their colorful paint having long been dissolved into a most unpleasant color of grime. The buildings seemed to be in a state of perpetual dilapidation and, though there were inhabitants of this town, you would not know it by looking at the numerous shingles that continue to fall from their setting, almost like they too were giving up on this miserable place.

I’m also very pleased to announce that my “Butterfly-finned Sharky” is in an online exhibition through Exhibizone called Kingdom Animalia and you can now view the piece (and the rest of the gallery) here. Please check it out if you have the chance, any traffic on the website is good traction!

Photo captions— Cover photo: The youth art camp I taught, these are our works we created imitating styles of cubism, impressionism, and surrealism. I thought they did amazing! ♡ᴗ♡ Photo 1: Supplies I ended up having to snag from our art supply rummage sale…. even though I said I wasn’t going to bring any home. (◉ _ ◉) IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, the rummage sale is happening TOMORROW from 8-4 PM at the ACWL-Nuveen! Photo 2: The set up of my classroom before kids came in! Photo 3: My Christmas cactus is blooming this season!! Woot! Photo 4: Our caterpillar has decided it’s time! We collected it off our milkweed that we try to keep available for the butterflies. All summer long, I check them and if we find a caterpillar, we bring them inside until they are safely transitioned! Photo 5: BB deer!! It was at daycare since the mama wasn’t around! (And by daycare, I mean the bush the mama hid it in. >ᴗ< Photo 6: I bought STUNNING firecracker begonias for an absolute STEAL. I’m sharing the location here because if anyone is interested in getting more flowers this season yet, PLEASE hit up John’s Home Grown Market and Produce in White Cloud, MI! They have an incredible selection, really healthy blooms, AND ALL PLANTS were on sale, including 50% annuals!! Hell, I need to go back still. For Photo #6. Which was the cutest metal watering can planter.

I hope you all have a fabulous week. The weather has been mild but that seems pretty good ‘round here! We are moving slowly on our renovation and NEXT week I plan to tune in to working on my newest painting, Pathogen, and I will get you a lil’ sneak peek! Behave yourself, babes, and HEY-to all the dad’s out there: HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! I hope you know your impact is immeasurable and your presence is all the difference!

xxx-Kanda ⚞^. .^⚟

⫘⫘⫘Poolside & Starry Eyed⫘⫘⫘

Hi friends! To be honest, I don’t have a whole bunch of fun things to share today and I’m thoroughly exhausted from cleaning both my kids’ rooms this week. I basically told them NO SUMMER FUN was to be had until their rooms were cleaned. And although most kids don’t like cleaning, I think everyone can appreciate a nice clean room. Eventually they will be shifting rooms once our renovation is in its final phases, so this was kind of to prepare for that as well as for me to NOT have a heart attack every time I opened their doors. It was just so much stuff everywhere. For just my 10-year-olds room, we packed up and donated TEN garbage bags of toys/clothes/puzzles/etc. Where does all this shit come from?! And why does it make me utterly insane?!

Next week I will be teaching my first art camp class of the summer. This class, for kids around 8-12, focuses on artistic styles and an artist or two that was particularly well known for these styles and how we can apply them to our own artwork. We will be picking a character as a subject to work with as well! You can read more about it here. I also will have more time to continue working on my newest 16×20” acrylic painting, titled Pathogen, for another upcoming exhibition. More on this piece later! ♡

(Photo captions— Cover photo: My wee Tamagotchi whom I really loved for the first 3 weeks but now I really just want to run over the thing with my car. >ᴗ< Photo 1: I bought the complete edition of Sherlock Holmes for my personal collection. (and for summer reading.) Photo 2: My sweet idiot boy, Ozzy. Photo 3: My little dumplings cooling off last weekend at a friend’s pool!)

I promise to come back with lots more fun stuff next week. I’m even going to try to write a short story to share with you next Friday… but it has been a really long time since I’ve actually sat down to write anything so I’m scared of what might come out on the paper. Murder confessions? Psychobabble? Illiterate nonsense? We’ll see. ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) Until then, babes:

xxx- Kanda •ﻌ•

*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺Neon Nails & the Rain༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚

My sweet Kandarchists, how are we doing this week? Did we get all the things done we were supposed to? Did we do all the things we wanted to? Did we say we did something and forget about doing it? Listen, we are doing our best, right? Give us a break. The world is on fire. And not in a good way. BUT not if you slow down and join me: I’m outside, sitting on my front porch and listening to the noisy splats of all the much needed rain drops hitting my garden mulch. The birds are chirping their approval, and the breeze is just chilly enough that one needs a blanket to sit out here with.

Today was an exciting but incredibly tough day as it was the LAST day of school for my kids. I’ve got one that will be heading to third grade in the fall and MY OLDEST will be leaving her elementary school behind and heading to middle school next fall and I am NOT okay. I brought tissues to the assembly they had knowing FULL WELL I was going to be a mess. I swear, the principal INTENDS on making us cry. Not only was my baby celebrated for being on safety patrol this year (going in early + after school to help kids cross the streets), she was ALSO student of the month for her very last month at the school AND won the President’s Award of Academic Excellence for being so dang smart and keeping her grades the entire year! We are so incredibly proud of her AND of the amazing group of kids she is moving up with. It truly is gift to have a small, close-knit community that values their children and celebrates their achievements and character as a whole.

Photo Captions- Cover Photo: Our sculpture garden has it’s wild flowers growing and looks INCREDIBLE. They may be a little tall to view some of the art but… it’s hard to be mad at pretty flowers. Photo 1: My front garden looks oh so fabulous! Kindly, fuck off, deer. Photo 2. My baby (and her teacher) celebrating academic excellence! Photo 3: My current read: Queer Enlightenments. It follows the story of a select few social elites from the 18th & 19th centuries that have historical evidentiary proof of their gender nonconformity and is extremely insightful, scandalous, and, of course, sad as shit. Naturally, to be enjoyed with a little THC as well. Photo 4: Saved BB cardinal from Ozzy in our yard. It’s mom and dad did NOT like me picking it up, but the bb did not seem to mind, and I was able to get it to safety in time. (Also, peep my nails ツ) Photo 5: Nova and her bestie at their fake shop, “the Makery”, where they sold made treats, bracelets, and snow cones… and sold out of everything before the day was done!

Now that summer is here, I’m really looking forward to organizing my kids’ rooms (I know that is weird but they are a nightmare and it will be such a weight off my shoulders after they are cleaned up and put right again), finishing up our upstairs renovations + FINALLY being able to have a kitchen that is all in one spot, working in my garden and making my backyard as pretty as the front, teaching a couple youth art classes, AND of course, relaxing + enjoying the time I get with my kids. I always love when they get to be home with me. (I also love when they go back to school. ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡)

My “Butterfly-Finned Sharky” was accepted into an online exhibition! It is through ExhibiZone, a juried show called Kingdom Animalia. This online show will begin later this summer AND be permanent! I will share a link for that once it is available. I’m not sure what to expect from an online show as I have never participated in one but, again, I feel more visibility is better than none! I’m still waiting to hear back on the Small Works exhibition which I also applied Sharky too, this one being an in-person show. While waiting, I have begun a NEW work in which I am plagiarizing myself… and taking a drawing concept I’ve done before and turning it into a 16”x20” acrylic study! Wish a gal luck! And I’ll see you next week, babes! Behave yourselves until then. • ᴗ -

xxx-Kanda 𓆈

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡Tamagotchi & Fishing Rods⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.

Hi, friends! I’m writing in the morning on my deck and it feels fantastic out! The sun is shining, there is a slight breeze, the air smells fresh grass, blossoms, and a hint of smokey campfire, and the birds are all singing. ˙ᵕ˙ I apologize for waiting until Saturday to post but I lost all motivation to do so last night. Yesterday was my kids’ field day at their school and I volunteered, running race stations and capture the flag. It was a very good time however, I had applied sunscreen in the morning shift and forgot in the afternoon and my shoulders are paying for it DEARLY. (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

I’m still patiently awaiting when I can send my “Cactus Hollow Hotel” piece to Bedford, PA for the exhibition. I have received (another) rejection letter for my newest piece “Butterfly-finned Sharky” for an exhibition but I took that in stride and have applied to YET ANOTHER gallery exhibition with him. (Fingers crossed.) He deserves to be seen. People be sleeping. I also have him applied to two separate online exhibitions… which I’ve never participated in before so have no idea what to expect from that. My ideology being: the more visibility I can get, the better! I buttoned up the GIANT canvas painting I was working on for the Arts Council that will be used in the outdoor event we will be hosting later this summer. The kraken/Cthulhu still needs a name and we think that we will have a fun competition so that the garden goers can decide on the name!

Picture captions- Cover image: The 5’x13’ canvas painting I did for the Arts Council, Photo 1: My happy little tree! I noticed these little faces where the leaves fall off the stem and OMG, they are so cute ˙ᵕ˙ Photo 2: Front porch swag Photo 3: My daughter and her class got to go to a local farm and pet all the animals, plus plant some lettuce and eat some fresh garden goodies. Photo 4: I made a snail tea shop on a rock… for no reason at all. ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ Photo 5: I have my own Tamagotchi & he is thriving. My daughter got one for her birthday and I was so jealous, I had to get my own. Both my girls are already over theirs but mine has been going everywhere with me, lol! Photo 6: We went fishing last weekend but didn’t catch squat so we plan on going again tomorrow!

Thanks for listening to a bit of a dull update. You either get a dull update or a small rant. That’s what this is. Should I start sharing more weird history I am getting into? Or more of my creative writings? Or literally nothing at all? Pictures with absolutely no content? Lolololol, okay, I’m going now. Be good, y’all!

xxx-Kanda ⟡

⋆｡‧˚ʚ ୨Pierced Ears & Shark Finsৎ ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Happy beginning of Memorial Day weekend, everyone! I hope that means you get a big, fat weekend to enjoy! It feels like everyone has fun plans and we are sitting here like… oh… was this the holiday weekend? Which has me a little FOMO but to be real, we’ve had something to do on the weekends EVERY weekend for over a month, and a breather of downtime sounds kind of nice. Maybe I’ll do some yard work? Maybe I’ll start a fun project? Maybe I’ll do nothing & just sleep and read all weekend? Possibilities. •⩊•

This week consisted of a LOT more painting. Anyone that does a big project knows that sometimes you get to that point where you just WANT TO BE FINISHED. That is where I am with this 5’x13’ fantasy backdrop for our Sculpture Garden Shindig. I’m finishing up the kraken part of the painting and then will have a few more details to button up AND THEN we’ll move on to finding a way to stand it up! This piece will be used in our “picture opportunity” at the small boat that was placed in the sculpture garden by the city manager. The idea being that a person (or a few) can get into the boat, with a few different props to select from, and then get their picture physically printed on FujiFilm mini films which they can take with them! The painting will be the backdrop for this setup! It’s a super cute idea… but it is a lot of free labor on my end! I agreed to this. I deserve this.◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜I am thankful to hear that the arts council plans to use this canvas backdrop for another event for the Maritime Festival happening in August. When this piece is finished, I’ll be able to look for more open calls and create a new piece to follow those parameters.

Photo captions- Cover Image: Hubby Wubby bought me a dyed rose for Mother’s Day, the deep color was mesmerizing! Photo 1: The beginning of the kraken! Photo 2: We all got pierced this Monday!! My buddy in town got us all hooked up & blinged out. Jovi finally got her second lobe pierced and can NOW wear a PAIR of earrings (she got her one pierced last August and refused to have the other lobe pierced after the initial shock of the first piercing.) Nova got her second earrings so she has 2 in one ear and was SO dang tough while sitting there! I got my tragus pierced… and I’ll tell you what. Ow. Photo 3: My husband 3D printed some shark fins for the rock river I put in this spring… They are fabulous! Mommy shark, baby shark. Photo 4: My birthday girl! We had a blast at her pool party!

Continuing to stay offline and staying away from alcohol has really been helping my overall mental health and I straight up recommend to everyone to just unplug yourself. I don’t mean for a few hours. I mean put it away. We need to remember that technology is a tool. And if it isn’t aiding in your life, than you are not using it properly. I recently hopped on Facebook (because I’m nosy when I hear sirens and always want to check the area’s scanner group) and I was SO freaked out by the amount of filtered faces I saw. I’m going to go on a bit of a rant here, so buckle up: STOP USING FILTERS. For fuck’s sake, there is nothing wrong with your face. There IS something wrong with not believing that you have beauty without a filter. There IS something wrong with companies designing such freaky realistic filters. I’ll see people post pictures of themselves and I’m just shocked… You do not look like that. And that’s OKAY! You’re BEAUTIFUL. There is something seriously cynical behind the culture of filtered faces and we are seeing it in the CRAZY uptick in popularity of aesthetic surgeries. These industries literally piggyback on top of each other to profit from your insecurities. I believe filters create bigger space for comparison and no healthy person should be comparing their selves to others. By using a filter, you are not only declaring yourself less than what you are, you are also setting yourself up for a lifetime of inadequacy. You WON’T ever look like the filter. You aren’t meant to. Our individual characteristics are what make us who we are, they are a build-up of every person who made YOU possible, they are a testament to our ancestors, and they are components of our lost culture. Erasing them erases a majority of who you are, not only physically but emotionally as well. I recently read a study that viewed human beings recognizing their own reflection as a critical (and negative) shift in human nature. And perhaps that is a very simplified view BUT it is easy to see how, throughout recorded history, human vanity really is the root of all evil. Be proud of what you look like. STOP worrying about it so much. Do some internal maintenance instead! So anyway… thanks for coming to my Ted Talk! ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )

Be good, kids! Careful with your dang fireworks! And crack a brew + roast a vegan marshmallow over the campfire for me!

xxx- Kanda ꫂ❁

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆Baby Bunnies & A Mushroom⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

Well, howdy everyone! How are you all doing? How is life treating you lately? Did you do something for yourself today? I was extremely busy today getting ready for my 8 year old’s birthday party that is tomorrow! It is wolf themed because she is obsessed with wolves right now. She is also my child who was asked in kindergarten what she’d like to be when she grows up and she -without hesitating- said “a cat”. She’s going places! Watch out, world!

The Art Walk committee that I’m apart of is having a public-welcome “Sculpture Shindig” this summer at the sculpture garden that we’ve been working at restoring/redesigning and I’ve been put in charge of painting a nautical fantasy-esque backdrop for a photo opportunity we will have available! The canvas I am painting is 13×5 feet which is MUCH bigger than I am ever used to working on so I’m thoroughly impressed with how it’s turning out. Thus far, I’ve painted a tropical, sunny scene with rolling greenery and calm water. There is a castle in the distance, a pirate ship a’sail, I’m working on a mermaid, AND THEN will paint a GIANT kraken creature… I’m pretty jazzed about it. I DO have to keep reminding myself that I’m not getting paid for this AND no one is going to see all the details because it is a background for someone’s portrait so FOR GOD SAKES, STOP putting so much time into it!! Will I listen to myself? No. I shant.

We took my girls to the zoo this weekend and had an incredible time! We went to Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park in Alto, Michigan. This trip was especially fun because ALL their animals were incredibly active the day we went AND SO many of them had babies. We got to see a baby tapir, goats, alligators, a baby howler monkey, goslings, pet a baby zebra, and a friggen Moo Deng baby pygmy hippo. SPEAKING of babies… Today I was in my yard while I had let Ozzy out and I saw a weird tuft of fur in the middle of the lawn. My first thought was “shit, what did Ozzy get a hold of”? After I walked over and lifted the tuft of fur and dead grass, I friggen squeeeeeeeealed because UNDERNEATH that tuft was a small hole filled with 6 tiny baby bunnies! I have NO idea how Ozzy did not find them but I am so thankful he hadn’t. My husband made a little barricade/fence for them in which the mom can still get through, but that Ozzy will hopefully keep out of. Just in case, we will be going outside with him from now until they decide to move on. Bless you, tiny adorable bunnies. Please don’t eat my plants. •̀ ᴗ -

Picture captions- Cover photo: I literally FOUND this morel mushroom Wednesday morning on mine & Ozzy’s walk. Thank you, universe. ´ཀ` Photo 1: bb bunnies Photo 2: Pirate ship & castle Photo 3: I’m not sure what tree this is but it is GORGEOUS flowering… Redbud? Dogwood? Photos 4, 5, & 6: My sweet babes. Photo 7: The plant bb I adopted last October has finally got new growth! Someone had given up on it on my block, it was out on the curb and had a pretty intense fungal issue but after lots of love and care, she’s feeling much better! That’s such a rewarding feeling. Photo 8: Me working on the backdrop… yes, it’s huge! I’ve been rolling it out and painting it on the floor of our reno which means it also has some cat + dog paw prints in the artwork… for special effect.

For WORK, I’ve kind of given myself a break after hearing about my artwork being accepted into the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Bedford biennial exhibition. It sucks how excited I am and how long I have to wait to send in my art. My painting will head that way mid July so in the meantime, I have been doing a lot with the Arts Council along with donating a custom pet portrait that I will begin soon, I’m waiting to hear back on my “Butterfly-Finned Sharky” which should be informed in a few weeks. Fingers crossed.

I’ve also started reading Arthur Conan Doyle, specifically the Sherlock Holmes short stories and so far, I’ve really enjoyed them. They ARE a bit on the easier side of reading and definitely not written as eloquently as most of the other 19th century English literature I’ve been reading but I’ve been mulling over beginning my own kind of written short stories (possibly accompanied by artwork) and I feel like reading a variety of short story authors is great beginning research. Okay, I’mma go… Sorry for talking that ear off… your eyeballs out? Anyway, have a great weekend friends! Behave yourselves! ㅤ♡

xxx- Kanda ⋆.𐙚 ̊