Neurotic Owl

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Tag Archives: the arts

Stitching along and the weekly thingy.

If you have more phrases you want included let me know and I’ll add them to my list; no promises what will end up getting used but I have a … Continue reading

October 6, 2025 · Leave a comment

Weekly thingy and KITTAYYYY

There are a bunch of progress pics of the kitty that I’ve been posting on mastodon and I’ll throw them up on the neurotic owl Facebook page as well, but … Continue reading

October 27, 2024 · Leave a comment

Weekly thingy and an old project rises from the pile!

I do have a bunch of progress to show y’all on the latest embroidery, but since this one is going to move slower between less time off work and more … Continue reading

September 22, 2024 · 1 Comment

Weekly thingy and stabbing thousands of times (for ART)

You know what’s great about blackwork? Put enough of it together and you really stop noticing the individual wonky stitches. A careful and precise planner would have worked out the … Continue reading

September 10, 2024 · Leave a comment

Weeklyish thingy and cats! CATS CATS CATS CATS!

I hope you read that as that shots song everyone used to play at parties where I felt wildly awkward and eventually just bored. Anyway! Commission #1 has been safely … Continue reading

October 10, 2023 · Leave a comment

Drawing is fun. Drawing repetitive patterns is the best. All work and no play makes Nara a dull girl.

But no, actually, I lurve doing this stuff.  K was watching me do the scales on the lizard and she was all, “ooh, tons of tiny scales, teehee” and then … Continue reading

September 7, 2016 · Leave a comment

Weekly thingy and another lady of awesomeness!

A friend suggested James Tiptree Jr. (or, really, Alice B. Sheldon), and I’m so glad, because now I have SO MANY new things to read.  Sheldon wrote as Tiptree starting … Continue reading

April 10, 2016 · Leave a comment

Dance, ballerina! Or whoever, really.

Going to dance performances can be hard for me.  I’m not as sad as I used to be that I had to give up dancing, because I’m 37 years old … Continue reading

April 7, 2016 · Leave a comment

Hedy Lamarr.

  Hedy Lamarr, yo.  Gorgeous onscreen vamp/brilliant inventor, because clearly just starring in 30 films, having two children, and getting married 6 times isn’t enough to fill a life, so … Continue reading

December 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

An assemblage of AWESOME.

These are all up on Teepublic and Redbubble, btw.  Or you could just pick up a colouring book from Amazon and get 50 pages of drawings!  There, promotional duties fulfilled.

December 22, 2015 · Leave a comment