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Nina Kalinkos Makes Little Guys
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Syracuse’s Hometown Clay Hero™
Custom sculpture - Fursonas, TTRPG characters, pets, cake toppers
Trans Neutral/Nebulous - They/Them
#furryart #commissions

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Nina Kalinkos Makes Little Guys @eclecticclay.com · Oct 17
Welcome to Eclectic Clay!

My name is Nina, Syracuses' Hometown Clay Hero™, and I'm here to bring your ideas to colorful, three-dimensional life.
I sculpt fursonas, pets, and just about any other Little Guys you could imagine.

Visit www.eclecticclay.com for more!
Clay sculpture of an anthropomorphic red panda in a green short sleeve shirt and dark blue overalls. He is holding a messing peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and jam and jelly are all over his overalls and face. In the background you can see a yard with a large red trampoline. Clay sculpture featuring two garden eels - one orange with white stripes, one light blue with dark blue spots. Their yellow eyes are wide and they look very anxious. They are "planted" in clay sand along with green and maroon coral. The sculpture is inside a green teacup with a floral pattern. Clay sculpture of s black long-haired daschund with brown spots over his eyes, on his nose, and on his feet. He wears a red cape with a black SF and outline of a cartoon dog bone. The figure is mounted on a finished wooden base engraved with the text "Ready McFreddy." Clay sculpture of a tan anthropomorphic clay griffin with green eyes and outstretched wings with golden feathers. He stands in a contrapposto position in the woods, holding a thin rapier with a basket hilt in his right hand. He is nude, and his crotch is covered by a triangular yellow warning sign with a black exclamation point.
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Hey @gamechangershow.bsky.social fans, get on it!
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 4d
Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!

Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...

My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Vinyl stickers in the shape of a Dropout Game Changer loop-de-loop, with the words "we've been here the whole time", in abrosexual, agender, altersex, aroace, aromantic, asexual, autigender, bigender, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, disability, gay man, genderfae, genderfaun, genderflor, gender fluid, genderflux, gender queer, intersex, lesbian, LGBTQ+, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, and trans pride colours
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A week ago I thought my friend was going to die in the hospital.

Today I can go visit them and shower them with love.

It's been....a lot.
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Small businesses holding the line in the face of genuine hardship should shame any representative currently caving.

Also, buy a donut dice vault! Or a to-go coffee cup dice tower! Or a cute patch or sticker!

www.dodecadonuts.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”

-A.R. Moxton (please correct me if I am wrong)
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A good morning message for @deepblueink.bsky.social:

Your DeeDee plus is so loved by children. My friend's one year old gives it endless kisses. My six year old brought it to school today, and DeeDee's inability to sit is a source of endless laughter. Thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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OH DANG IT'S KNEESVEMBER
falseknees.bsky.social False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 6d
Kneesvember 2025 Day 3
Two peasant warblers are speaking to each other in the crowd. The first is yellow and gray-blue and is wearing a red hat, medieval-style. The second is dark gray and orange-yellow and is wearing a sort of brown tunic, medieval-style? The crowd around them are all drawn in uniform purple to make them blend in. "I wish t' see a Dragon!" exclaimed Bagglyn, a lowly worm-whistler from Mudhole, straining to see over the crowd. "I know wherein them noble knights keep their noble steeds!" replied her friend, Grell, the stable boy, "We could follow 'em in secret on their noble queste!"
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This week, I started a ceramics hand building class, with the promise that I wouldn't use the time to make anything...productive? I'm trying to divorce it from my business completely.

It's unexpectedly hard to do!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Amazing!
verdantsculpts.bsky.social Neal 🏳️‍⚧️ @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 11d
Pumpkin Kobolds are the featured figure for November over on the Collectors Club! And introducing all new Mini Figures that are the low price of $25. Join today for just $2 to gain instant access to these exclusive figures.

verdantsculpts.com/pages/verdan...
Two standing kobold figures. They have jack-o-lanterns for heads and a crop of brown spotted mushrooms on their backs. There is also a separated jack-o-lantern figure on the ground. They all stand on a wood background scattered with various autumn leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It's going to be a little quiet here for a while; I've got a lot of commission work on my plate.

Want to be the first to see new, cool works? Subscribe to my mailing list at www.eclecticclay.com!

I'm also updating the site, along with a gallery, so you can scroll through cool pictures easily!
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Happy Halloween from Duck "It's A Nickname" Newton.

...or a forest ranger, inf you're not a TAZ fan.

Still to add - name tag, Beacon belt, Darryll's Bait and Crossfit t-shirt.
The artist, seen in a mirror taking a picture with their phone. They wear a wide-brimmed hat, tan shirt with USAF patches and pins, and tan slacks. They look appropriately exhausted.
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Hoho, ready and waiting for cuddles!
Clay ornament of a mostly white cat with striped brown patched on their back and bright green eyes. They are sitting up with their paws dangling. A wooden heart above the ornament is engraved with the name "Hoho" and hangs from a green and silver ribbon in front of a forest.
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by Nina Kalinkos Makes Little Guys
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🪸 "Jewel" no.16 ✨ Ft. Larger Pacific Striped Octopus 🪸❤️🐙

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus and corals patiently crafted from tiny glass beads. The octopus on this piece depicts the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, a dark brown and white octopus with an iconic bar stripe spot pattern. The corals are pink, green and a muted purple. Everything is built around a large violet colored clam shell.
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Hey @apnews.com, this article's "illustrations" are straight-up generative slop, what the hell?
One family fled Afghanistan. Then U.S. deportations scattered them across the world
What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Scrub Nurse Moona

Fifth in a series of Moona ornaments, a tradition that I'm so happy to continue every year. Thanks, Tim!
Clay ornament of a tan and brown cow stuffie, dressed in a green scrub shirt and green scrub cap. The ornament hangs from a teal and silver ribbon in front of a forest.
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ROUND
bisonrimant.fr Bison @bisonrimant.fr · 24d
Here is today's progress
More advanced of a woodcarved capybara in my hand Same draft seen from another point of view
October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Finally at the last stages of this project, where all the "trust the process" pays off and it looks so good I am jumping up and running around in excitement at every new step because I made that, I MADE THAT, and someone is going to love it.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Found this on the community board of the Y and I have a LOT of questions.
A yellow business card held to a board with a purple push pin. Text reads "Ethical Elephant Exploration - Elephant Ambassador Bruce F Anderson" next to a picture of an older gentleman with an elephant. Contact info has been blacked out because I feel weird about sharing it even though it was on a community board.
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Making realistic figures feels a little weird sometimes. "Oh yeah, your cake topper is coming along, I've been staring at your picture for a few hours now trying to figure out your eye color. Also, do you prefer your hair parted left or right?
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Buffalo Love

Not the topper I'm currently obsessing over, but a cute one that shipped out a few weeks ago.

Also a good reminder that I still have dummy cakes for photography, as much as it is tempting to bake one every time....🍰
Clay sculpture of two separate buffalo figures. The larger wears a black top hat and black bow tie. The smaller wears a string of pearls and a veil with flowers. They are posed atop a white frosted cake.
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I've given up on Repostober because I am working on a cake topper for an incredible person and I am busy overthinking every last ding dang detail, my gosh.
October 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Repostober Catch-Up, Day 11 - Yellow Submarine Escape

Another obsession of mine - small scenes in resin, no doubt inspired by @leslielevings.bsky.social's little underwater monster scenes. I still have a giant box of shells, too....

#repostober
A seashell painted dark blue and filled with clear resin. Inside the resin, a small yellow submarine moves upward to escape giant pink tentacles. Green coral shoots and shells are embedded on top of the resin, giving the scene layers to imply depth.
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If you're able, you should absolutely go see this exhibit. Watterson's works in person are beautiful. I was tearing up through the whole thing.
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes - Fenimore Art Museum
fenimoreartmuseum.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Screw this, taking the kids camping.
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Repostober, Day 10 - Mica Leaf Artwork

I spent a few years obsessed with this technique, pressing leaves into thinly rolled clay and coloring them with mica powder. Spring was "Sparkle Season," and any work caught in the crossfire shone, too.

#repostober
Circular clay ornament showing the impression of two ginko leaves in a sparkling green background. The leaves have gold stems fading to a dark russet at the tips. A hand holding a gold-toned oval pendant with a disc of clay at the center. The clay is imprinted with wood sorrel and colored with mica powder on the background so that it resembles a sunset behind the shadowed leaves of the plant.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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OH MY GOSH I WON I AM SO EXCITED
mishesofficial.bsky.social ☾ Jes | Artist (she/her) @mishesofficial.bsky.social · Oct 10
Sweaters totally count!

CONGRATULATIONS you are the winner of this jack o lantern Mish from my Mishiversary giveaway! Please contact me directly within 48 hours to claim. 🎃
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM