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Misty Granade
@misty.granades.com
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❤️ abstract mixed media artist
🧡 Still blogging like it's 2003
💛 Corgi wrangler: Anwyn & Feferi
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Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 2d
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
The alchemy in 2026
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
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misty.granades.com
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
The alchemy in 2026
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
misty.granades.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Here’s my 2025 recap! 🎉
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger
#CrochetArt #YarnLove #Crochet #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtistHack #InHerStudio #ArtYear
#DrownedBookProject
December 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
misty.granades.com
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
The alchemy in 2026
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
misty.granades.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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This is the thing I’ve been pondering for a week: What if Larry Mullen Jr. had never put up that flyer on the school bulletin board in 1976?
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Boxing Day is always the start of just the best week of the year. A week that is marked by good food, hobbies, games, movies, and waking up each day having zero idea what day of the week it is.
December 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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@thisisguan.bsky.social 😍😍😍
smallwondersmag.com Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d
For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
The cover for Small Wonders issue 31. A person with long purple hair floats in space, their body curves to cup a solar system in their lap. The issue’s pieces are by Gwendolyn M. Hicks, Julia Rios, Wendy Nikel, Adrian Ward, Michelle Koubek, Guan Un, Eliza Dermendzhiyska, Eva Papasoulioto, and Katherine Quevedo. Art is by Anastasia Rzyhkova.
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Travel crochet level up!! 🧶
#CrochetArt #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear #ThinkingAboutMaking
A photo of my right hand holding my crochet and my yarn cake is on a spindle hanging off the back of the driver’s seat. It’s a really sweet setup for car crochet.
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I loved the “Die Hard” years but I think we are a family who watches “The Muppets’ Christmas Carol” now.
a group of muppets are sitting around a table with a candle and a man standing in front of them .
Alt: A group of muppets are sitting around a table with a candle and a man standing in front of them. The text says “God bless us, everyone.”
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December 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Quote with your favorite pic of you from 2025.

@granades.com took this pic when we were on a cruise in the Galápagos Islands in April this year.
A photo of me: a fifty something white woman. I have a pair of sunglasses on my face and reading glasses on the top of my head. My black hair is up in a clip. I’m wearing a safety orange life jacket over a maroon and white striped shirt. I’m onna boat with the wake of the Pacific Ocean visible behind me. I’m smiling a bit and having a truly spectacular day.
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I love #ArtVsArtist blocks! Here’s mine for 2025.
A nine square of things I’ve made this year. I’m in the middle wearing my pride flag cowl. There’s watercolor, crochet, and a book I made.
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I love #ArtVsArtist blocks! Here’s mine for 2025.
A nine square of things I’ve made this year. I’m in the middle wearing my pride flag cowl. There’s watercolor, crochet, and a book I made.
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Younger young adult and I have been wrapping presents for close to 3 hours and I am wrecked. But we are caught up!! 🎁🎄🎁
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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This morning in an act of creative rebellion, I am sorting through the space on my desk where I keep books and journals. I’m retiring an older working journal and making space for new things to take up the space in 2026. 🎉
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This is one of my favorite blog posts from this year: misty.granades.com/2025/09/23/t...
I’m doing a lil’ best of series here at the end of 2025! 🎉
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings
This one's for you, Bestie - Misty Granade
Where I encourage you to make things joyfully and be your own biggest cheerleader. Do you need a pep talk this week? This is it.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Here’s a thread about my life and how U2 has been a part of it…anyway I’ve listened to U2 all day and I’m super nostalgic.
misty.granades.com Misty Granade @misty.granades.com · 16d
I was 15 when U2’s *Joshua Tree* came out and it was on every radio every hour. MTV spent a day playing the videos. I went to my Aunt’s house (she had cable) & spent the day taping them on a VHS.

When I started teaching crochet to teens a few years ago, they had NEVER heard of U2. Not one song.
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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In lieu of *new* blog posts this week & next, I’m giving you my favorite posts from this year. This one is my sweet spot of talking about art & talking about why I want you to make things. Go read it, even if you’ve already read it.

misty.granades.com/2025/09/23/t...
This one's for you, Bestie - Misty Granade
Where I encourage you to make things joyfully and be your own biggest cheerleader. Do you need a pep talk this week? This is it.
misty.granades.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It doesn’t have to be this way
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d
We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Feferi plotting crime #Corgi #CorgiSky #CorgiCrew
A photo of Feferi, the red and white Corgi, looking so sweet and beautiful when really that head is only full of crimes. She’s sitting on a gray rug back lit by the Southern sun coming in through the blind slats on the back door. She had sun stripe shadows on her face.
December 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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OK, the problem, if there is one, is not coming up with enough good ideas. The problem is the way we count what makes for “productivity.” Even if you think AI can generate stuff that’ll commercialize. Which, so far, not much.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
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December 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I was 15 when U2’s *Joshua Tree* came out and it was on every radio every hour. MTV spent a day playing the videos. I went to my Aunt’s house (she had cable) & spent the day taping them on a VHS.

When I started teaching crochet to teens a few years ago, they had NEVER heard of U2. Not one song.
December 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
misty.granades.com
In lieu of *new* blog posts this week & next, I’m giving you my favorite posts from this year. This one is my sweet spot of talking about art & talking about why I want you to make things. Go read it, even if you’ve already read it.

misty.granades.com/2025/09/23/t...
This one's for you, Bestie - Misty Granade
Where I encourage you to make things joyfully and be your own biggest cheerleader. Do you need a pep talk this week? This is it.
misty.granades.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Workspace: Holiday Edition. You can tell it’s festive by the holiday plate and glassware 😂🎄🍕
#ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtistHack #InHerStudio #AbstractWatercolor #AbstractMarkMaking
My desk with work spread all over it. Pens and markers and art in progress. My holly and ivy Christmas plate and a balled up Christmas napkin where I ate my leftover homemade pizza and my Diet Coke in a festive glass.
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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"You have to use AI."

...why?
People keep saying that AI is inevitable. Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to... We "have to use it!" My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves. Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM