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susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Susan 🍁
@susanbytheriver.bsky.social
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Fibre and mixed media artist
https://www.susanbytheriver.com

Living on the traditional territory of the Audenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Haudenosaunee (St. Lawrence Iroquois), and Huron-Wendat.

Cats, every day magical stuff, resting
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susanbytheriver.bsky.social
That little bird was so tiny to needle felt! I used black paint on a bit of wool for the beak. I especially like the contented expression on this snow person ☃️

#needlefelting #feltedsculpture #woolfelting #feltart #fibrearts #fiberarts #art #artist #snowfolk
Needle felted snow person with green hat and blue scarf. There’s a small brown, golden yellow, and pink bird sitting on the hat.
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
One more snow person, very joyful! ⛄️

#needlefelting #feltedsculpture #woolfelting #feltart #fibrearts #fiberarts #art #artist #snowfolk
Needle felted snow person with red hat and green cape. Smiling upward!
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Cosy sweaters 🥰

#needlefelting #woolfelting #fibrearts #fiberarts #feltart #art #artist #cozy
Five 4” felt covered canvases, each carrying a needle felted sweater with a design on it. There’s a mushroom, a bird, a ladybug, a blue butterfly, and a snail.
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
More snow folk! ⛄️

#woolfelting #needlefelting #needlefelt #feltedsculpture #felting #fibrearts #fiberarts #art #artist
Four needle felted snow people and one snow cat! All wearing scarves. Four with hats and one with ear muffs.
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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vexnir.bsky.social
Stay safe, stay strong, stay beautiful 🏳️‍⚧️

#art #illustration #transawarenessmonth
Digital illustration of a white tiger in pastel colors. It’s colored like the transgender flag, having blue and pink stripes and pink eyes. The tiger is surrounded by peonies in subtle shades of pink and blue, and is depicted on a gray background.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
#needlefelted snow folk to brighten up this grey day ♥️

#fibrearts #fiberarts #needlefelting #woolfelting #art #needlefelting
Three needle felted snow people: one with a blue toque and rainbow scarf, one with a red tasseled hood and teal scarf, and on just plain. All have carrot noses and little hearts.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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greenpeaceca.bsky.social
You've probably heard of Bill C-12 and C-2, but there's a slate of other bills that, when assembled together transformer style, could create a freedom repression machine that rivals the one south of the border.

We broke down how it would work >> act.gp/4i9pU1b #Cdnpoli

📹 via leftiejane on IG
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
More about the whale sanctuary project 🧐
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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animal-justice.bsky.social
BREAKING: Nova Scotia has approved Canada’s first-ever whale sanctuary! Located in Port Hilford Bay, the Whale Sanctuary Project site could open by summer 2026—giving around 10 of #Marineland’s captive belugas the chance to finally live in the ocean. Act now 🐳➡️ bit.ly/4o2MPNu
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
A new magical critter to join the family of #felted folk. Henry the #gingercat served as nose model for this little #needlefelted guy. I think he may be a sort that lives inside tree trunks and sleeps a lot.

#needlefelting #woolfelting #feltart #art #artist
Needle felted critter: grey with a pink nose and sparkly white belly. Longish pointed grey ears with pink inside. Four needle felted critters: Simple cone shapes with ears, horns, tufts, tails, and expressive faces. One has haunches and a pouch holding a heart. Colours are blue, grey, orange, and pink. Henry the ginger cat laying on a wool felting pad with a little grey needle felted critter in progress. Felting needles and a window in the background.
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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yipengge.bsky.social
People often ask me, how do you keep going? We must keep going. When we are not the ones living with bombs falling from the sky, when we have food on our tables, and clean water to drink, and money to spend. We have to put our feelings aside for a moment. We have work to do.
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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spudislander45.bsky.social
Citizens of the world can use this tool to push for action by #TheUnitedNations to fight for #peace in #Gaza.

#cdnpoli #usapoli #EndTheWaronGaza #DemocracyMatters
September 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Before and after #wetfelted mushroom 🍄

#woolfelting #wetfelting #wetfelt #feltart #feltartist #artist #art
Colourful, fluffy wool roving laid out on an off white background: an amanita muscaria mushroom (red cap with white spots) surrounded by blue, yellow, and pink bits up top, and green, yellow, pink, and brown grasses down below. Ready for wet felting! Same wool layout as previous photo, but now wet felted. The fluffy fibres have merged together to make a firm, flat piece of felt with the colourful mushroom image.
September 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Sep 14
Younger daughter and I have been working on prototypes for the small portable museums that will be in my Etsy shop soon. We’ll be making a wooden grid in each tin for the finds & a booklet about the neuroscience of how collecting & arranging your finds alleviates anxiety & lifts mood #mentalhealth
September 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
I’m a big fan ♥️
libro.fm Libro.fm @libro.fm · Sep 11
When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍
September 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 11
Because, once again: the first violence the authoritarian right commits is against fact, truth, history, meaning, language, science, and this version keeps committing it. They bring liberation from reality, though maybe disinhibition is a better word.
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
This little charm pin holds a #needlefelted mushroom heart and beaded bits with a dragonfly, gnome, and deer. I’ve had a bunch of kilt pins in my supplies for a while, meaning to give this a try.

#charmpins #needlefelt #needlefelting #feltart #art
Kilt pin with five charms hanging from it: needle felted heart with a red spotted mushroom, dragonfly bead, metal gnome, assorted beads, and metal deer.
September 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Finished my #painting project! Hurray! I’m really happy with how it turned out. Thanks everyone for your encouragement along the way ♥️

#upcycling #art #artist #paint #frontporchart
Three painted cans hanging vertically on a string of beads and bells on a front porch Six painted cans hanging vertically on two strings of beads and bells Six painted cans hanging vertically on two strings of beads and bells
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Finished all six cans! Now to assemble them into two beaded strings for hanging. I did rabbit silhouettes for the last one because I was running out of detail energy and wanted to finish today 😄

#paint #painting #art #artist #upcycling
Can painted with a deer and grasses Can painted with two rabbit silhouettes in front of a big full moon Susan smiling with all six painted cans: blue jay, toadstools, bee, deer, rabbits, and chickadee
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
4 of 6 cans complete…The blue jay was tough. First time I’ve tried painting, drawing, or felting one!

#paint #painting #art #artist #upcycling
Can painted with a bee, flowers, and leaves. Turquoise to lavender background. Can painted with blue jay and evergreen branches Four cans painted with blue jay, toadstools, bee, and chickadee Four cans of rainbow colours with stenciled patterns
September 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
2 of 6 pieces complete in my painting project! At first, I imagined something that would take a couple of days with simple patterns and designs. Then, this little bird came along, and it turns out I’m in for a more detailed experience. Going with the inspiration! #art #artist #painting #upcycling
Can painted with a large and small amanita muscaria pair Two painted cans, one with a pair of amanita muscaria and one with a chickadee
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
Working on a painting project with recycled cans…they’re going to become two vertically hanging strings of cans, beads, and bells. I’m loving playing with colours 🥰

#art #artist #paint #painting #upcycling #colour
Swirling copper metallic paint and water as I rinse my brush Paint smeared across a white background - yellow, green, red, orange, pink, turquoise Cans painted with blended rainbow colours. Copper metallic paint on tops and rims. Hand holding a can painted red to orange with a chickadee and some blue background.
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
susanbytheriver.bsky.social
This is an important thread! Please read for understanding and awareness ♥️
goatsarah.org Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM