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arielle! @ PAXU 4211!
@arielleishere.bsky.social
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nj, she/her 💜🤍🩶🖤
craft engineer, click clack collector, married to casey! human art only, no a/i trash

AuDHD & loud about it
✨shop: fantastic knickknackery✨
✨ ariellemilstein.com ✨
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the CAR is PACKED and the SHELF is EMPTY (of pax stuff 😅)
a large metal shelving unit standing mostly empty. there is a dress draped on it waiting to be altered (lol, someday) and a couple empty bins on an upper shelf. on the tippy top shelf are a couple star wars armada and x-wing boxes, along with a bin full of t-shirt yarn.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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i wish we had a garage so we could just pack the car NOW but we only have a giant communal parking lot so instead we’re just incrementally shifting bins from the shelves they’ve been living on, across the apartment and toward the steps and front door 😂
a large set of metal shelves with the upper half mostly emptied and the lower half still full of plastic bins of various sizes, and also a haphazard collection of wicker baskets, wooden shelves, tied up pillowcases, and tote bags several large and medium plastic totes stacked on the floor. also my papier mache dice tree is on top of one bin the view down some steps to a landing. several more large plastic totes are stacked on the landing, possibly creating a fire hazard for someone less careful than me and casey, but don’t worry. also above the totes is a spooky pair of halloween decorations who are in love.
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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it may be the next day but I LAMINATED SO MANY
my hand holding eight laminated pages, all with various signs and prices and displays and SECRETS. they still have to be cut out but they are laminated!!
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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no, i don’t have a tripod, i just precariously prop my phone up on whatever’s close; why do you ask? 😂
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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the #PAXUnplugged pin quest has dropped, which means i can finally post this!!!!!

make sure to swing by to start completing your BALANCED BREAKFAST by adding DICED FRUIT to your DICEY-OS!!!!!!

www.pinnyarcade.com/news/pax-unp...
a graphic showing off a digital mock-up of an enamel pin design. it features a large orange in the shape of a d20 with two green leaves sticking off the top, another d20 orange cut in half with some groovy segments inside, and then in front of the oranges are a d10 strawberry and pair of blueberries, one a d6 and one a d4. the pinny arcade logo is in one corner, the PAX logo is in the other, my dice flower logo is on the bottom with “fantastic knickknackery,” and then “booth 4211”
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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brb making our entire apartment smell like charcoal and burnt MDF (it is not nice like campfire smell, more like your clothes two days after you sat out BY the campfire, but it’s the AIR that smells like that) (and yes i do have the smoke venting outside but there is no Escape from the Smell)
an absolutely chaotic mess of backward-facing individual letters being cut out of tape-backed MDF inside my laser
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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every. individual. PETAL. i had to scrape the masking off with my thumbnail.

these leaves were the BIG pieces
a piece of engraved acrylic angled to show a few tiny bits of paper masking still clinging on in the shape of leaves on the dice flowers that are engraved into the surface. the flowers are TINY, like 1.5" tall. in the background, there is what can only be described as a "dusting" of the rest of the paper masking that i already scraped off. the pieces are so small that they don't look like individual pieces at all.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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we ran out of badge ribbons so figured it was time for a little refresh!!!!!
my hand holding some badge ribbons. one is light blue with purple foil, showing my dice flower logo and “fantastic knickknackery” in my cute hand-lettering, and the rest are an array of rainbow gradient with black foil, showing three dice flowers and “click-clack knickknacks” in a different style of hand-lettering, also mine, because why use a random font when i can just use my own handwriting?
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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here is where to find us at #PAXUnplugged so so soon!!!!!!!! we’ll have handmade trinkets, painted bags (big and small!) to put those trinkets in, ornaments, enamel pins, lanyards, dice, tea towels, buttons, stickers, SO MANY THINGS!!!! all my own original artwork, no a/i trash ever!!!
a graphic of the pax unplugged expo hall map showing a big pink and purple arrow pointing at my booth, 4211. it says fantastic knickknackery, handmade trinkets & human-made art
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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my wood dice!!!!
a closeup of so many wood dice of various sizes all jumbled in the clover and dirt, with one single dandelion holding on for dear life. the dice are laser engraved with cute illustrations of mushrooms, animals, bugs, cookies, flowers, environments, and tabletop game bits.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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indoor product photography is DUMB everyone knows the only way to get a good photo of your wares is to go outside and THROW them in the DIRT

anyway, whoever gets the dice with grass stains on them, you’re welcome for the extra authenticity 😂
a plethora of wood dice in sizes ranging from tiny 14mm to standard 16mm to hefty 20mm to chonky 25mm. they are laser engraved with so many cute illustrations, all my own original drawings, of bugs, animals, mushrooms, flowers, tabletop gaming items, scrabble tiles, cookies, and environments. there are like forty of them anf they’re just strewn in a sunny patch of dirt, dead leaves, and bright green clover, with a single dandelion in the center. eagle-eyed viewers may observe a die right next to the dandelion featuring a side engraved with that same flower.
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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GOOD MORNING IT’S 5AM AND WE ARE ALREADY ONE TOTE BAG BASE LAYER DOWN

EAT SHIT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
three blue tote bags laid out on my kitchen table. they all have vinyl stencils of a raven perching on a skull, and one stencil is covered in a layer of white paint. there’s a pringles lid with a bit of white paint and a little circle of squishy foam that i use as my brush resting on it.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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so anyway here’s the Hot New Trend in school
four sticky note paper darts with bent staples in the tips
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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😂
a selfie from november 2013 of me and pmo making silly grr faces. the album is labeled “tommy & the high pilots (for the 8th time)”
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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nothing drains my laptop battery like my vinyl cutter 🫠 luckily my apartment is set up very conveniently for having everything plugged in so now all i have to do is stand RIGHT HERE for the rest of the day!!
October 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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it’s level up day for @imperatorcasey.bsky.social!!!!!
casey standing next to a plate of lemon squares and a homemade strawberry cake, both lit with birthday candles. he’s smiling and wearing a black tee shirt with a green dnd graphic on it that says “you can certainly try” casey leaning over to blow out the candles on the lemon squares
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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so! many! ornaments!
several dozen stuffed felt d20 ornaments in a riot of colors, piled on the floor
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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FINALLY finished all the felt ornaments!!!! snag one or a handful at #PAXUnplugged!!!!
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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brb using the magnetic clasp of my laptop as a needle minder
a macbook pro sitting open with a pile of partially finished felt ornaments on the keyboard, and if you look closely there’s a large sewing needle stuck to the top corner of the screen a closeup of the tapestry needle stuck to the magnetic closure in the laptop screen. i’m also giving a thumbs up in the reflection, but it’s hard to see through all the smudges
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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some still shots!! and also a cameo from my favorite lil buddy ✨
a pretty sizable papier mache tree stump in two halves, standing on a coffee table. attached to it are thirteen little mushroom cups painted in multicolored patterns, each full of different laser engraved wooden dice. each mushroom has a different little laser engraved label telling you the theme of the dice inside. there are vines on the stump and little bugs painted on as well. it’s pretty neat! the same tree stump viewed from the middle now, so you can see where the two halves meet. the other end of the stump, and there’s a little bumblebee painted on the top corner. a closeup of the bottommost mushroom cup, painted in wobbly purple and teal stripes, with a centipede drawn on as if crawling up the cup from the forest floor
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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AND THE COMPLETED DICE TREE!!!!!!!! (ok i still have to add a couple things like the price dice and another little sign and some extra stability stuff in the back but ssshhhhh)

17 days of work, all done!!!
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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DICE !!!!!!! TREE !!!!!!!!
GLUE !!!!!!! FINGERS !!!!!!!!
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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i did just go with boring names but i made them cute 😅
my hand holding four little wooden signs with squiggly outlines, all laser engraved with variations on the same text: mushrooms A / goes with mushrooms B (B goes with A, X goes with Y, and Y goes with X). the main text is in my own cute hand lettering and the “goes with” is in a simple sans serif.
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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have painted some ants and am waiting for ladybugs and a bumblebee to dry so i can paint their details! also snuck a centipede in there! i was going for a few little easter eggs but OOPS i think this is going to be BUG STUMP
closeup of my papier mache tree stump with brightly colored patterned mushroom cups and five little painted ants marching in a line down a vine
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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and in the next class there was a WASP and a couple girls got it into a cup to put it outside but it got OUT of the cup and luckily flew toward the windows and they got it back IN the cup and got the window open and got it outside and i accidentally filmed the second it got out so ENJOY 😂 (cw: LOUD)
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM