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Joyce Brandon
@joycebrandon.bsky.social
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I'm an artist. I work in oils, acrylics, textiles, wood, ad infinitum. I love books, Tarot, listening to scary stories, and unsolved mysteries. I enjoy learning about nature, ancient cultures, and spiritualism.

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I woke up with "Every Little Kiss" playing in my head. According to the weather, this evening I'll be listening to the mandolin rain.
The reissue cover of the album "the way it is", by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The cover features a sepia tone waterscape framing a sepia photo of the band members: Bruce Hornsby, David Mansfield, George Marinelli, Joe Puerta, & John Molo.
April 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I've been restocking for the coming Farmer's Market season & am adding some new items. This is my colored pencil drawing of a sweet barn owl, on shrink plastic. I attached a really strong magnet on the back!
A detailed drawing of a barn owl, resting on a stump, or old wooden fence post, and staring out directly at the viewer. This drawing was done with Prismacolor pencils on a sheet of sanded shrink plastic. It's mounted on a strong magnet and, in this photo, it's sticking to a galvanized sheet.
March 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Onyx is hungry. He's considering eating my fingers.
A photo of Onyx, a big, long-haired, black cat with a white patch on his right upper lip and his chest. The photo is close up and highlights his pretty, green eyes.
March 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Is your kitty a Maine Coon? I lost my best buddy, Buzz, last year. Someday I'd like to have another kitty that looks like him. He wasn't a Maine Coon, but he was a big boy.
Buzz, a long-haired brown tabby, rests on a wooden chair. Bright sunlight highlights the oak wood and Buzz' bright, green eyes.
March 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Mr. Tripp is very content this morning. He hopes your Saturday is just as peaceful & full of quiet joy. (or LOUD joy, if that's what you're looking for today)

#Caturday
Mr. Tripp, a pale grey tabby cat, is sleeping on a grey pillow.
March 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If you see this, post a dragon.
A bright-eyed Chinese water dragon rests on a porus rock. It's looking into the camera, and its mouth is partially open, showing a bright pink tongue and a row of tiny, peg shaped teeth.
March 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
The cast of the television show Fringe.
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Me in the Nation Security team group chat
A painting by Lawrence Toney showing two women, each in an apron, talking on antique wall phones. Overhead the wires spell out "The Party Line" The wires then lead out to the phone handsets held by four different people listening in to the conversation: A young woman, an older woman, and two older men. The eavesdroppers all appeared either amused or scandalized by whatever they're hearing over the party line.
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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A good morning to you! This is Miss Mae, our eldest kitty. She loves every person she meets, enjoys rides in strollers, and keeps our other cats in line.
A tabby tortoiseshell cat sits on a table near a window, glowing in the sun.
March 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I just ordered the poetry collection "child of a stolen homeland" by @karimwafa.bsky.social So excited for its arrival!

I ordered at Bookshop.org to support Wordsmith Bookshoppe in Galesburg, Illinois!

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A screenshot of a book cover: child of a stolen homeland. Poetry authored by Karim Wafa. The cover image is a tree created with words of different sizes and colors. Like: Freedom, Race, Native, Oppression, Colonisation, and Native, among others. The screenshot is from BOOKSHOP.ORG, where you can order books online, delivered to your home, and support your local booksellers and book shops ath the same time. This purchase supported The Wordsmith Bookshoppe is Galesburg, Illinois.
March 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Mr. Tripp is just as unimpressed with this weather, as I am. A gorgeous 80 degrees on Friday, 2 inches of snow on Sunday. I might climb right back into that hospital bed with him. 🥶
A handsom grey tabby, Mr. Tripp, is draped over a pillow on a home hospital bed. His left arm is stretched out, his face pointed down almost into the bedsheet.
March 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Today I started my first weaving work in months. A little embroidery floss landscape, woven on a little 4x4 inch, homemade loom. Still needs finishing. Can you tell I'm ready for the warmer, lush days of spring?
A tiny woven tapestry landscape, unfinished & still on its little, wooden loom. The work depicts a stylized rendition of a green river valley, under a cloudless sky.
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Mr. Tripp hopes you all remember to take a little time for yourself today. Even if it's just enjoying a moment of sunshine, or a soft, fuzzy blanket.
Mr. Tripp, a grey tabby cat, relaxes on a fuzzy green blanket, in a sunny spot.
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This is Tiny, enjoying an afternoon nap with my daughter's dog, Temperance. We hope you're feeling better!
A cat peeks out from under a blanket. A dog lies next to the cat, her paw draped over the cat's back.
February 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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She's beautiful. Reminds me of Jane Wyatt. She played Spock's mother on the original Star Trek series, among many other roles.
A black and white photo of the young Jane Wyatt. She's looking upward, toward our right, with an open smile. As if she were about to laugh.
February 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I opened the kitchen window and petted my horse, Dancer, for the first time since the crash. She talked to me while I fed her grapes. I've missed her so much!

This is Dancer with her goat children, August & Kieran (the photo bomber).
A paint horse eats from a bucket in the middle ground, in the distance there's a goat. In the foreground, they are photo bombed by a la mancha goat, peering into the camera.
February 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Saturday morning projects - Paper maché niches & shrines. Having a lot of fun experimenting with shapes. But, oh it dries so slow! #papermache #shrines #nicho #artist #handmade
An unfinished paper maché niche (or shrine, or nicho) rests on a sheet of brown parchment paper. Two sculpting tools lie beneath the niche and a small pile of fresh paper maché lies beside the niche.
February 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Tiny and I send you wishes for a beautiful day!
February 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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17 weeks after the crash. Surgery scheduled and progress update.
February 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Tiny & Onyx - Orphaned brothers I raised. Now they're big, sweet fluff-balls!
A fluffy cat, named Tiny, zoning out in the sunshine. A big, fluffy cat sitting in the sun & looking directly at the camera. This fellow is named Onyx.
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I did my first (imo) good sketch since the crash. Decided to run with it. So I transferred it to a #Speedball speedy cut carving block. Then I gave him a name, carved into erasers. "Happy Roo"
#blockprint #blockprinting #JoyceBrandon #WillowThicket
"Happy Roo" A print of a rooster, made with hand carved blocks. A "Happy Roo" print beside the carved blocks used to create it. The original rooster sketch that inspired the "Happy Roo" hand carved block print.
February 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I work in a variety of mediums. Just getting back to creating after a devistating car wreck.
Two glass globe ornaments draped with hand beaded covers. A watercolor of a little orange and golden frog sitting on a lily pad. A hand embroidered Death's Head Moth An oil painting of a Peacock resting on top of a marble pillar.
February 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Work from over the last few weeks. All made while stuck in my hospital bed. Glad to be able to get into the wheelchair a lot more this week!
Hand painted wooden pins, by Joyce Brandon. Hand beaded, glass globe ornament, by Joyce Brandon. Hand embroidered Minnesota Vikings patch. This was for a gift. Hand beaded, glass globe ornament, by Joyce Brandon.
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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My big bottle baby, Onyx, joined me on the hospital bed while I gave my arm a rest from the splint.
November 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM