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Kelly J Cooper
@kjccreates.bsky.social
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Writer. Editor. Poet. Nerd. She/her.
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Started working my way through this. It looks beat up cuz I bought it used. I read chapter 1 last week; this week I did the exercises from chapter 1 and then read chapter 2.
A book titled "CREATIVE STRENGTH TRAINING: Prompts, Exercises and Personal Stories for Encouraging Artistic Genius" by JANE DUNNEWOLD. There are 3 pictures across the bottom: an abstract painting with circles & stripes in shades of red; a painting of an owl on a branch with the moon behind; & a person wearing glasses writing in a journal, as seen from behind & above.
February 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The best hot take I have read about the #drone situation was published before the drone situation started happening.

It's a graphic novel about time travel, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence...
A hardcover graphic novel with the title "MY TIME MACHINE" in white letters shows an older woman in an environmental suit inside a big clear bubble. There's a console in front of her, a digital device in her hands, & a light shining from her helmet. Beyond the bubble, the landscape is bare & the sky is bright with stars. The author's name, also in white print, is Carol Lay.
December 16, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I carved this image out of wood & printed it once because I had no idea what I was doing. Just messing around, learning how to use various wood carving tools.
A purple print of the classic Loch Ness monster image on a piece of sketchbook paper torn out of the sketchbook. The block was wood & hand-carved.
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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LOCAL SHRUBBERY HAS OPINIONS!!!
An evergreen shrub has two big eyeballs added to it & a giant pink cardboard tongue. It is surrounded by other Halloween decorations like a plastic skull, carved pumpkins, giant spiderweb with spider & egg sac, and a grave stone that reads "R I.P."
October 31, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Three that have caught my eye recently have taken nature elements & messed with them.
The cover for the trade paperback edition of BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou has an anthropomorphic bear dragging a bloody bag & carrying a shovel as viewed from above through a break in a forest canopy. The cover for Charles Burns' graphic novel FINAL CUT has a red binding. We can see the back of a white person with long red hair, wearing what looks like a blue tank top. The background is some sort of organic purple pattern, similar to woodgrain. The cover for OFF MENU written by OLIVER GERLACH & illustrated by KELSI JO SILVA shows two fantasy figures observing the food made by a white woman with red hair and a heart on her T-shirt. The figure on the left is young, with glasses & ears like a puppy, & dressed in an orange long sleeve shirt & a denim jumper. The figure on the right is blue with long pointy ears, long curly dark hair pulled back, & is wearing a short-sleeved chef's jacket. The steam coming off the food loops around & provides the background for the title.
October 30, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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New jewelry from start to finish: lapis lazuli cabochon in a silver bezel. A difficult project & I'm delighted that it came out well.
Oval silver wire with a small loop on one end and four pieces of wire soldered in place perpendicular to the oval at the four "corners." Extremely janky looking. Oval silver wire with a small loop on one end and four pieces of wire soldered in place perpendicular to the oval at the four "corners." Slightly less janky looking than the previous picture. Oval silver wire with a small loop on one end and four small bits of wire soldered in place perpendicular to the oval at the four "corners." Cleaned and polished. Oval silver wire with a small loop on one end and four small bits of wire soldered in place perpendicular to the oval at the four "corners." The wires have been trimmed & bent into place so that they are securing an oval lapis lazuli stone in place. There is a jump ring on the loop to facilitate adding a chain.
October 29, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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New ring from start to finish, made over the course of 8 hours spread over 3 classes.
A piece of 12 gauge silver wire bent into a D shape & soldered closed. A silver ring with a black sharpie mark indicating where I'm going to cut it & remove a piece. Next to the ring is a small silver tube. A silver ring with a small tube that has been soldered into the ring to serve as a setting for a small stone. My fingers holding the finished ring with a black stone in a small tubular setting.
October 4, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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I feel like WORMWOOD : Gentleman Corpse by @templesmith.bsky.social should've gotten more play with regard to this whole mess. (The worm in the corpse's eye is the main character.)
September 20, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Huh. #600,246. I wouldn't have guessed, tbh.
Bluesky-sponsored image with their butterfly logo in the top left corner. Text reads "Celebrating 10M users #600,246" with the words "FIRST 10%" circled by the words "BLUESKY ELDER CERTIFIED" and my name (Kelly J Cooper) over my address (@kjccreates.bsky.social) and "Joined August 17, 2023" along the bottom.
September 17, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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I've been working through jewelry classes at our local adult ed space & this is the latest result! SO SHINY!
A silver wire bracelet made up of 11 heart shapes joined together by small rings. The clasp is shaped like a tiny barbell with melted silver at each end. It is very shiny.
September 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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It occurs to me that I haven't done an "I made this!" post in a while...
Copper chain necklace with an 8-pointed star medallion that was cut from a sheet of copper. A rectangle is cut out of the center of the medallion & it's imprinted with star-shaped decorative dents. A handmade bail attaches it to the chain. A brass octogon-shaped brass bracelet with a rope-like pattern imprinted on the metal. Two brass rings & one silver ring. They are very shiny. The silver ring from the previous picture now has a bezel attached & a dome-shaped amethyst set in the bezel. My thumb & pointer finger hold it up for optimal viewing.
August 29, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Tiniest flowers in my yard.
Tiny blue flower with greenery, dead stalks, & unopened buds.
March 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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I put something on my to do list last night and then today, I did the thing!

Woohoo!

(The thing was scheduling my annual mammogram & it's 4 months in the future, but it definitely counts.)
February 1, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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I've spent a chunk of 2023 learning new things and really enjoying the process.

So, I'm curious... What do you want to learn?
The pic shows hand-scribbled words reading "How to..."
December 5, 2023 at 5:32 PM
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I feel like this is a glimpse into an alternative timeline mashup.
A screenshot of a Bluesky post that was "Reposted by Claude Monet" originally by "Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social" that reads "During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."
November 21, 2023 at 3:09 AM
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I made a silly thing because I kept seeing it flip back and forth.
Two images, side-by-side. On the left, a line drawing of a mask on a person's face labeled "MASK." The metal nose piece; two dots representing the attachment points for the head straps; & the beginning of the 2 straps are the only details. On the right, the same image has been rotated 90° to the left & looks like a rabbit with their hip (the nose piece) jutting out a bit. The attachment points look like eyes; the straps look like bunny ears. It's labeled "SASSY BUNNY." In between, I wrote "kjccreates" sideways.
November 14, 2023 at 6:06 AM
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Me, standing in the dark, smelling my night-blooming jasmine and thinking, "Man, if I could bottle that and carry it around with me, I'd do it in a heartbeat."

*perfume epiphany*
The tip of a branch of night-blooming jasmine with many small tubular flowers & a few leaves. Some flowers are open & look like they have little stars on the end while others are closed, with blunt tips.
October 13, 2023 at 3:34 AM
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I carved some soft linoleum and made a print. It's a self portrait. Can you see the resemblance?
October 3, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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Let's see, since last month's thread, I've taught myself basic stone-carving with my Dremel tool, learned to make glass beads, and started the fall crop of French Breakfast radishes. Also, I'm still writing poetry and learning embroidery.
September 22, 2023 at 5:37 PM
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I made these!
Seven hand-made glass beads, each about a half-inch across. Two dark blue. Two orange with blue swirls. One white with blue swirls. One purple with black swirls. One black with white dots.
September 20, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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Excellent young adult spooky dang book! One of only 3 books this year that I've sat down and devoured in a single day! Reminded me of reading Joan Aiken back in my childhood. Well done @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
Cover of a hardcover book called DEEPHAVEN by Ethan M. Aldridge (billed here as "Bestselling creator of ESTRANGED") shows a young person in a fabulous coat holding a candle & standing in the doorway of a spooky old mansion. Above them is a monster with glowing blue eyes.
September 12, 2023 at 5:48 AM
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Playing with my new stone-carving Dremel bits.
Smooth rock with the word "Hi" inside of a comic book-style speech balloon carved into it.
September 11, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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Happy Birthday, Bugge!

I got da book!
A book titled NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US AND OTHER STORIES by premee mohamed. There are space tentacles & an astronaut & stars adorning the creepy cover.
September 2, 2023 at 6:42 PM
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This summer, I carved the wood & printed the Loch Ness Monster; I wove the bracelet using a Kumihimo disk loom; I cut, filed, hammered, curled, & polished the ring; and I invented the delicious pizza (mozzarella, ground parmesan, & ricotta cheeses with basil pesto & Zima grape tomatoes).
A piece of paper printed with a woodcut of the Loch Ness Monster in purple ink. The image is based on the famous photo. A bracelet woven in Kumihimo style from many shades of blue using materials with multiple textures worn on the wrist of a white woman. A hammered silver ring decorated with three dots on the finger of a white woman's hand. One slice of pizza on a white plate. The pizza is made with 3 kinds of cheese, pesto, & slices of small orange tomatoes.
August 24, 2023 at 3:35 PM