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i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton
@ladycelery.bsky.social
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little house on the prairie (the show) historian
licensed tattoo artist
big big bee

https://ladycelery.etsy.com
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my new thing is that i crochet little granny square headscarves for myself
a red crocheted headscarf (it’s basically just a big triangle with two straps on the ends to tie back a light blue headscarf with a gold and navy blue trim me wearing the red headscarf. looking like a medieval peasant me in the blue headscarf. i look even more like a medieval peasant
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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happy wednesday
monty the big orange fluffy cat. he’s sitting on the couch, leaning against a little blue pillow and taking a bath. the picture was taken mid-lick, so his tongue is extended out super long and he has a sort of crazed look in his eye. he is normally a handsome cat but he looks really ugly here
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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okay but check this out
a black and grey tattoo of a peony with an eye ball in the middle of it on the side of the leg near the knee
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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i don’t know what i’d do without this little freak in my life
monty, the orange fluffy cat. he’s sitting on the floor with a kind of slouched posture with a little rumpled blue bib around his neck. his ears are sort of tilted back and he’s staring off looking miserable. but still cute
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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i have business magnets now
a magnet on a fridge. the magnet is on a blue background, depicting a paper grocery bag that says “fine art and tattoos” above a QR code. underneath that it says @ladycelery. there’s a stalk of celery sticking out of the bag and then another celery in front, leaning to the side. it has a cartoon lady face on it looking off to the side. at the bottom in red letters it says “don’t forget the celery!” a cute rainbow box full of magnets, which is how they were shipped to me
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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the colors are gonna be a lil crazy
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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women don’t like the vehicle
a screenshot of columbo getting out of his car—a peugeot 403 convertible. it’s a small old car that has seen better days—it looks a little dusty, dinged up, and falling apart. it is also known for breaking down a lot, but he loves it
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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hi, i made a video of my flash creating process!

i’m a very tactile person and i like working with my hands—this is my way of doing things semi-traditionally so i can get a feel for how my designs look and how i’m going to approach them for the actual tattoo
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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i love drawing halloween stuff so much i made not one but TWO haunted flash sheets. i cannot be stopped!!!!!
a flash sheet called Haunted Offerings by @ladycelery. it’s all black and grey illustrations that have sort of vintage postcard vibes (so pretty cartoony). there’s a haunted castle floating in the air, a hot latex devil lady, a snail with a skull for a shell, a cat witch arching its back, a lollipop with a spider in it, a moon with a face on it and stars surrounding it, and a scarecrow pumpkin guy looking a little crazy part two! more of the same style, this one has an opossum in a witch hat riding a broom, a pumpkin with a surprised cartoon face, an apple sliced open with a skull face made out of seeds, a little girl with a with hat, and a little impish looking devil marching with a trident
October 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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WHO CAN IT BE NOW?
child playing toy saxophone thing; he is leaned back really far
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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got to do a super fun tat this week—a diving girl! i had so much fun with this design/placement, felt like a really good way to push myself
a black and grey tattoo on the side of the calf of a vintage-looking woman in a diving suit and cap. the curve of her figure goes really nicely with the curve of the leg which is fun. the swimsuit is black with little scalloped frills on it, and then the rest of her is softly shaded a look at the tattoo further away, showing the whole leg and how it’s positioned
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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today is day one of #nestober25 and i was so excited to use the most recent photo set from @trueref.bsky.social to make day 1: nest. they are always coming through with amazing stuff on patreon!!! and right on time too lol
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
a beautiful picture that i did not take of the hawthorne asylum (a food cart pod in portland) at sunset
September 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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terrific news
a screenshot of my email that says “columbo is waiting” and then below that is a picture of columbo
September 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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i made a painting inspired by marina’s newest album, Princess of Power. i’ve been listening to her for twelve years (!!!) but finally got to see her this year and wanted to make something to commemorate the moment.

went a little crazy with all of the colors but it was a lot of fun!
a painting of a woman with her hands on her hips in a kind of sultry pose. at the base of her outfit are some leaves that are yellow in the center, then purple, blue, green, and yellow again. she’s wearing a pink and yellow rose dress where the large flowers are covering the chest area and then there’s a tight magenta/purple corset below that. the woman’s face is a pink/purple butterfly with big creepy eyes on it in the background are some colorful metallic stars connected by a light pastel sort of ribbon shape the same painting, this time on a messy drawing board and surrounded by various materials—paint tubes that were used to make it, some colored pencils, and the metallic paint tins as well. everything is kind of scattered around but in a fun artsy way. if only it actually looked this organized when i was actually working on it but no, this is very staged
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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screenshot of a meme—the top panel is kim kardashian saying “i’m like dropping subtle hints that i’m” and then i’ve badly edited “watching columbo” onto that. the bottom panel is her at a party or something and it says “oh, just one more thing…”
September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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really really happy with how this jackalope tattoo turned out! i think it’s one of my favorite flash pieces at the moment so fingers crossed i get to do it again soon!
a black and grey tattoo of a jackalope leaping/running through the air. it’s very illustrative, sort of linocut inspired so a lot of the shape is given with little lines here and there, and then some dark shading to make the antlers and legs stand out slightly further angle of the same piece
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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bluesky gets to see this one first, i made some MCR inspired flash to kick off creepy season
a hand painted flash sheet—the paper is a light tan tone. in the top it says “crying, dying, and burning.” the sheet has tattoo designs that are mostly black and grey—a heart on fire with a dagger stuck in it, two pills with some dust around them, hands grazing each other with sparkles, a sad face, a smiley face balloon, a decaying skull with scary eyes, a black wilted rose, a sun setting (just line art, nothing fancy), a dripping candle with an eye where the flame would be, an eye crying red tears, a holy water vial with blood spilling out, a heart with a stake driven through it and a drip of red blood, plastic vampire teeth, an ornamental heart, and a little barbed wire bit.
September 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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extremely proud of this custom crow tattoo i got to do!! i keep playing around with different styles and approaches and this was a moment where it felt like something clicked. hoping to do more like it!!
a tattoo of a crow’s profile in flight. it has its legs and wing outstretched, a lot of soft shading in the feathers and body. the eye is a wide open circle to give it a cool spooky effect, framed by some nice dark shading. completing the composition on the top is a star surrounded by a circle
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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god damn i want the MCR Chicago t-shirt so fucking bad. it’s so stupid, i love it
a white tee with big black letter’s that say “i love billy’s son’s band.” on the other side is a red heart design that mimics the smashing pumpkins’ logo but it says MCR in the center instead of SP
August 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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yeah we kind of cooked today tbh
August 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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this is my energy whenever my friends come in to get tattooed
danny devito in it’s always sunny in philadelphia looking red in the face and shouting “somebody’s got to get stabbed”
August 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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starting our morning with some @tomwalker.bsky.social
a photo of me laying in bed with monty, a fluffy orange cat, is leaning on me and faced my direction. hes sort of upright, sitting like a little man. one of his back legs is reached out towards me and his front legs are perched on top of everything else. he looks really stupid. he also has a very empty expression on his face. beside him is a laptop playing a tom walker video
August 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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some new tattoo flash inspired by some of my favorite southwestern creatures!
a hand painted tattoo flash sheet on coffee stained paper. all of the designs are black and grey with a lot of gaps to let the paper color show through. there’s a whip tail lizard, hummingbird hawk moth, roadrunner, jackalope, a quail with a bandana and a cowboy hat, hoary bar, angry scorpion, and an armadillo with a cowboy hat and a lasso
August 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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last night victor and i were up until 2am because we Had Questions ™
a screenshot of google search history: flat earth map can you see off the edge of the flat esrth what does pac man theory apply to plane earth how does the sun stay put flat earth has anyone been to space flat earth theory how do flat earthers explain stars how does the water not fall off the edge flat earth how do flat earthers explain time zones
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM