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Natalie Smillie
@natsmillie.bsky.social
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Illustrator, painter, plasterboard taper
natsmillie on twitter, natsmilliedraws on insta - www.nataliesmillie.com
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This morning a teabag exploded all over the kitchen. Then when I went to snap a yoghurt pot apart, it split down the side. Now I’ve come for my walk and my trainers are literally falling off my feet. I’ve only just started my walk 😂
A close up of a foot wearing a trainer. The trainer is old and well used, and very worn out. The sole has separated from the bottom of the trainer and it’s flapping around when I walk. It’s extremely annoying and I have only just started my dog walk.
March 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I’m on my walk this morning and I’ve said hello to SO many dogs, I’m having the best time. I realised I’m a human that prefers dogs to people and I’ve got a dog that prefers humans to dogs. We’re a good mix really 😄
My dog, Margaret. She is a border terrier. I’m this image she is laying on my sofa, half wrapped in a flowery pink blanket. She is looking very sweetly at the camera
February 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I see what you're doing, @theguardian.com picture editor. You cheeky little devil, you
January 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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After searching for some SEND tools, I noticed that the templates aren't always very good, or you need to pay for them. So I made my own - if there are any SENCO's or SEND interested people here, please feel free to download and use these. Happy to take suggestions if you need something else too 👍
a template for a 5 point scale to help with emotional regulation. The first column is numbered 1 - 5 with at the bottom, 1 being green, graduating through yellow and orange up to red on number 5. There are boxes in three columns to the right named 'How do I feel?', 'What', and 'How can I react?'. Two columns, the first is named 'what does it look like?' and the second is 'how you can help me'. To the left is an inset smaller column numbered 1 at the bottom, 2 in the middle and 3 at the top. 1 is green, 2 is yellow, 3 is red.
January 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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You TELL me that Lauren Sanchez isn't one of those demon women in Devil's Advocate. YOU JUST TELL ME SHE ISN'T
January 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Oh thank god, I'm going to live. Paddy Mayne is going to kick arse on my behalf 🙌
January 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I was given some Holbein acryla gouache for Christmas - I love that you can’t reactivate the paint once it’s dry, it’s suits the way I paint really nicely! Anyway, I painted this to see what the paint was like to use, in honour of the year of the snake.
Two hands with blue vambraces embossed with stars are held aloft with a snake entwined around them. The snake starts off dark pink and gradually fades to a dark mauve and is wreathed in stars. A sketchbook with a pencil, showing sketches. One is two hands and a snake, there is a half finished sword, and a sword with a hand holding the handle, flowers growing up from the bottom
January 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Someone please explain why YouTube is suggesting this video to me, a person who must use a calculator to work out quite simple things
A screen capture of a 'suggested for you' video on YouTube. The video is entitled 'Lisa Piccirillo: Exotic Phenomena in dimension 4', posted by the Harvard Mathematics Department
January 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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My absolute favourite ❤️
A cloudy sky with a green grass foreground, a dark tree mid ground and pinky orange highlights touching the tops of the clouds A cloudy sky with a green grass foreground, a dark tree mid ground and pinky orange highlights touching the tops of the clouds. There are some darker trees framing the left foreground A cloudy sky with a green grass and paved foreground, a dark tree mid ground and pinky orange highlights touching the tops of the clouds. There are some left foreground is framed by a bare tree devoid of leaves but very twiggy. It provides an interesting contrast to the pinky fluffy clouds.
December 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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It always makes me so sad that I’m not a better photographer 😄
A cold morning in a park, the foreground is framed by twigs and small branches. The mid ground is a stand of dark, leafless trees and the background is the sky, cloudy and grey but nearer the trees the sun is breaking through in a golden shard.
December 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Thank you SO much to everyone that has bought a decoration! I have a couple left so if you'd like one, now is the time if you want it before Christmas!

www.nataliesmillie.com/shop
December 5, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Good morning! I’m popping to the post office today to post some decorations so if you’d like to grab one and have it posted today then hop over to www.nataliesmillie.com/shop!
December 4, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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I've been painting away here in Devon and I've made some extremely cute little Christmas decorations. If you'd like one, or know someone who would, please pop over to my shop where I've got a limited number for sale.

www.nataliesmillie.com/shop

I would LOVE a repost if you would be so kind! 🎄
December 3, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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Today I am painting wooden slices! I absolutely love gingerbread - I’m going to be making some this weekend for when we put up the tree! #art #painting #acrylic #christmas
A hand is painting a wooden slice. The Alice has a blue/green background and the character being painted is the body of a gingerbread man in a rich red brown. The background is partial sketches of gingerbread men.
November 27, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Some bauble painting today! #art #illustration #painting #christmas
A left hand holding a ceramic bauble in the process of being painted. The bauble is dark blue with holly leaves winding around it, and small red berries are dotted here and there. The background is painting paraphernalia, including a sketch pad, some paint and a paint palette.
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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This weeks @clr_collective is Myrtle! Have a festive tree! #procreate #clr_collective
December 8, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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A celestial colour collective this week! @clr_collective. #clr_collective
@procreate
November 17, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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Good evening @Clr_Collective! Here is another bedressed woman in the colour Thistle! @Procreate
If you go to my insta (natsmilliedraws), you can check out the Timelapse! #colour_collective
November 3, 2023 at 8:34 PM
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Happy Halloween, Witches! #procreate #art #kidlitart #illustration
An illustration - All in shades of blue or pink, a young witch practices her levitation spells with her cat familiars. It is going very wrong and they are all floating up in the air along with all the magic equipment
October 31, 2023 at 10:03 AM
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Some cool wiggly patterns I’ve just noticed on the log which Margaret has insisted I sit on
A photo of a smooth, barkless log which has some wiggly patterns on it radiating out from a small, shallow indentation
October 29, 2023 at 9:53 AM
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A very windy day in Plymouth, and Margaret keeps leading me from bench to bench in between little bursts of walking 😄
A small fluffy border terrier dog looks up at the camera expectantly, waiting for a ball to be thrown A snapshot of Plymouth in Devon. Windy, cloudy sky above and below, a blustery park, the mid ground silhouetted against the sun and the foreground bright green
October 29, 2023 at 9:39 AM
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@Clr_Collective is BACK and I’m starting off strong with another bedressed lady! Remember, anyone can join in, every Friday at 7.30 and the colour is announced on Saturday! @Procreate
October 27, 2023 at 6:29 PM
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I feel like sombody’s watching me 👀
Which colourway is your favourite?

@Procreate
October 19, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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It’s spooky season and I thought I would paint some things a witch might need or conceivably have in their pockets.
Painted in @procreate
October 16, 2023 at 10:04 AM
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Here is a suitably Halloweeny pumpkin for your viewing pleasure! Painted in @procreate!
October 13, 2023 at 2:58 PM