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Jess Soleigh
@soleigh.bsky.social
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ADHD art goblin, animator, puppet builder/fabricator, mini things, server dad, craft obsessed. To hell with your "ai". They/she. https://ko-fi.com/jsoleigh
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cake done. damn near perfect bouncy, spongy texture. switching to actual cake flour really does make it.
A tall and perky chocolate bundt cake freshly turned out of the pan onto a plain white plate to cool on top of my stove.
September 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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i havent bought any adhd help material in quite a while, so my @danidonovan.com 's Anti-Planner couldnt have come at a better time
Photo of a very thick (VERY! This book is BIG) spiral-bound book on my couch, titled "The Anti-Planner: How to get shit done when you don't feel like it!"
August 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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from their own tiktok
A text description on the user's video upload "@KIB-KIB FILMS A cozy little world. I am sorry for not marking that this content was AI-Generated. I am am AI creator, but I do hope this content brings you joy."
August 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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so...many floorboards (and yet...not enough) #todayscraft 🧶
The 1:12 scale model room diorama I am building from the previous post. The subfloors and walls are still the bare plywood and framing, but I've started to lay hand-cut floorboards made from 1/16th inch maple. Half the flooring is done and glued in, but the upper half only has enough boards for half of that (I have more maple being delivered next week). There is a tiny broom and dustpan posed in one corner of the room.
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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me: i have trust issues with things not being a sudden meme or jumpscare

me after watching this:
A strangely drawn human hand feeding a strangely drawn animal. The human says "you are safe now my sweet child". The animal says "i owe you my life".
August 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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it's this btw...i've wanted a good print of this Monet piece for some time now and *suddenly* ikea has it, on canvas, in a nice minimalist frame...for 60 bucks??? hell yeah i nabbed it immediately
A large framed canvas print of Monet's "The Seine at Giverny" hanging in a staged room in an IKEA catalogue. The painting is in very muted colors, very greyish browns with just a hint of green. An impressionistic view of full bushy trees at the edge of a river on the opposite bank from the viewer, their reflection somehow both clear and yet muddied in the water.
August 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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also lmao, buddy im sorry u just watch way too much hollywood copaganda they absolutely do not care about actually doing their job good and just. maybe this'll be a lesson learned...maybe
a snippet from the related story posted on reddit, "I'm pro police too, but this is ridiculous. Even just staking the property and verifying the culprit is actually there before busting in. Anything. We're looking at at least $25K in-"
August 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ok test dry fit with everything so far to take notes so i can go to beddddd... #todayscraft #scalemodels
The back wall and a freestanding wall frame (that will hold the little door) taped together to dry fit to the floor base, where I've also started the stair step panels to help frame the floor boards that will go down later. The two chairs are also back sitting on the floor in their planned spots to check their scale. Everything is being worked at 1:12 scale, where one inch is roughly equal to one foot in life.
August 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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*hissing* everything MUST be perfectly square!
Various quarter inch thick wood pieces laid out and glued together to resemble interior wall framing studs. The larger wall studs surround a scale model door I made many months prior and finally get to use.
August 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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depression slump means i am forcing myself to start on the framework for this scale diorama even tho my brain hates everything rn (and realizing i need to order more maple for the floorboards 🥲) #todayscraft
A random scattering of thin craft woods, a platform I built last night with some marks for a landing and step on it, a couple pre-made miniature chairs from my collection, all sort of plopped on top of a rough blueprint of the floorplan. I am miserable and every step in this is agony my brain is not wanting any part of.
August 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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anxiety hitting me hard today but i managed to sit down and scratch build a little scale model bookcase #todayscraft 🧶
A mostly finished miniature bookcase made of thin sheets of basswood. Most of the moulding is being glued to the base form of the shelves, with remaining pieces lying around it. The finished two shelf bookcase, unpainted so just the bare wood. It's about three inches tall and 2.5 inches wide! I'm pretty pleased with the moulding and routed edge for the top outside of the piece. I've stuck a bunch of miniature books, metal statues, an alarm clock and a tiny potted plant on the shelves and on top, all from my collection of scale miniature things.
August 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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didnt have painting energy today so it's back to some #todayscraft working away at carving block print pieces i started a while back 🧶
Close up photo of a linoleum print carving in progress. The art is a slight arc of twisted tree roots coming off a trunk to one side. Below it reads the really badly carved backwards text of "so below" because I decided to carve these way too small.
August 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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also my reference! my husband and i were literally just there the other week, it was unreal. we walked a short trail and then along the river in the valley until we got to this spot and just...took a nap! the weather was heavenly and the ghibli-esque meadows seemed like the perfect place to do so.
The photo reference I used for the painting, showing the sunny glen surrounded by trees somewhere out of the way in the valley at Yosemite National Park. The same location, just stepped back a bit to show a large patch of bare dirt shaded by the trees and my husband snoozing on a couple towels on the ground. His baseball cap covers his face and my shoes are also in the picture cause I took them off to wade in the river there out of frame and my feet were all muddy.
August 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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im getting better at noticing when the overworking starts so im done with this study :)

nicker poster paint on cold press watercolor paper, 5ish by 3ish inches
The finished painting, a small lush and grassy glen edged by narrow birch tree trunks and a bright sunny meadow of taller grasses and weeds beyond.
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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did not like these trees at first but fuck it, they're good now
Detail of the painting with further progress: the grass is being filled out now with volumes of shadows and light, and the tree trunks have bark detailing fleshed out and almost complete.
August 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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well i went and took all those reference photos while i was in Yosemite so i guess it's paintin' time
A small rectangle of watercolor paper taped to a flat surface, a wash of greens and vibrant yellow-greens already laying out a painting of a small grove of grass framed by the trunks of narrow trees. There's a bit of detailing started but not much at this stage.
August 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I have the book of all the boards and seeing them on pages like this lays this out really nicely! They really just spill off into the action/notes area to utilize that open space.
Photo of a page of storyboards, the same ones in the video posted by OP. On it are five panels, all hand drawn in pencil, showing how the camera paning back and forth to follow the action of one car driving around another is laid out.
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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we left on our trip just ONE day before this arrived so I only finally get to unbox her now...thank you @jeremycshipp.bsky.social for this strawberry creature, she will watch over the craft room with great interest!
A wooden desktop drawer with a collection of oddities displayed on top. In the center is a beautifully hand sewn felt doll in the shape of a large strawberry. It has three glassy green cat eyes with eye lids sculpted around it, and a green tuft of leaves on top that sit like a wide brimmed hat.
August 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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the holy pilgrimage has been made to the little freak fountain
A photo taken front on of a statue of Yoda in the center of a fountain. It sits in the outdoor courtyard entrance to the lobby to Lucasfilm.
July 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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my favorite rock surprise tho was finding a roadside quartz pegmatite (vein) near the rental we stayed at back by Kings Canyon. Got some beautiful quartzite samples with black tourmaline inclusions!
A close up photo of a large chunk of white quartzite (quartz rock) laying on a dry grassy ground. There are small thin specks and lines of black tourmaline mineral crystals growing within it.
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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even tho any tsunami warnings seem like they might ease around here, we're playing it safe and I'm happy we did some baller beach combing yesterday! found my first literal handfuls of serpentine as my rockhounding hobby grows (we dont get nearly as many cool rocks in florida)
A tabletop covered in ocean polished rocks of multiple sizes and colors (plus a few oyster shell pieces) all arranged in a nice square, with smaller pieces at the top and larger at the bottom. The rocks are a variety of reds, greens, browns and blacks, a good number with bright white quartz inclusion stripes like painted on lines.
July 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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took some fun photos today while out tho! ive been shooting rolls on an old minolta too so i'm excited to get those developed when i get home
A tall vertical photo of a street in Chinatown San Francisco, with red paper lanterns strug high across the street. A detailed photo of an old Praxinoscope shown in a vintage arcade museum, displaying a round drum of frames of a girl skipping rope on the interior, and a column of mirror panels on the inside reflecting the frames out for the viewer. A closeup of another vintage diorama display/mechanical oddity at the museum, of a miniature ticket booth with a small doll inside. Behind the booth is a blured out miniature carousel. Photo of an old abandoned pier, the floor boards gone leaving only the posts and piles. It stretches outward over the sands into the blue water of the bay, pointing almost directly to Alcatraz island in the distance.
July 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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i have another kit from this series that i am dyiiiiiing to get to next, so chair was a good warm up...

...a preview for next time! 🧶
Close up of the box lid on another miniature furniture piece from the X-Acto House of Miniatures series, showing a preview image of a Willard tall case grandfather clock from the 1790s...
July 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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oh yeah, the buffed wax gave it the perfect antique sheen!

i even added some little metal gliders under the legs because i gotta have those little extra details, from tiny broze colored headpins (which i got for just this kind of use) 🧶 #miniatures
The finished 1:12 scale side chair, stained a dark walnut color, edges rubbed to look old and used, and a furniture wax to seal the wood. The equally aged soft blue seat cushion has been glued in and fits perfect. A close up of the legs of the chair, where small little aged bronze metal beads can only just be seen peeking out. They had a longer wire I trimmed short, and stuck them into tiny pin holes into the wood, secured by CA glue (the beads were also filed on the bottom afterward to have a flat side).
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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some old gouache pieces dug out of hiding while i'm cleaning house (2016 maybe??)
A small square color illustration in gouache watercolor. A small outpost of simple buildings, pipes, and distant windmills sits on a stormy coast surrounded by foggy dark shadowy mountains. A simple gouache illustration of various plants clustered together in an arrangement. A small but panoramic gouache piece that's simple but painterly: a small yellow dog perches on a rock on a grassy hill, looking towards a speck of blue of an ocean past misty crags of rock that tower above.
July 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM