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Stacy Cashmore
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Speaker & Tech Explorer DevOps Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies Loves learning, Lego, our sand dunes and family! Learning to love with Long Covid and ME/CFS
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I am loving the train from Malmö to Stockholm! Only 15 euros upgrade to 1st class and it's space, comfort, drinks, snacks, and a delicious lunch! Another 75 mins and I can chill 🤩
A prawn sandwich, doctor who on the laptop and a comfy 1st class seat.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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And I'm now looking at what's new in C# and .NET with @wildermuth.com!
Shaun standing on stage in front of live code!
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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If you are you going to have a water tower, have an awesome one! View from my hotel in Mälmo!
View from a hotel window looking at the spectacular water tower in Hillie Mälmo. It's a smoothed concrete structure with an observation deck on top and looks like a flying saucer 🛸
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Off to #Øredev! Hippo has a friend this trip 😊 See you all soon!
A plushie hippo and rabbit looking out of a plane window. The hippo is wearing a pink hoodie
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I got the water colours out again today. The new lights over the dining room table make the world of difference, but I can see I've not practiced for a while... All things considered not the worst things I've made, and it was fun 🤩
Water colour pallet with pools of black, grey and yellow. There are also many half tins of water colour in the middle. Start of 2 water colour pictures. One of an old English sheepdog, the other a mountain pocture. With sand in front of it More details on the 2 pictures, the dog has shading for dark areas, and shadows, the mountains have a sky, rudimentary trees and the start of a water front. Almost finished sketches. The dog has more shading, and some highlights for where the furnis catching the sun. The mountains have stars, snow highlights on the ridges, and some white horses on the waves.
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Well it's up... I just hope it stays there!
USC Lego Millennium Falconounted on the wall. There are a couple of Grogu plushies under it, Thor's hammer Lego set, and the haunted mansion Lego set.
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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What do we do when we're super stressed and a little down about our health? Take the most complex, expensive Lego set we own, that was an absolute nightmare to build and falls apart of you so much as look at it wrong. And try to mount it on the wall using a bracket you 3d printed...
UCS Lego Falcon on a very messy desk with a 3d printed wall bracket on top
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Last week I caught a little bug. Just a cold that I barely knew was there. Sore throat, blocked nose, some coughing in the morning. But my chronic conditions kicked into overdrive and laid me out. Yesterday I at least managed to draw from bed. A new bookmark 😊 Not great, but at least I tried!
A quick sketch of a ghost with legs and shoes. The ghost is a sheet type with shaded folds to give it some texture and 2 black circles for eyes. The medium is alcohol marker A cute werewolf drawing. 2 tone grey with pointy ears (also 2 tone grey, black eyes and pink rosy cheeks). There are tufts of hair in their head and in their warm there is a dark smile line below the round nose. Medium alcohol marker A cute vampire. Red cape that goes up around his ears. A skull pendant keeping his cape closed. He has pointed ears, a widows peak, and the too of his hair is pointed on both sides like bat wings. He has round white ears a d little pink cheeks. His mouth is open, you can see his teeth and tongue. Medium alcohol markers 2md attempt for all 3 on a book mark. The ghost has no legs, the wearwolf has fangs a s the head is wider, the vampires face is slightly the wing shape and more teeth are visible. Medium: alcohol markers
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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You shut your mouth!
A Spotify banner showing a Christmas top 100 hits. And saying that it is 100 days to Christmas
September 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Last week I shared my failed towered house because my fineliner ran out and i rushed it with alcohol markers that were just too bold.

Well, i pack of Windsor and Newton fineliners arrived and this morning I thought I'd try to rescue it. Not wonderful, but I'll take it. #KeepLearning #ArtPractice
A water colour of a towered house on a hill. The main outlines are (too) bold black lines, and the details/birds are a mix of 0.1, 0.5, and 1mm fineliners. There are basic birds in the top right. The ones further away are .5mm and the one closest is 1mm
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Ahh... What a relaxing game! I've been playing with #TinyGlade for a while & just got back into it watching YouTube tutorials. Hours dissapear!

No power ups, challenges, or stress. Just build your diarama & chill out. At first glance it's too simple, but has so many possibilities! It's brilliant!
An evening view of a castle with a tiny village in the Finy Glade game.
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I love this design for the pull tab on the delivery box from #NelsonShoes.

I love it when someone makes a design whimsical in a simple, but effective, way. 🤩
Top of delivery box showing the pull tab that opens it. The pull tab is printed as a shoe lace. You pull the lace to open 😍
September 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Failed art today! I took the tower on the postcard, painted it with water colour trying out some new techniques & it was... OK. Then I went to fineline the details. Only... My fineliner is empty and i have no patience. So i used a different brush that u hoped i could control. Spoilers. I couldn't 😭🤣
First washes on a loose sketch of a tower on a hill. The grass is a very see through gree. The sky a shade of blue, and threes a deeper shade of green, but still transparent. The house/tower already has 2 layers of light and dark sandy brown. Theroof has a transparent red wash. The almost finished card. The grass as deeper shades of green. The castle has deeper shades of red on the roof. The trees are washed in different hues of green. The sky has washes of dark blue and purple. The sketch is outlined in a too wide a black line. The details still need fineliner
September 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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So I wanted to see if my tower was a first time lucky, or could I redo it. I started with high quality watercolour paper and aside from not using enough of the paper I'm happy. Then I tried a bookmark, and tried to use colour theory and alcohol markers for the shading. Not great, but not bad either😊
Pencil sketch of a wizards tower on water colour paper. The tower has a house joined up to it and there is an orchard behind. It sits atop a hill that slopes off at the edge. The sketch isn't yet painted Another wizards tower, this time on a bookmark and standing alone in water. The roof tiles are red and the stone putty. There is shading to shadow using blues to create cool shadows to add depth
August 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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My art journey continues. If you'd have told me 2 years ago I could have drawn this I'd have laughed at you. I have zero talent.

Steady, though not consistent practice 😅, and I'm producing things that are so much better. Will I ever be great? No, but I am getting good 😊
A pencil drawing of a fantasy type tower. It has a pointed roof, with a room in it, and several tall windows on the way down to the rocky base. There are bricks scattered around and it's looking warn on the walls. The rocky base is in the sea and there are waves crashing on one side.
August 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I've been wanting to share these for an age because I'm so proud of them. But there were surprise gifts for @engstromjess.bsky.social and @engstromjimmy.bsky.social so I couldn't 😅 Logos are super hard, but I'm so happy with how far my drawing skills have come in 3 years!
A bookmark with a uni-kitty on top and and a witches hat below. Both are freehand drawn and coloured with Posca pens. A bookmark with a DC logo in blue Posca and a freedrawn cutie racoon in alcohol markers Reverse of the DV bookmark: the Marvel logo in posca
August 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Relaxation. I went to buy books and this one just happened to be at the counter. I couldn't say no. I have a delivery of #Ohuhu markers coming to day to use in the book. I also got a hot air cool to help speed up the process if drying the pain between layers and practiced some techniques 😊
A cutesie colouring book A multilayer monochrome watercolour of a mountain pass with a moon in the sky A water colour tree half finished with sunlight coming from one side. There are 2 other trees sketched and waiting for paining
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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A week in pain and relaxation...

First up pian. These are the after pictures of the cable management that caused the blood on the carpet. The #LinusTechTips magnetic cable management system is awesome. Paired with a cable tube so there is only one umbilical rather than lots of wires and I'm 😊
Pc cable tied and wires going into a wrapped cord under the desk Monitor wires cable tied and routed through the monitor arm Wires behind the desk cable managed with magnetic clamps Wires cable managed under the desk
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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2 weeks ago, I got my new tattoo.

Today the hospital took 4 vials of my blood.

Maybe, I should stop having needles in my arm in a Friday afternoon 😅
Forearm tattoo that says "We're all stories in the end; just make it a good one, eh?" with line are below for 2 heartbeats, 2 hearts and a TARDIS. There is a splatering of mint green and red, link ink splahes, over the words and image.
July 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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But I managed another #Posca bookmark! I thought I'd turn to something creepier. Not great, but much more complex than I'd tried before.
Bookmark with three Posca panels: a spider in a spider web, with a burgundy background and red spot, a shark chasing a swimmer. With blue sky. A couple of clouds and the sun, and a deep blue sea with some wavy lines, and a cute bat on a green background for the last panel. The bat has pink ears , a white chest, and grey fur.
July 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Today's Posca bookmark. And as I was writing the alt text I realised there is a mistake. Oops.

Still a lot of fun though!
Hand drawn, in Posca pens, bookmark. There are three batteries on the bookmark. 1 with 2 red blocks and 5 empty, 1 with 4 yellow blocks and 3 empty, and 1 with 7 green blocks. The batteries are blue with a dark blue shadow. There are 4 books around the book mark, purple, sky blue, pink and green. All with gold squiggles for lettering. In bubble writing, (blue, pink, and green), with white highlighting and black outlines are the words: reading recharges you. There is a mistake in the steering the second character of "reasons" should be pink butbis blue.
July 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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After spending an hour cleaning the studio my ME was kicking me. I meant to do some water colour, but I just didn't have the energy to get the paints ready. So instead... I played with the #Posca pens and made some cute #bookmarks instead. Happy weekend all.
2 bookmarks hand drawn in Posca pens. One shows a blue PS1 controller, a yellow Gameboy with a green screen and smiling face, and a Switch with neon green and pink controllers, and a light reflection on the screen. The other shows an ice cream tub with swirls of ice cream covered in red sauce and a cheery. The tub is pink, yellow and blue, an ice lolly with a chocolate core and bite from the corner showing the core. It has a wooden handle with gold lettering, and a watermelon slice underneath
July 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I need to do some kind of exercise & walking though the neighbourhood just isn't enticing at the moment.

So... 10 mins at a slowish pace, a few times a day will hopefully be enough to get some kind of base fitness, without triggering a PEM episode 🤞😊
Wooden walking pad with wooden sides on a wooden floor, in-between packing mess
July 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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So that's either my 3rd or 4th tattoo depending on how you count. I'm so super happy with it, but am looking forward to seeing the red and mint green pop when it heals!

This one has both a deeper meaning for me, as well as just my absolute love of #DoctorWho 🤩😍
An arm with a fresh text tattoo in cling film. The quote reads "we're all stories in the end; just make it a good one, eh?" Underneath is line art with a TARDIS, a heart beat, 2 hearts and another heart beat. There are ink splatters in red and unhealed mint green over the text and line art
July 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I shared my keyboard fidget recently, and said that u had some others to come. Here they are! Thank you pressies for my son's party. The eggs & dinos were print in place, the cacti were print, glue, paint, and add an Akko Creamy Blue clicky switch 🤩
A cacti fidget with a marble pot, smile in black, white and blue eyes with the green succulent on top with white prickly bits. 3 open 3d printed eggs with a cyan, purple, and green dino inside. They are on a messy deak 3 3d printed eggs 2 open with a purple and green dino inside. One closed. They are on a messy deak
June 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM