Jenna
@thethornedrose.bsky.social
Cackles, rainbows, thread and books
My 5 year old is so mad at English spelling 😂 Spanish spelling doesn’t lie
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My 5 year old is so mad at English spelling 😂 Spanish spelling doesn’t lie
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
After the previous ghosts using blue or purple as a base, I wanted to play around with making a rainbow of ghosts. The first one I ran out of space for purple 😭. The second I had fun adding candles to the background. #watercolor #halloween #ghosts #watercolorofbluesky
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
After the previous ghosts using blue or purple as a base, I wanted to play around with making a rainbow of ghosts. The first one I ran out of space for purple 😭. The second I had fun adding candles to the background. #watercolor #halloween #ghosts #watercolorofbluesky
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just some happy fish for your Friday! #watercolor #watercolordoodles
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just some happy fish for your Friday! #watercolor #watercolordoodles
I painted some pumpkins over the weekend while mostly home sick. How do I always forget that making and creating makes me a less aaaaaaah being? 😂. I enjoyed playing with all the colors of fall for these. #watercolor #pumpkins #fall
October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I painted some pumpkins over the weekend while mostly home sick. How do I always forget that making and creating makes me a less aaaaaaah being? 😂. I enjoyed playing with all the colors of fall for these. #watercolor #pumpkins #fall
How sick is my 5 year old? Sick enough he did not make any butt jokes about the butt book. Dire.
(Not actually dire, but the butt and poop jokes are his favorite right now)
(Not actually dire, but the butt and poop jokes are his favorite right now)
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How sick is my 5 year old? Sick enough he did not make any butt jokes about the butt book. Dire.
(Not actually dire, but the butt and poop jokes are his favorite right now)
(Not actually dire, but the butt and poop jokes are his favorite right now)
“When you die, does your blood come with you?” -TJ, 5 years old
#thingskidssay
#thingskidssay
August 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“When you die, does your blood come with you?” -TJ, 5 years old
#thingskidssay
#thingskidssay
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
My sunflower patch is so happy! I’ve got a big guy who’s almost as tall as I am and still not ready to bloom! And the little pollen filled bee leggies! I hope yall are ready for eternal sunflower posting. #sunflowers #pollinators
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My sunflower patch is so happy! I’ve got a big guy who’s almost as tall as I am and still not ready to bloom! And the little pollen filled bee leggies! I hope yall are ready for eternal sunflower posting. #sunflowers #pollinators
I was very anxious about my drawing skills being up to this one, drew and inked it, then my kiddo Helped 😭. I managed to get the pencil off the center and do the watercolors. Might add a border to go with her pencil at some point 😂. #watercolor #watercolorinnatire #fern #naturepainting
August 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I was very anxious about my drawing skills being up to this one, drew and inked it, then my kiddo Helped 😭. I managed to get the pencil off the center and do the watercolors. Might add a border to go with her pencil at some point 😂. #watercolor #watercolorinnatire #fern #naturepainting
Carrying on through Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett, here’s the fly agaric mushroom I painted a few weeks ago. I’m very happy with how all the little details turned out and I reluctantly agree with her suggestion of the aquamarine blue and burnt umber combo for shadows 😂
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Carrying on through Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett, here’s the fly agaric mushroom I painted a few weeks ago. I’m very happy with how all the little details turned out and I reluctantly agree with her suggestion of the aquamarine blue and burnt umber combo for shadows 😂
A geometric watercolor I gifted a friend for their birthday. I was very pleased with the overlays this time. These are such meditative pieces to make. Also featuring Gus and Thor snuggling. #watercolor #gusandthorthecats
August 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A geometric watercolor I gifted a friend for their birthday. I was very pleased with the overlays this time. These are such meditative pieces to make. Also featuring Gus and Thor snuggling. #watercolor #gusandthorthecats
Imperial moth I painted last week, also from a tutorial in Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. I enjoyed this buddy’s gentle asymmetry and fuzzy texture. #watercolor #watercolorinnature #moth #imperialmoth
August 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Imperial moth I painted last week, also from a tutorial in Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. I enjoyed this buddy’s gentle asymmetry and fuzzy texture. #watercolor #watercolorinnature #moth #imperialmoth
Last week I drew and painted a daisy from a new watercolor tutorial book., Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. This one has you do a detailed sketch, trace in ink, erase, then paint. Certainly more a production than my standard, but I’m enjoying it. Perhaps I can draw now 😂 #daisy #watercolor
July 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Last week I drew and painted a daisy from a new watercolor tutorial book., Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. This one has you do a detailed sketch, trace in ink, erase, then paint. Certainly more a production than my standard, but I’m enjoying it. Perhaps I can draw now 😂 #daisy #watercolor
First blooming sunflower of the year! The mowers took out my first round of volunteers and it really hit me hard. So I’m so excited for the first bloom! #sunflowers #gardening
July 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
First blooming sunflower of the year! The mowers took out my first round of volunteers and it really hit me hard. So I’m so excited for the first bloom! #sunflowers #gardening
June 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Trump is already grabbing people off the street and disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador and this is only month 2 of the regime. If these people are allowed to stay in power where do you think we're going to be at when month 48 hits?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
March 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Trump is already grabbing people off the street and disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador and this is only month 2 of the regime. If these people are allowed to stay in power where do you think we're going to be at when month 48 hits?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The situation with the deported Venezuelans and the El Salvador prison is horrific. Nightmarish. An escalation in brutality and cruelty from an already unconscionably brutal and cruel regime. But it's also another example of the shoddy way this "move fast and break things" government is doing stuff.
March 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The situation with the deported Venezuelans and the El Salvador prison is horrific. Nightmarish. An escalation in brutality and cruelty from an already unconscionably brutal and cruel regime. But it's also another example of the shoddy way this "move fast and break things" government is doing stuff.
One of my recent watercolor exercises! Butterflies, especially monarchs make me do happy. My workbook and I continue to disagree about color mixing, but that was more excuse to play around. #watercolor #butterfly #monarchbutterfly
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One of my recent watercolor exercises! Butterflies, especially monarchs make me do happy. My workbook and I continue to disagree about color mixing, but that was more excuse to play around. #watercolor #butterfly #monarchbutterfly
We changed all the sheets today with best Helpers. Truly jumping on the bed and rolling under the sheets and chucking random objects off the bed makes making the bed so much easier. 😅😂
March 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We changed all the sheets today with best Helpers. Truly jumping on the bed and rolling under the sheets and chucking random objects off the bed makes making the bed so much easier. 😅😂
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Master of disguise quilt
84” x 78” NFS
84” x 78” NFS
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Master of disguise quilt
84” x 78” NFS
84” x 78” NFS
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Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life:
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
March 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life:
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine