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Jack's pet mimic
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Dice collector, cat person, crafter, small business owner, Larper, cook
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Started today with available time, a plan, and a pile of lumber and chipboard panels left by a departed tenant of our building.

Ended today with an almost complete new counter for my shop.
A hand drawn design with measurements and notes for a shop counter. The front panel is recessed to allow four of my portable display cases to be placed onto the bottom shelf, facing customers. A half-built shop counter. One of my portable display cases is placed on the bottom plank to figure out how far back the front panel needs to be to accommodate them. The shop counter, nearly complete. It is made of unvarnished pine and dark veneered chipboard panels.
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Like these!
A picture of a cup of Unox Good Potatoes, bacon & onion flavor instant mashed potatoes.
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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What are you doing today? Feeding customers to the Mimic, of course.
I'm crouched next to a wooden chest with eyes and a lolling tongue. In the background, behind some customers, a banner with my store's logo stands high above all
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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An attempt at a quick Soto ayam, Indonesian chicken soup.
A bowl of yellow chicken soup with a potato cake and white rice
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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100 days of drawing, day 64: Fog Detective

Just one man comes to mind...
A pencil sketch of a man in a deerstalker hat and greatcoat, his head framed by an arch with '1887' carved into the keystone. Fog obscures his lower half from view.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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100 days of drawing, day 61: pencil panther

Couldn't come up with anything clever, so here's a panther drawn in pencil
Shaded pencil sketch of a relaxed panthers face
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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100 days of drawing, day 60: Cupcake Dragon
An ink drawing of a hand holding a cupcake, iced with star sprinkles, on which sits a tiny winged dragon, blowing a wisp of flame
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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100 days of sketching/drawing, day 59: Laughing Cactus
An ink drawing of a giant humanoid Saguaro cactus hugging a person from behind. The cactus seems blissfully unaware of the person's pain
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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There's her face!
Said fluffy white and brown cat getting the good face scritchies
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Oh no! Popi lost her head!
A fluffy white and brown cat curled up on my lap, in such a way that her head is completely hidden
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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100 days of sketching: Lightning Beard

Needed a reference for this, so I picked Brodie King, AEW wrestler.
A pencil sketch of the AEW wrestler Brodie King's face, with his beard containing several forked lightning bolts
October 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Yesterday's drawings: Hel-wolf and Cloud Surf.

Hel-wolf is for the Curse of Strahd campaign I'm DM'ing.

Cloud Surf is for the 100 days of sketching challenge over been doing to get back into drawing (it's working, by the way)
Hel-wolf. This shows a snarling wolf's head, half of which is decomposed into a skull Cloud surf. Drawn in acrylic markers, this shows a rolling storm cloud over a silhouetted skyline of a small Dutch city. A stick figure is surfing on top of the cloud while two stick figures on the ground are pointing up at them.
September 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Feeling good, had a productive day. Chores, replaced the hose on the bike pump, the saddle on my bike; unclogged the condensation drain in the fridge, replaced the torn out bottom in a kitty basket and made a goofy little drawing with my new Wacom tablet
'Space Milk'. A black to blue gradient background with white, grey and teal specks across it. In the foreground a milk pack (white with two large blue M's printed on it) floats, spraying forth a stream of white droplets.
September 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The Mimic is ready for breakf---err.. that is, customers!
A photo of our stand at Main Quest Con, with our Mimic grab bin front and center
September 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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And that was #Castlefest! Each year it blows me away.

Cooked a great low-FODMAP slowcooker beef curry. Sold *lots* of dice. Ate great food. Hugged wonderful people.
A bowl of beef curry with sambal, crispy onions and pickles. A row of medieval market stalls is set up along a dirt road under tall trees, with warm street lanterns placed along the road. A throng of people is walking by and shopping, while off to the side and art installation hangs between the trees, a group of floating giant jellyfish. Two guys and a Mimic, smiling at the camera
August 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Whelp, that's it for #Facebook for now. There's now a page blocking my access unless I either: pay a subscription, or formally allow them to gather data for targeted ads.

I'm picking option 3. Thanks for making this easier, Zuck!
A Facebook popover titled 'Review whether we van process your data for ads'
July 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Using food to show where I grew up (two-country version)
Bika Ambon, a yellow tapioca pandan cake. Rather than bubbles, the leavening leaves a unique structure of vertical channels Patatje Oorlog, potato fries with mayonaise, peanut sauce and, optionally, chopped raw onions. Soto Medan, a spiced chicken (or beef) soup with coconut milk; with various trimmings: potato cakes and a boiled egg, in this case. Pannenkoeken, pancakes. The Dutch version is thin, ideally with crispy edges.
June 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Lunch and dinner. Mushroom Stroganoff and spareribs with patatas bravas
Mushroom Stroganoff with mashed potatoes Two small racks of spareribs with sweet and spicy soy marinade, and patatas bravas
May 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Yesterday's dinner: Spam teriyaki pokebowl
A bowl of rice topped with grated carrots, sliced pickles, bright pink pickled ginger, chopped bell peppers, and two glossy slices of fried spam with teriyaki sauce
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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May the 4th be with you
A selfie in front of a full-scale Ti-Fighter at Comic Con Holland
May 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Backing up some pictures from my vacation last year to free space in my account. Figured now's as good a time as any to make this one, as well.
A picture of two bananas of massively different sizes: one the size of a thumb, one as big as a forearm. The picture is framed as a motivational poster with the caption "BANANA - Banana for scale"
April 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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First day at Elfia. Sales were good, the weather amazing. Bought dice and a hat.
Am idyllic lake with a willow arched over the water, the fronds barely touching the water. Taken at the grounds of Kasteel de Haar A shot over a crowd of people, many dressed in fantasy costumes, walking along a lane with vendors' tents and market stalls on both sides. A nighttime picture of Kasteel de Haar. The castle is framed by silhouetted tree branches, while it itself is lit up from below. The sunset is not long past, leaving the sky lighter blue near the horizon. Our dice stall at night. A white pavillion tent brightly kit from within, with a group of people standing in front of it. Two banners advertise the store, inside are tanks of shelves displaying dice.
April 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Behold the sleepyblep
Close-up of Popi's face. She's asleep and her tongue is sticking out a tiny bit
April 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Deze cliplampjes van de Hormbach zijn wel de aankoop van de eeuw. Doen het nu al bijna tien uur zonder te laden
A small LED light with flexible neck and clip with integrated battery.
April 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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All set up at #FACTS! The new display bins I made for Jack are looking swanky
Our dice shop, all set up at FACTS. A long wall of shelves filled with dice and books, with a pop-up tent off at the end for the checkout counter and a screened off private space. A low wooden rack of shelves with two display cases on each shelf, containing various dice and sets of dice.
April 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM