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@novarules007.bsky.social

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When I'm not avidly doom-scrolling I am gardening, hiking, making and studying textile arts, making digital art related to nature, being one of the "ladies who lunch" with close friends and asking my cat what I can do to make her more comfortable.

Sleeping tabby and white cat, with a hind leg stretched out straight.
Two cats snuggling and looking at the camera in tandem. One is solid black with yellow eyes and the other is black and white tuxedo.
black and white tuxedo kitten stretched out comfortably in the sun
Collection of protest signs, including "we're all cool, no ICE please" and "Rule of Law, Not Rule by Decree"
Collection of protest signs, including "end this ICE age" and "32 died in ICE custody 2025"
Purple Air map of air quality for this morning, indicating air quality is extremely poor in the Bay Area.
Small gray cat in a small box lined with a blue towel.
Orange to yellow painted journal page with a dark blue to orange hand drawn vine and random dots and strips. Some silver highlights.
A pale pink cosmos shown through the back. Pink and brown to green pattern behind, large frame strips but only on two sides. I put the shadow onto the frame rather than onto the central image, making it look like a piece of art hung over a background.
Hot pink cosmos flower on a yellow patterned background with a pink and yellow frame. I put shadows underneath different portions of my digital collages to add a dimensional effect.
A closeup showing the backing method. I cut a round plastic needlepoint canvas down to fit the size of the embroidery and put a layer of quilt batting in between as padding, held it together by gathering stitches pulling it tight against the backing.
a collection of small, round needlework samplers, one type of stitch per piece. Canvases are either white or tan, stitches mostly blue or red to yellow. After completion they are padded and stretched over a circular round plastic needlepoint canvas.
Very brightly colored bits of dyed, cut and fused fabrics arranged in abstract patterns.
Sun beams shining through fog on a trail running through tall trees, Sky Trail, Point Reyes.
Purple freesia flowers combined with a patterned purple background. I usually try to pick up colors from the subject or choose a color that contrasts with the subject when I create my backgrounds. Patterns come from brushes I have made in Procreate.
A blue and yellow felted square with rainbow ribbons and dyed machine lace flowers embroidered on top
Two orange Christmas decorative balls hanging from an outside tree with gray branches and brown fence in the background. Sunshine and a distant cityscape are reflected in one of the balls.
beaded collar, RBG style netting, shading from light to medium blue to green, with pressed glass green leaves at the end of alternating rows,
Silhouettes of cypress trees surrounded by dense fog
Abstract embroidery with flowing stitch lines surrounding raised squares. The larger squares feature Swarovski crystals, the smaller ones filled with scotch stitch. The colors are rather bland so as not to interfere with the crystals.
Collage of protest posters with an American flag blowing in the wind behind. Faces of protesters not shown, only the hands holding the posters.
Bright leaved houseplants and pale blue sky reflected in a mirror. Things close up are all out of focus. Only alteration of this photo is a bit of cropping on the top.
tabby and white cat with intense yellow eyes, gazing at something behind me, probably a bird or squirrel in our tree.
6 two inch bas relief pieces mounted on tiny canvases. Bright colors and textured, flowing shapes that look like aerial photos of landscape features.
A collection of beaded starlike shapes on a blue background. Lots of padded round disks attached to cloth in an over frame.
A traditional diamond pattern and three leaf outlines in sashiko running stitch. Yellow and variegated threads on deep blue fabric. Leaves include ginkgo, ivy and maybe valley oak tree
Abstract overlapping images based on a floral/leaf pattern created in Procreate. Bright and tropical.
Abstract digital art with beads, embroidery, stuffing added, mesh-like and pebble-like patterns intersecting.
A bright patchwork of patterns created on my IPad combined with gazania flowers.
Digitally altered photo of a cluster of 8 “tomatoes” on a tomato tree. They are rather dark red and menacing looking.
pea-like flowers, pink shaded to white with darker veins, framed by straight green leaves of some other plant.
Washers wrapped in bright yarns, glued onto a bright canvas background with strings of beads surrounding each washer and running between them, looking a bit like bicycle chains.
flat metal piece with the shape of a snail embossed, a glowing copper color over a painted and textured background.
orange abutilon flower with darker orange veins, on swirly pale green background
Wide eyed cat peers anxiously around computer screen
USDA heading illegally blaming food stamps being cut off on the Democrats.
Sleeping cat with one eye still open.
photo of a bright yellow daisy looking up from below towards a deep blue sky.
Protest signs read as follows: No more DOGE shite; I pay my taxes to support Elmo, not Elon; Meglomaniac Uberfascist Sociopath Ketamine addict; Bring him home (Kilmar Abrego Garcia); Trump/Musk Hands off our future/our democracy/our rights; April 19, 1775: Redcoats April 19, 2025: Redhats. Same Shit, Different Day
really large moth with brown and yellow stripes and bright pink patches on lower wings. Wingspan is almost as wide as your hand.
Violet softens up the serving table. Soft grey cat with white markings lies down on top of a table with an off-white table cloth, waiting for food and attention.
Protest signs from Hands Off 2025 event in Berkeley last Saturday.
A very large water droplet collected on a water repellant kale leaf.
Cat curled up in a ball, sleeping, with her legs and tail tucked under her.
sun peeping out through the clouds, lighting the silhouette of a neighborhood palm tree.
signs include: Tech broligarchy: Traitors stealing your future; Muck Fusk - Truck Fump, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $2 trillion; don't test drive fascism; cesspool of stupid; how much is that doge in the window; resist the doge coup (held be a woman in Handmaiden garb) and a screen printed sign: fire x/Musk: they rob our communities and wreck the planet, fire the billionaire class.
signs include: No one voted for Musk; end the Nerd Reich, No King any time (in shape of a No Parking sign), I'm PISSED (bright yellow sign background); I didn't protest South African Apartheid 40 years ago only to have some Unelected South African ex-pat try and bring it to my country; a quartet of BurmaShave like signs: Trump is Evil, Musk is Worse, Put their plan, Into reverse.
Signs include: Stop the Coup; How can you Nazi this; incompetent liars are a danger to USA - Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard RESIGN NOW; Take the keys away from Elon; Turd Reich; Thank you NYAG James, Judge Alsup, Judge Boasberg, Judge Chung, Judge Bates, Judge Boardman
a cheap outside chair with broken plastic mesh seat replaced with woven clothesline.
Cat napping with one hind leg outstretched and captured by her front paw.
cat peering anxiously over top of computer
Signs from the protest: Donald + Elon are razing an entire generation of scientists and civil servants; Science is all about reactions and we're angry; Science will not be silenced; Science not silence (with a very nice drawing of the Statue of Liberty)
Signs from the protest: You know it's bad when this many introverts are here; Got polio? Me neither. Thanks, Science; Imagine being both "Pro-Life" and Anti-Vax; Time to react (with a beaker filled with orange liquid); More MAGA believe in Big Foot than climate change.
Scenes from the TeslaTakedown event on 4th Street in Berkeley today. People carrying an assortment of anti-Musk posters. The Tesla showroom seemed to be completely empty. We had a mariachi band to inspire us.
Pink shading to candy apple red blossoms on what is probably a crabapple. I love how the buds are red but the flowers come out pink fading to white.
Two pure white calla lily flower rising above deep green leaves with a third one unfurling in the background.
Cat sleeping right in the middle of the sun shape on a large fuzzy blanket.
YouTube offering me a huge collection of something extremely pro-Trump/Musk fluff pieces called Crux Live. I've never seen this before, never searched for it before and certainly do not subscribe to anything remotely like it. "Migrants Clash with Trump's Army". "President Trump's First Cabinet Meet" with Musk doing all the talking. "'They Speak for Me' Trump Breathes Fire" are some titles.
Subdivided disk shapes with sections in various colors, purple patterned background. Like a drone's view of a circus tent.