Sue Kearney

@suekearney.bsky.social

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Maven marketing, webdesign, content, and customer journey for artists, coaches, teachers, healers and changemakers. Original art & the blog for everyone. 💜 suekearney.com

Wooden shelf mounted across three windows with white blinds, holding two small potted succulents, with masks and small artworks arranged along the wall above.
Smiling woman with long dark hair sits on a plaid couch, wearing a matching plaid button-down dress, hands resting casually in a warmly lit living room.
Square graphic featuring a painted talisman stone in black, gold, and cream on a clean tan background. The text reads “Small-biz weekend starts now” and “Get your one-of-a-kind handmade gifts from me.” A red “Made by a Maven” ribbon sits at the top.
Square graphic with the red “Made by a Maven” banner at the top. Text reads “Skip the crowds. Shop the maker. Buy small-biz artisanal gifts handmade by me.” Images include a painted talisman stone in black, gold, and cream; a jar of handcrafted balm in a mesh pouch; and an abstract fluid-art greeting card in warm metallic tones.
Square graphic with a pale pink background showing four handmade products arranged in a grid: a black jar of pain salve, a small silver tin labeled cursively, two amber bottles with dropper tops, and a floral card with abstract art. Text on the graphic reads “Supporting small business this weekend?” and “Handmade by me.”
Painted river rocks drying on a cooling rack. Each rock has swirling fluid-art colors—reds, blues, golds, purples, and metallic blacks—laid out in two loose columns. The rack sits on brown paper, and the rocks have tape on the underside so only the painted tops show.
“The Maven Method: Capture attention in the less than five seconds you get. Power tip: show the offer before the scroll.” Text on a minimalist white background with black header and thin sans serif font.
A swirling abstract painting in shades of gray, white, and gold, with fluid marbling that creates a sense of motion and organic flow. The words “What are you making this week?” appear at the top on a dark gray band, and “©2025 Sue Kearney” is written at the bottom.
Graphic with text that reads “The Maven Method: Design for the Yes — Every page on your website is a landing page. Power Tip: Every social post too.”
white hollyhock blossom with a soft green center, glistening with raindrops
A kitchen scene with a bamboo stake mounted horizontally above two small windows, used as a hanging rack. Cooking utensils, a grater, a colander, and aprons hang from hooks on the bamboo. Below, the counter holds jars with utensils and a few small household items. A round wall clock is above the rack
A very short sunflower bud after a morning rain
Freeze-frame of Conan O’Brien mid-blooper, with text beside him that reads: “Word to the wise: Do not watch Conan O’Brien bloopers while eating dinner. I legit thought I was gonna have to bang on a neighbor’s door and mime the Heimlich.”
A white plastic bin holds several 4-inch starter pots filled with soil, each labeled with bright orange seed markers. Visible plant names include purple ruffles basil, Taiwan sugar pea, Kapoor tulsi basil, German thyme, chives, dwarf dill, Mrs. Burns lemon basil, and honey snap pea.
Close-up of a flowering cannabis plant in bright sun, showing dense clusters of pale green pistils and sparkling trichomes along the stem and leaves.
A hand holding a pencil hovers over lined paper filled with Pitman shorthand squiggles. Overlaid text reads: “Brains are weird. I keep catching myself mentally tracing what people say in Pitman shorthand — swoop, hook, slash. I learned it in sixth grade.”
A square meme with a bold headline comparing ChatGPT 4 and ChatGPT 5. Below, a chat-style exchange shows the user saying “It’s Friday, I watered today.” ChatGPT 5 repeatedly misstates the day as Thursday, then insists the user watered yesterday. The layout highlights the absurdity of the AI forgetting the date even after being told.
Blue square with black text that reads: Small action. Big benefit. Today I shut off social notifications. No more red dots stealing my attention.
Screenshot of a tweet by Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) announcing a $200 million “State Ballroom” addition to the White House, with construction starting next month. The 90,000 square-foot space will hold 650 people. A highlighted sentence reads: “Renovations will also take place in the East Wing.” Below are two images of a blonde woman in a navy blouse holding renderings of the planned renovations while speaking at a White House press briefing podium.
A sleeveless denim button-down shirt hangs on a hanger. Small, colorful clothespins are clipped along the placket to hold it flat and prevent it from curling or creasing while drying.
Screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. The assistant summarizes four solved word groups for the NYT Connections puzzle: colossal, basketball parts, action verbs (dip, bounce, split, jet), and proper nouns (steel, lute, knick, rabe). The user replies: “Dip as in to leave. Sigh. Makes me have to learn an entirely new vocabulary. at my age.”
Screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. The assistant summarizes four solved word groups for the NYT Connections puzzle: colossal, basketball parts, action verbs (dip, bounce, split, jet), and proper nouns (steel, lute, knick, rabe). The user replies: “Dip as in to leave. Sigh. Makes me have to learn an entirely new vocabulary. at my age.”
Screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. The assistant provides curing instructions for E6000 adhesive: • Leave it undisturbed overnight • Remove the rock in the morning if the piece is still level • Let it cure for 24–72 hours before applying weight or torque It adds that E6000 may flex during curing but will hold if not stressed. The assistant then asks, “Want a backup plan if it fails, or just watching and waiting?” The user replies with a firm request: “Please don’t ever ask me again in any chat ever if I want a pre-plan for shit to go wrong.” The assistant updates its memory and confirms: “Understood. I won’t ask again.”
Small multi-drawer plastic organizer labeled with orange tape and hand-written categories like “teeny screws & bits,” “long fat,” “anchors toggles,” and “cup hooks screw.” Each drawer is semi-transparent and color-coded. A clear box labeled “long nails” sits to the right. The unit is mounted on a wood wall.
A stained plastic dish tub holds a mug with spent herbs and a mesh strainer resting on a small dish—remnants of DIY healing soaks.
Bowl containing dried calendula blossoms, fresh thyme sprigs, and gunpowder green tea, prepared for a healing soak. Chamomile was added after the photo was taken.
Acrylic poor on paper, still wet, with toothpicks on the edges to keep it level. The colors are a mix of metallic, black, gold, copper, and white.
Close-up of the first ripe red raspberry of the season, protected behind black bird netting. Leaves around the berry are tinged with fall color. A less ripe raspberry sits just above the ripe one, echoing the post’s theme of savoring the harvest without sharing bites.
Bright red bottlebrush flower bursting with fine, spiky filaments, surrounded by glossy green leaves and sunlit foliage.
A tall wire sculpture stands in a shallow dish with succulents at the base, surrounded by other potted plants on a porch.