Brainpie Revisited

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Or Take a Look at One of Ellie’s Older Projects Or Back When Ellie Was More Active in the Kitchen Lately I’ve been feeling the old itch to experiment in the kitchen again. I miss looking up recipes, compiling careful grocery lists, and hunting down obscure ingredients like they were treasure. I miss looking through…

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First Post of the New Year

It’s still early in the new year but I’m feeling something different about 2026. A cleansing, a disappearing, a vanishing of something that’s been hanging around my psychic space like an albatross for the past two-ish years. But it’s gone, or at the very least, rapidly fading. This may sound like a big mystery for…

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Return to Responsibilities

Soft clouds of pink alcohol inks with some golden lines for effects. Some text in the lower right corner reads, I couldn't think of a better image, so enjoy some alcohol inks.

Don’t get me wrong, it is nice in a way to return from a four-day trip and find familiar sights and experiences waiting for me. But all at once… Such a nice, blustery, tropical stormy day. There goes my intention to experiment livestreaming with my iPad. I could give it a go, but then I’d…

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Backyard Journal: Frogs

Header: A desk covered in zine supplies: washi tape rolls, scissors, printer paper, markers, and tape. On the zine is a line drawing of a mushroom. In the lower right corner is the title, I See You.

One of the few joys I get from living in a rural area is coming across wildlife. Finding tree frogs in the smallest of spaces in the backyard is probably my best recent memory. A couple of times, I even managed to put a finger inside and gently pat their squishy little heads. I’m sure…

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Backyard Journal: Rabbits

These furry loaves are lucky I can’t run that fast anymore, because I would give them such a loving on their little bunny heads, yes, I would, and I’ll give their little feetsies all the kisses they can handle, yes, my little long-eared darlings *further devolves into nauseating cutesy speak*

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Backyard Journal: Catbirds

Soft clouds of pink alcohol inks with some golden lines for effects. Some text in the lower right corner reads, I couldn't think of a better image, so enjoy some alcohol inks.

I’ve started taking morning walks around the backyard. Some mornings it’s quiet enough to hear the rabbits leaping across the grass. Other mornings I can hear construction in the farmer’s field where new townhouses are being built. One day, this will no longer be a truly rural area and just another extension of the sprawling…

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