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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 8h

artists~ quote with your art with dramatic lighting!

fanart from the book one dark window of the main character elspeth spindle holding a card up that emits a light and a glow up her face while she looks straight at the viewer. the book is from the shepherd duology by Rachel Gillig

Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 15h

As always October is filled with so many fun art prompts and October is my most busy month ever so I can no longer participate. It does give me loads of inspiration so I should just remember to scroll through peachtober tag in the more calmer periods!!

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🦋Inky Moth🦋 @inkymoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're European as well, PLEASE go sign the Stop Killing The Internet initiative I cannot stress how bad the EU Kids Act will be for everyone if this goes through. It's never about the kids, the government wants more control on us

eci.ec.europa.eu

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just finished The Priory of the Orange Tree. Didn't manage to finish it last night and it's good I stopped when I did because it really went on a wild ride for a moment there. Really enjoyed it. Not sure what to read now, have many ARCs waiting for me but not sure what genre first.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Want to show these cute mini pins I hope to unlock with the new project! The candies will be available separate (so no set) so you can pick your favourite colours. Also the snail is a new favourite of mine, look at ittttt www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

digital image of 5 mini pins for the crowdfunding project Fall times with Floris the Frog. 4 different coloured wrapped candies in green yellow red and blue, and a snail

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will we ever have enough new sticker sheets? No, the correct answer is no. Everyone can always use more stickers. #merch #floristhefrog

photo of stacks of 6 new sticker sheets of floris the frog with hobbies, rainy days, insects and flowers, reading and party

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will we ever have enough new sticker sheets? No, the correct answer is no. Everyone can always use more stickers. #merch #floristhefrog

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spend some time making example pages in different mediums in the colouring book. @roundbirb.art tried out acrylic markers on the bird page The book can handle alcohol markers (spare page behind it), coloured pencils and acrylic markers (pages will wobble). studioappeltjesgroen.com/products/col...

photo of a table outside with drinks and two colouring books open on the table, of Floris the Frog in different mediums like acrylic marker and coloured pencils.

open colouring book page of floris the frog coloured with alcohol markers

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.” #alchemised #art

sketch work screenshot from procreate with alchemised book fanart

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.” #alchemised #art

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been distracting myself with work during the day. Sold my first colouring book and also got 6 new sticker sheets in to be put in my shop. I'm avoiding the living room during the day because I miss her so much and her cage is empty and so quiet and.. sigh.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Torii passed away last night. She fought hard but in the end it didn’t help. She was home when she passed with us near her. We miss her intensely.

Torii a forpus looking towards the canera whilst sitting on a little bowl with seeds in it.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Floris the Frog colouring book ✨🐸 I am so excited and happy with how these turn out!!! #colouringbook #floristhefrog

Messy desk of art supplies with on it a stack of A4 colouring books volume 1 of floris the frog

Messy desk of art supplies with on it a stack of A4 colouring books volume 1 of floris the frog opened to a colouring page of floris as a barista

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Unhand me, you peasant! 🐸💢 #animalart #cuteart #memefrog

hand holding up a polaroid style vinyl sticker (it's a big sticker yes..) with on the sticker a 'photo' (digital artwork) of a Desert rain frog (Breciveps macrops) being picked up out of the dirt by a very big hand. The frog is very obviously not amused and under the polaroid is written 'unhand me!!' with 2 lines under it for emphasis.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Getting ready to set this up some more! Next month everyone 👀🐸

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just dropping this here for now. In case you want to get updates and such, hit the count me in button! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Fall times with Floris the Frog

Get notified when Fall times with Floris the Frog launches on BackerKit!

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This Sunday it’s time again for another Reptile show! The self serve system worked pretty decent laat time but I’ll have 24 new pins with me this time! 👀✨🐸

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Pearly Sweetgrave @sugarblind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(i read Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com and once again my brain has changed irreparably)

Amy Adams holding a sign that says i do not eat human meat

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The original version of this was posted on my FAisDM (felicitousArtisan is Darth Mongoose) Tumblr many years ago. I drew it at about 11pm right before going to bed, trying to express something I felt about art. When I woke up it kinda blew up.

Flowchart drawn by Kate Holden in orange, aliases lines reads:
HOW TO BE ANARTIST.
Make some art.-> Does it look terrible? 1. YEAH 2. NO (both lives lead to thesame conclusion box) -> You are an artist -> Make more art

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #swordtember⚔️

Ink drawing- a woman sits in a tree with a sword on her hip. She is eating an apple from the tree. There's a face in the tree!! Woah!

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Torii was so active this morning, I let her out of and spend the whole day in the living room with her slowly foraging but also napping a whole lot on my shoulder or finger. Hope this means she's getting better slowly 💕 Got very productive due to it, 5 new colour pages made!

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Three cars and friends 🚗💨 #art #floristhefrog

digital artwork of a light yellow dotted background with 3 cars on top of it, side view kid lit style. yellow with an axolotl, blue with a piglet and red with Floris the Frog

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Current project is getting shape! Hope to have it with me at KreaDoe, the craft and stationery fair late October. #floristhefrog

image snippet of floris as a barista with half readable the text on the front 'floris the frog colouring book'.

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Nicole 🐸🌿 @munespice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

they’re getting ready for fall #art

An assortment of small illustrations featuring munespice characters such as ghost frogs, pumpkin frogs, froglings, and a raven, plus some pumpkins

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Sabine @nunthenecrologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@appeltjesgroen.bsky.social @roundbirb.art my pins arrived today. They are gorgeous! Special shout out for the colours on the Grackle. So pretty! The unhand me polaroid have me a good chuckle.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

YESSS I preordered the Legend of Zelda Switch 2 edition!!!! Pro controller sold out sadly but I have hope it’ll return. Also pre-ordered the game. Time to crank out some more work to earn back the big spending 😆

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Refreshing all the EU shops for a pre-order of the Legend of Zelda Switch 2 special edition. I gots to have it.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 09/09/2026

Regardless of whether you like the style or not, Nintendo designs everything with *intention* and this is great analysis of possible influences and I think it’s really interesting.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No CT scan for Torii today, they were afraid she wouldn't wake up from the CT scan, so she got an echo! Luckily the echo gave results and she now has an implant in her back to regulate hormones. This should help her egg making machine (their words!) to calm down and clean up, remove liquid. 🍀🍀🍀

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Post medicine snackies. She’s so grumpy and angy when she got her meds. I’m getting nervous for her consult and ct scan tomorrow 😔

Torii a forpus sitting on a bowl with some snack seeds in it

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

European artists! The EU commission is opening a feedback on the use of AI in the cultural and creative fields. Their vision is clearly pro-use of AI, but we clearly have an opportunity to push back: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

ec.europa.eu

European Commission - Have your say

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well, that went way different than I thought. After several phone calls I made an CT scan appointment for Torii, our forpus. I thought she might have been egg bound, but it's fluid in her belly?! That's not good so steps are mad and Monday a CT scan. 🥺 Ik ben een uitgewrongen vaatdoek nu, kapoet!

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annadrawsstuff ✨ @ shop update!! @annadrawsstuff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are you team bread or team fries? 🥖 🍟 #enamelpin #eushop #artshop

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✨ Liz ✨ @momodeary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"So this is how we're starting your second year in Mistria, huh?" #lizarts #march #FoM #fieldsofmistria full version and simmering hot alts on my p4tr3on ♥

A digital illustration, perspective angle from the point of view of hot, hammered metal on an anvil. March, a bachelor and blacksmith from Field's of Mistria is holding it in place with tongs and a thick glove on his right hand, while his left hand, still gripping his hammer in a smaller glove, is wiping sweat from his brow with his exposed forearm. His dyed red hair is being pushed up, and his expression looks focused and mildly irritated, but intended to also come across a little sensual. He has sweat glistening all over his muscled arms, his broad chest shielded only by a loose-fitting green tank top and a leather apron tied low on his waist. The forge fire glows hot underneath him, giving him a warm cascade of low lighting.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Smiling Girl Says 'I Like You'

ALT: Smiling Girl Says 'I Like You'

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Madeleine Fjäll @madeleinefjall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haunted reflection 🧛 #vtm

Illustration of my vtm character Ellair, from a scene in our campaign where he was stuck in a nightmare. His bf is dead at his feet. Around him, broken reflections show all the people who have died because of him. In a shattered mirror he sees himself, but as the monster he has turned into, in a pool of blood, glowing eyes and long bloodied claws.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

*makes content sounds of finally sketching again* #sketch #art

Sketchbook close up photo of two different sketches. Up you see half a male face looking to the side in a hoodie, noticable by the knotted strings of the hoodie. Below you see a couple sharing a sweet kiss where we mostly see male from the back holding the face of the girl. Both eyes are closed. We only see the face of the girl nothing else

Sketchbook close up of a couple making a selfie in a mirror. The male is holding up the femal by hoisting her up over his shoulder. We mostly see her bum and half her lower face from half turning over his head towards the mirror.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stickers stickers and stickers! Never enough stickers of amphibians. Get your frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and axolotls 🐸✨ studioappeltjesgroen.com/collections/... #stickers #frogstickers

sticker sheet with 6 stickers on them. Illinois chorus frog, golden poison dart frog, tiger salamander, green salamander, miyako toad and harlequin toad

sticker sheet with 6 stickers on them. Great crested newt, malagasy rainbow frog, american bullfrog, vampire frog, cane toad, giant salamander

sticker sheet with 4 stickers on them. leucistic axolotl, melanoid axolotl, wild axolotl and dirty lucy axolotl

sticker sheet with 6 stickers on them. Luristan newt, colorado river toad, japanese common toad, marbled salamander, northern leopard frog, pickerel frog

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Been making 3 colouring pages each day now and just saw that 2 I made yesterday were on the wrong dimensions.... Ah, now it makes sense why I was struggling with the brush sizes I had set up for me to use. Sigh.

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Appel 🐸✨ @appeltjesgroen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Had the mean thought I haven't draw anything this week. Excuse me brain, I've been cranking out colouring pages, and also did a cute coloured pencil page in my personal sketchbook. How about I'm not rued to myself?

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