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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 29/06/2025

Heading to Goblin Market today on Race St in Belvidere, NJ! My first time there, but I’m sure it won’t be my last. New pins, pendants, clothes, and creatures/minis! Next week, off to Dexlite 2025 in Morristown!

A lovely Faire denizen, wearing a fabulous outfit with leather and fake fur accessories. They are modeling a black fake fur shortie vest with a huge Misfits skull on the back.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 07/05/2025

Tell me I’m not the only one who sees this

A glass plate with a very bulbous protuberance in the middle. It might be a handle but I doubt it. It bears a $5 thrift store sticker and is sitting on a metal shelf with other glassware

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 06/05/2025

As of this afternoon, I have some lil art bits in the art vending machine at #flemingtonDIY!

A tiny cardboard box sits on a black fabric square, next to three small Lino block prints on fabric, a D20 dice, and a small card explaining what’s up

The art vending machine, partially disassembled

The art vending machine, with its face off so you can access and fill the art stacks

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 05/05/2025

I made a super wild fabric collage that works nicely in blacklight, so grab a tab and gaze upon St. Falkor, in all his glory. This is also about my friends' store, where Falkor's head lives (well, in a nearby shed). All of the words in this post are true.

literally psychedelic collage of day-glo mushrooms, snakes, bunnies, flowers, stars, Falkor's (the luck dragon from Neverending Story) head, and a sign reading "R Scal Salvage Vintage"). The collage has a dark blue border. The whole thing has a glossy surface from laters of Mod Podge.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 03/05/2025

I know this is an old post, but this is too good not to share. My new vibe, from the amazing punkwithacamera.com The way I look at it is by digging deep into gratitude because nobody really knows what’s ahead.

Backpatch on a sketch of a vest. The patch shows a peaceful scene of deer in a natural setting, with the sun at the horizon. The patch text reads,”Enjoy everything right now because it’s going to get worse”

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 14/04/2025

I sometimes think about how there are only so many combinations of words and syllables to go around, and some of them are having a more interesting time than others.

Magazine cover in German language reads "Wiener Mode", which translates to "Viennese Fashion". Below the title are two women dressed in Victorian-era dresses and hats, in a small boat on a still lake.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 12/04/2025

I am happy to be vending at Cure Arena tomorrow, April 12th - at Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market! Bringing the weird, like I do. If you are in the Trenton area, come and check it out! The weather is gonna be crap. #coffeeAndCreatures #recycledArt #ttrpgMiniatures #njprfm #tprfm

A test setup for a market booth on a porch. There is a weird white tree with black branches, a white display stand holding TTRPG minis, a beholder on black and pink cabinet, a beholder cup rack, and many other very strange creatures. From the front of the table, a fabric banner reading "coffee and creatures" is hanging. It is badly sewn on purpose, and the letters are turquoise against the white background.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 06/04/2025

No cheating, last saved celeb pic is your therapist. Yes! For a second there I thought my therapist was gonna be Minsc and Boo. Don’t hate either option, actually.

Eli Roth as “the Bear Jew” standing in an undershirt and suspenders in front of a tunnel, baseball bat on his shoulder.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 30/03/2025

This has been a dream of mine for years, but I had to wait for a sign to show up at the thrift store in order to make it a reality. #TheYawningPortal is a big deal in a lot of folks’ TTRPG experiences, and certainly mine. And now there’s a #mimic mug!

A “wood” bar sign with “The Yawning Portal” written on it in poorly-done sign painter style lettering. At the center is a well, with two ropes going into it, and at the center of that is a beer mug mimic, with a grim lil expression on his face.

Work in progress of the Yawning Portal sign. The lettering is roughed in and the mimic eye is placed for painting.

Early stage of the Yawning Portal sign with the mimic eye sketched in

First sketch in paint for the Yawning Portal sign.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 29/03/2025

This...is a weird sign that was in the pictures and wall art nook at the Habitat thrift store, and I bought it because it says "PENGLE". The sign itself has four corner holes, similar to a vehicle license plate. Why did I buy this? I don't know. It was $2.80. Two bucks eighty for a mysterious thing!

A wooden bread board with a bowl of melted butter(?), 3 slices of a long loaf of bread, a spoon, and a bowl of alphabet tomato soup. the letters in the soup spell out "P-E-N-G-L-E".

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 23/03/2025

Can’t stop love (or, since there’s another sign there: “can’t stop garage sale patch of lichen that looks like a heart”). Happy spring, bitches!

The word “can’t” is written on a picture of an intersection where there is a stop sign, a garage sale sign, and a tree trunk with a heart-shaped patch of lichen

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 18/03/2025

I’d give me about 80-85/100 on these. Not a bad start. The humidity is shockingly low for spring on the East Coast, approx. 29%, so I was battling rapid paint dry times. Should maybe make this a rainy day activity!

DON'T
PANIG
ORGANIZE
Screen printed on salvage striped fabric in black ink.

DON'T
PANIG
ORGANIZE
Screen printed on salvage t-shirt fabric in white ink.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 18/03/2025

I grew up reading this book from a very early age, and I’m glad it’s still around. #vintageCrafting #ILoveOldCraftbooks

Jutta Lammèr
Das Hobbybuch
Basteln, Werken, Handarbeiten
Mit 328 Zeichnungen und 475 zum Teil farbigen Fotos

Auto-detected text below, from the silkscreen page of Das Hobbybuch, with two images - one showing direct drawing on the screen, and the other shows dragging the paint across the design with the squeegee.
1)
Olfarbe
Siebdruckfarbe
2)
Das Motiv wird auf
der Gaze mit Ölfarbe
reserviert (links)
Mit der Rakel wird
Stoffdruckfarbe über
die ganze Fläche ver-
teilt (rechts)
Vorbereitungen
Die Gaze wird zunächst über den Rahmen gespannt, den man sich aus Holz-
leisten zusammennagelt oder -leimt. Es kann auch ein gekaufter Keilrahmen,
wie man ihn für Ölbilder verwendet, sein. Man beginnt mit dem Spannen
rechts und links sowie oben und unten jeweils in der Mitte und arbeitet zu
den Ecken hin. Zum Befestigen nimmt man Reißzwecken. Auf mehrere Lagen
Papier, die größer als der Rahmen sein müssen, legt man nun den Rahmen
mit der Gazebespannung nach unten. Dann malt man auf die Gaze mit Öl-
farbe einen etwa 2-3 cm breiten Rand an den Leisten entlang. Dieser Rand
soll verhindern, daß die Druckfarbe später unter den Rahmen quillt und den
Druck verschmiert. Zugleich aber dient der Rand an der oberen Querleiste als
Träger für die Farbpaste. Das Motiv, das auf den verbleibenden freien Raum
der Gaze aufgeteilt wird, zeichnet man zuerst auf ein entsprechend großes
Stück Papier. Es sollte nicht zu kompliziert sein, damit das Druckmuster klar
erkennbare Konturen erhält. Die fertige Motivskizze wird nun unter die
Gaze gelegt und auf der Gaze mit reichlich Ölfarbe nachgemalt. Es ist wichtig,
daß der Farbauftrag so satt ist, daß keine Druckfarbe durch die übermalten
Flächen hindurchdringen kann, denn an diesen reservierten Stellen soll der
Stoff nicht bedruckt werden. Lieber nach dem Trocknen der Ölfarbe mit einem
feuchten Lappen und einem untergelegten Papierbogen die Probe machen und
undichte Stellen noch einmal überstreichen.
Der Stoff
Im Siebdruckverfahren kann man fast alle Gewebe bedrucken, die eine glatte
Oberfläche haben. Am besten eignen sich mittelschwere einfarbige Baum-
wollstoffe, sogenannte Dekorationsstofle, aber auch billigere Ware, z. B.
Nessel, läßt sich gut bedrucken. Voraussetzung ist, daß der Stoff appreturfre
ist. Die Appretur - eine Art Stärke - sitzt nämlich zum Teil auf der Gewebe-
Oberfläche und verhindert, daß die Druckfarbe sich gleichmäßig mit dem

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 18/03/2025

Yes, not bad. Burned in, but not overexposed. I just have a cheap Speedball kit, which came with a UV lamp to expose the photo emulsion…never dealt with it before, it’s ok. Screen is now air-drying and printing comes next! #diy #silkscreen

A damp, greenish silkscreen bearing the same image as from yesterday’s post: a large fish swallowing a small fish while others flee in terror, with the caption “Don’t Panic”, followed by a tight formation of small fish swallowing the big one, with the caption reading “Organize”.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 17/03/2025

First time at silkscreen setup in …..fuuuuuuck….. lots of years. Did it work? Sorta? Was the emulsion fully dry before I burned it in, no don’t be silly. I may be much older now but no less impatient. So it failed, I washed it out and have another one ready to try again tomorrow. #diy #silkscreen

A blue-tinted image of a silkscreen with the word “Speedball” on the frame. The screen being exposed has the words “Don’t Panic” with an image of a big fish swallowing small ones while the other small ones flee in terror, and the counter image, which reads “Organize”. The small fish have formed a big fish shape and are attacking the former “big fish”.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 08/03/2025

I like the challenge of trying to blend in subversive art changes with the existing style of some crappy “art” thing from the thrift store. I think I did kinda ok here. Need to outline the teeth a bit more, probably. #TTRPGart #DreadGazeboJoke

Zoomed back out to the frame - the bridge now has teeth and a baleful eye.

The covered bridge now has an eye. The picture is zoomed in on the covered bridge, and the dark wood frame is no longer visible.

Sepia-tone printed canvas in a dark wood frame. The subject is a covered bridge in winter. A set of tire tracks lead into the bridge.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 08/03/2025

Making eyeballs, making eyeballs, day 2

A messy bamboo desk with an assortment of handpainted eyes formed from paper, paint, and glass. There is also a small bottle of white paint, and a cutting mat visible in the picture.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 07/03/2025

#wip My current companions. It is so much fun to work on these guys. #beholder #Krampus #TTRPG

A pair of scowling creatures that are work in progress. On the left, the larger one is a beholder with just its central eye, and the rest is unfinished. Instead of teeth, there are holes for where the teeth will go. On the right, a Krampus is developing from an old Santa candle box thing. He still wears the Santa hat, but his eyes are now Krampus eyes, his nose is thin and devilish, and he has multiple sharp teeth. His long snaky tongue flops from his mouth.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 06/03/2025

How bored am I, sick with the flu? I just found an old email from 2015 and visited the website link that was in it. Obviously, the site wouldn't still be there....but it was!🥹 theworstthingsforsale.com?s=shitguitar @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social #oldinternetwasgreat

"Shitguitar" reads the entry on the website, followed by a picture of a toilet seat cover shaped like a guitar. The text below the image reads
"What kind of toilet-artist would make a toilet seat shaped like a guitar, but then not have the hole in the seat be the guitar's hole? Careless execution of a bad idea.
Which didn't stop it from being so popular it sold out."
There is text reading
"27 April, 2015" below that, which means that the entry itself was from April 28, 2015

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 17/02/2025

Had a great time vending down in Bensalem, PA at #darksideNJ! #thebrokengoblet is a fun venue, the folks attending were cool & awesome, and we even made money. I am an honest fan of everything that #tprfm does, because they make such thoughtfully crafted experiences for the audiences and vendors.

A seller's merchandise at a night market in a brewery. The background is the giant silver vats, which stand about 10-15 feet tall. In the foreground, the tiered market stall shows various types of beholders, along with an assortment of unique monsters and a snake-wrapped skull with a mohawk of pine trees.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 08/02/2025

Sat down for one minute and I am now helpless to move an 8-pound weight a few feet in any direction

A black and white tuxedo cat is happily digging her claws into the colorful sweatshirt of the person she is sitting on.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 26/01/2025

This Sheldon Whitehouse? He needs to explain himself AND do better.

Book on a table: the title is “The Scheme”. The subtitle is “how the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court” on a graphic background of the Supreme Court building and a red arrow pointing down. At the bottom is the authors’ names: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse with Jennifer Mueller

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 09/01/2025

This looks like a chance to have a Rice Truck Incident

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 06/09/2024

😩 Elation to despair in 15 seconds. Got to Portland, Sept.6 . “Bikini Kill is playing?!?!” “sold out?!?!” Oh well.

A marquee for a performance space in Portland Maine bears the words,”Bikini Kill”, followed by the saddest words of all, “Sold Out!”

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 17/08/2024

I have my first art fair coming up since 2021, and I am pretty excited for it - not sure how many folks in my neck of the woods like TTRPG-based weird art stuff, but what the hell. Low vendor fee that supports a good cause, and I get to air out my weird artlings.

Unbelievably angry-looking Christmas tree mimic monster sitting in front of a crinkly white backdrop. Lots of teeth.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 03/08/2024

I am going to my annual fish/aquarium club meeting and I have to somehow explain this:

An improbable number of large houseplants sticking out of the top of an aquarium, with random fishkeeping debris strewn around in a carefree way. Some houseplants and plastic monsters are also visible

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 03/06/2024

Last evening of vacation - it was a good one, but there's always some melancholia on the final night before work resumes.

A sidewalk in Denver, CO. A poem is stenciled on it, near a piece of cardboard where a homeless man once rested. The poem reads, "Maybe 100 years still in my pocket.
but it's too late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
Is the ship we are all on
burning the word as we go."
_ mary oliver

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 19/05/2024

Fellow sufferer - I forgot who posted this and where (of course I did) (never mind did a google search), but I feel that it supplies additional things for all of us to wince and nod along to.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 11/05/2024

I'm already regretting the amount of alt text this will require but

A sign reads "Pedophobia, pupophobia, coulrophobia
Fear of dolls - puppets - clowns
WARNING
Many of the items in this display have demonic activity. Please show caution when viewing."
The area is an alcove within the Vampa vampire museum, and the display shows a menacing clown face and some dolls and chains.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 13/04/2024

Our beloved Crow - toothless and bossy as hell. She's hollering for her evening meal here.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 04/12/2023

First time painting a mini for ….about a year or longer, and I’m gonna give the credit to all the amazing inspiration at Pax Unplugged. Still WIP, but coming along quickly. With my job’s schedule, I’m going to need to get really good at executing decisions in paint, quickly.

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Coffee and Creatures/Tina @coffeeandcreatures.com · 02/12/2023

Last night at the Alexandria Library 😍

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