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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

We were at the farmer’s market today by the shop, and everyone was really nice. I ate a ham and cheese croissant and a sweet potato sandwich. The lady next to me gave me a pink iced tea. They had a live string band. It was so dang pleasant.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I bought a bunch of wood for various art projects and opened the box last night. Tonight I couldn’t figure out why the apartment smelled so pleasantly like a campfire. Then I found the box of wood cuttings. It’s delightful.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We love Scrabble in this household.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I’ve been doing a lot of memorial pet portraits, and to get a cheer-up, change-of-pace, I drew a ton of cartoon dogs! My favorite here is Monchi, the pug from The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I’m trying Rosetta Stone for the first time in over a decade. It’s immersive language learning, which is challenging for me, but it’s supposed to be good for conversation. And it remembers my old Spanish lesson stats from when I had the box set. (They have a sale this weekend on a lifetime account.)

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I went back to my old job today to say goodbye to one of the long timer dogs, who was there before I started there. His people suddenly found out he has a big, aggressive cancer. His sister dog didn’t quite get it, but I’m glad I got to see him one last time. Wish these babies could live forever.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I made an iron-on t-shirt I can wear to the store. It’s got the logo and address really big on the back. It looks nice, but man, that was challenging. I think I will hire a pro for more of them.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ahhh, I finally finished Andor, and that show is just gut punch after gut punch, and “I can’t believe they did that in a Disney show!” But Rogue One is my favorite of the Star Wars movies. So there will be a rewatch soon.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My boyfriend is drawing a comic for DC Comics!!!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17/05/2025

Y'know, if it approaches from Naperville it's considered a side haboob.

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

[sufjan voice] dust storm in Chicago / all dust blows, all dust blows

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Today I drove my car (Toyota RAV4) from Albany Park to Logan Square, up to Rogers Park, back to Albany Park, down to Pilsen just before the dust storm, and back to Albany Park. It just keeps going. I am so happy with this vehicle. (It’s a hybrid, too!)

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I bought a fabric pill shaver and cleaned all the fabric nubs off the sofa and it makes the sofa SO SATISFYING to my skin now that it’s smooth. Like freshly shaved legs in bedsheets.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

She has this stuffed banana that’s her favorite, and she brought it to the park today.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Oh man, I love quirky lady solves a murder mystery shows. Elsbeth, High Potential, Poker Face, The Residence, and technically Only Murders in the Building.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

She has never been fed a day in her life.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Days off are still for making art! Working on a pet portrait.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I drew it myself. It’s a goofy sketch, and it’s not AI. It sounds like it wastes water, yoinks everyone’s ideas, and adds too many fingers to portraits. Draw stuff yourself! If you can’t draw yet, hire an illustrator to do it. They’ll be thrilled. ✍️

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My tropicals are loving the spring weather! Here is a philodendron verrucosum, an anthurium veitchii, and a musa banana *variegated.* So fancy! They look so happy. 🪴

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today I was a guest speaker at @cantarella.ink’s Columbia College illustration class! Her students’ assignment had been to create a mural on the side of the storefront, and I was absolutely blown away with their projects. The rainbow Matisse dance with Bonnies mock-up mural is downright wondrous. 🎨🎨

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We had a tufted rug class yesterday at @heyithoughtofyou.bsky.social, and I made an artist palette!

Tufted rug in the shape of an artist palette

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I saw the Mickey 17 movie yesterday and it was very satisfying and creative!

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yes. But I got frustrated with grammar, and picked up German again from high school. Annnnnd then started Mandarin, because it was in a ton of tv shows. I want to speak all the languages!

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

That’s a good idea! I’ve tried watching Mandarin tv shows, but I think I need kids shows to get words, first.

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Hey, I Thought Of You @heyithoughtofyou.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When art imitates life. @uooart’s A Short Trip To The Grocery Store. It’s a risograph print made for our dogs. Bonnie did this while I was answering emails. She has no regrets. 🐶☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ #thattoydidntstandachance

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I listen to @chirpradio.org every day. Sometimes I even DJ with them, and I’m usually the person picking up your donated records and CDs. It’s their spring fundraising drive. Give them some lovin’s! chirpradio.org/donatenow

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This photo of my Bonnie lass is 100% brought to you by fancy raw dog treats.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tonight I tested out a new craft for the shop. It’s book bedazzling!

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I finally finished reading The House in the Cerulean Sea. It was nice, but I think I’m always looking for a magic school book with a mystery. I bet it’ll be made into a movie in a couple years. I realized I was mentally casting actors as the characters as I read it. I bet other people do this, too.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16/03/2025

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today we went to a drag brunch for @daimondrewthis.bsky.social’s Mom’s birthday. This place had the best mac and cheese in the city at their brunch buffet. And the drag queens were all terrific.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Sunday in the Park with Cameron. 🎡🌭⛱️⚾️ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was one of the things that made me want to move to Chicago. That movie made it look like such a fun place. It is, and it takes time to explore the whole thing. It changes all the time. It was a good choice to move here. 🎡🌭⛱️⚾️

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I’m looking at a book about sandwiches from history. SO many from the early 1900s just involve butter, leaves, and not much else. Glad things have moved along. But what are people going to eat on bread in 100 years?

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have been working on a T-Shirt quilt. It is coming along.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trying to do little nice things to keep from being too upset with what the Orange Regime is doing to… everything. I just keep reading worse and worse headlines. So tonight I picked up my viola for the first time in a long time. And I have about five different art projects happening at once.

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We had a ribbon cutting at the shop today!

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Carolyn Kassnoff @itllglowonyou.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have walking around all week singing “You really ‘bout to do it?” I’m still thinking about Kendrick’s halftime show!

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

God, take JoAnn's pain and give it to Hobby Lobby

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 26/02/2025

How to tell a raven from a crow. An older guide I made with Dr Kaeli Swift. And yes that's an aileron roll, not a barrel roll, but only us nerds know that :)

A chart called "how to tell a raven from a crow". An illustration shows that the common raven has long, fancy throat feathers, but the American crow has smooth throat feathers. The raven has a wedge-shaped tail and the crow has a fan-shaped tail. The raven croaks, saying "crroak crroak", but the crow caws, saying "caw caw caw". The raven regularly barrel rolls, and is shown doing a fun roll in the sky, with the sound effect whooooosh. The crow less regularly barrel rolls, and it's shown flying awkwardly and saying "Am I doing it now??" while another crow replies "ummm almost".

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Hey, I Thought Of You @heyithoughtofyou.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Thursday at 12:30, we’re having a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony with the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce! 🎀✂️

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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