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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds perfect! Connecting. Keeping one another inspired. Making things. Sharing. My kid uses Discord for working on creative projects with friends. I haven’t tried this yet. I should probably plug in before I turn into a fossil. And there’s a lot of Animal Crossing going on here.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 13h

If anyone who’s been added to this starter pack would like to be removed, please let me know! On the other hand, if you or someone you know would be a good fit and would like to be added, please reach out. We’d love to grow this community!

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 15h

Yes: Purposely seeking beautiful things! Enjoy these grumpy herring 🐟🖋️🐟

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 15h

p.s. Movie? Which movie? Sometimes I feel out of the loop ➰🤣

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 15h

Ooo like “sowing” wild oats … which sounds like “sewing” … and both are tangentially related 😆🙃 An intro to willow basket weaving zine would make a great gift for a creative friend, you think?

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Self care and making art with friends? You’re living the dream! What does craft night on discord look like? My friend and I collaborate by sending one another works in progress or bits of inspiration. And then we share the process and results via snail mail and text.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Love the idea of creating a moss terrarium! 🦠 Interested in learning more about springtails and isopods 🔍 Have you read Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer?

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trying to walk at least 20 minutes every day, rain or shine. Rain today. This morning I found that someone had tucked a couple buckeyes behind the Buddha statue on the edge of town. Taking the time to get out into the air, breathe, and observe often overlooked details helps settle my nervous system.

Small concrete statue of Buddha surround by stines, rocks, cairns, and plants. There’s a little stone in their lap with a small heart painted on it, and another stone at the base with the word “love”. Tucked among it all are two little buckeyes or horse chestnuts.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would wear this everyday! 🧡😊

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh I see. The road to inner peace is under construction.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wonder. What kind of widget is this?

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is the music friend the same friend as the fish in a bucket friend?

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Actually, I even tried a couple of fancy Derwent Lightfast pencils and didn’t like them as well. A bit too muddy for me.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yay! Congratulations! Is your grandma an artist, too? What are the hammer, nails, and binding cardboard for?

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you 🧡 I think she was feeding babies, because she’d always fly off for a minute after finding a juicy morsel. Perhaps they all relocated safer spot.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I had a scrappy-looking robin friend named Flo who always hung out while I was working in our garden. But a red tailed hawk moved into the neighborhood and I haven’t seen her in weeks 🙁

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I started with a 12 set as well to see what all the fuss was about. Love the way they layer. Hardly use my prismacolor anymore.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So often when someone dies, all of their stuff ends up on the curb. It’s always a sobering reminder to live in the moment and not be attached to things. Even our art.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last night I couldn’t quiet my brain. Too distracted to read, too tired to dig into a complicated project, and not particularly compelled to wash the dinner dishes. I could’ve scrolled or turned on the tv. But instead, I colored. Thank you, Maybell! @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

A page in The Little Frog Coloring Book: A Relaxing, Mindful Journey of Color and Creativity by Maybell Eequay, published by Summersdale Publishers in London. We see an illustration of a frog, wearing chunky thigh-high boots qnd a mushroom cap for a hat, pinwheeling through a background of stars and butterflies. The boots have a pattern of little hearts on them. The illustration is partially colored by me with a few Faber-Castell Polychromos.

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suebergville @suebergville.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#artmaking has its challenges and sometimes you don’t get much done. We should always enjoy our triumphs though, when things don’t go our way. Here I am replacing a stock #planter for the shop. #art #concrete #sculpture

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

INKTOBER 2026 is underway! 🖤 Here are the prompts! 🖤 If anyone knows of an official Inktober host here on Bluesky, please let us know. Thanks! 🖤 #traditionalart #penandink #printmaking #inktoberchallenge #inktober #inktober2026

INKTOBER OFFICAL 2026 PROMPT LIST

1. APPLE
2. RELIC
3. MINIATURE
4. CACTUS
5. SMACK
6. OGRE
7. PANIC
8. STINKY
9. RAM
10. MYSTICAL
11. RESCUE
12. TOSS
13. FLIMSY
14. LADY
15. HOORAY
16. GANGLY
17. CONTRAPTION
18. FLIGHTLESS
19. CONFUSED
20. LOUNGE
21. HERO
22. BEACON
23. DAPPER
24. BAKE
25. FRACTURE
26. ZIP
27. DUMB
28. TROPHY
29. TUSK
30. COOKIE
31. FLEX

#INKTOBER
#INKTOBER2026

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I adore your little kits! I’d love to dig my hooks out and try one of your patterns someday 🧡 Unfortunately, I’m across the big pond 😕

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 05/10/2026

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 10, 2026 The theme is #Weather Sun, rain, snow, fog, show us your best art about the weather! Use both tags to be included in the feed. Multiple entries welcome. #art #artists #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry

Photo of snowflakes in front of pine trees with text reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 10, 2026
The theme is #Weather
Any Art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

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MadeByBanana @madebybanana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve been using medical exam paper like a towel for cleaning up paint and dabbing surfaces to end up with even more future collage fodder! #artsky #paint #medicalexampaper #acrylic

Piece of medical exam paper with random color marks, created by cleaning up surfaces while painting. Paper on a translucent piece of plastic, creating a blurred background

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Years ago, I had a digital point-and-shoot, but I’ve never had a DSLR. While I can appreciate the beauty of mirrorless cameras, I thought it best if I start out with something that’s less of an investment. The Rebel belonged to a friend, so I know it’s in good condition. It’ll arrive next week! 🙂

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That has got to be the cutest litterbox ever!

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I saw Emma’s post the other day, I was certain I hadn’t seen a conker in years. And then yesterday I found this 🤎 Isn’t it amazing how humans can have a positive effect on one another in these seemingly magical ways?

My hand holding two conkers (aka horse chestnuts). One is completely enclosed in a very spiky brown shell, and the other has been cracked open, revealing a fresh seed.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I saw your post the other day, I was certain I hadn’t seen a conker in years. And then yesterday I found this 🤎 Isn’t it interesting how humans can have a positive effect on one another in these seemingly magical ways?

My hand holding a conker (aka horse chestnut). Brown spiky shell, split open, and a fresh smooth seed.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have an opportunity to purchase a gently used Canon EOS Rebel T7 from a friend. Been struggling with an iPhone 13 Pro for the past several years. Tired of not having precise aperture control, and I despise the auto processing that Apple won’t allow you to turn off.

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Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your periodic reminder

A neon sign that says “it’s a good day to make some art”.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These are adorable! I’ve never been able to crochet or knit anything that isn’t rectangular (quite a collection of scarves here). Self-taught and abysmal at reading and following patterns.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rainy festival! The community showed up with hand-warmers, extra tarps, extra weights for the tent legs, and hot herbal tea 🖤 #noreaster #northquabbin #garlicandarts #newengland

One of a group of volunteers who brewed up a large batch of warming herbal tea and went tent to tent with a wagon. There were over 100 vendors set up in a field surrounded by trees.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kept it for the longest time! But I wasn’t using it, so I donated it to a high school art department a few years back.

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading that brings on nostalgia! 😊 My first art camera was a Canon AE1. Which model did you make an offer? Hope you get it! 🙂

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’re one of over a hundred vendors setting up today, hoping the nor’easter doesn’t hit this far inland

Tents set up in a field in north central Massachusetts. A backdrop of tall trees, with just a tinge of autumn color. A single red vehicle with its back hatch up. Clouds have just moved in and the wind is picking up.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September

Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love the layers of history in the earth 🤎 Beautiful piece!

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Keeping Sparks @keepingsparks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Collab in progress. Making art is even more fun with friends 🙂🙂 #artsky #collage #printmaking #stamping

A few dozen collage-style prints made with a pile of thrifted rubber stamps. Each piece is a little smaller than 5x7. On both hot pressed and cold pressed watercolor paper. Elements include: birds, a bike, an old typewriter, squeezy honey bear bottle, floral patterns, script writing, a lighthouse. Retro and vintage themes, mostly.

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