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In the meantime how about a drawing off my old neighbour’s cat Mary Jane wearing a thai style crown decorated with skulls. #inkdrawing #mementomori

An ink drawing of my neighbour’s cat, Mary Jane wearing an elaborate crown with high gold pounds, skulls and earrings like side drops gracing her face. Rose gold and black ink on paper.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 16h

Added to the pile. I was very good, and only ordered 3 boxes this time. The アマビエ was the one I just needed to have, but it needed some friends to travel with. Psst: @the17thqueen.bsky.social

Three boxes of incense: Okuno Seimeido Gokuhin, Okuno Seimeido Kigan Senkoh - Byōma Tai Senkoh , YAMADAMATSU SUIFU GOKUHIN INCENSE

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is very important to make your own rice cracker mix. All my salty sweet spicy favourites. That way I’m not picking through for the ones I like, and the last handfuls are ones I actively dislike.

A photo of a mix of various Japanese rice crackers, wasabi peas and peanuts.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I hope I have the wherewithal to draw tomorrow. Tomorrow is “yokai,” and I will for sure be drawing a yokai. Not sure which one. Past yokai: 化け猫、アマビエ、傘お化け、猫又

Ink drawing of a bakeneko, a two tailed cat dancing on its hind legs with a tea towel on its head. This particular 化け猫 is depicted as a tabby cat.

Amabie, a three tailed mermaid of sorts with a beak who appears during plague times. She’s done in paint and ink on paper sitting on a rock in the water under the night sky. Ink by me passing by Brent Wear.

An ink drawing of Kasa Obake, a sentient red umbrella portrayed here with one eye, “mouth” torn open with a forked sticking out, hopping on one fishnet stockinged leg wearing a classic character tap shoe.

An ink drawing of a nekomata, a cat with two tails: each tipped in flame, portrayed as a white cat with black spots. Claws out, of course.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Red rabbit felt hat isn’t entirely finished. I used the trimmed off pieces for the hat band, and steam manipulated “feathers.” I still need to finish sewing them down, but I them sort of tacked down before I wore it to my friend’s birthday dinner.

Red rabbit felt hat half at arm’s length so you can see the whole hat with felt “feathers” partially sewn down. There’s a pin holding one in place.

Me talking a bad mirror selfie to find the centre beside I sewed the inner band in. I always wear my hats at a jaunty angle over my right ear. This Issa how I’ve been wearing all my hats since high school.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Millinery class day 2: yesterday was blocking today was doing all of the finishing. We pulled the hats off the blocks, trimmed them down, finished the brims, sewed internal bands, external bands and embellishments.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just remembered this existed. I’m going to lay some ink over it. Yes those are haunted taxidermied kittens on one of those Dutch barges full of cats. That’s all the information you need. Started with my art partner in crime, Brent Wear circa 2018. Sing “kitten boat” ominously to the TMA theme.

A partially inked over painting of two orange taxidermied kittens. One is dressed like Napoleon, the other in a lace trimmed Victorian dress with a red parasol. The boat has round windows with wide eyed cats peering out of them. Acrylic paint and ink on paper.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the straw. I did an asymmetrical shape with a short brim. First photo is the blocks. You use different blocks stacked together to combine the cap and the brim. You can see her collection of mid century hat blocks in the background.

3 wooden hat blocks combined and stacked to form the base the hat form will be stretched over.

The straw hat form wet and shaped over the hat block. The ropes tied around it to keep it in place while it dries.

The straw hat form wet and shaped over the hat block taken from a different angle. The ropes tied around it to keep it in place while it dries. This photo is taken from a different angle, and you can see the shelves of hat blocks in the background.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hat workshop day 1: got to block a rabbit fur felt and a straw. Here is the felt stretched over the block.

A red orange rabbit felt beginning of a cloche hat stretched over vintage hat blocks

A red orange rabbit felt beginning of a cloche hat stretched over vintage hat blocks side view.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It has the oldest version of the characters and what they became. My friend and I text each other me in Japanese her in Chinese. It’s a fun puzzle. I have a really good Japanese dictionary app that breaks the characters down into their radicals.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have that sort of book in Japanese.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#inktober day 6 “mushroom” Today I learned from my favourite grocery store person told me about the inky cap mushroom. They literally melt to spread their spores. I also learned that they’re edible, but will poison you if combined with alcohol. Drawn, not pencilled out and inked in. #drawtober

An ink drawing of inky cap mushrooms. 9 of them in various stages of melting. Drawn in my calendar. You can vaguely see my Japanese study notes. Drawn with a 0.1 Copic Multiliner

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I performed two (2) miracles today! Hand darning hole challenges one machine knit lace. The goal is as invisible as possible. Woven fabrics and lace are by far the hardest. #handmending

The “after” photo of a threadbare shoulder of a loosely woven houndstooth winter coat circa 1985. This was a 3 colour reweaving job.

The “before” photo of a threadbare shoulder of a loosely woven houndstooth winter coat circa 1985.

The “after” photo of a hole in a machine knit sweater dress circa 1993.

The “before” photo of a hole in a machine knit sweater dress circa 1993.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Valid. Everyone should pre-order your book, that’s a given. Still..

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow’s prompt is “mythological.” Again, no idea. I will consult this book, because why does it always have to b default to Greco-Roman?

A photo of “Mythical Beasts of Japan From Evil Creatures to Sacred Beings” next to a stack of mostly Japanese art books.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This one took several tries until my art partner in crime came over for dinner. I handed the drawing over, and he added the tattered business casual. I then inked him in. Platinum Carbon Black is easier to remove from my hands than Chou Kuro.

My hand smeared with 🖋️ holding today’s inktober drawing of a wereowl wandering through the woods.

Third iteration of my scribbley pencil sketch of today’s inktober drawing of a wereowl wandering through the woods.

Second iteration of my scribbley pencil sketch of today’s inktober drawing of a wereowl wandering through the woods.

First iteration of my scribbley pencil sketch of today’s inktober drawing of a wereowl wandering through the woods.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#inktober days 3 & 4 “werewolf and “owl” A wereowl! I got some owl composition/owl fashion help from my art partner in crime, Brent Wear. Drawn with dip pen using Platinum Carbon Black ink. #inktober2026 #inkdrawing #absurbistart #owl #werewolf #businesscasual

An ink drawing of a wereowl in tattered business casual in the woods; the clouds clearing to expose a full moon.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Who’s cute? You’s cute.”

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat curled up on her bright pink Icelandic sheep skin rug with her nose buried in it, staring at the camera.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#inktober day 2 “vampire” A weasel vampire and a pigeon vampire locked in a bloody battle. I probably could have drawn more blood, but it seemed like overkill. This’s drawing used: pentel hybrid technica gel pen .04, copic multiliner .003 and dip pen #drawtober #drawloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub

A drawing of a weasel vampire and a pigeon vampire attacking each other in a bloody battle drawn in black and red ink on hot press watercolour paper.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok #inktober day 2: Vampire I often solicit drawing prompts, and I got two: weasel and pigeon. I am going to ink this in tomorrow. Here they are in a mostly finished pencil sketch. I still have to make them vampires. Turn them if you will. Either way it’s an epic battle. #drawtober #WIP

A photo of a pencil sketch of a weasel and a pigeon.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#inktober Moth Maiden I’m going 2015 by drawing a little crown on her head, because why not?

Closeup of my little ink drawing of a little moth wearing a teeny crown.

An ink drawing of a moth in a teeny crown. Drawn on 6 x 6 hot press watercolour paper.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suck at words, but how about a box of butterflies?

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not bad for a first try, but those isn’t going to fold flat. I wanted to do something other than paper cranes.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now everyone is in their correct size pots with the correct potting soil. The kitchen floor is a gigantic mess.

My windowsill stuffed with plants sitting and hanging along with suncatchers.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heart Hoya is going nuts. Finally repotted it, because it was going to fall over. It spot up another 8 inches within less than a week. It’s the plant they sell around Valentine’s Day in the tiny pot with one heart leaf. It was just that one leaf for 5 years before it grew a vine.

Heart Hoya plant in its new gunmetal metallic pot. You can see the original heart at the bottom of a vine of hearts.

The Heart Hoya full vine nestled in its windowsill jungle. It stands about 14-16” tall.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Talking a break from the tedious process of shading in the sky to ink in the water. #wip #inkdrawing

My latest work in progress ink drawing oriented vertically in order to draw the “horizontal” lines. And my hand with a fresh half moon manicure holding trusty Copic Multiliner poised to ink in the waves.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I very much have a problem. I can’t have too many art books, right? This one has cats AND owls.

Chieko Terasawa 寺澤智恵子作品集 [まいにちの、すてきないろいろ] book cover featuring an etching of a cat with its head and paw on the bar next to a martini.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Printed out the paper, now to make a plan. I’m really terrible with thumbnail sketches, but there are little rectangles.. seriously considering printing this out on fancy paper, just doing every day on this one page. #inktober #drawlloween #drawtober

The mab’s drawlloween club 2026 calendar of prompts for inktober in calendar format. 1. Moth maiden 2. Vampire 3. Werewolf 4. Owl 5. Mythological 6. Mushroom 7. Grave 8. Haunted house 9. Frankenstein 10. Jaberwocky 11. Yokai 12. Raven 13. Mirror 14. Witch 15. Tiny terrors 16. histHORRORcal 17. Lantern 18. Giant! 19. Cat 20. Vile viper 21. Strange shadows 22. Ghoul 23. Cryptid 24. Pumpkin 25. Ghost 26. Moon 27. Siren 28. Beast 29. Toad 30. Tricksy treat 31. All Hallows Eve

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is coming in another 3+” at the side seams; this time from the back only (or the side seams would be definitively in the front) and another 2ish inches at the top half of the front princess seams. Today added straps along with the additional alterations. It’s a LOT, but my client loves it so..

Side detail of a cream coloured dress with a many lace overlay with alterations pinned on the front princess seams and the side seams in preparation to finish the dress.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She’s smooshed next to me on my chair, and accepting belly and armpit rubs. Shameless.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat laying on her side with one leg on display. You can see her pinky-black paw pads.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She totally just rolled her eyes at me.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat giving me the side eye.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat post eye roll.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dressed in poison colours today.

Me and my brown almost black Burmese mix cat perched on my shoulder for a mirror selfie. I’m wearing a bright red michiko over a very bright pink almost red floral print dress with the ruffle of my bright coral lace slip peeking from the hem along with my signature summertime fun cowgirl boots.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Repotting and staking day! My poor pothos needs a bigger pot. Of course this realisation happened AFTER the big trip to the garden store yesterday. I have a million cute empty pots that are all always the wrong size.

Mystery purple vine of some sort newly potted in an art deco pot in a metal plant hanger frame shaped like a hexagon, a sad spider plant in a hanging pink disco ball planter and a variety of suncatchers in my window.

Another mystery vine that has been in water finally planted and staked up next to a glass medicine bottle with marimo balls.

A [redacted] staked up with a higher stake amongst the windowsill jungle.

The mess on my kitchen floor featuring an imported spider plant, and a very rooted pathos stuffed into the wrong sized pot surrounded by dirt and empty pots.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Proof that my cat is actually brown almost black.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat laying on her side on the hardwood floor in the sun.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes (who am I kidding? All of the time) I work on things I consider blasphemous. I will rail against anything glued and whatever this latex/flocked “velvet” glued on power mesh that serves as lingerie these days *screaming inside* I added hook and eye tape to these bra-like things.

Are these bralets? They are.. something. Front back of two of the three I cut open the backs and sewed on traditional hook and eye tape. “Nude” power mesh with screen printed(?) on rose pattern latex “lace” top in black, bottom in white.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is what ate up most of my brain for the last two days: it took me a little less than 5 hours, but it seemed like more. A project I tried to discourage, but no such luck. 1st round prep: removing the top lace piece and taking it in 4” on the sides and 2” at the front process seams.

The before: a cream coloured dress with a navy blue lace overlay. A size 20 on the size 14 dress form; which is about the size it will be when I complete the alterations.

The first order of business was to remove the lace top that has a high neckline and cap sleeves. That will be replaced with simple straps at the second fitting. The majority of my life is seam ripping. I also had to open the lining, the parts where the bodice is attached to the skirt at the sides and the front princess seams and the side zipper.

The dress with the top lace piece removed. Now, the top is fashioned into a strapless sweetheart neckline. All the preliminary alterations are fully basted together; the top safety pinned closed and ready for the second fitting. Dress is laid out on the cutting table, because I didn’t have the wherewithal to put it back on the dress form.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Instead of showing what I worked on today (and didn’t finish), I want to focus on the distracting insanity Disney princess dress my coworker was working on. Pretty sure the train is 6’ long. If you can believe it, there is a giant crinoline that zips into the inside that makes it twice as big.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hopefully I’ll have more drawings on future pages than I have had for a while. To be fair I have been working on actual pieces and not sketches (yes, this is what qualifies as a sketch to me). My pages have been more dedicated to practicing writing Japanese than drawing. Top yesterday, bottom 2024.

2024 open calendar page with an incomplete drawing of a sinking yacht that is being struck by lightning. 3 ghosts and a small black cat in a little life boat on the stormy ocean are fleeing the wreckage as rain pours from the sky. Underneath is a page full of Japanese characters and phrases written in pencil from yesterday and the day before.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The hopefulness of getting my 2027 ほぼ日手帳 (Hobonichi Techo) along with a pile of new dip pen nibs to try!

My ほぼ日手帳 2027 still in its packaging with its manual and various do pen nibs laid out pleasingly on my living room floor.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back to inking in this dude. In more of a sky and glow up mood. The water can wait for a day I have a steadier hand. #inkdrawing #adrift

Detail of a partially inked in wip of an ink drawing on paper featuring a little black cat adrift in a little life boat on the open ocean following a line of little ghost fires. A starry sky in the background with a partial glimpse of a crescent moon.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Self-portrait with bat hair ornaments circa 1920 at the Portland Art Museum. I miss hair sticks, but I don’t miss having long hair.

Two bronze cloisinée blue bat hair ornaments with red eyes and springy antennae mounted to the wall behind glass. You can just make out my reflection in the glass.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ll be fine if I manage to sleep tonight. I have an evil ring that talks my sleep. THIs was last night:

Last nights sleep chart looking wildly miserable.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The paper bag has been defeated.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat rolled over her mostly destroyed brown paper grocery bag. She’s in the chin/throat rub position in a sunny spot on my living room floor.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat rolled over her mostly destroyed brown paper grocery bag. She’s partially rolled on her back with her paws curled under her chin in a sunny spot on my living room floor.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming down with something, which is unfair, since I’m finally getting a hold on my sleep schedule and was starting to feel normal. I’m likely worse than I thought, because nurse bite came and bit the crap out of me this morning. Former cat was a good nurse. Current cat bites. And bites and bites.

My menace of my brown almost black Burmese cat sitting next to me on my bed. (I am not in the picture) Her eyes are black and she is frowning at me. Her diagnosis must not be good, because she is about to attack. This is her solution to healthcare. Biting. Hence Nurse Bite. I took this photo to send to my boss when checking in after I called in sick today.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here is a cat for you. 茶色猫の名前はミヌ

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat sitting primly on the floor with her tail curled behind her.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@zackdavisson.com Curious: are some of the yokai in these books were Shigeru Mizuki’s original creations? Some yokai are artist’s inventions, aren’t they?

Both volumes of Yokai the art of Shigeru Mizuki

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here’s a detail of what I’m working on today. I always forget that glowing has way less white than I think. You have to slowly sneak up to the little figures to get the glow. I’m trying to get the balance of it looming how I want it close up while reading from a distance.

Detail of the previous post. Four ghost fires in various phases of glow over partially inked in water. Ink on paper.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Back to working on this dude after taking the summer off from this project and drawing in general to allow my hand heal up. It was my non-dominant hand that I still kept managing to re-injure, because I still had to do my sewing job, and rest in between. I still can’t bend that finger into my fist.

My WIP ink drawing featuring a tiny black cat drifting in the night ocean under a crescent moon and starry sky following a line of tiny ghost fires. Drawn on 12 x 16 hot press water colour paper with Copic Multiliner pens. I’d like to say it’s 2/3’s done, but the reality is that it’s probably half done. So much shading; probably 2-3 more layers of ink to go.

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Kirsten M @piperewan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ugh, distracted, brain fogged and not paying attention to where I’m going. Kind of like when you’re blindfolded, turned until you’re dizzy and let go. But I received a sign, and now moving in the right direction towards my destination.

Holding a penny in my left hand. My nails are newly manicured in my style with their half moon manicure in periwinkle gold sparkle with cat eye flowers. I still cannot bend my pinky into my fist after the entire summer of being splinted.

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