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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 25/11/2025

Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...

Two books and a teal green typewriter. Entwined’s cover is a collage of vintage photographs and painted vines. Ember is a burned wood texture.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 29/10/2025

Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents Please share or tag a parent below. Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW) ONE DAY LEFT 🔥 sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...

Book cover: Ember an art journal for parents. Design is burned wood layered with transparent white paint in drips and drops.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 10/10/2025

This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester

Digital collage zine cover: Wayward, Wonky & Wandering: a zine by two librarians for any and all researchers. Title is handwritten and letter cut outs on a circle being held by a photocopied hand.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 17/08/2025

Our first time growing gourds of any kind. ✨

Birdhouse gourds growing up gazebo of green pipes (a greenhouse without the plastic cover added) and a white metal house planter I thrifted beyond with morning glory leaves twining through.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 05/08/2025

My zine this month is Art for Social Change. It also comes with a postcard you can send your elected reps. Read it online for free: sarahshotts.com/2025/07/art-...

Art for Social Change zine and typewritten postcards. Vintage buttons are on the cover including a yellow Buzzy Bee "be a helper", "try a little kindness", a retro earth pin that says "Don't blow it." an infinity symbol on an outer space badge, "bread not bombs" with a red flower", "yeah rights" in rainbow colors, "I'm on earth duty" and "I'm for wildlife" with a bird and wildflowers.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 03/08/2025

This is the best dress code I’ve ever heard. I would have worn my gleeman’s cloak.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 03/08/2025

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? Amie McNee. I’m golden.

Screencap of IG stories. Amie McNee in a vintage arts and crafts style orange robe with large letters on the back spelling We need your art.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 20/07/2025

I digitized my zine about neurodivergence so anyone can read it. 🌈 sarahshotts.com/2025/06/spec... #Autism #Neurodivergence #Zines

Spectrum: a zine about neurodivergence on a wooden table. The title is made of letters cut from a magazine. The center is a color wheel made of watercolor washes bleeding into each other.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 27/06/2025

I’m bad at social media, but good at snail mail. I make zines and write blog posts about creativity and neurodivergence. What kind of hashtags are good for art, zines & autism these days? #Zines #Autism #NeurodivergentArtist

Two zines and magazine clippings on a wooden desk with scissors, gluestick and pencils. Both zines titles are cut out magazine letters: Chaos Gardening with leaf rubbings and Spectrum with a hand painted watercolor color wheel.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 18/01/2025

Entwined postcards going out to the book launch team! 🌿

Postcards of Entwined book cover - a collage of textures with a vintage photograph of mother and child overlaid with illustrated vines

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 02/01/2025

Spent an hour cutting images for my novel’s mood board today. ✂️

Printed images in a pile on my desk including maps, trees, spirals, artifacts, hag stones, reflections, etc. My typewriter and antique keys are also on the table.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 29/12/2024

Foraging walks are our new favorite. 🍂

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 28/12/2024

My creative ecosystem needs more unstructured time to dream. So reverie is my word for 2025. Here’s a wallpaper I made to remind myself. This is Boreas by John William Waterhouse. It is named for the Greek God of the North Wind.

Wallpaper featuring John William Waterhouse’s Boreas. A figure is buffeted by the wind and looking deep in thought. They are wrapped in a swathe of gray cloth over their clothing which billows out in the wind.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 28/12/2024

Amie McNee gets it. I can’t wait to read her book.

Author Amie McNee holds a large hand lettered sign that says “Artist, build a community not a following.” She is smiling dressed in cozy black sweats with a royal blue scarf draped around her neck. Beyond Amie you see the English countryside blanketed in fog.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas to me! Made it across the pond just in time. #Hadestown 🌹

Hadestown Live from London Vinyl record. Orpheus kneeling to Eurydice and rose petals fluttering as album art

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 12/12/2024

Discover Your Creative Ecosystem is a holistic reframe for artists & makers of all kinds. There’s also an illustrated workbook. www.sarahshotts.com/books

Discover Your Creative Ecosystem by Sarah Shotts. The book has a landscape shown in the silhouette of a swallow. Autumn leaves surround the book on a wooden table.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 02/12/2024

Date yourself. Post your first computer. P.S. Don’t forget alt text.

1980s IBM computer. Small off white monitor with black and green screen spelling IBM sitting on a gray box with floppy disk drives (the big floppy floppies - not the smaller rigid ones) and a white and gray keyboard.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 01/12/2024

It turns out Grandpapa Tolkein was a discovery writer after all.

I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in a letter to
W. H. Auden, 7 June 1955

Photograph of a book page.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 27/11/2024

Bluesky’s open. Share with one artwork to connect with other artists. #art 🧶 This textile piece is from my interdisciplinary art series My Brain on Motherhood. You can see more here: www.sarahshotts.com/thisismybrai...

Two photographs of my textile
piece front and back of an embroidery hoop on a stand. The front says “I’m fine” in an intricate font. The back is a mass of knots.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 27/11/2024

Decorated the studio for Christmas today. 🎄

A narrow Christmas tree with wooden ornaments and bells in the corner of a white artist studio. There is a self with trucks, trees, a holden orb, and children's books. On the wall is a hobbit watercolor. In the window are gingerbread houses. A bird mobile hovers above.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 25/11/2024

Portrait of the artist by their child. The overalls are printed with the leaves of a giant papaya that self seeded in our compost heap. Autumn of 2023

I'm a nonbinary human with pale skin, green glasses, and short brownish hair caught on camera laughing by my then four year old. I am wearing hand printed overalls with giant white leaves and a black shirt. My hands are in my pockets and my gray green art studio is behind me.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 04/11/2024

Painting autumnal leaves for fine motor and art lessons this week. 🍁

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 27/10/2024

Is this thing on? Testing micro.blog cross posting to Bluesky.

Teal green typewriter with an open carriage for cleaning sits on a wooden desk. Library style drawers and wart supplies are behind.

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