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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 26/09/2026

You guys. Bedtime in my youngest’s room with @inkhand.bsky.social. The cat, Raven, loves the kid schedule and always attends bedtime reading so she can get tummy rubs from Inkhand. Tonight she decided she was so relaxed she was actually liquid? 😆

A man sits on a stool next to a bed in a kid’s room, criss cross apple sauce, with a cat that HAD been lounging, tummy out, on his lap. As he’s pet, she’s slowly sliding to dangle off his lap, head first, front legs splayed. Her back end is still firmly anchored under his arm as she gets tummy pets. It’s hilarious.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 26/09/2026

I did yes! Too fun. I love feeding them, it’s always a blast.

A giraffe peers at me through some wooden timbers where it stands at a large branch rigged as a feeding station.

A giraffe’s head over the wooden fence to see if my kiddo (whose face is hidden by a sun hat) has more food.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 15/09/2026

Laying on my foot and knee. lol. Kinda awkward but it’s warm so… sure. lol.

A photo of a woman’s legs, one bent to the bed she’s sitting on, the other knee up in the air. A pastel calico cat with green eyes peeks out from behind her wide pant leg, where the cat is resting on her foot and knee.

A photo of the same pastel calico begging for (and receiving) head scratches while hanging out on a messy bed.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 13/09/2026

How many 14 oz cans of puree do you think I got out of all these tomatoes? I want guesses. 😁

Four large piles of tomatoes arranged on and around a kitchen stove. It is roughly 150-200 tomatoes of varying sizes.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 13/09/2026

Through everything I picked! The puree smells amazing.

Tomatoes being cored and cut in half on a cutting board. The seeds are scooped out with a spoon- these are Romas, so there aren’t many.

The cleaned tomatoes in a big stock pot waiting to be softened.

Tomato puree in a bowl with a stainless steel food mill full of skins and a few stray seeds perched on top.

The stock pot full of tomato puree reducing!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 08/09/2026

Awareness is good. I’m having to teach my boys that their headaches from growing or clogged sinuses aren’t migraines. Migraines are a neurological disorder!

A MIGRAINE IS NOT
"JUST A HEADACHE"
LIGHT & SOUND
SENSITIVITY
DIZZINESS &
VERTIGO
NAUSEA & VOMITING
BLURRY& SPOTTY VISION
NUMBNESS
THROUGHOUT
BODY
NECK &
BACK PAIN
CONFUSION & DISORIENTATION
SLURRING OF WORDS
TINGLING
IN LIMBS AND ON FACE
RINGING IN EARS
MUSCLE
STIFFNESS & WEAKNESS
FATIGUE & IRRITABILITY

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 08/09/2026

Plumeria’s going to bloom! How about that. 🌱

A plumeria, roughly 5’ tall with only a single trunk/branch thanks to some enterprising mule deer, has an inflow emerging in its cluster of leaves. And inflow will become a bundle of flowers!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/09/2026

Bahahaha. This is gonna take a min to weigh.

Counters and a flat top stove covered in tomatoes harvested today, mostly Roma, but quite a few Sasha’s Alati, and a bowl full of blueberry cream cherry tomatoes.

Three summer squash, four cucumbers, and a few large zucchini sit next to a meal’s worth of green beans.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/09/2026

Trip one, with all I could carry… it’s time, folks. Got at least 8 times this outside. I’ll check in later with the poundage. lol.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 03/09/2026

I gotchu. This is my grandma’s recipe. It’s sweet northern style cornbread- not southern style- but it’s our fav! Enjoy!

Mom's Cornbread
" Cook Time 25 minutes
* Total Time 45 minutes
* Author Audrey

Ingredients
• 1c flour
• 1c cornmeal
• 2 tsp baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 5/8 c shortening
• 3/4 c sugar
• 1 egg
• milk

Instructions
1. Mix all dry ingredients.
2. Cut in shortening.
3. Add in egg, mix with fork.
4. Add milk gradually and mix until wet but thick.
5. Pour into greased 9 × 9 pan.
6. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 26/08/2026

New computer is here and set up, got the iPad Pro working as a tablet for the main computer! Super cool. Just need them to release my app of choice, Procreate, for the desktop now… trying CSP right now and it’s ok but my brain grumbles.

A computer set up with an iPad Pro mirroring its screen right next to it. Mouse and absurdly small keyboard work with both. Apple Pencil works on the iPad. Win!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 21/08/2026

Just finished making salsa, 90% garden picked ingredients. It’s heavenly! Glad I cut the peppers in half on this recipe though. lol.

A large Pyrex bowl full of homemade salsa with roma tomatoes, red onion, garlic, ancho chiles, hatch chiles, bell pepper, and seasonings. In the background is more fresh produce waiting to be processed, mostly zucchini and cucumbers.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 18/08/2026

This was the best thing today. These western bluebirds are on their third nest full this summer since arriving in the spring. Enjoy babies being babies. lol.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 14/08/2026

Harvest today! Going sooo well! The cherry tomatoes have shown up. ✨🌱

Summer squash, zucchini, Roma and sandwich tomatoes, hatch chilis, a whole bowl of green beans, a handful of cherry tomatoes, and a few black sweet peppers rest on a counter and cutting board. All is fresh from the garden.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 10/08/2026

Èlle, congrats! I’m excited your work has so many eyeballs on it. I’m Audrey, a mostly digital artist in CO who’s been struggling with burnout and is edging back towards mixed media lately. I haven’t posted a ton of art in a while, but I love art in my feed! Stoutheartstudio.com ☺️

A digital painting of a costa’s hummingbird with purple iridescent feathers framing its face sits still on a thin branch glaring at the viewer.

A painting of two pheasants, male and female, facing each other and bowing forward over one leg. The male has brilliant blue feathers and a showy tail, the female has brown feathers with slight blue iridescence. They both have red masks over their eyes.

A digital oil painting of a storm near sunset over the Rocky Mountain range near Colorado Springs. There’s a red sandstone rock formation surrounded by scrub pine and rolling foothills in the foreground.

A digital drawing in the style of pencil and contè of a cottontail rabbit chewing on a dry leaf. Its eyes are bright and ears are alert.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 09/08/2026

Hnnng, fresh cucumber from the garden with garlic hummus, it’s so dang good. 🌱

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/08/2026

Hey! I’ve been married to @inkhand.bsky.social 21 years. How about that. Known him for 26. Over half my life. It is very good. 🌸 I appreciate you, darling- putting up with me, my plant habit, and my grumpy body. 💗

A black and white couple (us when we were BABIES) in wedding clothes kiss while holding hands in front of a small pond with a tiny foot bridges behind them is dense forest.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 04/08/2026

Phew, guys, I officially have more produce than we can eat at once from the garden. 🌱 it’s looking beautiful.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 26/07/2026

First green bean harvest! I’m pretty excited to eat these for dinner. Couple zucchini, couple of yellow squash ready in the next couple days here. There’s a pumpkin and a few cucumbers starting! It’s working! 🌱🌱🌱

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/07/2026

Wanna see the veggie garden? I just pruned the squash vines, and the cherry tomato, but the rest of the tomatoes are still exploding lol. 🌱 7k’ in Colorado, entirely on drip.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/07/2026

And current status- out on the deck watching these three. This poor mama has twins every year, I swear. Mule deer.

A mule deer fawn with spots standing on a fairly bare hillside. It looks off camera towards its mother.

A mule deer and her two fawns nibble on our lilacs and very tall grass.

A closer shot of the fawns, one eats grass, the other lilac leaves.

Mama mule deer and her babies further back next to a pine.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/07/2026

The bear from last night. ☺️ glad our feeders were empty!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 18/07/2026

I gotta say I’ve never been happier my veggie garden is producing! Had fresh spinach on my taco tonight. Inkhand went arugula.

Fresh spinach and arugula leaves drying on a paper towel. They’re basically perfect, no holes!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 12/07/2026

If you see this, quote with your Night/Dark art! 🌙

A digital painting of a late summer altar. A trio of candles burning in the back are the focus, and they dimly light a bowl of peaches, a box with a mushroom laying across it, and ivy leaves in the foreground.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 08/07/2026

Another beauty from the back garden. Don’t have an ID on this rose, but I love it.

A deep pink rose, with a reasonable number of petals and very even color. It’s hard to capture on camera! It’s in a glass vase being held in my hand.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/07/2026

It’s too smoky out for me to keep up with weeds or deadheading, and we need new mulch, but there’s a few pretty spots here and there in the front garden. At least the hummingbirds enjoy it!

A sedum about to bloom in the foreground, with a delicately leaved and pale pink penstemon. Looming like crazy behind it. Behind those is some Karl forester grass just starting to bloom. Unfortunately there are also about ten million stray penstemon volunteers and weeds, and a drip tube line running through the middle.

Iris leaves in the foreground, native wine cup blooming dark pink along the ground under a pale silvery blue native rabbit brush. Next to it are a few stalks of native firecracker penstemon blooming, small and bright scarlet.

Orange butterfly weed, another native, in amongst firecracker penstemon leaves and Munstead lavender, which is starting to bloom pale purple

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/07/2026

To the squirrel or rabbit that nommed on this rose before it opened: I know it smelled delicious, but I wish you wouldn’t. Ah well, still pretty.

An intensely magneta pink rose with hints of yellow and then cooler outer petals. It has large medium green glossy leaves.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 05/07/2026

Today’s word is #Wing, and I have quite a few for that! ☺️ One of my favorites, a gyrfalcon #ArtRepostJuly #procreate #BirdArt #Art 🐡

A digital painting of a gyrfalcon with wings spread, gliding in a crystal clear blue sky. The bird is looking towards the viewer. Its creamy feathers have spots and ends in a chocolate brown. It’s pale, but strong feet are tucked up beneath its tail.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 05/07/2026

Made some broiler marshmallows since my poor kiddos couldn’t even fire up the grill to roast any tonight.

9 marshmallows nicely broiled on some foil on an old sheet pan sitting on a stove.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 04/07/2026

Smoke from the Aspen Acres fire cleared up enough for me to venture outside. Veggie garden is doing great. Carrots and beans are coming up. Cucumber is still tiny. Lots of squash and winter pumpkins. Tomatoes are huge, and both they and the peppers are blooming. We’ve had about 10 strawberries. 🌱

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 30/06/2026

Crap. Not getting anything done like this.

AIR QUALITY
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Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups. Air quality may cause health effects for members of sensitive groups. Children, senior citizens, and people with respiratory disease should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 29/06/2026

Guys, I love this rose so much. “Tamora” by David Austin. Never disappoints. Looking forward to my other roses catching up in age.

A beautiful peach colored rose with many simple petals, which tend towards orange yellow in the middle, and a reddish coral pink to the outside. The leaves are blurry in the background and a medium green. This rose has a beautiful fruity scent.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 24/06/2026

Some of my alternative penstemon are blooming! I’ll have to dig out the precise name of this one, can’t remember off the top of my head.

A native penstemon in pale pink. Flowers have 5 petals and are paler. The buds are darker pink, and the delicate foliage has almost needle like leaves in a medium green.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/06/2026

Cat had her annual today and was told an absurd number of times how beautiful she was. Healthy and the perfect weight, and evidently soft, for an American short hair. She is extremely pleased with herself and very annoyed with us.

A dilute calico cat curled up on a cream and tan fleece blanket.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 18/06/2026

If you see this, post a pic of yourself wearing glasses

A pale woman (me!) with side swept short bob, long earrings, a green dress and prominent black glasses I am giving someone off camera a sharp look from. One hand is up to my cheek.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 14/06/2026

Veggie looking great. Tomatoes are blooming, strawberries have some green fruit, beans, lettuce, spinach, arugula, multiple squash and cucumbers are up. Got a few carrots trying, going to give those some more water. Shallots, late garlic (it was use it or lose it) and potatoes doing well so far!🌱

Tomatoes and peppers in cages, square ft gardening style setup with drip lines in green metal raised beds.

Shallots, garlic, spinach and squash seedlings in a raised bed with a drip line setup.

Strawberries, beans, and two squash sprouting in a raised bed setup with drip lines.

More strawberries, beans and squash seedlings in a raised bed with drip lines!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 14/06/2026

Garden is very dry in spite of the drip system, we had quite a heat wave this week but I think what really did it was the constant wind- roses and columbines are dry on their stems! 🌱 #bloomScrolling #FlowerReport

An unpruned baby rose bush, Cinco De Mayo, has one opened cool red flower with very simple double petals and a yellow center.

A rather crispy looking Tamora rose by David Austin. It’s peach with some yellow to the center of its ruffle many pestles form. Leaves are a glossy medium green.

Yellow shooting star columbines blooming in front of a stand of native bergamot and rabbit brush.

Some white columbines blooming near some Cesar’s Brother iris and Rocky Mountain penstemon.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 10/06/2026

Went to the botanical gardens nearby in unwisely high temps/humidity. Whoops. It was a really great collection, though. Meijer Gardens in MI.

Huge hanging baskets from wooden slats form an outdoor ceiling, they re interspersed with hanging cylinder shaped lights. The baskets have hanging green and are accented with purples and yellows. The doors inside are at the end of the space.

A view from the atrium out towards the greenhouse and the perennial gardens nestled up against it. A grassy area is framed with large leafed plants, allium, and trees. 🌲

A tree covered in red berries frames a Japanese style fountain in the background that consists of a rock base full to
The brim and and a bamboo water fountain from the back.

A large Japanese style garden, with a bridge across a large pond. Maple and cedar trees dot the edges. Glass artwork by Chihuly- globes of glass half submerged in the pond- in oranges, yellows, red and blue, dot the area. A small boy stands on a small pier to the right.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 06/06/2026

Love this, Neil! So kind of you to push positivity! ❤️ Right now I am in love with my garden! This rose is already getting buds and I cannot wait to see it out perform last year! It smells like apples. ☺️

A golden yellow rose with warmer orange tones towards the center. The petals are lightly ruffled. It’s a climber and will climb a metal trellis. It has glossy medium green leaves.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 03/06/2026

Lewisia, a #nativePlant here in Colorado. Digital painting, more like an hour and a half. Trying to refine a little better. :) #digitalPainting #botanicalIllustration #flower #bloom #procreate #art #spring

A digital painting of a peachy orange flower with 8 petals, purple and pink tones and a yellowish center. The middle has a cluster of white stamens. Green leaves and darker earth frame it.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 02/06/2026

Painted a #flower. Only about an hour but I wanted to get back into painting digitally this month. This is mostly digital gouache brushes in #Procreate. Miniature Iris “abracadabra”.

A digital painting of a golden iris with purple, rust and red overlays, and white and cool plum stamens. A couple of bright green leaves cut the background. The whole piece feels painterly even though it’s digital.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 29/05/2026

Heeey I managed to needle tat and close a ring. I might learn to make lace yet.

A tatted ring made of blue thread with three evenly spaced picots connected at the bottom to form a teardrop shape, also known as a ring in tatting.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/05/2026

Got the tomatoes, peppers, shallots and garlic in the raised beds. Going to squeeze in a few more maybe, and get seeds in tomorrow and Monday. Finally going to be over 45 at night! We garden at a different speed here at 7k’ altitude in zone 5B… 🌱

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/05/2026

Heeey. I made this bed. 🤣 Not even cold out today. #cat #calico #bedcrasher

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 23/05/2026

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat photo.

A small calico peers over the top of my iPad at me, Apple Pencil underscoring her green eyes. I’m sitting on a bed with a blue comforter.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 22/05/2026

First sunburn of the year, damnit.

A woman (me) grimacing at the camera. She has pale skin marked on her forehead nose and cheeks by a sunburn, short wavy light brown hair, and glasses. Even her neck and chest are a bit sunburnt n

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