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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My partner's friend made him this small battle loaf. After thorough testing it's now bound for the Dwarf Bread Museum in Ankh-Morpork.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That time a bunch of lovely authors wrote some tiny stories, which were letterpressed onto paper napkins which we then distributed around cafes and bookshops around Brisbane for folks to read on Valentine's Day.

Neisha from Creative Emporium leaning over a large letterpress machine printing napkin stories.

A table filled with stacks of letterpressed paper napkins ready for sorting. 5 sculpted owls by Scott Radke look on.

Colourful table set with teacups and teapots. A letterpressed paper napkin sits in the middle of the setting.

Letterpressed story napkin close up, with plate and small cake. The story is The Heart by Tom Heathwood.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That time some lovely authors wrote stories, artist Nancy Brown screen printed them onto linen, I sewed the linen onto other hand-printed material and made them into lots of fringed pillows to be strewn around Brisbane Writers Festival venues. They were all 'acquired' as the Festival progressed.

Stack of 4 colourful fringed pillows with printed stories on the front.

An even bigger stack of fringed story pillows, with two tiny owl sculpts by Scott Radke standing guard over them as light streams in through the windows.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My friend's (@hollie_here on Insta) loungeroom wall filled with the incredible artworks she makes.

Plain wall filled with colourful artworks. One is a many legged plywood figure, arms pumping as it runs. There's a large autumnal fallen leaf. A many branched blue and red-brown plant which looks like it's growing out of the wall, and so many others with fronds which weave around each other. Aomw are smallish, some large.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My review of tesla amazing Magnetic Notes: paper that clings to anything

Small pad of Magnetic Notes: paper that clings to anything
By tesla amazing.

I've circled the word Paper and included a few questionmarks.

The open pad, filled with thin sheets of plastic. I've scrawled plastic on a sheet I'm holding up.

I've crossed out the word tesla on the front of the pad, so it now reads not amazing.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minting coins to get folk across the River Styx.

Owl-head coins with bronze patina.
Cosclay prop to accompany the short story We Crossed the Bright Blue Water by Trent Jamieson.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Best use of coffee stains, ever. From the exhibition Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of the Jim Henson Company.

Glaring coffee stain face on some goblin character sketches by Brian Froud.

Glaring coffee stain face on some goblin character face sketches by Brian Froud.

Impish coffee stain face on some goblin character pencil sketches by Brian Froud.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a result of going to Jim Henson's Make, Believe, Magic show at QAGOMA this week, I must now rewatch: - The Dark Crystal - Labyrinth, and - A Muppet Christmas Carol

The huge red bearded Ghost of Christmas Present from A Muppet Christmas Carol

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some useful ABS #immigration data presented by data group immitrack. Data identifies the percentage of folk in each age group born overseas. The average is 32% 25-44 year olds are above 40%. I'm in the 60-64 (35.5%) group. The Aus workforce will be decimated by immigration cuts. #auspol

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, Hastings! Vetted by Poirot himself? Methinks not.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just read some @brisbanetimes.bsky.social notes on a survey of 1000 Pauline Hanson supporters. Of the 1000 - and keep in mind Hanson's supporters are the only folk surveyed - only 'about half' were committed to voting for her in 2028.

Insta tile from the Brisbane Times. Blue sky above, the back of Pauline Hanson's head is in the foreground.
The post reads: The research finds that about half of Hanson's supoorters were totslly committed to voting for her at an election due in 2028.'

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Krampus, running through the snow - switch in hand - carrying a red basket on his back with a child inside.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love these little plates celebrating fairytales written by Hans Christian Andersen. This one is The Emperor's New Clothes. Can't think who it reminds me of.

Small plate with centre illustration of a large babyish naked emperor with yellow hair parading along a people-lined the street behind two officious guards - ine walking, one seated on a horse. The colour palette is muted pink, ochre, white and purple.
The type around the edge of the illustration reads Children's Story 1973 (top of plate), The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (bottom of plate).

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Baby Minotaur - collector of threads - from my last show.

Small sculpt of a seated baby Minotaur winding a ball of thread. He wears flowers in his hair and carries a basket of flowers on his back.

Side view of a sculpt of a seated baby Minotaur winding a ball of thread. He wears flowers in his hair and carries a basket of dried flowers on his back.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There may have been a few people at the Lethbridge Small-scale Art Award launch... in the gallery, on the veranda, on the footpath, out along the street... I forgot to take pics, so this image is by Award finalist #greenbirdceramics

POV. Evening. Winter. Brisbane.
A bunch of lovely folk are packed in and around Lethbridge Gallery in Paddington.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Launch of the Lethbridge Small-scale Art Award show is tomorrow (Saturday 8 August). Drop by if you're in Brissy and near Paddington. The weather's glorious, the coffee is close by and my little Gatherer sculpt will be nestled in among some other gorgeous things.

Social media tile. Pink starry border identifying an artwork as being a finalist in the 2026 Lethbridge Small-scale Art Award.

Small sculpt of a black robed figure with many legs striding somewhere. She carries a basket filled with dried flowers on her back. She's made of black Apoxie Sculpt clay and carries a staff with a seed pod on top.

Social media tile. Pink border with star identifying the 7-25 August date of the Small-scale Art Award exhibition.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gorgeous book launch of a gorgeous book A Sketchbook Practice by Deb Mostert. It's a lovely insight into arts practice and the neverending process of becoming an artist.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New, glorious book by Deb Mostert. Launching 1 August. It's a stunning visual journey of a life told and revisited via sketchbooks.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Describe yourself in three characters

Three green wide-eyed grumpy heads from the film Spirited away.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is my niece. Lismore. 2022. Locals had just smashed in the back door and rescued her from her highset home. She'd been standing on the kitchen bench on a chair, in broiling floodwaters up to her chest. #Climatechange is real, personal and catastrophic. So, #datacentres can fuck right off.

A bedraggled and exhausted young woman wearing a pumpkin head t-shirt is helped through brown floodwaters by two others. Directly behind her is a tinny (boat) and the locals who saved her.
She saved her two cats.
The house was not salvageable.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Am reading Make Believe by Mac Barnett. Con: it's condescending Pro: it's mercifully short. There's a story about the 3 aunts which made me laugh, but only because it reminded me of Magrat Garlick, Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, who'd wipe the floor with Barnett. Will read on though.

Cover of Make Believe by Mac Barnett.
Gorgeous cover artwork by Carson Ellis centres a reading child surrounded by riso-print style images of flowers, ghosts, toads and other critters, a skull and other fantastical and unsettling imaginings.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Taking good photos of sculpts is a challenge for me.

Sculpt of many legged figure walking with the assistance of a walking stick. She is robed in black and carries a basket of flowers on her back. Lots of greenery in the background - camelia bush and rosemary mostly.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Nobody told me that Jerry Coleby-Williams from #gardeningaustralia was Napoleon Dynamite!

Cropped black and white photo of Gardening Australia’s Jerry Coleby-Williams. Source:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/jerry-coleby-williams-gardening-australia-mardi-gras/106380690

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Acquired a wee Adana letterpress to press things with.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Progress on the piper at the gates of dawn.

Work in progress. Unfinished sculpted faun wearing a vest and high collar gazes at the dried posy he's holding.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Currently reading a Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins. Horrifyingly fascinating and utterly shameful.

Cover for Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins. A plain white cover with a black and white photo of British troops aiming the rifles toward the viewer.
The title Legacy of Violence is printed in bright red.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Dream Keeper by Anna Walker is just the loveliest book. Gorgeous illustrations. Sparse, poignant text. A delight.

Book cover of Dream Keeper by Anna Walker. Soft water colour or pencil illustration of a tortoise rowing a small boat away from an island filled with animals (giraffe, crocodile, tiger, dragon) holding lanterns.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

What? This Tim Dunlop? From the University of Queensland. Specifically from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The Faculty that decided to pulp the book Bila by Jazz Money because Chun was the illustrator? That Tim Dunlop? #auspol #uq #ethics

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Joseph Conrad is judging your author headshot.

Etching of Joseph Conrad with well-groomed musketeer beard and moustache. Looking quite judgey in a colonial way. The etched border of the image is decorative and littered with images of plants, the Sun, a tall ship, the Earth and shells.
Taken from his book Youth and Gaspar Ruiz.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

View from my back veranda this evening.

A red brick, steepled church is visible through the tree tops. The sky is filled with sweeps of luminous orange and grey clouds. The light in the church vestry adds another source of light.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Currently reading Time of the Child by Niall Williams. In truth I read lots of books at once tho, so I'm partway through The Soul Catchers by Naoko Higashi, The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson, Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth, Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth & The Secret Hours by Mick Herron.

Time of the Child by Niall Williams. Orange cover, bright white title, main image of a snow covered church and stark wintry trees.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Currently listening to Guy Standing's The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. Interesting tidbit so far - The wording of the Lord's Prayer was originally 'forgive us our debts, as we also have also forgiven our debtors.'

Cover of The Politics of Tim: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. The background is a colour block of greenish-blue with a single red and white-striped deck chair placed under the title.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

When your excellent printer accidentally staples your gated centrefold of wombat taxidermy incorrectly. It's back with them being fixed. Sometimes even the best folk make mistakes.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

That time this magnificent wee beastie landed on my car aerial.

A dragonfly perched perfectly centre on a car aerial. In the background is a purple weatherboard house. The dragonfly's wings seem wonderfully aligned with the old garage doors, the windows above (also reflected on the car roof) and two outside lights placed on either side of the garage doors.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On the desk. Testing her very unfinished legs. #sculpt

Sculpt in black and pink-brown apoxie sculpt (air dry) clay. The figure has many legs, a wizened face and a dress and head-dress of sculpted forest detritus. The bag she carries on her back is filled with rust-orange flowers and foilage.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Testing, more tweaking, then painting.

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