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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 21/05/2026

4 years of Carlee today :) my beautiful big bug 🩷🩷🩷

A nice photo of my greyhound, Carlee. Her fur is mostly black with whiter patches around her eyebrows and her mouth. She is laying her head over the couch armrest, looking serenely towards the camera.

Another photo of Carlee with her head laying on the armrest. The camera is up very close with a wide angle lens, distorting her proportions, making her nose look very big and her snout look very long. Her eyes are a little wider, making her look slightly anxious.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 28/01/2026

i think the boost might be just a tiny bit too fast...

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 12/01/2026

oh no! the crack in my backyard pavement is leeking!!

It's a big crack across some concrete pavement. There's a big-ass leek growing out of the crack.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 22/12/2025

Fuck it, we ball!! (made a little game as part of a secret santa gamejam :)))

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 20/10/2025

Huuuge day for fans of bits and/or bobs!!

A mailing box holds two larger bags, one full of wooden dice, the other full of ~25mm wooden hexagon pieces. There is also one smaller bag filled with a couple of each of those and a random assortment of other pieces (including what appears to be a duck wearing a bowler hat)

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 18/10/2025

Working on a little wee personal game as a distraction while I recover from covid. Spent a few hours today figuring out the mechanics for a fake street view interface with ripped panoramas

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 06/10/2025

I'm gonna have Bug Brains on me all games week, so if you wanna give it a play lmk!! I will give you real (in-game) money, to keep!!! (also check out this cute little board/box I made 😁 It feels so much more satisfying to knock your opponent's bug out of the ring now)

Bug Brains full setup, each player has a mood card (dice inputs) and a bug card (movements).
The board is now on top of the little box, so when you knock your opponent out of the ring, they fall off the edge.
There are also two dice visible, with the third mostly hidden behind the box, and a few beetlebux off to the side.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 03/10/2025

Living the weird sitter's dream!! (found a kneeling chair on the side of the road the other day 😁😁)

the kneeling chair in question, it has a spot for your knees/shins, and a spot for your bum and it's all at odd angles

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 27/09/2025

Tysm to everyone who came to WIP night and played Bug Brains!! and to everyone who created their own bugs and moods!!! 🪲🐞🐛🐜🦗 You've all given me an absolute shit ton of awesome ideas to think about!!!

Like 50+ test cards for Bug Brains, most of which were drawn up by other people. Far too many cards to detail here, but they're split about 50/50 between bugs(yellow and pink) and moods(blue), and split like 50/40/10 between totally playable by the base rules, dubious but playable, and playable if you're willing to put up with a lot of bullshit.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 27/09/2025

Bug Brains will be at Sabby again tonight!! Come on down and earn some beetlebux!!! (There'll also be a bunch of blank cards if you want to design your own favourite bugs)

Some quick promo art I made for Bug Brains yesterday.
A small beetle made of playdough is climbing up a real log. The title 'Bug Brains', also made of playdough, takes up most of the upper half of the image.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 20/09/2025

Testing out a first playdough art pass for the Bug Brains logo, board, and card backs. Feeling pretty happy with it all, not really set on the colours yet tho

Two sets of three face down cards next to a 3 by 4 grid grid board, the cards say 'Bug Brains' on the backs. One set is orange and blue, the other is green and red.
The tiles making up the grid on the board are a sandy brown. There are little decorative twigs and leaves and stuff around the borders of both the cards and the board. All the art was made with playdough.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 07/09/2025

you're telling me they put ellie in this fried rice?

It's a wok filled with delicious fried rice

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 24/08/2025

Becoming a lego horse furry and getting 'the surgery' (a giant notch through my back for people to stand in)

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 16/08/2025

I haven't even started recolouring yet, but I'm so so happy with how these little mock ups for Bug Brains' new playdough art style are turning out

A mock up card from Bug Brains, every element of the card design, aside from the text, has been made out of playdough.
The card is named 'Feisty' and has a little orange and yellow symbol which looks like a flame or a meteorite.
The card is split into three segments, each ending in an arrow pointing off the right-hand side of the card.
Each segment contains some placeholder dice symbols, all showing a single pip for now.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 14/08/2025

what if you were the funny donkus with the wonkus schnozz?

A greyhound laying on a couch, her paws are resting up on the arm rest of the couch, while her head is tucked in between her legs so that her nose is getting bent sideways big time.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 12/08/2025

Finally acquired some essential supplies for a game I'm working on 😌😌

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 06/08/2025

Yooo asparagus season let's fucking go

Three progressively smaller asparagus stalks sprouting up through the straw in a large red pot

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 30/07/2025

so much potatle (and a Carlee)

Two black grow bags with tons of potato leaves bushing up out the tops, a blurry greyhound's face in the very close foreground

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 19/07/2025

This feels like the sort of thing I would do, but as a silly joke

A black and red bike chained up at the train station, but something is off...

The bottle is for a strawberry flavour, but is half filled with what appears to be coffee or chocolate milk

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 08/07/2025

Last wednesday's sunset was pretty awesome

The clouds are set aflame, they become a delicate wall of warm orange light

As the sun falls towards the horizon, its last remnants stretch out across the sky

A soft pink glow settles on the bellies of the clouds

The sky darkens as the sun's light recedes and night begins to take hold

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 01/07/2025

now there are two of them!!

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 01/07/2025

Nicknames I use for Carlee on a daily basis: Bug, Carlee-Bug, Bunger, Buggus, Wuggus, Creebo, Gringus, Woodle, The Crinture.

A gorgeous greyhound anxiously looks straight ahead at the camera. She has black fur, greying around the mouth and eyes, with a little patch of white down the front of her neck. Her ears are tucked back making them almost completely hidden. She is sitting up on the couch, wrapped in a pink blanket.

The same greyhound, so stressed she's now mid yawn. It almost looks like she's yelling at me for not giving her enough pats.

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ellie :) @toestee.itch.io · 25/06/2025

I did a little playtest of my first ever zine game and I'm incredibly pleased with how it felt to play :))))) It's called 'Make It Snow (and by 'it' I mean this zine)' It's a single-use, single-player game about memories of snow, where you tear up each page to make more snow as you progress.