Creative Pursuits of T.S. Loggins

Artist | Creator I make whatever I want and usually by hand. Shop: belladonnanongrata.shop

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Old piece. Unnamed. Mixed media on pastel card. 2024.

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This is a crazy quilted laptop sleeve prototype I made. This was completely done by hand and I learned a lot. Overall it looks really nice on the outside but I made some mistakes. I’m definitely only going to make one side crazy quilted in the future and bag line the inside for a cleaner finish. All in all, pretty solid project and I hope to have these in the shop later in the year after working out the kinks.

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Frankenstein's monster. Mixed media on pastel card.

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Bit of crazy quilting I'm working on. This is separate from my quilt. It's a project that I'm making for a friend. Planning to make a laptop sleeve, but....I might have gotten the sizing wrong. As per usual, it's hand-sewn and embroidered.

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I've made some amanita muscarias, blue roundhead, black chanterelle, plantpot dapperling, parrot's toadstool, indigo milk cap mushrooms, and more . Just posted these lovelies my website and etsy for sale. I'm really happy with these little guys.

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I've been experimenting with acrylic markers for a few days. It's an interesting medium and I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I'm probably gonna design stickers and make some prints later in the year.

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I thought I had pictures of this crendenza before I started working on it, but they seem to be missing. I've had this piece for a while, and it had been horribly damaged through multiple moves. One of the legs was completely broken, another breaking, and there were dings and scratches all over. I had to repair everything and now you can't even tell that there were issues with the legs. I stained it with a black gel stain so that some of the natural wood can show, but that it was dark enough that you for sure wouldn't see any of the repairs that I made. And I found these adorable knobs on Etsy. Reminds me of E.A. Poe's "Goldbug." Pretty proud. This is only the second piece of furniture I've ever made over (and I really want to re-do the first one).

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WIP. I'm still plugging away at this crazy quilt. I've wanted to make a quilt for years, but struggle with geometric patterns. This allows for creativity and spontaneity that doesn't really exist with a more geometric pattern. The embroidery stitches are the most ornate but also practical part of this project. Since I'm also doing the entire thing by hand (like a maniac), those embroidery stitches ultimately reinforce all my back-stitching and help to prevent the possibility of anything coming apart.

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Guess what OP is making -entirely handmade and requires high precision. (cr 白行简bai xingjian)

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I finally finished that one pencil cup and then made some more.

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I've been working on a bunch of hooks for an upcoming market, and then I have 6 more market days later in the year. These are a few of the hooks I've made and have been completed with a layer of UV resin for strength and to seal/protect the paint. I've been researching and learning so much about mushrooms in the process, and I hope to one day see some of these guys in the wild.

So, mushrooms they're based on from the top: Jack 'O' Lantern mushroom (toxic and bioluminescent); Indigo Milk Cap; Pixie's Parasol; Leptonia Carnea (only in CA); Witch's Hat or Blackening Waxcap (they start out yellow-orange and darken as they age, black being when they're fairly old); Black Chanterelle or Black Trumpet (toxic); Parrot's Toadstool; and, Green Brittlegill.

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I got the idea for this prototype of a tree pencil holder. I decided to try this out on a can just to see what it was like to sculpt tree bark and shelf mushrooms. I still need to paint it and add moss, but it turned out pretty OK. I think I'll make more of these for my shop, but that'll be sometime in the future.

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It's been a really interesting few weeks and I fell behind on applying UV resin on all the amanitas. But, I've made 20 witch's hat mushrooms, made some keychain sculptures, and painted some jack o' lantern mushrooms (though I still need to apply a layer of glow-in-the-dark paint too). Super excited to have these ready before Samhain.

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These are some of the amanita muscaria mushroom hooks I've been plugging away at. I've weathered one and decided to take a shot comparing it to what they look like in their stark, brightly colored glory before that process. I'll have these in the shop by the end of next week: belladonnanongrata.shop. There's some yellow and orange mushroom hooks styled after a multitude of different types of 'shrooms in the world in there now.

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Progress shots of a Victorian style crazy quilt that I'm making. I loved the idea but wanted to add some botanical elements, to blend forest themes with more gothic elements from my personal style.

I think I'm going to embroider some mushrooms and moss in different areas too. Possible a tree or something. We'll see. I've done everything by hand in an effort to improve my hand sewing skills. This is also a test run for some potential ideas I have for my shop later on.

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Finally finished painting the yellow, orange, and brown mushroom hooks. About to start the red and black ones. I think these turned out pretty well.

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Currently working on new mushroom hooks to upload into my shop. Got some amanita muscaria and chanterelle mushrooms here. Planning to hopefully update the shop with a bunch of new things at the end of May or June.