Tinuqin does stuff

Photography, cakes, drawings. Creative outlet.

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Dewdrops on the grass I'm growing for my cats

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Plum Tree Flowers!

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In continuation of yesterday's post, have some mermaid themed fingernails. Nail polish used: Essence Wonder Wow! Man! (Limited Superheroes Edition) P2 Lost in Paradise Catrice Glitterazzi Essence Party in a Bottle

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I may or may not have a slight makeup problem. This is my collection of colorful and/or glittery nail polish and eyeliner. My problem, especially with the nail polish, is that I buy new stuff so frequently that I get to use each one only once or maybe twice. However, I am not ready to part with any of them, instead I am determined to wear nail polish more often, even if it takes a lot of time to put it on (glitter nail polish takes an awful long time to dry). The eyeliner is less of a problem because I wear colorful eyeliner almost every day. I wonder which will come first: The day I run out of room for all my stuff or the day I can walk past a new shade of glitter eyeliner without buying it.

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Rainbow Hair + Glitter Make-up = <3 Also, my cat is tired of my crap and would like to get away now kthxbai

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Finished Project: Baby Jacket

I made this jacket for my nibling*. Sadly, I don't have a picture of them wearing it, because it's still too big. I'm not yet able to estimate how long a specific project will take me to finish, so I cast this on a little bigger than necessary to make sure they will not have grown out of it already when it is finished.

*I have no idea who coined the term "nibling", but I love it. I think I saw it first as "niblings", as a shortened way to say "nieces and nephews", but it makes a great gender-neutral term as well.

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More chipmunks, because I went and took more (and better) pictures after the last post.

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I am currently on Fuerteventura for the holidays. There is a colony of chipmunks living between my hotel and the beach, so I took my 300mm lens out for a spin.

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Macro Landscapes

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Some sweet stuff I made last week:

1. Miniature Apple Rose Tarts (Recipe here)

2. Oreo Meringue Layered Dessert (Adapted from this recipe)

3. Traditional Apple Pie (Recipe here)

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Nopetopus

Recently, when reading the comments to a post on Pervocracy, I came across this gem:

(...) I'd be riding the nopetopus out of there as fast as its eight legs would carry it.

The mental image this produced was hilarious, and as I've been wanting to try hand-drawn animation for a while now I decided to make this into a gif. This picture consists of nine panels (I thought about making more to make the animation more smooth but I then didn't because lazyness).

Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have already seen the sneak preview I posted a few days ago:

This animation is meant to be a reaction gif, so feel free to use this picture wherever you like, to redistribute and even reupload it, as long as you don't remove my watermark.

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Red tabby catdragons are a serious fire hazard.

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Birthday cake! I have been wanting to try making a decorated Swiss roll for a while now and I finally got the opportunity to make one for my mother's birthday. To get a pattern in a cake like this you first need to pipe the desired shapes on a baking sheet and the either bake or freeze it. This way, the colored batter doesn't smudge when you add the rest of the batter. Also, if you want any writing on your cake it needs to be done in reverse. No matter how confident you are in your ability to write backwards, it's probably best if you check the result in an actual mirror or you will get letters that are the wrong way round and you will be so embarrassed that you seriously consider trashing your cake and make a new one and never post any proof of your failure online. Trust me, I know. All in all I'm pretty happy with how crisp and colorful the decorations turned out, though. Less so with how flat the cake is. Sturdier filling next time.

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I started knitting again recently and this is the first project I finished. I'm quite proud of my hair but I don't like freezing my ears off so I needed something pretty to cover it up during winter. The lattice pattern was easier to knit than I thought and makes the hat tight and warm. If I have the time I will make matching mitts with the rest of the yarn.

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Catdragons This morning at breakfast I had the idea that cat dragons would be a cool thing to exist, so I drew my two cats as dragons. On the pro side, catdragons are awesome and can fly, on the con side, they have even more pointy ends than normal cats and the wings might interfere with cuddling? Next thing to find out: do catdragons breathe fire or do they, like, spit hairballs or something?

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Forest. Walk. Trees. Dogs. Fall. You know.

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Improvement Hell Challenge Day 4: Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with.

Today, I ditched the tablet and went back to pencil and paper, only to find out that my scanner isn't very good at scanning pencil drawings which isn't a problem right now because I never intended to use this picture at a high resolution, but next time, I will try and see if I get better results using my Camera.

Feet are probably my least favorite body part to draw, they always come out wonky and lopsided. These ones aren't as bad because I used references. I'm not sure if there are a lot of different foot shapes on different people (but I included one bloated pregnancy foot at least), because most examples I found of drawings of feet looked kind of similar shape-wise. On an unrelated note, today I learned that never, not ever, should you do an image search for "feet" on Google.