🌱Welcome to my cottage garden!!🌱 (Patreon)

I wanted to start the month positively by sharing an update of my plants. I feel calmer when I look at them so maybe you'll feel that way too. I also took some pictures of some of my favorite decorations. The J.W. Waterhouse print is so lovely. It's called 'Hylas and the Nymphs'.  It's matches the ethereal aesthetic i aim for in a lot of my natural nsfw paintings.

After that is a little plaque I thrifted of some mice in their cozy mushroom home. You might have noticed by now that I adore mushrooms, especially the amanita muscaria. I learned recently that they're actually edible and used medicinally by some, but it has to be prepared very carefully. So...not gonna try one any time soon, but hope to see it in person some day ^^

Some of my plants started to bloom!! The trailing succulent in the jar is one of them and I was shocked because I didn't know it could flower. I also have some shimmering coppery begonia leaves, thicc veiny hoyas, a philodendron that exploded with growth, shamrocks, a heart leaf fern, shingling plant, some ivy and a variegated string of hearts propagating in moss. I'm trying to grow moss from the dried stuff, but im not sure if it'll take. I might have to use a higher quality moss. I want to make some miniature terrariums in jars with it. The last image in the gallery is catnip seeds I germinated in a damp paper towel and a heated mat. I'm going to transfer them in sand to let them mature, but it's really delicate so hopefully it'll work.

As for my mental and physical well being, last month was rough. I've been very tired lately due to lack of sleep and water, poor nutrition and so on. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Some bad things happen that threw everything into chaos, but I'm slowly getting it together. I'm trying my best not to let it affect what I say or do. I do get a bit frustrated that more people are misunderstanding my intentions with the story. When people don't have any skin in the game, they want what they want, not caring how it affects the artist and that bums me out sometimes, but I get a lot of thoughtful and kind comments too so I'm trying not to lose sight of that.

btw the illustrations at the end are screenshots of a game called Wytchwood. Highly recommend if you want to play something cozy that's heavy on story and crafting, but requires a lot of grinding and back tracking.