We make "lilac sugar" which is just packing fresh clean de-stemmed flowers in sugar for a while. The sugar gets infused with lilac essence and Eld bakes incredible scones with it

Thank you so much

A square format oil painting of a bronze-winged pionus. She is sitting with her back to us, in a sunbeam, reaching under her right wing to preen. She is iridescent and multicolored with rich blues, bronzes, greens, and grey colors. A hunk of petrified wood with a rich array of blue grey, white, and tan streaks is the parrot's perch. A messy halo of caustic light surrounds her. The painting has an artist's watermark that reads Copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller Nambroth, featherdust dot com

A cropped detail close-up of the prior image. The brush strokes are more obvious in this close-up.

"Dreams of Sunbeams" (Bronze-Winged Pionus)
18”x18” oil on stretched canvas

I will miss you, always
A memorial painting of my girl, four years in the making.

I heard that Cliff Edge Falls is, too ;_;

A graphic with previews of the PDF cover (an orca breaching under a starry sky), digital wallpapers (mockups featuring an icedevil, landscape, and others), and squid sticker emojis. Text reads: Polar Lights: A charity anthology for Arctic and Antarctic life. $2+. Digital PDF (132 pages of art and writing) • Digital Downloads (3 desktop wallpapers, 2 mobile wallpapers, 1 digital sticker pack, 1 printable cross stitch pattern). All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. On the bottom right is the Itch.io logo with "polarlightszine.itch.io" and the Tumblr logo followed by "polarlightszine".

A series of illustration crops featuring Arctic creatures, a walrus, salmon, moose, ptarmigan, caribou, loon, muskox, and puffins.

A series of illustration crops featuring a skua, pintail, prion, rockhoppers, Antarctic reef, cormorants, leopard seal, chinstrap, and Antarctic lanternfish.

POLAR LIGHTS 4 now live!

POLAR LIGHTS 4: EVENTIDE is a digital charity anthology featuring original art and writing from 73 creators. All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.

Grab the zine for as little as $2 here: polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-4

Wonderful assortment of plastic Comb Noises, Lou!

My elderly parrots have really benefitted from K&H "snuggle up" warmers, which are a robust rectangular metal plate that attaches to the cage side, and emits a constant, very gentle low heat that they can safely press against, in case you think Beep might enjoy it! I'm so glad he's doing better!!

They're all sort of in this format, feel free to email me, jennifer@featherdust.com if you'd like!

I usually mix them, but my mix depends on the situation. If an adjacent color is lighter and will "pull" color out of the black, i have to be really thoughtful. Dioxazine purple + sap green is a favorite. I love adding brown pink to any of my blacks to warm them, too.

Stages of progress on an oil painting of a snowy egret. The painting starts as a thin layer of warm colors with white transferred sketch lines, then progressively gets more detailed from left to right, top to bottom. The background is painted last.

I try to take full WIP snapshots of my major paintings, if you'd like more I'm happy to email them to you! I start by rubbing a super thin layer of paint onto the surface, transfer my drawing, then paint fairly directly.

I'm sorry you scared the driver but also this is the appropriate reaction. The first time I ever saw one I screamed "THERE HE IS!!!!!" with no other context, which created a great deal of confusion in my house

This is soooo good

A digital painting done in Clip Studio Paint. A black dragon rears back from the viewer in a powerful and defiant pose, readying its flame breath. The flame is a rainbow, gathering in the dragon's mouth and throat with streaks of rainbow light streaming. The dragon has a mane of glowing fire, flowing back and around in waves, in the white, pink, blue, brown, and black of the progress pride flag colors. The dragon's pose flows into a raised talon, ready to strike or defend, with wicked curved talons. Its eye is a radiant yellow. It has various spikes on its head, a curved beaky snout full of tooth like hooks, and forked horns. Its wings are spread and flared behind. The art is not subtle in its support for queer people. The artist's watermark reads copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com.

Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire

Bti honeypot traps for killing mosquito larvae » Colin Purrington's blog An easy way to kill thousands of mosquitoes each summer is to set out a container of water, add a handful of leaves or hay, then drop in 1/4 of a Mosquito Dunk, a compressed, shelf-stable form of Baci...

Instructions for making mosquito-killing buckets. Cheap, effective, and won't harm butterflies, fireflies, pets, or birds like pyrethroid sprays do. Spring is a great time to set them out. #mosquitoes colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-...

Enjoy! Birds are so fascinating, and the more you learn the more interesting it gets. :)

It's so bad right now, I'm so sorry. You are very skilled and ilu friend ♡♡♡

Starlings and grackles are different unrealted species, and there are many species of each, globally. In Canada, you're seeing Common Grackles (native), and European Starlings (non-native). Both species do have structural color, causing feather iridescence.

I love your art so much!

Very honestly I consider it daily

An oil painting of a male Northern Parula warbler perched in the branches of a spring flowering apple tree. The warbler is quite small even for a warbler, with grey and yellow markings and a white eye ring. The apple branches have bright green new leaves open in clusters, and the flowers are white, also in clusters, with five petals each. The background is dark, while the warbler and apple branches are strongly lit in morning sun. The artist's watermark reads: copyright 2021 Jennifer Miller featherdust dot com.

A detail crop of the prior image: an oil painting of a male Northern Parula warbler perched in the branches of a spring flowering apple tree. The warbler is quite small even for a warbler, with grey and yellow markings and a white eye ring. The apple branches have bright green new leaves open in clusters, and the flowers are white, also in clusters, with five petals each. The artist has painted a subtle orange glow around the brightest parts of the painting. The background is dark, while the warbler and apple branches are strongly lit in morning sun. The artist's watermark reads: copyright 2021 Jennifer Miller featherdust dot com.

"Spring Beacons" Northern Parula (warbler), 12"x16" oil painting on panel, 2021. 🪶

Seeing this little guy in our apple tree a few years ago made such a strong impact that I had to paint the scene! This original is still available.

Loved your set, thank you!!

YESSSS

Waxwings!!♡

This is so real, when they go downhill I know It Is Time if they ever start to refuse food. "Miss you bitch," pet hens are too good, it's a great tragedy that they are never here long enough

Oh no I love everything here, thank you!

I love this!!!!

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

Would love to visit with you sometime!

NOOO are you okay?

Carefully writing down entire elfwood urls on lined paper and committing them to memory