Art By Adirondack Mermaid

02/04/2026

02/04/2026

I bought the lighter color thinking it was a match. It was not. I said to my partner “I’m going to have to mix a color and I’m so nervous it’s not going to work. I don’t know color theory, I just paint pretty things.” He said “I’ve sent you enough of those color mixing ASMR videos, I believe in you.”

Well, something must have clicked because look at that match!! I’ve been stressing over this color for too long. If all goes well I should be finishing this commission up this weekend. Giving myself the goal of finished product by the end of the Super Bowl.

If you read all of that, who are you rooting for?? Or are you just watching for the Green Day pre-show and Bad Bunny halftime like me?? (although, Go Seahawks - they’re female owned and we like a woman in charge)

02/02/2026

Me to my family group chat : “while I have my Cricut out. Is there a decal of any kind that anyone wants made.”
My uncle : “Could I get a ‘f**k ICE’ please?”

Obviously that’s a yes.

Also, my family group chat is named “In Case I Need A Kidney”, what’s your family group chat named??

02/01/2026

Finished painting this earlier this morning.

01/30/2026

I have a super small following here, but let’s use it on this ICE Out day. In the comments shout out some of your favorite North Country small and locally owned businesses the are immigrant or person of color owned. Tag them if you’re able so anyone who sees this can learn about them too.

01/30/2026

ICE out.

If you HAVE to buy today buy local and small. Buy immigrant owned if possible.

F**k ICE. F**k Trump.

01/27/2026

I finished painting this little guy last night. I’m trying to decide if I want to add some 3D elements, or leave it as a trinket dish.

01/27/2026

“Auntie, can you make me a new little tray??”
Of course, does it need to be realistic or whimsical??
“Absolutely whimsical.”
Perfect, because bright colors and metallic paint are just what I needed. Just something fun.

*these are not direct quotes, just paraphrasing a video call with my oldest niece

01/25/2026

Oh hey paint brush, it’s been a bit.

01/25/2026

Listen, I’ll go back to posting art - but this is all SO MUCH more important right now.

I’m sickened, despaired, saddened, angered, stressed, worried, living in a state of dread - and if you’re not feeling any of this even a tiny bit then I have to wonder where your morals and values lie. How can you be unimpacted by this?? How can you be “oh, I don’t pay attention to the news / politics” when all of this is happening?? How can you stay still and silent??

(this screenshot is posted with permission of the Instagram account I grabbed it from - also, check her out - the glass work she does is like fairy tale magic)

01/24/2026

I will make this perfectly clear : if you support, actually *no, if you’re not against ICE and the current administration I do not want your business.

*It’s gone beyond “well, I don’t support it.” no, we (as a collective world of people) are in stand AGAINST it time now.

Look around, this is what we learned about in history happening NOW. People are being murdered, children are being abducted, humans are being disappeared - all by a government agency.

Wake. Up.

The killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis looks less like law enforcement and more like an ex*****on carried out in broad daylight on a city street. Multiple videos show the 37 year old nurse with his phone out, stepping toward a chaotic ICE arrest where agents had slammed a woman to the pavement and were pinning her as she screamed. What you see is not a threat advancing on officers, but a neighbor trying to document and de escalate a scene that already looked ugly.

In the footage, agents shove Pretti, pepper spray him and drag him to the sidewalk, where several officers pile on while he is on the ground. One appears to strike his head with a hard object as he is already restrained, and then, with his body pinned and the danger clearly moving in only one direction, agents fire a rapid volley of about ten shots. Officials immediately leaned on the familiar script that he was armed and that the shots were “defensive,” even as the videos show his phone in his hand and his movements focused on the battered woman beside him.

Pretti did, in fact, legally own a handgun, and Minnesota law allows open carry with a permit, which Minneapolis police have already confirmed he had. By every public account so far, the gun stayed holstered and never appears in his hands before or during the shooting. What the evidence does show is a licensed nurse with minor traffic tickets on his record stepping in to shield a stranger from an immigration dragnet that has already left multiple people dead in the same city this month, and paying for it with his life.

01/12/2026

Labyrinth is in my top 5 favorite movies. Was a fun date night tonight seeing it in the theatre with my partner. We’ve seen Back To The Future in the theatre already, and that’s one of his top 5. What’s one of your top 5??