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See the Harvest Moon 2025 issue of the Liminal, a creative almanac from Fox & Thistle Studio that drops with the new moon each month.

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Colorful front cover to the Fox & Thistle Liminal, Harvest Moon Issue. Moon phase dates with a description of the Equinox, a short poem describing the target audience, and a section titled 'inside this issue'.

It's a new moon again, that means the Harvest Moon issue of the Fox & Thistle Liminal just dropped.

Inside this issue: Tossing Shade on the Wall, Arabic Calligraphy, Chinese Cosmology, A Wine Journey Down the Rhine, The Spirits of Leisure, Self-Discovery Through Masquerade, Mirror Games, Pumpkin & Spice, The Untold Parable of the Buddha with a Lame Foot

See the full issue:
https://foxandthistle.studio/pages/the-liminal

#foxandthistle #newsletter #art #artist #SilentSunday #design #reading #sustainability #poetry

A promotional image for "Illustrated Masquerade Masks" by Fox & Thistle Studio, available starting October 1st. The image features a collection of six intricately hand-drawn and inked masquerade masks with unique, colorful designs, including patterns with circles, waves, flames, and abstract shapes, priced at $55 each with free shipping. Below the masks, a poem titled "Double Chin" by Richard W. Saunders is displayed, accompanied by a whimsical illustration of a person with a double chin holding a mirror. The poem reflects on self-image and identity, with two contrasting perspectives: one describing a struggle with weight and self-perception, and the other embracing a confident, carefree attitude. The text is set against a gradient background, with an invitation at the bottom for minstrels and musicians to share melodies and poems, linking to foxandthistle.studio/pages/verses.

A colorful digital magazine cover titled "The Liminal - Fifth Issue" dated September 21, 2025, featuring the Harvest Moon theme from Fox and Thistle Studio. The cover showcases a vibrant fox illustration surrounded by autumn elements like pumpkins, apples, and flowers, with a hot air balloon and sun in the background. Text highlights the Harvest Moon cycle (Sept 21 to Oct 21) and upcoming Hunter Moon. It promotes a creative almanac with art, expression, and reflections, including articles on Arabic calligraphy, Chinese cosmology, and a wine journey, plus a Q&A with Sarah Swartz from The Paper Nerd. The bottom section, "Scrabble & Shade," displays framed art pieces made from Scrabble tiles with phrases like "PLEASE DON'T CALL ME," "NOT TONIGHT," "GO AWAY," and "RELAX BITCH," each priced at $85 with free shipping. The artworks are set in reclaimed frames, emphasizing sustainable, one-of-a-kind designs, with a link to view the full collection.

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"Humans, like trees, bloom on their own timelines. Their journeys and growth are unique to the individual.

"Comparison, therefore, is futile. Your growth journey is never going to match someone else's. It is yours alone. Your development. Your change."

https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-japanese-philosophy-that-changed-my-life?ref=refind

🏷 T a g s #growth #Japanese #lifestyle #Oubaitori #philosophy #psychology #selfhelp

Fox & Thistle Studio was recently featured in a Q&A with Sarah Swartz at The Paper Nerd.

Discover the story behind our Fortnight Calendar and Offhand Cards.

https://thepapernerd.com/reimagining-the-calendar/

#foxandthistle #art #artist #design #thepapernerd #calendar #card #illustration #article #studio #workshop

2025 Fortnight Calendar laying on top of an outdated world map.

A picture of the front and inside of a greeting card. The front features 2 hands facing one another playing the children's game cat's cradle with a rainbow colored piece of string. The inside of the card reads a short poem:
Busy with the work,
and busy with the play.
Busy with the others,
and too busy for today.
Busy with the stories,
and busy telling lies.
Busy is as busy does,
I'm busy too, goodbye.

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#Photography #Art #VilleFranche

Scrabble & Shade

Declarations for the unashamedly discerning, the boldly candid, and anyone who understands that sometimes a bit of coldness is the price for justification.

See the collection at:
https://foxandthistle.studio/pages/scrabble-and-shade

#foxandthistle #games #art #artist #reclaimed #reuse #psychology #relationships #sustainability #scrabble #shade #private #gifts

Bronze frame with scrabble tiles spelling the phrase "This isn't working" on a green background.

Geometric frame with scrabble tiles inside spelling out "Don't call me."

Rustic white frame with scrabble tiles on red background spelling out "Not Tonight."

Beaded gold frame with scrabble tiles spelling out "more grit" on a green background.

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Art study: Animals made from 13 circles.

https://www.dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html

#art #design #geometry #animals

New issue of the Liminal dropped over the weekend.

Inside this Issue: Censorship in the Second French Republic, gritty yard art, an old-world apple cake recipe, greeting cards for aimless avoidants, absurdist t-shirts with a literary flair, toxic messaging for the male ego & more!

See full issue at:

https://foxandthistle.studio/pages/the-liminal-corn-moon-cycle-august-2025

#foxandthistle #art #artist #TheLiminal #writing #blog #newsletter #original #content #creative #creativetoots #censorship #cake #recipe #selfhelp #tshirt #GraphicDesign

Cover of 'The Liminal' magazine, Fourth Issue, dated August 23, 2025, themed 'The Corn Moon,' by Fox and Thistle Studio. Features a fox with thistles, a hot air balloon, and a red-streaked sun. Highlights seasonal items like apples and grapes, Corn Moon dates (8/23-9/21), and the upcoming Harvest Moon.

Poster 'Hothouse Flowers' with vintage shop highlights. Features a hand-painted enamel sign 'Where in the Hell is Easy Street?' on a broken iron sawblade, forged in fire, as yard art. Includes 14 oz seaglass, seen as luck charms across cultures, with a wabi-sabi vibe, tumbled for decades by currents.

Poster 'Kettle & Crumb' with seasonal recipes from Fox & Thistle's kitchen. Features Hurricane Cocktail (5 min prep, serves 1-2) with rum, passion fruit, and grenadine, and Apfelkuchen German Apple Cake (20 min prep, 1hr-1hr15min cook, serves 8) with a rustic butter sponge and 18th-century roots. Includes images of a teapot, cocktail swirl, and apple cake.

Poster 'New Wave Vibes from 19th Century France' with 1921 etching 'The Intimidated Redhead' by Gustave Buchet, inspired by Paul Verlaine's 1868 'Les Amies.' Text notes its ban and neon redesign by Fox & Thistle Studio, evoking 1980s New York and Blondie, as a hair accessory. Bottom shows neon green, pink, yellow female forms on black.

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"Secession XIV, Beethoven," Alfred Roller, 1902.

Roller (1864-1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer, who was (very obviously) a founding member of the Vienna Secession, which gave us the Art Nouveau style.

Roller was very active early in his career as a graphic designer, as we have here in this lithograph, advertising the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition that celebrated Beethoven. This is classic Vienna Secession...the stylized figure, the embrace of two dimensions, the collage-like treatment of different parts of the image, as simple areas of pattern. It's genuinely lovely and makes me sentimental for advertising like this.

Roller would later go on to design sets for operas conducted by his friend, the composer Gustav Mahler. He ended up becoming the chief designer of the Vienna State Opera.

From the Leopold Museum, Vienna.

#Art #AlfredRoller #Lithograph #ArtNouveau #ViennaSecession #Advertising

An Art Nouveau lithograph, a poster advertising the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition, this time honoring Beethoven. We are presented with a stylized female figure, shown bowing and presenting a shining orb. The figure and background have a collage effect, openly two-dimensional, with portions of the figure and background shown as flat blocks of pattern in tan, green, and red. Script reads, "Ausstellung der vereinigung bilden und künstler österreichs, secession wien," translating as "Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists and Formers, Vienna Secession," with the words "Klinger Beethoven" and the dates and address.

'Digitus Impudicus' from the Sturgeon Moon Cycle issue of The Liminal—tracing the middle finger’s rebellious roots from Roman gladiators to medieval archers, now a quiet protest with a scrunchie twist!

https://foxandthistle.studio/pages/the-liminal-sturgeon-moon-cycle-july-2025

#TheLiminal #History #Rebellion #ArtAndCulture #VintageVibes #foxandthistle #history #art #design #backstory #product #muse #inspiration #fashion

An image titled "Digitus Impudicus" featuring a medieval illustration of Welsh archers practicing archery from the Luttrell Psalter, England, c. 1235, with one archer raising a hand. Text explains the middle finger gesture’s origins in ancient Rome, used by soldiers and gladiators to insult, and its evolution in medieval France where French soldiers severed English longbowmen’s fingers, prompting defiant archers to raise remaining fingers. A modern photo of a woman with a scrunchie in her hair accompanies text describing the gesture as a symbol of defiance and quiet protest in today’s schoolyard scuffles or roadside brawls.

I've resurrected my email newsletter 'the Liminal'. It drops on each new moon.

It is a creative almanac exploring art & design, and is inspired by nature.

The full Sturgeon Moon Issue for July 2025 is here:

https://foxandthistle.studio/pages/the-liminal-sturgeon-moon-cycle-july-2025

#foxandthistle #art #design #stargazing #almanac #nature #natural #newmoon #sturgeon #moon #cycle #magazine #artist #indesign #adobe #vintage #tshirt #cartoon

The Fox & Thistle Liminal Sturgeon Moon 2025 Image 1 featuring header with fox illustration, Sturgeon Moon cycle, and Digitus Impudicus section with historical gesture details.

The Fox & Thistle Liminal Sturgeon Moon 2025 Image 2 including Offhand Cards with creative suggestions, Pantagruel’s Reverie with surreal woodcuts, and Hothouse Flowers vintage shop highlights.

The Fox & Thistle Liminal Sturgeon Moon 2025 Image 3 featuring Audels Carpenters Guide, Mani Wheel Tibetan prayer wheel, and Lesto Single-Lever Corkscrew vintage tool details.

The Fox & Thistle Liminal Sturgeon Moon 2025 Image 4 showcasing K&E Hudson Oak Drafting Table and The Tinker’s Warp illustrated bandana design.

First draft logo design.

#LogoDesign #HVAC #GraphicDesign #Branding #TradewindsHVAC #SailboatLogo #DesignInspiration #CreativeWork #BusinessLogo #MarketingDesign #ProfessionalBranding #NauticalTheme #DesignArt #BrandIdentity #HVACServices #foxandthistle

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The ten-volume "Unai no tomo" (1891–1923) is comprised of hundreds of woodblock prints of Japanese toys, including jack-in-the-box chickens, whales on wheels, magnetic mice, and popguns, hobbyhorses, and noisemakers galore: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unai-no-tomo

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This is a spectacular image of a Sprite-like Gigantic Jet taken by astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS on July 3, who wrote -

"Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite.

Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. ... scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, ...."

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&roll=E&frame=281502
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Image of earth at night from the ISS with a red Sprite with a blue base shooting up from the clouds.

Tweet by Ayers said -

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite.

Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms.

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Valencia, June 2025
📷 Olympus 35UC
🎞 Fujifilm 200
#olympus #olympus35uc #olympus35sp #fujifilm #fuji200 #filmphotography #photography #analogfotografie #35mm #35mmfilm #valencia #silentsunday

Color photograph of a symmetrical view under a series of arched columns supporting a bridge in the jardin del Turia in Valencia. A sharp beam of sunlight cuts diagonally across the ground, dividing the scene into light and shadow.

Stasis - Mature Black Swallowtail Caterpillars munching on my Curly Parsley

#SilentSunday

2 large yellow, black, and white caterpillars eating bright green parsley.

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Witch's cat, 16th-century woodcut.

Featured in Jon Crabb's essay "Woodcuts and Witches" about the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone so familiar today: https://buff.ly/32N2LMt

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In an unassuming lake in Ireland’s northern County Longford, an unprecedented find emerged in 1986: the nation’s oldest and largest medieval book shrine.

#archaeology #books #craft #history #medieval #metalwork #museums #religion

a highly decorated medieval metal book shrine

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thinking maybe regular witchcraft isn't enough and it's time to invoke the demons

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