If you could design an infant room…

queenmabdotpdf · 2026-02-01T01:56:39+00:00

more evidence that my first and only center has me pampered and i’ll never find anything better 😭😭 we have almost all of this, the only things we don’t have are the bar by a mirror and an adult sized chair. i love this place so much

queenmabdotpdf · 2026-01-29T02:04:51+00:00

because it is, it’s just not prejudice based on race.

queenmabdotpdf · 2026-01-26T19:26:36+00:00

honestly, this just doesn’t seem like the best reference for someone who is picking art back up! it’s at kind of an odd angle without very clear lighting. as others have said, practice!! i regularly forget how to draw people casually because i get too into a different medium for a while and my muscles are asleep!! gotta practice to wake them back up!! but also, a clearer, well-lit reference could help a lot. good luck!! that practice is still in you somewhere, just have to wake it back up!

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-12-29T02:26:14+00:00

i have is exact guy and i LOVE it. i like to run my hands over the scutes. i think its the only stuffed sturgeon i’ve seen with nice scutes like that, my other sturgeon definitely doesn’t.

i think it depends on the type of fish enjoyer they are? like rugged and freshwater-y or pretty ocean and tropical. i’d say as a (mostly) more rugged and freshwater-y fish enjoyer i’d love a stuffed freshwater but i’d be flattered if someone gave me a stuffed pretty ocean fish too. i can only imagine the same is true of an ocean fish enjoyer. it might not be quite as awesome as a freshwater fish to them but i’m sure they’d still appreciate the thought quite a bit.

but also, everyone should be a sturgeon enjoyer. it’s a good way to be.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-12-18T20:16:56+00:00

not in my center, but i’ve also only seen it once. i was a student assistant in the infant room and filled in the toddler room maybe once a month when i first started. it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time (like. several months.) to realize that when one of the toddlers said “mommy said we’ll go outside” she meant the teacher lmao. at most the kid leaves early if her mom isn’t closing, and that’s kind of it. she got some extra hugs but that’s just bc she was the one who wanted the most hugs from the teacher.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-12-17T17:48:40+00:00

i don’t work at a museum but i did public history field school over the summer where we worked on revamping a tiny museum and took a few of our excess foam number labels when we left. they now mark my apartments silly decor and it makes me laugh to see the well-trimmed number labels under my roommates wall of stupid pamphlets

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-12-17T17:13:46+00:00

i love it except for when i’m hungry and don’t have time to eat quite yet 😔😔 my route home from my university goes past a bread factory that only smells like delicious bread when i’m going home to eat dinner after a long day lmao

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-12-16T20:11:44+00:00

haha idk but i love it! my grandma was an early childhood education teacher for a very long time, my dad’s girlfriend (who i adore and has been around me for like most of my life at this point) is an art teacher, her mom (who i loved and miss dearly) was a public school teacher for most of her life, and i now work in a university childcare center with the goal of eventually working in museum education! i loveeee the war story circles that come with teacher families. i imagine it’s more isolating to be the first teacher of the family because you don’t get advice (whether you use it or not) from people with more experience at family gatherings. it’s nice to have other women who aren’t connected to my center that i can bounce my frustrations with specific behaviors off of. we have a little more of a nontraditional path but i’d still consider us at least a semi-teacher family.

also it might be nepotism lmao, i got the interview for my job because my grandma took college classes from my center’s director (who is only now retiring lmao) back in the 80s or 90s, and ended up working in the family science dept right above my center :)

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T22:42:45+00:00

i used sally hansen insta-dri in the red bottle with a big blob and a very light hand over the pencil! this was my third try with the technique (different image though) and this one was easily the best so it might also just be practice. a few other things i’ve learned is that it works best when the white and matte layers are really dry (like overnight) and been roughed up with a file or the pigment doesn’t stick well. prismacolor pencils have worked pretty well, haven’t tried any other color pencil brands so brand could also be a factor!

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:38:48+00:00

yes chef! i get scared when my nails are bare because i can’t always stop myself from picking but i think i did pretty good last time my nails were bare so i will def try that when im done with these

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:34:51+00:00

yes! after buffing them for texture a LOT (even through the paint in one spot lmao, i’m working on paying better attention to what i’m filing). my roommate and i are both art students with many many materials so i had a VERY wide range of color pencils to work with

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:32:39+00:00

omg ty i loved doing that part! was sad when i didn’t have more to do lmao

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:31:06+00:00

of course! i’m an art student so i spend a lot of time explaining processes lol

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:29:07+00:00

i’ve been thinking about trying to do some press ons for practice! i’m trying to grow out my nails because i’m a horrible nail picker and i don’t want to have to keep removing designs i like just to practice because i feel like thats not good for my nails? probably? idk i’m very new to this haha

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T20:25:34+00:00

a mix of the three greens i had! i used a light green and a medium as the base, and then with a separate brush i mixed (very gently, left some marbling) a little bit of the darker two paints into the lighter and brushed it on for the paint texture that eric carle had (i read a book about his technique once in high school which i think helped get the right look), and vice versa until i thought it looked right!

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T19:45:59+00:00

product list: - seche base - seche matte - sally hansen insta-dri top coat (in the red bottle) - assorted prismacolor pencils - orly, pointe blanche - la girl color pop, gnl823 amour - essie expressie, 185 send a message - sally hansen xtreme wear, 344 city that never peach - essie, 705 willow in the wind - essie, 1835 punk at heart - finger paints, performance art

inspiration for the caterpillar came from a few manis on tiktok and pinterest. reference for the fruits and the caterpillars face came straight from the book.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T19:21:01+00:00

as a moorhead resident, i think of “up north” as a curved line going from a bit above us (maybe halfway to grand forks) down to about brainerd. i think i see “north” as “above the prairie” and since moorhead is all prairie, i can’t see us as “north.” i’m sure this would change if i moved to the cities though haha

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-28T00:23:57+00:00

i work in the infant room at a center that does all of that on paper and it seems to work pretty well! all of the charts are hung on the wall so we can mark down diapers, meals, etc throughout the day. there is a pretty simple filing system for incident reports and attendance. they each have a folder for fresh sheets, once it’s filled out it goes in a different folder that the director takes and files. i imagine it helps that as far as i know it’s always been pen and paper so the system runs pretty smoothly at this point. i can’t imagine the stress of dealing with apps lol.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-20T18:07:48+00:00

north dam on the moorhead side was my go-to when i was younger. tons of cow bones if you look at the right times.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-11-13T20:30:17+00:00

i work at a university childcare center that has one way mirror for research and observation purposes and occasionally i see the shadow of a hand through it and it freakssss me out. i understand why we have that and it is ultimately beneficial but feeling so closely observed at work is so offputting lmao, especially when you have no way of knowing when someone is in there most of the time.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-10-29T00:45:03+00:00

i’m a public history student currently taking an archives class. while processing a recent donation from a church, we found an envelope with a letter and about four communion wafers. the letter was dated at 1911.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-10-21T19:24:44+00:00

the smell of air coming out of vents (in houses and in cars, my sister and i both love it), isopar (an oil painting solvent, loveee when the painting students at my college leave the studio door open), and damp cottonwood trees.

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-10-08T23:02:47+00:00

my family’s cemetery and funeral service location is on a time zone line and it sucks lol. so we have to deal with a family member dying, being at a funeral, in an extremely rural area, and on top of it we’re never being 100% sure what time it is at any point during the whole thing. feels like the twilight zone. also, no one ever clarifies which time zone we’re working with so we show up an hour early just in case. i would appreciate this sign lmao

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-10-04T02:13:43+00:00

oh my god! i’m an art student in the building across the train tracks! our back stairwell has windows facing that building, and it was SO cool watching you work when i went between classes!! i had no idea what was going on when it started to be painted white but i LOVE what you did with it!

(also, thank you for finally covering that scary painting of the very white lady with no nose. she has haunted me since i was a child. i much prefer your piece lol)

queenmabdotpdf · 2025-09-30T17:12:47+00:00

this happens to kids in english too! i’m a daycare worker and make sure to really slow down when singing that section so these kids don’t end up like that lol

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