The Creepy Crafter

The Creepy Crafter Toothy, fleshy, and unsettling handcrafted oddities. Located inside Terror Trader and online at www.creepy-crafter.com

I processed some stuff in therapy with another zesty EMDR session. Now my brain is on fire again, but I know I’ll get th...
08/29/2026

I processed some stuff in therapy with another zesty EMDR session. Now my brain is on fire again, but I know I’ll get through it. I’m a seasoned pro, but that doesn’t make it any easier… somehow. Here’s an excerpt from something I wrote and decided to post here- traditionally, of course- because you might wonder where my art comes from? I know I’m difficult to follow in conversation, and in almost every other way. How small
would you like me?

No.

Really.

Give me measurements.

I have spent years
trying to solve this mathematically.

If I remove twenty percent of the enthusiasm
and thirty percent of the honesty
and fold my confidence inward
until nobody can see the sharp edges.

will I fit?

Will you keep me then?

Because I can do it.

That’s the terrible part.

I am exceptionally good
at becoming palatable.

But I don’t want to be good at that anymore.

I would rather be inconvenient.

I would rather be loud in the wrong room
than spend another decade
whispering in the right one.

08/10/2026

Happy Birthday Kat!!!!
I still can’t believe we found each other in this timeline!
Kat Vance Kat Mess

Very fortunate to be surrounded by creative people. Good to know I’ve still got it in me 😭 📷
07/28/2026

Very fortunate to be surrounded by creative people. Good to know I’ve still got it in me 😭 📷

07/07/2026

Sometimes you’ve just gotta didgeri-do what you’ve gotta didgeri-do.

04/06/2026

I really was born with that gene 😜

02/26/2026

A little elbow grease later… this is definitely one of my favorites!

02/24/2026

I went a little hard in photoshop 😭

TL/DR: Some people ask to be photographed,And some people are asked to be photographed.As a photographer, I have had man...
02/22/2026

TL/DR: Some people ask to be photographed,
And some people are asked to be photographed.

As a photographer, I have had many of my friends be my muses and models. As an illustrator, I have also drawn many of my friends. As a sculptor, I even once sculpted my husband’s ear. There are some people that I feel need to be photographed, a weird kind of itch or inspiration that must be initiated. I’m accepting at this point that my flavor of neurodivergent brain is still learning socially acceptable ways to foster friendships- or to just start them- a way to initiate okayish first impressions. In the past, I have used photography and my artwork as a means of making friends because I lacked some communication skills earlier in adulthood. It probably weirded some people out of being in my circle, but it definitely weirded the right people in if that makes sense. I guess I still do have a lot to learn about how to communicate to the average population, but I have more self confidence now and that really goes a long way. Anyways… Either I have zero friends with an insatiable creative artistic drive like myself that will find inspiration in a person that sparks joy, or maybe… I’m just too “strange” looking- but not strange enough to be immortalized in art? But this has to be false. I mean, I know I will never be cute, my features are too loud for that. I know I will never be soft and adorable, my bones are too sharp. I will never look delicate or angelic, the shape of my eyes is “intimidating”, and to top it off, my lips are in a permanent disapproving pout from an underbite. I can put on my makeup mask, have perfect lighting, find the angles, give a someone a camera, and *ask to be photographed. And so I did- (thanks for taking my pictures) and now I see it. I see that I will have to be my own muse. As someone who sees the world in such an odd way, why would I not use myself for my art? I am very strange looking, but I think now that I’m almost 34, at least I can see that it’s a good strange.
I’m going to allow myself to create with myself, publish my art to be perceived not out of vanity- but out of reliability, convenience, and acceptance.

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