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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 16h

Is your sock drawer as crowded with cool artsy socks as mine or do you still have some room for more like these froggy ones? 🐸 Asking for a friend! (it's me, I'm the friend)

www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogCon25 #FrogMerch #FrogSocks

Picture of two pairs of socks laid out so you can see the whole design each. The left pair shows a rollerskating frog all geared out with head phones and protectors. The outlines, cuff, heel and toes are a rich blue color, same for the name on the sole "smallbizcat", the background a lavender and white checkerboard. The frog is green with big swirly pink cheeks, he looks very content. The right pair shows mostly a patchwork patterened blanket all over the sock with a little frog sticking out at the top laying on a pillow. Next to him are a shark and a bear plushie also tucked in. Behind them the night sky. The blanket pattern includes light blue parts with yellow stars, yellow parts with purple flowers and purple parts with blue "windows". The outlines, cuff, heel and toes are a rich blue color, same as the name on the sole "smallbizcat".

Picture of a pair of socks hanging in the fields. It shows a rollerskating frog all geared out with head phones and protectors. The outlines, cuff, heel and toes are a rich blue color, same for the name on the sole "smallbizcat", the background a lavender and white checkerboard. The frog is green with big swirly pink cheeks, he looks very content.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 13h

Head empty kind of day. 🐸 (Shares appreciated, I haven't had any shop sales for two weeks. 🥲) shop.breelundberg.com/product/head...

Photo of hand holding up a sparkly cloud shape sticker with a cute illustrated smiling frog face on it. Around the frog it says "head empty, only vibes".

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 13h

Oooh looking respectfully 👀👀👀✨️

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Potoh @potoh.bsky.social · 13h

I just wanted to sketch some potential covers for new sticker books and kinda zoned out (yes it's another biblically accurate cat)

Digital illustration in greyscale tones. At the center is an angel cat with six wings and eight legs sticking out to its sides. The cat's body is hidden by the wings, only the head is visible. She has her eyes closed. On her forehead is a single eye looking at the viewer. The cat is framed by black thorned vines. At the top center in the background is a pattern of circles and stars. At the bottom the word stickerbook is placed in white capital letters.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 16h

Is your sock drawer as crowded with cool artsy socks as mine or do you still have some room for more like these froggy ones? 🐸 Asking for a friend! (it's me, I'm the friend)

www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogCon25 #FrogMerch #FrogSocks

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Arcasian @arcasian.bsky.social · 1d

Time for tea 🫰

Artwork of a brown bear peaking out of the top of a white ceramic teapot with blue leaves and dot patterns on it. The bear in the teapot is set up on a blue gingham background.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to Frog Con 2025! 🐸✨️

Check out the online con and find me at the artist alley from Oct 11-20th ⤵️
frogcon.frogcult.org
Look closely 👀

I also opened some froggy wizard commissions, where you can choose this little guy's snack, accessoire and companion 🧙‍♂️
ko-fi.com/smallbizcat

Photograph of a blue and pink riso print held up by a hand. The print shows what looks like a character design screen in a videogame. The character is a frog with a wizard's hat, robe and staff, floating with glitter around him. On the left there's a life bar with two and a half hearts and three icons. On the right are three empty item boxes. The background is a blue curtain.

Photograph of a hand holding a purple sticker in front of a blueish curtain. The sticker is round with a scalloped edge showing Freddy my frog OC in a clown costume looking happy, hands in the air. He's wearing a party hat, white ruffled collar and a shirt that's half red with yellow flower buttons and half yellow with blue stripes. Above him there's sparkles, confetti and the text "down to clown". The sticker has a star glittery holo finish.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 1d

A personal highlight of my #FrogMerch have to be these suncatchers! I love when they fill my room with little rainbows 🌈

Maybe I need to come up with more designs for them 👀

www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogCon25 #FrogArt #SmallBusiness

Photograph of two suncatcher stickers on a square glass standing on a standee on a purple gingham blanket. The shadow of the stickers shows a colourful rainbow. One suncatcher is round showing many rain themed icons with frogs, the other is oval shaped with a small frog sitting under a green leaf.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 1d

A personal highlight of my #FrogMerch have to be these suncatchers! I love when they fill my room with little rainbows 🌈

Maybe I need to come up with more designs for them 👀

www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogCon25 #FrogArt #SmallBusiness

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Potoh @potoh.bsky.social · 1d

Normal.

Digital drawing of my catsona wearing a Maushold hoodie. They're surrounded by Tandemaus and Maushold merch, like plushies, trading cards, figurines, a mug and a bag. (I wish I owned that bag). Under the drawing the words "Normal" are written in the style of how Pokemon types are labelled, with bold letters and on a greyish square background

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 1d

Please bear with me while I post and repost a lot during #FrogCon ! Gotta spread the word of frog far and wide 🐸✨️

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 2d

Another #FrogCon25 highlight! ✨

I loooved puffy stickers as a kid so when I saw that I could get them manufactured, I jumped on the oppurtunity! This is my newest product and I think they came out quite cute 🤏 🐸

Get yours here:
www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogArt #Stickersheet

Photograph of a stickersheet. The stickers are puffy so a bit 3D and show a variety of small rain themed icons: A good weather ghost, a worm, a frog dreaming of the mountains, the word "rain", an umbrella shaped like a frog, some red hydrangea, some lightning, a rainbow ending in two clouds, sun coming through the clouds, a puddle showing the reflection of a frog, a smiling sun, a red flower, a blue cat in a yellow rain hat, another flower, the wind (just swirly lines), a frog looking surprised at a rain drop, a sprout, a leaf, the words "pitter patter", a frog hand reaching towards dew on a leaf with the word "plop", a cloud with rain boots smiling and a frog in a raincoat. The background is a purple-white gingham.

Photograph of a stickers in a stickerbook. The stickers are puffy so a bit 3D and show a variety of small rain themed icons: A frog dreaming of the mountains, a red flower, a worm looking up from the grass and a frog in a raincoat.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 2d

Oop just watched the video, sorry for assuming things with the marketing part 🥲

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 2d

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Frog Con everyone! The website is officially live!! Hop on over and check out all the activities we have lined up for you!! Our the opening ceremony will be streamed on our twitch! Thank you guys for all the love and support, it’s an honor to be able to bring so many frog lovers together 🐸💚

A smiling green yellow frog with a red clown nose and blue party hat peak from below. It is saying “frogs await you!” With “frog con 2025 is now live!!!” On top of it. The background is a light yellow stripes with come to the center of the yellow pom-pom on top of the blue hat.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 2d

Another #FrogCon25 highlight! ✨

I loooved puffy stickers as a kid so when I saw that I could get them manufactured, I jumped on the oppurtunity! This is my newest product and I think they came out quite cute 🤏 🐸

Get yours here:
www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken by Omar Zaki

#FrogArt #Stickersheet

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 3d

Love when people are irritated that I won’t order from Temu and then try this gotcha with me by saying hey it’s just like Amazon, if you use one or the other won’t make a difference and I can just look them dead in the eyes and reply yeah I’ve been boycotting Amazon since years

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 2d

I was sure not admitting it was just a marketing kinda stunt next to preserving their peace and we all kinda knew anyways 👀😂

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

For #FrogCon25 I want to highlight some of my froggy products! 🐸
The keycaps were my bestsellers at my last con and so are the patches in my online shop right now - thank you all for the love 💕

Check out some froggy goodness and more here:
www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken Lila @ kiraleonieglauber (IG)

Picture of 3 keycaps laying on a white background. One is placed on a keychain extension so you can fidget with it clicking like a keyboard. It's got a light purple base with a green happy frog face protruding from the surface. Another one is the same design but with a bright blue base. The third is purple with a yellow chick face. On the right a babyblue pen and on top a purple and white checkered pattern decorate the scene.

Picture of three patches placed on a tote bag. The top one is oval shaped with a little frog sitting under a big leaf holding his legs. The left one shows the frog all content tucked into bed with his two stuffed friends, a blue shark with a big frown and a shy little white bear under a patchwork blanket with yellow, blue and purple stars, dlowers and squares. The right patch is a fluffy white duck, shedding a single tear with the text "0 ducks given" in blue letters above it.

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Potoh @potoh.bsky.social · 3d

New stickers are now all up!
And starting today, every order placed in October gets a little freebie too 🧛

potoh.bigcartel.com

Collage of 4 square images of new stickers. Top left are several cartoon animals, like a moose, red panda, rhino and fennec fox. Top right is a glow in the dark sticker of a pile of skulls that has 3 black cats sitting in it. Bottom left is a pile of cartoon shrimp stickers. Bottom right is Tuffy, with an oversized blue wizard hat.

Photo of a vinyl sticker of a cartoon vampire cat with white fur, black sideburns and a black tail. She's wearing a red bow tie, a light brown shirt and striped brown shorts. She has black bat wings and tiny vampire teeth. Bottom right is purple text with a white outline and an arrow pointing towards the sticker, saying "freebie"

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

Haha thanks, glad you like it! Thought I'd try another clown outfit for Freddy 😂🐸

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SparkleTiger 🍉 @sparkletiger.bsky.social · 3d

@smallbizcat.bsky.social this might be the first time I keep the actual envelope something got shipped in bc it's just too cute TwT
And of course the actual sticker is amazing too, thank you so much!!

A white letter envelope with a frog in a clown costume drawn on it. The frog is waving, smiling and has a speech bubble next to it saying "Du hast Post!" (English: You've got mail!")
Next to the envelope is a round sticker with a scalloped edge, picturing a frog in a clown costume. Above the frog it says "Down to clown".

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

For #FrogCon25 I want to highlight some of my froggy products! 🐸
The keycaps were my bestsellers at my last con and so are the patches in my online shop right now - thank you all for the love 💕

Check out some froggy goodness and more here:
www.smallbizcat.de

📸 taken Lila @ kiraleonieglauber (IG)

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

Danke, soweit so gut, mir tut zwar alles weh und mein Hirn ist durch, aber das kenn ich ja schon :D

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

Gute Besserung! 🥲❤️

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