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Potoh @potoh.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 2h

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 · 1d

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 · 19h

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

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 3d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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SparkleTiger 🍉 @sparkletiger.bsky.social · 1d

@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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Gute Besserung! 🥲❤️

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 2d

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 3d

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

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

Threw together a #ConCatalogue last minute, let's go! 🐸✨️

Looking forward to Polaris 👀

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Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171 Deskmats 90x40cm, new, Mousepad 25cm. The first image shows the illustration of one of the deskmats, a frog sitting on a branch with pink flowers, some more flowers on the left and a purple background with a white grid. The next is a collage of many frogs doing several poses in a white grid on a purple background, the poses rang from laying down comfy, sitting turned away from the viewer to jumping in the air! The mousepad is Freddy the frog's happy face with closed eyes amd big pink swirly cheeks.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Lanyards, Earrings, Keychains. The photographs show a long lanyard with rain themed icons, a short lanyard with frogs in different hats and a pair of earrings of a weather ghost with a rain drop pearl dangling under it. That design is also available as a phone charm. There's also keychains of a mushroom with cutlery, a bee dangling below a red flower and a green Junimo holding a big yellow star with the words "you tried". The last keychain is a shaker charm of a cloud with 5 little Warawaras that can be shook around.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Buttons, Wooden & Enamel Pins. The photographs show a heart shaped buttons of KeeKee the cat curled up into a heart shape with a holo finish. Below there's 15 more small round buttons showing designs of frogs, rain themes and cats.
The wooden pins pictured are two chestnut animals, a frog in a raincoat and a frog face on a sunflower.
The enamel pins are a frog sitting in a shiny silver watering can wearing a sunhat, a small frog dreaming on a glittery moon cresceng and a dark blue shark looking friendly.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171 Washitape, Commissions, Choose: snack, accessoire, companion. The 4 washitape designs are one with a halloween theme with a black cat, pumplin, bat, wizard, cauldron and ghost. The next is rain themed with frogs, flowers, a rainbow and clouds. The 3rd is many frog faces wearing hats ranging from wizard hat, to bow, to crown. And the last one is summer themed with frogs, a butterfly, icecream, a crab and a sandcastle.
The commission is a print of a wizard from holding a staff, like a character inventory screen in a game with 3 empty slots on the right that can be filled out allowing for commissioner's requests.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

Polaris starts today, let's go! 🐸✨️

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Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Glasses Cleaning Cloth, Patches, Hairclips. The first two images show mock ups of the cleaning cloths, one with the froggy rain themed with flowers, clouds, frogs and a rainbow. The other of many Freddy the frog poses, sitting, laying down, standing on a purple gingham background.
The next image is a photograph of 3 embroidered patches, one is oval with a frog sitting under a leaf holding his legs, one of a frog under a cozy patchwork blanket and another of a white duck with the text "0 ducks given!"
The last photo shows two hairclips clipped to a tote bag. They are both of a happy a frog face with swirly pink cheeks and a start charm dangling beneath, one is purple themed, the other yellow.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Riso Print, Stamps.
The first photograph shows a square risograph print of a frog sitting in a field of blue forget-me-nots, holding his legs and looking calm.
The second photo is of two wooden stamps, one showing the stamp side, one the image produced. The stamp has been stamped in green ink twice, the design is a happy frog with the text "Freddy 2025".

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Prints.
There's 6 illustrations, two square ones of which one shows a frog floating in the air surrounded by Warawaras in the clouds, he looks surprised. The other is a frog sitting in front of a furnace with a few soot sprites around him. Both are mainly blue and purple in color.
Around those two are 4 small images that look like collectible amiibo trading cards. One of King from the Owl House looking proud, another of Lambert from COTL floating. Another shows my frog OC Freddy strutting along and the last is of Pochita from Chainsaw Man. All are drawn in Animal Crossing styles.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Postcards.
There's 11 illustrations in postcard size. 3 of them show Jürgen, the cat of a friend up to mischievous adventures sitting on a keyboard, a mailbox and a plant pot.
Another shows my rain themed icons fesign. The next is my frog Freddy looking like the Morton Salt Cirl holding a yellow umbrella. There's also w white cat in the clouds with a small frog sleeping on it, a small frog sitting in a boot, Freddy dressed as Daisy Mae, Freddy laying in the grass surrounded by bugs. The last two show a small frog laying on Totoro and another sitting in the cat bus.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

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Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Shiny Stickers, Stamp Rally Sticker, Suncatcher Stickers. The photographs of the stickers show one with Arcane's Heimerdinger that has a partial holo film, one of a green Junimo holding a yellow star with the words "you tried" and one of COTL's Lambert holding a flower asking "Please join my cult". The last two have a glittery star holo finish.
The Stamp rally sticker is a shark holding a trans pride flag with the text "trans icons" above, also with a glittery star holo finish.
The two suncatchers are attached to a square glass. One is has many rain themed icons, the other is a frog sitting under a leaf.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Stickers, Set.
Many different sticker designs, some of Pochita from Chainsaw Man, some of my friend's cat called Jürgen, many frogs, some fanart and meme themed designs.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Stickerbooks A6 + A5, Stickersheets.
The stickerbooks in size A6 come in 3 designs, one with a frog laying on Totoro, one with a frog sitting in the Catbus and one of a frog sitting in a boot. The A5 stickerbook is called "critterbook" and shows a frog laying in the grass surrounded by butterflies and bugs.
One of the stickersheets has many frog faces with different hats, the other has puffy stickers of my beloved rain themed design.

Text: smallbizcat at Polaris B4.171, Keycaps, Socks.
The photographs show 3 different keycaps, one of a frog face in blue, the other in purple and one of a yellow duck on purple. They can be purchased alone or on keychains with one or two slots.
Below is a picture of two pairs of socks, one showing a rollerskating frog with headphones, the other a frog under a big cozy patchwork blanket.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 5d

Frog Con 2025 is just around the corner! We are so excited to share the first of our Featured Artists, Canlaken!! You'll be able to find him in our Artist Alley at table F1! Check out the amazing charms and pins Canlaken made for our merch line, and some of his incredible work!

www.canlaken.com

a hand holds up a ticket shaped acrylic charm against a forest like background! The charm depicts a series of abstract frogs following a circus frog through the forest. There is a red circus tent in the background and the areas where the sky are a translucent blue. The gold border and circus frog’s staff are in a popped out gold foil.

A hand holds up an enamel pin against a forest like backdrop. The pins depict three frogs that stack together in a triangle shape. The bottom two face each other and lift the third, who is balancing a ball on his nose.

a hand holds up a circle shaped acrylic charm with a yellow tassel at the end against a forest like background. The charm is of a circus frog with a top hat, red vest, and gold staff that is reaching towards the viewer. It lays on a deep green translucent background.

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

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smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 5d

Threw together a #ConCatalogue last minute, let's go! 🐸✨️

Looking forward to Polaris 👀

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