Welcome to the tenth entry in my 2023 Japan Adventure series!
Last time, we left Busan, Korea, en route to Kanazawa, Japan. This entailed a bit more
travel time than previous days, which allowed us to just enjoy being on board
the Silver Muse during our second full day at sea. Of course, that means
there's not too much exciting to share here, but peaceful days are a nice part
of vacationing, too 😌
Monday 20 March 2023 - Second Day at Sea
Another beautiful sunrise~🌅
This was our first time eating in the Atlantide restaurant. Breakfast
was always the best meal for me during this cruise, as a vegan!
Just look at that dreamy view 💖
It was fun to do the ship's daily puzzles! We only had the time during
days at sea.
Although packing for formal nights was a huge pain, I won't deny I
love a chance to get fancy ✨
My husband, Sean, looking totally handsome 😍
Enjoying after dinner drinks!
Pineapple, my favorite~! 🍹🍍✨
Take it from me, there is nothing better than a hot bubble bath at
sea~!!
And that's it for this entry! Thank you for reading to the end. Please look
forward to part 11 and our visit to Kanazawa, including exploring a preserved
samurai residence that was participating in a collab with the new anime
My Happy Marriage which I've since watched and love 🤩 Until then, may
you stay happy, healthy, and safe~
Long time, no post! I hope you're doing well! I fell behind and wasn't able to
finish my August roundup before it became time to start work on September 😮 I
decided to pare down the contents of these posts so that I can get them out to
you in a timely fashion while still successfully juggling the rest of my
obligations and projects. The focus will now be centered on the creative work
I did over the past month. I hope you'll find it just as interesting and fun
as ever!
Patreon Rewards
Members of the
Studio Mikarts Patreon
help support my work financially, which is obvious, but also emotionally,
because it really means more than I can say to receive that support! Members
can choose to receive a monthly postcard, print, or both as a thank-you (and
there's a no-reward tier for those who want their support to go entirely
toward artmaking). At the beginning of August, I sent out a digitally colored
version of my Mermaid Inktober52 drawing 🧜♀️💌
In September I sent out two rewards, my cows onomatopoeia piece, which was
months in the making, and a digitally colored version of my Vampire Inktober52
piece.
Patreon is the most effective way you can support the work I do. Right now I'm
saving up the monthly contributions to
buy and install a utility sink
in my studio 🤩
Click here
to join Studio Mikarts and help make it happen!
deviantART
I GOT CAUGHT UP ON SUBMISSIONS 😎🤘 My long-time readers will know that I've
been working toward this for ages! I finally did it! I'm even caught up in
that my first Inktober52 from October is posted! I hope to continue staying on
top of submissions from here on out so that my viewers on dA can enjoy the
most up-to-date artwork. The piece I most want to show off here is my cows
onomatopoeia illustration!
Click here
to view, comment, and fave on deviantART ❤️ You can check out my galleries
there to see even more new art, beyond what I'm sharing here!
Livestreaming
Art streaming on Twitch has been going well, as usual! You can check my weekly
streaming schedule
here. I was derailed for a week in September after catching a cold, but I made up
for it by postponing the vacation that I had planned to take 😎 (I'm taking a
week off this month, instead!) Here are my featured recordings from August and
September:
I'm actually THIS close to finishing my first custom emote for my Twitch
subscribers, so I hope you'll consider
subscribing to my channel
to support my creative work and enjoy using the cute chibi emotes that I'm
making for you 💜 Even if not, I'd love to see you in the chat sometime!
Please join us~!
Charity Fundraising
I use my monthly unique viewers count on Twitch to calculate a donation I make
to a featured animal charity, with the formula being $0.10 USD per viewer,
minimum $10, maximum $100. Amusingly, I had 18 unique viewers in both August
and September!
That comes out to a $10 donation each (plus processing fees, which I always
opt to cover!) for
Vegan Outreach
and
Best Friends Animal Society, which I have now made 😊 If you, also, would like to help animals through
these organizations, please click on the links and make a donation! You will
literally help save lives 💖
That's all for this roundup! I hope you enjoyed the shorter, more focused
format 😊 Thank you very much for reading all the way to the end. Until next
time, stay happy, healthy, and safe~!!
