Yogo Magpie

Digital painting of a calico critter figurine — Chi the Cat, one of my 2025 Art Fight attacks.

Hello! I'm Heather! Thank you for stopping by! This site is primarily for my digital garden, where I write about my favorite things.

I'm an artist and although you'll see some of my work here, most of my paintings live on a different website: HeatherFranzen.com.

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Maxwell the Cat, who in real life is named Jess

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website news

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August 5, 2025

The books page is coming along! I added four of my favorite books so far and added a table with my preferred rating system, courtesy of aromanticduck on Tumblr.

August 3, 2025

New tea review: They Mad!!! (a raw pu-ehr). Also, the books page is being built right now!

August 2, 2025

The Art Fight 2025 gallery is complete!

July 31, 2025

New tea review: Lumber Slut (a ripe pu-ehr).

July 22, 2025

Finally, after two years, the About pages are done! Also, we applied for a bunch of fanlistings. Shoutout to Digimon Adventure for being the first one to accept us.

July 19, 2025

More CSS clean up. The digital garden main page is finally done!

July 13, 2025

Wow! The Tea page got a makeover!

July 8, 2025

The css stylesheet is being updated and cleaned up, so there might be some broken styles across the site for a while!

July 6, 2025

The Art Fight page is full of art now! It will be updated throughout July!

June 8, 2025

New magpie news announcer for the home page--Me, the one talking to you right now! Also, there is now an [empty] Art Fight page in the digital garden.

May 18, 2025

New tea review about white2tea's 2023 La Sombra; a new bird page, Grackles.

Click here for an archive of previous news announcements.