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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pixel art of a bobtail tabby cat<3 Mashed Potatoes

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website news

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August 24, 2025
New book read: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson!

August 10, 2025
Created a now page! There are also a few new garden pages all about art challenges. Lastly, a new book read: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson!

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.

drawing of a magpie
Coding To Do:
Garden page format
site map format✔
books page ✔
Now Page ✔
TO DRAW:
header img ✔
new digimon✔
pixel stickers
socials icons✔
Compress imgs
Fanlistings (idk where to put these yet):
Art fanlisting Pixel Art fanlisting Digimon Adventure fanlisting Castlevania fanlisting Katamari Damacy fanlisting Tarot fanlisting Fountain Pens fanlisting Horror Books fanlisting Tea fanlisting Birding fanlisting
Pending:
Bayonetta fanlisting Metroid Series fanlisting