Athana Miere

Today it's 38°C.
The fan is running. There's ice water on the desk. But the putty gets softer, my hands get warmer, and even the canvas somehow feels hot.
I still want to sit down and paint because it's how I usually unwind after work. Just... not quite as long as usual.
Summer crafters, how do you deal with days like this? Air conditioning, fans, or do you simply wait for cooler evenings?


I refuse to let the weather win. Just maybe... after sunset. ☀️➡️🌙

4 days ago | [YT] | 20

Athana Miere

The good news: the video is already filmed.
The bad news: it's currently over 34°C, and my motivation to spend the evening editing is somewhere between "melting" and "completely evaporated."
So the colorful mystery package will have to wait until tomorrow.
Right now, a cold shower and a fan sound significantly more appealing than a timeline full of video clips. ✨

1 week ago | [YT] | 5

Athana Miere

This arrived today.

At first glance, it looks like it should contain sweets.

It doesn't.

And somehow I was still genuinely excited to open it.

Diamond painting has a funny way of changing what feels exciting.

A few years ago, colorful packages meant snacks.

Now they usually mean supplies, storage, or some solution to a hobby-related problem I didn't know existed before.

I'm not entirely sure when that happened.

But here we are. ✨

1 week ago | [YT] | 6

Athana Miere

Something I find interesting about this hobby:
The excitement rarely comes from the number of canvases arriving.

It comes from the unknowns.

This week I'm expecting 11 new canvases🫣

Two of them are from a company I've never tried before.

And somehow those are the ones I'm most curious about.

Not because I expect them to be better.
Just because I genuinely don't know yet.

Sometimes half the fun is finding out whether a new company gets the details right. ✨


Curious what everyone pays attention to first. 👀

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Athana Miere

It's always interesting how hobbies create problems that didn't exist before.

At some point I accidentally acquired far more washi tape than I realistically needed.
Not enough to cause concern.
Just enough to require its own storage system.
Today I finally found a way to organize all of it.
Which feels strangely satisfying.
Although seeing it all in one place raises some questions I'd rather not answer. ✨

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 15

Athana Miere

500 subscribers.
Still a strange thought.
When I uploaded my first video, I mostly wanted a place to share a hobby that helps me slow down.
Most of the time it's just me, a canvas, a pen, and the sound of drills clicking into place.
Yet somehow there are now over 500 people who choose to spend a few quiet minutes here from time to time.
It's a small number in YouTube terms. But it's also 500 real people who decided that a few moments of calm were worth coming back for.
For a channel built around silence, that's actually quite a lot.
Thank you. ✨🩵

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 8

Athana Miere

I was just admiring how perfectly this pen matched Blueberry Kiss.

A few minutes later, it broke.

Funny how rarely we remember a project exactly as planned.

Most of the memories come from the little things that weren't supposed to happen at all.

The canvas you started too late.
The section you almost gave up on.
The tool that suddenly failed.

And somehow those details end up becoming part of the project itself.

Then again...

...maybe this is just the universe giving me an excuse to buy another pen. 😅

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3 weeks ago | [YT] | 9

Athana Miere

A small detail in my latest video that might be easy to miss:

I included several close-up comparisons between Oraloa and Diamond Art Club drills.
The video itself is mainly about preparation, static drills, and getting the canvas ready to paint.
But before I buy from a new company, this is exactly the kind of information I try to find myself.

Not just how the drills look under a macro lens.
How they behave.
How consistent they are.
Whether the chart and drills work together well.
And whether the painting experience feels smooth or frustrating.

One reason I started the very first section with a 12-placer was to test exactly that. If clean multi-placing works immediately, it's usually a very good sign.


👀 So now I'm curious:

Was that comparison useful to you?

Would you like to see more drill and chart quality comparisons when I work on canvases from different companies, or is that mostly my own little obsession? ✨

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 7

Athana Miere

Diamond painting is probably the only hobby where organizing hundreds of tiny plastic pieces can somehow feel both productive and calming at the same time. ✨

Now that I’ve finished two canvases recently, I’m about to start the less glamorous part again: down-kitting.
Two tray towers full of drills waiting to be sorted back into storage.

A surprising amount of cleanup for something that’s supposed to be relaxing.
Still… there’s something oddly satisfying about turning weeks of color chaos back into order again.

Makes me wonder if down-kitting videos would actually interest anyone here. 👀

1 month ago | [YT] | 17

Athana Miere

Sometimes you don’t realize how heavy a finished canvas really is until gravity tests your wall setup for you.
Yesterday my favorite piece came crashing down from the wall.

Twice.

Thankfully the canvas itself survived without damage, but the cord clearly didn’t. After the first fall I repaired it, hung it back up… and a while later the string failed again. Same picture. Same sound. Slightly more emotional damage on my side.

So apparently some of my older hanging setups have reached the “quietly becoming unreliable” stage.
I’ll be replacing the cords with stronger ones before another canvas decides to inspect the floor unexpectedly. ✨

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