NatterDoodle
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07/07/2026
I fear I may have girlbossed* too close to the sun!!
I was named to the V-List Entrepreneur Awards, which celebrates women entrepreneurs, and now I’m up for the People’s Choice Award! Which means…I need my people. Can you take like 30 seconds to vote for me?!
Comment VLIST and I’ll send you the link!!!
A few tips to make voting a breeze:
-hit command F
-search NatterDoodle (so you don’t have to scroll forever)
-vote! (also there's no limit so feel free to be as extra as you'd like)
Still pretty wild that a hobby I started to turn my brain off after work somehow turned into this whole colorful little world. Thank you for every order, every class, every market hello, every DM, every share, and every single time you’ve made me feel like the weird little ideas living in my brain are worth putting into the world. Now please go smash that vote button! :)
*I do hate the term girlboss but that phrase does make me laughhhhhh
People who give a damn can tell it's AI. Even if someone can't immediately clock it, they can usually feel it. I'm officially the one who comments "ewwww ick" when AI-generated art pops up in my feed, and ooooh that makes people who don't like being called out or held accountable big mad.
Nothing makes me feel more crazed than handmade markets, craft fairs, and creative workshops using AI-generated graphics to promote events that are supposedly celebrating human creativity. HOW. DOES. ONE. NOT. SEE. THE. HYPOCRISY.
Andddd before anyone says, "We're just a small business," so am I, darlin'. Small businesses existed long before generative AI. We learned Canva. We hired designers when we could afford to. We collaborated with other creatives. We took our own photos. We made imperfect flyers. We figured it out. That was part of building something.
I'm not above AI. I use it to help me make business predictions or work through numbers my brain never could on its own. But replacing creativity? That's never it. SAY THIS WITH ME: Creativity isn't a problem that needs solving. Because this isn't just about whether AI can make a poster that looks "good" (and I'm using that term verrryyyyy loosely). It's about what we choose to value.
These image generators were built from artwork, photography, illustration, writing, and design created by real people, *without consent or compensation*. Even if you're typing in your own prompt, you're still using a system that exists because of the creative labor of countless humans who were never asked if they wanted their life's work used this way. It's unethical. Period. Artists are watching their work, their styles, and their livelihoods get scraped, replicated, and devalued, and it's gross and disheartening. The environmental impact of AI is another piece of this that I hope more people will take the time to learn about because it's honestly horrifying...but there's only so much I can get in one soapbox moment (re: caption). Like I'm already here in the comments...hahahah
My business exists because people believe human creativity and human labor have value. Every sticker, workshop, and product I create represents years of learning, failing, practicing, refining, and making. I can't ask people to invest in my creative labor while turning around and supporting a system that undermines someone else's.
If you've used generative AI for "art" - there's still time to stop and do things the right way. Hire an artist. Trade with a designer. Take your own photos. Make something imperfect. Make something human. That's the kind of creative community I want to be part of.
Hats are restocked! Adjustable and big noggin approved
