1. I am reading a gorgeous art book (The Art of Kelogsloops), which of course made me inspired to make some art and start a sketchbook. I had stopped making art around 2009 and picked it up again in 2021. It's been an interesting transition in digital tools. I used to make my illustrations solely on Adobe Illustrator but with the advent of their subscription model, felt it was too expensive for something that was mostly a hobby at that point (I used to make freelance illustrations at one point though, my main client being a one-woman company that sold cute postcard event invitations catering to the Mary Kay set). Nowadays I use my iPad to draw. Procreate seems one of the nicer tech companies out there. I bought the app for 10 dollars and it's just amazing and not exploitative in pricing. I do want to do analog more though now. I don't do casual explorations anymore and am hoping to do a bit more. Of course to celebrate this decision, I made what I like to call ze pouch™. Ze pouch is my hopes and dreams, all contained in a custom kit I make for all my dream projects. Ze pouches always end up abandoned, or descend into madness. My two knitting pouches are a hazardous mess of circular needles, entangled leftover balls of yarn, and Altoid tins full to the brim with stitch markers, foldable scissors, and tapestry needles.
  2. I started a sweater for my daughter ^_^ Flax Worsted using Heatherly Worsted in Juice Box. I'm currently dilligently working through sleeve island, but I'm like 2/3 into sleeve the first so I feel it should go quick? I want to duplicate stitch a tiny cat or something on the bottom corner because she adores cats. Then I want to finish Felix, which of course I abandoned on its sleeve island, and Sunset Sweatshirt. So many knitting projects does not bode well for the previously mentioned pouch for sketchbooking, eek!
  3. I have been having bouts of dizziness this week again. After my fall in April, I was ok for a long time. But the dizziness got so bad in July that I ended up going to a clinic and they helped me. I even got a clean bill of health, so I was really excited. But this week it started again. My idiot brain keeps making me tear up and make a calamity out of it. They did so many tests in July and I'm fine. Ears are ridiculously sensitive. My maudlin reaction to the dizziness is silly and I should just get my ass back to the doctor so they can remind me that I'm worrying over nothing.
  4. As August winds down I am becoming more excited about kicking off spooky season reading. Usually I start in October but fuck it I'm so ready so on Monday it starts! I have my Apple Crumble flavored coffee, and a mile long list of contenders to read. I always kick it off with rereading this adorable graphic novel called Mooncakes. There's something about it that makes it feel like a warm, comforting hug, you know? I usually start witchy cozy, then start doing deeper dives into scarier stuff, and I always add something that's a classic too. Like Carmilla, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Fall of the House of Usher.
  5. Current obsessions: Pastel pink nail polish, strawberry black tea, puzzle games.
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Bones do not lie. Even when they are broken and then mended, there are scars to say where a fracture once was. A woman might wear powders to disguise her age and a man might boast of his vigor, but if you know where to look, if you can read their teeth and the bends of their spines, you’ll know the truth each time. .
– Cassandra Khaw (These Deathless Bones)