Had a really nice 2-hr chat with Ana Constantinescu today, talking about small business art stuff. We’re going to do another Maram Makerspace weekend in late September, it looks like — she’s going to teach an introduction to flower pressing class, I’m teaching a Sri Lankan cooking class, and I’m hoping to find some more […]
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Playing around with some other colorways on my Mayura Raksha design. This one’s nice and summery — I might try it on some outdoor cushions. Pictured here on grasscloth wallpaper — very nice, VERY expensive. https://www.spoonflower.com/…/620145-mayura-firepit-by…
On Friday, I met up with Valya and Roshani at Ethiopian Diamond for deliciousness and what turned out to be a three-hour lunch, followed by a little affogato and fun candy for the kids from Lickety Split across the street. Yesterday was a quiet day at home, mostly doing chores, which was satisfying in its
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Sigh — woke up at 2, managed to sort of go back to bed until 5, but tired. It’s a bit of a conundrum; I need to exercise more regularly to sleep well, but when I don’t sleep well, I feel too tired to motivate to exercise. I did train with Liz yesterday, so I
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I was a little nervous about trying cabling again, because it’s been long enough that I’d forgotten how to do it, but I put on the Fellowship of the Ring for company and inspiration (because this particular cable pattern looks very Tolkien-elvish to me), and dove in, and look, it’s starting to do the thing.
Slightly complicated day today — I have a slew of things I need to do, AND we have a plumber coming to deal with various broken things (one toilet out of commission, one kitchen faucet with a broken regulator that sprays wildly)… …but also, it’s the last relatively hot day before Kavi starts school next
It was in the mid-90s yesterday, so it’s definitely not autumn yet! But I think my brain is shifting into autumn mode, as I start finishing up summer projects and looking ahead to fall semester. I hosted knitters on the porch on Tuesday evening, and it was lovely, but I didn’t actually have an active
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Little sewing project this morning. I had one leftover piece of this fabric, and many months ago, I hemmed it and hung it as a curtain. But it turned out that it wasn’t that functional — it was just barely wide enough, and in order to be able to pull the single panel open, I
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I’m thinking a lot about social interactions these days. When we switched to shelter-in-place, they mostly went away. As we got used to using Zoom, we added some socializing back in, and that was a lifeline during the pandemic. But there are two big issues that I, personally, have with Zoom and other online interactions:
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Working on the Patreon treat boxes — I’m hoping to finish them off this week and ship them out next week, fingers crossed. I think August is going to be a lot of shipping, between these and the Vegan Kickstarter packages! (Babylon 5 has done a great job of keeping me company with production —
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