So yeah, sitting in the sunshine, doing a little project, and laughing with people who are every bit as horrified by everything that is happening as I am was  exactly what I needed. It doesn't make anything better, precisely. But it reminds me of why we rail so hard against all the horrible things. And that reminder is restorative in a way that sitting alone, on your couch, with posture that would shame a shrimp, doom scrolling on your phone for the third straight hour, simply isn't. If there's a way for you to do some version of being in [...]

Ok so I told you last time that I was feeling stuck. And now I'm going to try something to get unstuck. I'm going to sit out in the long summer twilight with a bunch of friends and do a craft. I've gotten all the stuff to do an indigo vat, summoned every person I can possibly convince to show up at my house on a Thursday afternoon (don't give me that look, you know how hard it is to get a doze busy adults in the same place at the same time), rounded up a bunch of rubber bands [...]

So that green icord I've been making? Yeah, it's going to get a wire shoved down it so it's bendy. And then it's going to get pressed into service to wrangle the curtain I use on my porch (to manage the blistering sun and/or pouring rain + window screen situation) into submission. And I figured it could probably use some cute little yellow flowers on there to help out...erm...for reasons (reasons I have not yet devised, but surely some little yellow flowers can't hurt). So I puttered about trying to make a flowerish sort of shape. Iteration one came out [...]

Every time I post a video on instagram showing an icord machine in action, at least a few people feel in their hearts a sudden, burning desire to come to own one of their own. Which is fair! I, too, have felt this longing, which is why I own not one but two of the little beasts. Alas, this burning need to own one does not always translate into, you know, doing things like reading the caption or listening to the audio (which almost always say something like 'it's called an icord maker' or 'it makes a little tube of [...]

I recently had a of couple posts go and break containment on instagram...which is moooooostly lovely, but does mean a small influx of folks who don't know the rules or don't match the vibe. So I did a little intro & reminder post both there (because if someone is going to storm off in a huff when they find out who I really am, I'd really rather save everyone time and have them do it early) and on patreon (not because anyone there was shitty, more just as a vibe check). I basically just lay out all the things that [...]

June's Notable Nonsense went in the mail yesterday and should start arriving in mailboxes early next week. Is that two days later than I'd have liked? Yup! Did the package with the cards ship a full week after it was supposed to? Mmmm hmm. Did Fedex then have an unexpected delay and take an extra day to deliver the package (the package that I paid extra to have delivered via overnight express) until July 1? You guessed it, also yes. Was I able to stuff hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of envelopes in the two hours between when the box [...]

I did tell you I was entering a slipper phase. And if you've been here for more than a minute, you know I don't usually do things by half measures. So it seems perfectly reasonable that the slippers would, eventually, come to include grommets and/or laces. At least for some values of reasonable... Never fear, both the grommets and the laces are optional. You can do neither, just laces, just grommets, or both grommets and laces. But opportunities to frolic through your days, twinkle toed and beribboned, are scandalously infrequent, so I know what I'll be doing. This will likely be [...]