I couldn't be bothered to edit these together for a while so these are a bit old now, look at ol' Pinhead celebrating Easter! But I still wanted them on my blog and I'm all caught up now, I have another post of these ready to go because otherwise this would have been too long. Not that there's a right length for posts, just feels like a good scrolling amount on this day.
This week was weird with the stress of the election (and oh my gosh does that whole thing stress me out something rotten) but I got two new zines made and listed and had some good orders (I'm most happy when people buy my drawn stuff) so I can't complain ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
My face all week // I didn't think our plant would do strawberries this year but it totally did and I'm so proud // my two cuties // hanging out in the library with Jake
I don't really recommend Faith. I feel like it was sold to me as fat, superhero, nerd lady which sounds awesome but then I found the story to be a bit bland. To not totally just be a negative mean pants, I really liked how the fact she was fat wasn't a gimmicky part of the story, she just was a fat person. That was cool.
In other news this week I cried while listening to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu because I so very badly want to go to Japan and it feels like such a super far away if ever kind of dream .･ﾟﾟ･(／ω＼)･ﾟﾟ･.
Let's take a moment to appreciate that thumbnail. Youtube sure gives you good options. It's almost as if it's a punishment for being too lazy to make my own...
The week started with us realising we needed to actually take the bank holiday off because we work hard and don't rest enough and then eating an obscene amount of popcorn which is our special power.
Then I cut my hair. I've wanted to shave the side of my head for aaaaaaaaaaaages but we don't have clippers. Or at least we didn't until Tuesday and now my head makes me happy and feel more like myself ^_^
The next day I got a new tattoo. It goes over the side of my elbow and that bend is being horrible. Bending my arm hurts, straightening my arm hurts. So I spent the rest of the week being careful with my arm. Mainly drawing in my sketchbook actually so it worked out alright.
My moon photos from last week won us a pair of tickets to go see Casus Circus perform their show Driftwood so out came the chicken bag, my fanciest bag. If you get a chance to see Casus Circus you definitely should. It was amazing. I was smiling the whole time except for one bit that almost made me cry. I don't know if it was meant to be sad or if it was just too good. Here is a promo video of them. They're incredible.
It also got hot so the fringe got pinned back because I'm a sweaty mess at the best of times.
I had a pretty productive week. I worked on patches, stickers and shirts. The patches and stickers are listed but the shirts are still just tests. I want to know how the paint holds up after washing a few times before I start selling them. I loved painting them though so I'll be doing more even if they're just for me.
Will saved some flowers from the reduced bin. The idea that these would have been thrown out is sad, the last bunch are still doing really well.They may just be flowers but it still feels good to give them a nice home for their last days lol.
We went to see the moon! Museum of the Moon spent a week in The Forum as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. It was really cool, it's inflatable and uses actual NASA photos to recreate the surface of our beautiful, good friend.
Nailed it
It was a pretty chill/fast moving week. I had no energy and felt quite down on myself but I still managed to get work done. It was mostly prep stuff which I think contributed to me feeling useless because nothing was at a finished stage but there will never be a finished stage without all the work before it so it's weird that doing that stuff doesn't feel like I've done anything. I did make myself this key ring though. A good reminder that what you look like doesn't have to be what is most important about you, it isn't your job to look nice for other people. Beauty standards are toxic, be wary of it all.
The weather finally seems to have caught up with the time of year and the strawberry plants are really going for it. I think they're too old for actually producing fruit but the flowers are nice regardless. We also have a nice moss friend on our bird table. He fell off the roof and now lives there, we can see him through the kitchen window and he has a very calming effect. His name is Moss Def.
I had to document this little fellow, finally too small to be of any use. You were a good rubber, thank you for sorting my mistakes for so long. You couldn't do it anymore, I had one mistake too many for you to handle.
Speaking about mistakes, this weeks Drag Race is still making me agitated. Yes, she failed the lip sync, that's fine she deserved to go based on that but why was Valentina even in the bottom two!? It wasn't even like everyone was good but two people have to be chosen, Alexis was baaaaad. This season already feels off, why get rid of one of the good ones unnecessarily? smh
This past week was making stickers, traveling to a funeral, making patches. The overall theme was being tired. I'm so out of it at the minute, I'm trying to be ok with that, sometimes you're tired and cranky, that's fine and also trying to carry on doing stuff so I don't make myself feel worse by not 'achieving' anything. But it's hard.
I've been so tired lately even though I'm getting sleep. I'm also just plain sad. My Nan died two years ago and it was heartbreaking and now that Grandad is gone too it's all the sad of losing him but also a real shove about the fact that as a unit they're both gone. They've always been there and they were always a really good thing and now it's over. And it's weird how that is what life is and it has always happened and will always happen, the one definite, and yet there is no real way to deal with it. Unless I guess being confused and sad until you feel less confused and sad is how you're meant to deal with it. It all just takes time and letting yourself feel whatever you're feeling and being ok with it I suppose.
Anyway, I'm off to post orders and look at a big inflatable moon. That's sure to make me feel a little better.
The first of May was our 11th anniversary (!) so we had a day off and ate junk. It feels like so much more than a week ago. It fell at a weird time, right in between my Grandad dying and the funeral which is happening this week. That's the main energy suck at the minute but everything has happened over the past week or so. It seems like we never get to deal with just one thing at a time, everything always happens at once. I'm not going to list out everything here and to be honest some people would have taken it all in their stride but we're anxious little socially broken hermits and things are tough for us to deal with. I look forward to it going back to my boring little hermit life with nothing going on except work and games and films and snacks for a while.
But in the middle of everything we had a nice chill day off anyway ^_^ and proved how good we are at taking selfies
Photos are weird for scale but that mixing bowl is huge, we made an obscene amount of popcorn and watched the SpongeBob film and we ate every last piece of it because we are greedy chubbers.
I've been using up some weird sticker paper (I explain it in the video) and did nothing for two days but make stickers. Hand drawn things that are usually printed always feel so magic. I love printing things too, making anything is always awesome but making something by hand is super magic. Regardless of how 'good' the drawing is on each one I could pile them up and lay them out and just touch them one by one and look at them for ages, they just make me feel good. Is this how people feel when they play with crystals and stuff? Making my own little talismans.
Will's easter cactus has opened all it's flowers! It's so pretty, we thought a cheap supermarket cactus would be dead by now, especially seeing as we had to pull a weird soggy bit out from next to the main piece but it seems to be doing really well so far. I really want more house plants, plants are magic too.
