cromer crab

 

i find life difficult so when i have a thing happen Will has taken to taking me out on the bike to blow away the cobwebs/stink brain/nervous energy and today they whisked me off to Cromer ( ^ ω ^)

we got chips and sat in one of the little huts on the pier and watched some kids learning to surf and had a visit from a baby starling

i took the first photo and then a guy appeared and was like "let me fix the sunglasses for you!" <3

• all star by smash mouth in the chip shop 
• baby seagull on the wall, i'll take you home we'll give you snacks!
• tide pool with tiny fish and crabs 
• beadlet anemones 
• watching a crab bury itself in the sand so just their little face was poking out the surface 

june was quiet i guess

 

june started with going in there and having an interview

so Will took me on a big ol bike ride to blast all my excess energy/stink brain away. the sea heals. 

a couple days later i got offered a role and then June was a bit of a quiet, waiting kind of month.

it wasn't a bad month, just, nothing else really happened.

although we did get the biggest storm i've ever seen. the only rain that normally collects in there is a couple cm in the gold pot.

dvd menu appreciation. love that the bat icon looks like a pasta shape. started playing Puyo Pop Fever my first go at Puyo Pop.

marmalade hoverfly

this puzzle is now on my studio wall. dvd menu 2, not quite as good as dvd menu 1 but has it's own merits.

lavender to dry and hollyhock that i should really move into bigger pots.
 

vlog of dead vlogs ~ video diary

 

a video diary made from all the video diaries that didn't quite make it alone

You Gotta Eat issue 2 ~ zine

 

issue 2 of You Gotta Eat exists! it's companion zine this time is Idols Gotta Eat Too.

i'd wanted to make a food zine for years and then when i finally got around to it with issue 1 it felt so discombobulated but i just wanted it done and then i've had a weird year since then and issue 2 came together a little easier but still feels a little, forced maybe? but i also feel like i know what i want this zine to be now. and i feel like i've been working on a lot of habits that will make my creative endeavours flow a bit better (fingers crossed)(it's an ongoing effort!)(that will have ups and downs, no judgement!!)

some people can plan and make all the decisions and produce something that is this fully formed version of itself straight away but i need to do things to work them out so the first two issues feel to me like they're in a pupal phase and now they've hatched and i can get on with the next one knowing what i'm doing. although i may well be here a year later with issue 3 like, uh it took ages and i got stuck on it and it feels weird lol. but right now i feel good about it :) 

i enjoy this small, almost square format. i fit 3 spreads on one a4 sheet of paper which also makes it cheaper to print. and cute to hold.

even if it does feel pupal stage (which doesn't mean it's bad) i still made a thing and that's always worth it.
 

recent shop bits

some shop orders all laid out looking nice before, here they come, the newest items i've added to my shop...

crabby apple stickers

snail keyrings

and now some embroideries, horse and corpse

king's head

sun and moon

and some more orders all laid out to end because i always think it looks really cool :)

charity shop, embroidery, spend the day with me

may leftovers

 

just some photos from May that i wanted to post but didn't have their own... post.

a beautiful book that we didn't buy from the tesco charity shelf // i watched a midsummer night's dream (1999) on a whim, didn't even know it existed and honestly haven't stopped thinking about it.

i like colourful shit and spooky shit :)

☆彡 juxtaposition 彡☆

someone dug a hole in my onion box, no damage to the onions though // sorting the zines i've made

(and absolutely not questioning if i've made "enough" of them...)

we had such little rain any rain was a photo worthy event

i simply needed to document how good my quite fresh hair colour and this shirt looked together

squigs are gay // this guy was just the exact same colour as that leaf, amazing