Happy New Year!

Just finished my first embroidery portrait 🥰 Sylus from #LoveandDeepspace

I've just realized that since I was a kid, in the song "Oh, My Darling Clementine", I'd always kind of assumed she drowned in a barrel of pickles since she fell into a "foaming brine". 🥒

One more--this one almost no one knows--"The Lost Tribes Of Eden" by Shane McCrae:

Eternally grateful that my actual art job isn’t reliant on social media success. Spent hours and hours on a fan art painting, posted it on IG with appropriate hashtags, and 3 hours later, zero likes. 😅

Why does Hawaii have a fall/winter cold/flu season when our school year starts in summer and temperatures don’t vary that much? Is it tourist import? I ask as my baby is sick for the 2nd time in 2 weeks because my 4 year old has been bringing home all the best germs from (year-round) preschool.

My car needs maintenance, and the same maintenance package we got from the dealer that cost $260 in 2023 now costs $420 (but they have a coupon online for $343)

My dream is to have enough disposable income to shop the FB Marketplace listings of random craft supplies to I can sort and repackage them for a reuse craft supply store at low prices to encourage creativity in the community and reduce waste.

It’s rainbow season 🌈

Lucky we live Hawai’i because my 19 month old eats like four bananas a day and we buy local ones so they aren’t expensive 😅

I just opened a Haribo gummy bear pack from Halloween and there were literally only four bears in it ☠️

I miss the freedom of roaming with my real camera to photograph dramatic clouds. This was shot with my phone while walking to pick my son up from school.

I may be a very burnt out mom, but when my almost 18-month old regularly says “thank you” when I hand him things, it makes me feel a bit better.

My endorphin-seeking points of interest: - cafes ☕️ 🍵 - bakeries 🥐🍪🥧 - craft stores 🪡🧵🧶🎨✂️

17 years ago today, my college painting instructor told me I was one of the best technical painters in the program, but had absolutely no concept and would amount to nothing unless I joined underground avant garde movements. 😎

I saw this announcement in the Simplicity Sewing FB Group about the company switching to being independently owned! #simplicity #simplicitypatterns #sewing

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Brand new computer just had a BSOD (third one I’ve noticed, they’ve been super random and Evenr Viewer has told me nothing useful), but now won’t boot at all. Right as I was preparing to deliver files to print to my boss. This is beyond my capabilities of troubleshooting.

I finally started the Halloween costume for my 4 year old, and while I was struggling over top-stitching spandex to make pockets on the shorts, I was like, "...why am I doing pockets? He doesn't need pockets, he never keeps anything in his pockets." So I re-cut and am much happier.

I thought my new computer was having random restart issues, but I'm pretty sure it's because my baby discovered the restart button, which doesn't lock, unlike the power button. 🙃

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋

I would like to announce that my husband decided to show The Fellowship of the Ring to our four year old, who cried when Gandalf died, and now keeps repeating “Gandalf is dead forever…I miss Gandalf…”

How does my one year old go to bed at 10pm, wake up at 6:30am (after waking up 2-3x a night) and take only one one-hour nap during the day after we had him get tons of exercise this morning? 😭

One thing about kids that you don't really understand until you experience it, is how everday little things have a permanent difficulty multiplier. Like how I can't open the dishwasher while the baby is awake or else he will try to pull things out/crawl into it, and if I close it, screaming. 🙃

This drone show is amazing. Saw my first drone show at the 2024 Pokemon Worlds and they are just so fun. youtu.be/EOnn5YzswWo?...

I started my art journey learning to draw anime characters from internet tutorials in 1999, and now I’m trying to relearn how to draw characters because I’m obsessed with LADS and it’s SO HARD. How am I an illustrative graphic artist when I can’t draw hot anime-esque men? 😅

So I just figured out I've been using this new PC for quite a few weeks and never installed Office on it so I couldn't open an RTF file I just downloaded.

After a total of three pharmacy visits, got it done. 🫡

New update: Got a prescription from my doctor for the Moderna shot, went back to Longs CVS, but apparently that specific Longs only has Pfizer so they still wouldn’t give it to me. Now trying to have my doctor forward the prescription to a Moderna locations

Well, just tried to get my COVID booster at CVS in Honolulu, but despite having “high-risk” conditions, because I’m not on medication for any of them I can’t be approved for the shot without a doctor’s note. If I was actively taking antidepressants right now, they would have approved me.

My new favorite thing to do is try to explain Love and Deepspace to friends and family who have never heard of it.

Let's go depression and physical inactivity! 😎

Happy birthday to @edfff.com ❤️

Returning to my roots of buying art supplies as mental health treats. New cheap (no pressure) sketchbook from Ross for $6 and some pencils and erases from Daiso for like $18 (Daiso is not cheap anymore). And some LADS stickers for $14 because that’s what I use to disassociate from the real world.

Baby napping, I'm emotionally prepared to get some work done....and my Apple pencil is dead because I broke my case over the weekend and forgot to make sure the pencil was stuck charging to the ipad properly.

We have a four year old now! ❤️ Spent his little family birthday picnic teaching him to fly kites and slide down the hills on cardboard.

Kodachrome Bear Nagata White April 12, 2009 - August 2, 2025

New genetic research shows that potatoes evolved from tomatoes. The species were already known to be in the same genus, but the research confirms that wild tomatoes in the Andes were crossed with a plant called Etuberosum to form an entirely new lineage: potato. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I finished my random lilikoi flower embroidery! I stitched this on a vintage linen handkerchief with a drawn thread hem that I bought from a fundraiser for my fiber arts guild. It was very casual and not super planned out, but I wanted to stitch a little something for one of my friends 💕

PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙

First tsunami alert went off on my phone during a doctor appointment in town, and then spent two hours in crazy traffic trying to my son's preschool to pick him up. Currently am safe at home out of the tsunami zone with lots of water filled up, and just waiting like everyone else...

Finally did some sewing! Drafted this happi coat from measurements for my almost-16-month-old, and it took two attempts, but it came out okay! I hand-stitched a blind hem for the bottom hem too. I’m so out of practice with sewing garments though….

I need to hire a mom to braid my hair for me every morning because I’m 38 and still can’t French braid my own hair, despite many attempts and YouTube tutorials.

In other news, I sprouted a grain of brown rice on a wet paper towel, and now my baby rice plant is growing happily in a non-draining pot that I keep flooded. Living up to my 永田 family name while living in a condo! 😆

Why is everything I love to make meticulous and time consuming? Decided to embroider a lilikoi flower on a vintage handkerchief (one of several that my local fiber arts guild gave to me) as a gift to a friend. I love how it’s turning out, but I can barely work on it with a baby who won’t sleep. 🫠

Lāhainā Noon attempt, except this was the flattest surface in my neighborhood with my five minutes of preparation, so there’s still tiny bits of shadow. 😅 Someday I’ll find a flat surface ahead of time…

Man. What a cursed day (for other people). A car smashed into a bus outside our building this morning (we desperately need a speed table for the blind turn on our road), and then Dixie Grill was on fire when I passed it on my way home from dropping off kid.

I was computer-less for a month, but @edfff.com built me a new one just in time for our 15th wedding anniversary today ❤️ (I got him something “crystal” as a traditional gift. His present is better 😅)

Fucking Weirdo Really Good At Something That She Not Trying To Capitalize On theonion.com/fucking...

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...