This paragraph is a whole mess but that’s because I was attempting to convince my husband to let me use his netti pot to pour milk up my nose and down my throat.

I imagine anyone eating spicy food on a regular basis knows this already, but I just learned that you should not snort-laugh with a mouthful of spicy Thai curry in your mouth the hard way. My nasal passages are on fire.

There are a bunch of beads and bits and bobs that I’ve had stashed in a drawer for ages and I have finally found a use for them. I’ve already made 5 bag charms and had a ball doing it. Also I had a really good hair day (I just woke up like this) but nowhere to be, so you get a selfie.

I think my FIL thought I was being a little silly and annoying when I ask them to keep cucumbers out of the salad (he refuses to eat salad anyway, so he didn’t REALLY care) until today, when I walked into the kitchen right as my husband bit a cucumber and began gagging and coughing uncontrollably.

I would like to thank “not having my earbuds in because sometimes this neighbourhood has unstable people wandering around and I have been assaulted, chased, and harassed a few too many times” for catching this bird sighting.

For all the bird nerds, I was walking to the studio yesterday and I heard a red tailed hawk, which I’m used to in my own neighbourhood because there’s a breeding pair living 2 doors up, but I haven’t heard elsewhere so I looked around and watched one floating on a thermal by an apartment building!

I painted the windows over at Parkdale Pottery’s Queen st location and my whole body hurts.

Next year (I say this every year) I would really like to start holiday prep early so I can make time to go to my favourite local ribbon shop in person instead of having to order online. They moved and are just far enough away now that it would be the better part of my day to get there and home.

It’s been quite a few years since we had snow in November and it was unexpected so of course I remembered yesterday as it was snowing that I threw out my winter boots at the end of last season because I was holding them together with duct tape. 😑

I’m looking at Xmas gifts for the kiddo, and she’s been kinda into needle felting so I thought I’d get her a nice mat for under her work, so she’s not using plastic foam. I ended up being insanely charmed by this guy and now I’m in a YouTube rabbit hole. Wanna join me? youtu.be/Ppd82vaNubE?...

The Past Britt who made this mug is aggravating Present Britt who wonders who the hell Past Britt thinks she is, telling me what to do.

My cats know I am up too late and I’m not feeling good. They are stuck to me like glue. It’s ok my little furry dudes, I forgot to take a lactose pill and ate a bunch of cheese.

I have an older version of these pens and if you want organic lines that could never be mistaken for ai, this is your pen!! Go get one!

Took a peek at the top layer of my kiln this morning, so here’s a sneaky look at what’s gonna be coming out as soon as I get back home from drop off!

Liking this calendar by Sakura Tamagawa More pics on their insta here: www.instagram.com/p/DQG6g9PE-c...

New scholastic flyer has dropped and we all need to direct our collective rqge at the state of the world towards this absolute travesty. Where my book banners at, this is the one that needs your energy. (Obviously I’m kidding…but…)

Ok normally the kiddo and I find this series very amusing and we take bets on the winner. But this has gone TOO FAR.

Almost forgot about October’s reading stats!

I feel like after all this bullshit I deserve a lemonade.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Ok, I don’t quite have the chutzpah I had yesterday, so here’s just a dump of images and vids from the gallery show I’m in that opened last night. If you’re in Toronto, it’s at the northwest corner of Queen and Shaw and it’s on until tomorrow evening.

Just lost a thread I was working on because I navigated away to check the credit of an artist and I’m fully over apps refreshing when I navigate away and losing literally 40mins of putting together pics and alt-text from this gallery show. So fuck it, you get frustration instead of photos.

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

Sometimes I comment on IG posts, or reply to others comments. I know, wild in 2025. A thing I like to do is hop over to my browser to quickly google a fact to make sure I’m not misremembering or spreading false info. But now, if I navigate away from IG it loses what I was typing so I just give up.

Throat lozenge season is kinda my favourite season.

I just dropped off my pieces for a local gallery pop up, but I worked late last night and I’m pms-ing so I have decided, very rare, that after I pay my table fees for some upcoming markets I am going to lie down and not do anymore work today. Look at me, learning how to take care of myself at 39.

I’m running into one of those issues I run into occasionally where the way I WANT to eat a thing, is not the tidiest way to eat that thing, and the mess is almost bugging me more than eating it “properly” would.

I appreciate all of you posting about the baseball games so I can go to bed and I don’t have to go to the sport parts of the internet to check on things in the morning.

I was behind on some invoicing and putting it off because I find invoicing stressful and my stress levels are very high at the moment. I’m also out of my adhd meds but somehow I decided to do the invoicing, I sat at the desktop and DID IT, and it took me 10 minutes. 10 MINUTES.

I haven’t seen them in a couple months, but there WERE 3-4 ravens living on top of a largish apartment building nearby. How would one go about getting a raven who never seems to land anywhere close, to notice that one has a pocket full of cat treats for them… asking for a friend.

Ah yes, Sexy Bird That Sounds Like a Machine Gun -AI

I’m working on some small tumblers and I’m really happy with how this one is coming out. Also now that I’ve done it the hard way I have an idea how I can do it an easier way in the future…I can’t tell if I’m annoyed or happy about that.

I love trying something new and being kinda bad at it, but seeing the potential to get kinda good at it. Also pottery is generally always humbling me. A whole batch of small dishes i made over the summer came out cracked. Flat! But cracked. And I teach other people!!

Kate puts words together so well. And she’s a true academic, when presented with new information she embraces it, isn’t afraid to run in a new direction and pull us along with her. I hope all of you (no matter where you’re from) take a moment to read this thread.

Love when I completely space on the water shut off due to maintenance just in time for bed when everyone wants to pee and brush their teeth….😬 my bad, fam.

I think we need to have a talk about contact forms on your website. THEY DO NOT REPLACE YOUR EMAIL. If I’m looking for your contact info about a potential job I will not be using a contact form and if you bury your email or don’t have it on your website at all I’m passing you over.

My husband lost his keys last week and it was a whole thing and then we found them and he finally put the air tags we bought years ago on them. And then this morning it’s my turn 😑

These look like Canadian froot loops. For my American friends, you may not know this, but we have the superior froot loops.

The dopamine be flowing after I made a chart on the dry erase board allocating everyone’s cleaning responsibilities for the next two days. We are hosting a late Thanksgiving dinner this coming Saturday and I refuse to do all the cleaning myself because no one knows what to do.

The pop-up at Sage and Thistle went so well today!! Plus I just LOVE hanging out with Mikael in this gem of a tiny studio shop. Thanks to everyone who made it out!!

Silly Art Mart is OPEN!!!! It’s mostly stickers for now, with untracked shipping, but I have plans to build things up in the next few months!

1 more sleep!

This is pretty cool! Wish this was around 10 years ago when I was making medieval comic flyers for u of t.

Every time.

Deeply grateful to @sarahgailey.bsky.social for publishing this essay this week. I first drafted it a year ago, and so much has changed in the interim, but the first rain of the season blew through last night and today I'm on my knees, planting. So I guess some things haven't changed much at all.

I would like to add that if you live in the city, this is such a wonderful neighbourhood shop. All Mikael’s self care items are made by her in house (literally on the days the shop is closed) and she also supports lots of other local makers by carrying their products and hosting pop-ups!

I’m doing a wee little pop-up at my friend’s studio shop this Saturday! 11-5 at Sage and Thistle Handmade Goods (2a rogers road, Toronto)