The zip on my backpack gave up the ghost so i've been getting around using totebags and i do not understand how people live like this. i hate it here

found a lightly haunted vege shop and bought a cauli

just opened my suitcase to discover that purple dye exploded through it 🫠

hello auckland! im at the button factory today and tomorrow for printopia, come say hi!

been making more mini trinket lucky dips for printopia... if you're in auckland this weekend come say hi!

having some sort of early 2000s regression and getting really into cookie clicker and dragon cave again recently

just spent about 6 hours on and off drilling through shells and my hand is now an evil lobster claw

met up with a friend i havent seen since high school (we are now 34) and it was like no time had passed... quite literally because i got carded in the supermarket right after 😩

ran my workshop! one of the participants was my childhood best friend's mum because chch is the size of a postage stamp haha

buying 6 knives at once at gordon harris for very normal reasons

hunting for shells and playing chicken with having my washing on the line on the other side of the city

got invited to the bookbinders association this morning and had a lovely time learning things... they were also doing a destash so i left with some fun craft supplies to play around with and also the grand prize

made some dumplings from scratch because i had a cabbage that needed using up... managed 39 of them, not too bad

went out in the rain to get stock for a lentil soup/daal thing i'd been admiring on tiktok and god it was worth it

finally got around to watching if i had legs i'd kick you

went to akaroa with my mum and sister in the weekend

having another deeply boring in-my0thirties moment but i'm really into this brown rice and quinoa mix ive been getting lately. maybe i need to get out more

painting my brother in law for his birthday

got really hooked on cult of the lamb for a bit

oh yeah i finished this apart from the scary bit (grout) bsky.app/profile/plai...

we got to do our own spread in the travelling journal i had last so i added a bunch of my random lino cuts

feeling like a local celebrity because they let me into the craft section at paper tree while it was closed... alone with my paper in the roped off area...

got an order of vics bagels being delivered tomorrow and im unreasonably excited

little taniwha bag companion for miffy...

papercrafted some of my earrings...

my girlfriend has been visiting this week and we've just been hanging out in bed with the cat and its been so nice... he loves to get his double pats

miniaturising some of my fave wall art (orig by the very talented @horoart.bsky.social )

every time i go to the kbbq place in town i leave fully content and jolly no matter how i went in. thank you gogi i love you gogi

im getting a ton of travelling journal content in my feed right now (bc im working on one myself) and im *this* close to just going around commenting CHANGE YOUR BLADE on all of them their knives are all so blunt and it pains me

is there anything better than making a full plate of toasties of an evening

fave mug for a wee project

my sister mentioned again that shes sad she couldnt take a gift i got her to canada when she moved (too fragile- it now lives on my bedroom wall) and i get the double sense of satisfaction from absolutely nailing a gift and also knowing better than my mother, who was sure she'd hate it

having a play around with my sisters mosaic stuff and naturally going way smaller than i have any right to do

big fan of the gummy selection at the arts centre

yesterday i started assembling some flatpack furniture to distract zeph before the vet (he likes to supervise) and when we got home he yelled at me til i finished it

he doesnt understand it at all

ive done unspeakable things to a picture frame so i can extend my gallery wall onto the ceiling

got some really neat things from the art gallery store today... my second pair of fancy scissors from a gallery even. maybe i should start a collection

Zeph is healing really well from his surgeries and im so glad 😊 hes pissed at me for taking him to the vet for his check up though

hiiii, it's my birthday on Monday and our game is like 100 wishlists away from 10k wishlists!!! would be a nice birthday gift to Me to wishlist it 👁️🫦👁️ It's a silly queer detective dating game set at an art school ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2537020/...

ran a cut paper workshop for chch art gallery! heres what we made :)

theres an ambient sound coming from my flatmates room that sounds very much like the ds wifi connection music

mr zeph is booked in for surgery on friday! he still doesnt seem bothered by his lump but its getting alarmingly big, and 16 is too young to be a father.

seized with the desire to make flying jacob so now i have to explain to my poor gf that it is in fact a real thing

And, for anyone like me who is a New Zealander living overseas, if you have been back to NZ at any point in the last 3 years, you are eligible to enrol and vote in this election (the extension of this provision to 6 years was for the 2023 election *only*)

also kind of funny- when i applied for the exhibition i was thinking 25mm square for each piece. but now that ive made some earrings (12mm each) that feels huge to me. actively losing perspective on how small stuff is here

out for a meal and concepting my solo exhibition for later this year (all cut paper miniatures, so ill be making hundreds) and god its so weird to have moved to planning things months/years in advance. i used to be a seat of the pants ready in a couple weeks person

spent an hour and a half tending to my very neglected vege garden and got exactly 1 (one) strawberry

Did some earring experiments.... gonna make more and bring them to markets this year, i think. They're 12mm across!

hes being so cuddly now im home and im so glad 🥹 i love my boy