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...

I got about the perfect Father’s Day gift from @dallasnagata.bsky.social

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YT algorithm gave me a good one! I really enjoyed this video - I think about a lot of the things he discusses in this age of AI/fast fashion/dropshipping/etc. youtu.be/IJ4He2kY1gI?...

Here’s an update from Simplicity that I got from this Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/sewing/s/N... So their ownership has changed but no imminent shutdown. I feel like the best action is maybe is to keep buying patterns to show potential buyers there’s value in keeping the company going?

In light of recent “capitalism is a scourge on the arts” news, let me share my favourite free (!!!) pattern resource for cosplay that I would probably actually die without: www.dr-cos.info

The actual capacity to print large patterns on tissue paper as a medium is a big thing that’s threatened in this. It’s not just what’s on the pattern, it’s how that pattern physically functioned.

So, apparently, the company that owns the Big 4 sewing pattern companies (and Perler fusible beads among other brands) just sold those assets to a liquidation company. Those are the last printers of tissue paper sewing patterns AFAIK. Kind of crazy. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

YT algorithm gave me a good one! I really enjoyed this video - I think about a lot of the things he discusses in this age of AI/fast fashion/dropshipping/etc. youtu.be/IJ4He2kY1gI?...

Today I wore my fancy prescription sunglasses for the first time, and it was like a Super Ultra HD raytracing graphics mode got turned on. They are definitely the highest quality polarized sunglasses I’ve ever had, and they fix my astigmatism better than my contacts do. The world looked fake!

One of my numerous dreams, should I find myself with the time, is to make a YouTube channel and do mini documentary/interviews of Hawaiʻi’s local artisans. I personally know a few people doing really cool handmade stuff, and I’m always coming across new people that seem super interesting.

My attempt at a paper/bead lei as designed by Ben Franklin Crafts Hawai’i! It’s made using a flower paper punch with gradient cardstock, pony beads, and crochet thread. I thought their sample looked fun so I wanted to try it for myself.

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

Doing a closet clean out. This is before and after kids, but also a decade between these two photos 😅

A (Hawaii) friend is on a work trip to California and happened to eat dinner across the street from a Joann Fabrics, so I sent him over there to check out what embroidery stuff they had left and he’s now bringing me back a bunch of DMC Eco-Vita wool that was 60% off,

Running around my house with Nickel Alert, testing all the metal I can possibly be touching to see what can be prolonging my fingers having a rash. It's been almost a year already. Today I found out all the drawer/cabinet hardware in the kitchen and bathroom are nickel plated. 😬

The way video games have prepared me for a life with small children. So much of my day is trying to get things done in the small windows he’s distracted.

Kloster Graefenthal, Germany - a recent embroidery commission I'm particularly proud of! I slightly different angle too - the commissioner was hoping for some more house details, especially the grey lock house leading into the property. Still an aerial but not quite! :) #landscape