Obsessed with the little elephant I doodled for the (almost) two year old’s birthday invite. She loves elephants almost as much as she loves babies, but the latter theme would make it look like I’m making a very different announcement.

Everything happening at the hands of our leaders is horrific, so here’s a peek at my four year old’s sketchbook. She doodles a lot more than I do right now.

I’m probably going to disappear for another several months, but before I do: My friend and colleague, Sherry Muyuan He wrote a book about typography, and I know there’s got to be typography perverts on this godforsaken website. It’s honestly a good primer on language in general, on top of design.

Me coded characters. I know myself, and if one of these seems out of place, no it isn’t.

You ever plan out a quilt so elaborate you’re like, “What am I doing to myself?” But at that point you’re committed, so..

AI can’t give you an under painting that smells like garlic and lemons. That’s human ingenuity at work.

Bought from @chloecumming.bsky.social, I love it so much!

Ew. But also:

I read the book from that post about somebody who bought the original cover painting for this novel. It was advertised to me as a romance, but it was mostly a bittersweet tragedy. I loved it. Now I have post-book hangover, what do I even do with myself?

This butt warming device I have is so stupid expensive to maintain, and it started making this high-pitched whining sound when not in use, and I can’t turn it off. But it’s lasted a good 14 years so far and it gets the job done.

Do two pens and a toothbrush count?

I’m getting cold, but idk how to extract a blanket..

The toddler learned about paper decorations today. I will never have an aesthetic holiday after this lol.

The kids decorated our tree last night 💕

Had to switch images because I can’t guarantee my first choice wasn’t AI, I hate everything.

Doodling botanicals, because holy shit my hands are out of practice.

I mean..

Finished the baby quilt for my sister at 2am and my baby decided to wake up at 4. 💀

I had to rock a baby to sleep in the middle of workflow and down a couple of pain killers for my head to make it to 3am, but it is done.

I’m making this for a baby shower that’s in two days and I should really just start buying things like a normal person.

I didn’t know what the warriors ethos was, so I looked it up. This is like the equivalent of your corporate boss calling an all hands meeting to talk about company values and putting in 110% at the office.

Spider’s like, “I’m not paying a delivery fee, I’ll just order pick-up.”

I don’t remember exactly what I was going for when I doodled this, but my guess is somebody was talking at me while I was hyper focused on my work and would not stop. Idk why some people need to save their words for the worst possible times.

Posting old doodles until I feel motivated to make new work. The baby sleeps better(ish) now, so I can pick up a pen again..

I got this wallpaper months ago (before we got hit with medical bills) and finally put it up today with my aunt. I’m so glad to have a project done.

I look forward to making art again someday, but keeping these things alive takes a lot more time and energy than I had planned for 😮‍💨

Progress is slow, because the babies don’t sleep consistently, but I’m enjoying this. Going with stripes instead of one full gradient, hope it doesn’t turn out ugly 🙃

This rug is taking forever and my stitches are not as clean as I like them, but I think I’m enjoying it.