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Hand painting fruit slices on a pair of pants to cover up a grease stain. Might need to make a matching tee. Do they make Garaminal clothes for adults? They totally should.

Patting myself on the back for figuring out how to tighten my own bike brakes.

Plotting this week’s dinners. I don’t meal plan – it’s more of a what did I buy that I forgot about that is still edible but needs to be used this week kind of system.

• Sketching daisy-ish flowers for a stenciled T-shirt project.
• Cooking English Muffins (they are made on the stove top, not the oven, so I can’t call it “baking”).
• Deciding if I can commit to enough square feet of trim work to justify opening a new tube of caulk. In theory you can put the cap on, but in reality, that never really works.

Procraftinating.

You know, where you are supposed to be doing something adult like, with a deadline and consequences, but instead you decide now would be a great time to change your WordPress theme and clean up the categories, sketch out t-shirt designs and update your bullet journal.

Currently cutting small squares to patch a denim slipcover.

Wondering why Pantone and Adobe can’t get it together to include the color swatches in the new Creative Cloud updates. Oh yeah, it’s probably money.

Sketching out an idea to make a T-shirt stenciled in asterisks.

It’s the beginning of April, and although it snowed last week, today it was 76 degrees and sunny. Kansas City weather is predictably unpredictable.

That’s got me wanting to do ALL THE THINGS, and cross them off my never ending lists in my beloved Bullet Journal.

Inspired by Samantha Dion Baker , this month I’m skewing my square sketching practice to a more journal-istic approach, trying to capture every day objects that tell the story of what’s going on. So far I’ve drawn the excavation machines and traffic warning cones that are all over the street marking where the sidewalks and driveway aprons are being replaced.

I’ve also been experimenting with the 99 jillion decorative stitches on my sewing machine, figuring out how to make monsters, dinosaurs and robots for some incredibly visible mending on Mr. SuzerSpace’s jeans.