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.
Welcome to Recommendations From a Picky Eater, which may (or may not) be a recurring subject where I offer my suggestions based on a lifetime of being a picky eater.
During the height of the pandemic, we switched first to grocery pickup, and then to grocery delivery. At the time, I thought it would be temporary, in that I believed I enjoyed grocery shopping.
Turns out I can completely live without the experience. It takes a little planning so that we don’t run out of things, but overall, we are eating better, saving money (fewer impulse buys) and definitely saving time.
There are only two items that I strangely cannot seem to get – my preferred brand of cottage cheese is only available in the Kansas City area at the one store that doesn’t deliver or do pickup, and my very favorite brand of meatless sausage seems to have disappeared off the earth.
I’m a vegetarian; Mr. SuzerSpace is not. We had found Tofurky Italian Meatless Sausage to be an acceptable compromise for both of us. Sometimes it is still listed in the app for the grocery delivery, but it always gets substituted, and I’m not a big fan of the alternate brand, in that I don’t think it tastes as good, is more difficult to cook and is way more expensive.
I decided to try and make my own meatless sausage, and as always, the Internet did not disappoint when searching for recipes.
Continue reading…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.
So full confession, I made a pop up headband with a New Year’s theme for Mr. Suzerspace and myself, and planned to share the tutorial in time for other’s to make their own. And then I totally didn’t.
But the pop up headband came out great and I still wanted to share, so here’s a tutorial using the same construction technique, but not specific to New Year’s Eve.
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