Thank you for dealing with my waffling & spiralling & excuses, I *do* actually enjoy this (despite what it sounds like!), it’s all just much harder to process when my brain is being frustrating mush!

Not really sure what is going on today (slept weird, but that’s probably a symptom). Was looking forward to it all! Not really stressed (anymore), more annoyed. Usually takes a couple days for me to be such a mess about this.

Good news is I don’t have anything tomorrow.

I was going to ask how you got the sky texture!

It’s so good!! Love the lil cactusfrand!

That said, I have everything set up (lights, tiny desk, ink and paint swatching tools and materials) and am going to poke away at the swatching until I fall asleep on my desk.

It'll happen... just not tonight. Boo.

Whelp, tomorrow will be fun!

it's so chonky & the corners always tear!

I think they said this year that they are all the same, to simplify the process.

(We shall see! And I do love the ink-brick this year)

You made me scroll all the way back in my IG to the VERY FIRST POST I made there (23 Jan 2011) which was of a black & white cow squishable & a red fox one.

This was back when they were *giant* stuffed balls with faces. (Just all one roumnd).

They’re very different aesthetically now.

I’m just gonna start telling those people that they stink, after staring at them like they have six heads for long enough that they’re uncomfortable.

I’m fairly lucky that I don’t get too much interaction/pushback about my mask, but I do get passive aggressive medical providers sometimes.

ME TOO. You get it! But I have a greater irritation at myself for having DONE it and now it’s a THING so now I have to DO it again.

It’s not so bad if it’s the only thing I’ve overcommitted to, but I have 3+ different sewing project classes lined up for Dec, too. 😑🫠💀

What have I done to myself.

Oh that might work (especially if I don’t get it tomorrow, last USPS update was Friday & it hadn’t left Colorado).

I usually *suuuuuuuuuuuck* at any sort of daily challenge thing, but for some reason the inkvents tend to actually mostly happen (though I moan about it a lot, I do like doing them!)

We’ll see what kind of nonsense I’ve set myself up for tomorrow!

I’ll definitely be doing the ink ones, did those the past two years, just not sure how to integrate a watercolour swatch in with the ink ones & not make a huge mess. 🤷 I’ll figure something out. Maybe a separate watercolour swatch.

Saving the shop info you mentioned, to check out after the insanity of this month is over. I get rather overwhelmed with choices when tea shopping online. New rabbit holes are the best!

(I was doing half-caf coffee with breakfast but going to full decaf has helped so I’ll be doing that for a bit)

I’ve discovered I can’t really do caffeine right now, it plays havoc with my heart rate/blood pressure.

I tend to do herbal/decaf teas anyway, just so I don’t mess up my sleep worse than it is.

I’m also still learning about “real” tea, (versus tisanes/herbal) but do like all the pu-erh I’ve tried!

I technically got two, but one is loose & one bagged (for ease of posting, I am not consistent with washing my infusers daily). Both are decaf from @fridaytea.com and I’m REALLY excited about that part.

They don’t have the tea-vent (it was pre-order) but they do have a sale rn!

Yes! I like doing the doodles for the ink swatches the best, they can get complicated &/or weird.

Lmk if you need/want watercolour stuff, I have some bits I can share & suggest some new things.

The wcvent is in shells! That one is stressing me out, not sure how to add it in since it’s not here.