Garblog (Yeah, I don't know if that title works)

2024/11/14 - Check out my swamp bagel

i've been getting into spirulina lately. i put it on my bagel. it's a swamp bagel now

2024/11/04 - Hmmm...

Hello again! I've been hard at work doing all sorts of things recently. I've finished two of the three vendor fairs I was accepted into last time I posted here, one of them went sort of alright (but ultimately I only broke even because my lovely friends came to support me) and the other one turned out completely abysmal. (I'm talking, a 70 dollar table fee and I made 15 dollars.) I have one more, but I also got into another new one, and since these two are closer to christmas I'm hoping to perform better!

In regards to the porter robinson show, it was a lot of fun! I wore a goofy propeller hat there, and people were spinning the propeller on my hat. I had a really good spot but then I suddenly got sick so I had to give it up in order to sprint to the bathroom. Otherwise, though, it was a great time! my phone ran out of storage so I only got to record, like, two songs. But still! I'd like to go to more concerts in the future, but no one else that I listen to seems to be playing near me anytime soon.

I've been working on setting up an etsy shop. Now I can do international orders, yay!

I'm currently struggling to keep on top of everything. It's been a lot of fun working on my store, but I've been finding it hard to focus on stuff of real importance when I could always be designing a new keychain instead. My midterms are due in 3 days and I need to finish two assignments before then. Long sigh... I've had so much time to do these but I keep putting things off because the course I'm in doesn't have any "real deadlines" and the ones that I try to set for myself, because they aren't real, I can see through them. But now I've had a real deadline suddenly sprung upon me, and the fire under my butt is nice, but I've been finding it awfully tricky to lock in!

Anyways, some other things I did while I was procrastinating was adding a "random page" button to my home page, a new guestbook, and tweaking my HnK fanstory's page (and adding some new content to it too!).

I'm also going to hide some coupon codes for my store throughout this site sometime soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that if you like deals!

2024/09/19 - Hello again!

I've been accepted into another vendor fair! That means I've got three lined up for me. I'm feeling super entrepreneurial about it. I've also been in contact with a risograph printing studio and I'm very excited to get my prints. They'll be done in time for the markets that I'm attending, and I hope they sell well! If they do, I'll certainly be back with more ideas. I've always wanted to make risograph prints but I've been intimidated by the file requirements and the nicheness of it/having to ask for a quote. But it was easier than I thought! I've got ideas for zines, more art prints, card sets, the whole thing. I'm starting with a print about ginkgo leaves to keep it as marketable as possible to mass audiences + everyone buying candles and soaps at the business fairs I'll be attending. I'm excited!

Today is the day I wanted to go to the porter robinson concert, but everyone I wanted to go with wasn't available today. (But tickets have been cheaper for this show! dang!) I'm very much excited for this as well. I'm gonna wear my bedazzled pink suit to it, just for fun. I have a bright pink suit that I bought for my prom but I had to miss it for an animation competition, so I've been trying to milk it as much as possible ever since then because it was expensive.

2024/09/14 - September...

And so summer draws to a close... Has anyone noticed that honey locusts these days don't change their leaf colors all at the same time? In my memories I recall trees fully golden but all I see these days are trees who are half yellow, half green, and not even in a pretty blushing way like maples, but just slapped all over the place in an entirely random fashion, a sad sickly lime from a distance. Devastatingly unchic. September is usually a month of hope and dread and bummer of going back to school but as this is my second gap year I feel a little out of place not experiencing that. I'm taking an online class, but it's one of those "here's the material, you have until february, email me if you have any questions" kind of classes. So, not really the same experience. I'm hoping to get off my butt and go to some public libraries to work to get a change of scenery every once in a while. I've been spending the entirety of spring and summer really locking into taking public transit. I've composed a ranking of every bus route in my city (save for one, because cosmic forces keep preventing me from taking it each time I try) and I think I have too much time on my hands. The other day, in one of such thwarted attempts to take the final bus route, I ended up deciding to go to the waterfront instead, and I had a very pleasant oatmeal cookie and lemon ice cream sitting on a rock. I've been enjoying my solitude. Earlier this week, I walked 22 km along the waterfront by myself, for glory. To say that I did it, walk from one city to another. I also got food at a cool Japanese restaurant when I was done, six hours later, and I felt really good about myself! I also went to a convention since my last update. I learned how to sew so that I could make Vash the Stampede's jacket. Check it out!

Not bad for baby's first sewing project!

I also went to an art market in Toronto. It was my very first time being a vendor at a juried event! I broke even on the table fee but not on transit, which is a bit of a bummer. I have two more shows lined up for the fall, though, one in October and another in November, so I'm looking forward to what's in store for me.

I'm also planning on going to the SMILE! :D show on the 21st. I sold a bunch of adoptables to fund my ticket, and I'm very grateful to everyone interested in my adoptables who have given me the ability to make a quick buck like that!

2024/08/03 - Oops!

I forgot! Oops.

So... what's been going on with me lately? I've been doing a few more plein air paintings, but I ran out of board so I've had to take a break for a bit. I've been slowly chipping away at cosplays for a con coming up this month, and I've also been working on art as I always have. I've also been doing keychain adoptables! A keychain that comes with a design you can play with as well. I'm very happy that they've been selling well! It warms my heart to know that people dig my stuff. I've also been cranking out art for artfight. I've done nearly 90 attacks! I'm hoping I can get exactly 90 done before it ends later today.

Here's a plein air I did back in may! I think it's my best one to date.

2024/04/11 - Plein air and rediscovering the magic of public transit

The weather's been nice and I'm tired of trying to coordinate with the schedules of everyone I know, so I've been getting to know the city by myself through aimlessly going on public transit and letting it take me wherever it'll take me. And so I ended up at the lake multiple times over the past few days, and I even brought some paints with me one time!

I'm really enjoying this whole "plein air" schtick. I feel as though my zest for life has been replenished! I also got a new watercolor palette that I've been filling with old watercolors laying around my house. I've been trying to decide which colors to add and which colors to not add... My favorite pigments by far are the phthalocyanine family. They're all very vibrant and look good no matter if they're mixed with something else, concentrated or diluted... they always look nice. I'll add a better view of the painting I made to my watercolors page when I revamp it!

2024/04/08 - Eclipse time!

Today's the day! I've been patiently waiting for the total solar eclipse for years. Ever since the last total eclipse that passed over America in 2017, I've been disappointed that the path of totality didn't include me, but eagerly excited that the next one would. So here we are the day of, (I'm writing this before the eclipse) and it's cloudy! Damn it! I've been anticipating this for the past 7 years because it's April, but damn...

7 years ago I was quite young, and I was envisioning what life would be like 7 years in the future. And now that I'm here... I have my shit way less together than I'm supposed to. In my imaginings of the far future, I'm in university, I have a bob, I'm wearing a cool sleek black turtleneck... now for my past self's sake I am in fact wearing a bob and a black turtleneck, things I am in control of over the short term, but I've fallen rather behind the rest of folks my age. Things aren't exactly what I thought they would be, but I'll get there eventually.

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Turns out I got to see it after all! I'm pleased with that turnout. It was really cool how the temperature plummeted and it got all dark. Hooray!

2024/03/23 - It's spring, and people don't like bones!

It's officially springtime! For some reason, we only got snow after the equinox. Otherwise, it's been the lamest winter ever. I've been chipping away at more webcomic pages, and that's about it. For the phonies ARPG, I released a set of new bones that match their new anatomy, reflecting how they're essentially just weird mutant palindromes. But they ended up not being very popular, so I'm a little bummed about that. Trying to think of a solution that everyone is satisfied with, but some people just don't like peaches so maybe I won't be able to reach it.

2024/03/16 - Chugging along...

I'm back! I haven't done much here. I've been making those shrines I said I was gonna make in the last entry. I need to actually learn more about turing patterns because I don't want to spread misinformation in the turing pattern shrine. I've been really busy lately, I've been working at a festival that's gone on for the entirety of spring break as well as the weekends before and after that week. So that's nine days in a row, and I've hardly got any free time! But I'm almost through it. I'm also working on another chapter for my HnK fanfiction but I kind of lost steam halfway through. When I'm done this stretch of work, I'll probably be able to finish. I also semi-recently found another shipping carrier for my keychain store, and now I can actually offer tracked shipping for less than 20 dollars. Yay!

2024/03/05 - What's new?

I wanna try out this whole microblogging thing... Recent additions to the site include slapping a gradient on every single element that can possibly have a gradient, as well as adding a formal character page to my confibula stories. (They even wiggle when you hover on them!) Practicing absolute positioning and stuff. I also made a comic for reading purposes on my HnK fanfiction portion of the site. I reckon I'll make some more in the future... I'm also thinking of making more shrines to keep my Microsoft Optical Comfort Mouse 1000 shrine company. Maybe my favorite dinosaur on display at the ROM, or books that I like, or turing patterns... Turing patterns are cool... I also need to fix up my gallery because all of the images there are broken. Oops. That's what I get for hosting images on discord.