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the comic-a-day challenge
I’m finally getting around to posting more of my illustrative art here on my blog and I am starting with this series of comics I did at the beginning of the year! Hallie Bateman who is very good frifends with my very good friends but who I never actually hung out with when she lived here in LA, is an artist. Her substack came across my feed recently and since I recognized her name, I checked out her page. She was inspiring folks to join her in something she is calling Journuary, prompting them to draw a journal comic a day… Continue >
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a DesMond backpack for moi + some goodies
Years ago a company gifted me a “knitters’ backpack” that I absolutely adored and used frequently. It was made of a cool gray faux leather, and it had all these smart pockets and neat needleworking accoutrements designed into the pack, like a keychain hook attached to a piece of leather with 1” measurement markings painted on it, a metal yarn threader that would feed your skein from the pocket and through a hole so the yarn wouldn’t get knotted, and holders for a variety of hooks and needles. The gray wasn’t in my color palette but I didn’t care because… Continue >
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Life these days…
It just occurred to me while I was writing another post that I have been pretty bad at updating this blog with anything else I do aside from sewing, which is a terrible misstep for me- this blog is about being TryCurious and trying all kinds of different things in the realm of making, which I absolutely do on a regular basis, but I just forget to share it here! Although to be fair, I do a GREAT job of sharing all my different interests on my instagram account. So this post will just be a little catch up of… Continue >