a recommendation for AANHPI month

in some ways, the cheaper Artist’s Loft brand works better than the Prismacolor.

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was finding it hard to color overlapping things that are so much black on black on black 😵‍💫 … it was helpful to use violet blue, a color I rarely use. It helped with contrast and breaking things up. Whew!

surprised, this turned out to be one of my favorite books. Laugh out loud funny. I was going to skip it … it was the last one I read. Because the cover looked so kid-ish … and the premise of giving two boys chemistry sets sounded so eeeesh. But it is about a step-family … and step-siblings … published in 1974

was trying out drawing something with night time since I never do that. Also thinking about the chapt. I had just read in the zen book called ‘God Giving’.

the incline leg press

just a boy and his crustaceans. an *EXTREMELY* cheerful sounding boy sharing how he rescued 8 - 10 crustaceans out of innumerably many who met a similar cruel fate. but, those 8 - 10 are now fed plump clams and live sandworms. I like to watch this right before bed. It’s so nice that he can feel such a bond with snow crabs.

so sturdy #butternutsquashseeds

this has become my year of growing stuff from seeds for the first time. I decided to try some chive seeds since that’s supposed to be a very easy indoor one. Learned there is also a chive that has pink flowers. (parents grew the white flowers one) Then, a butternut squash had seeds that were already all sprouting (🤯for me and my partner; according to a Google search, this is common). So I planted 5 in a pot that is about 10 in. diameter. They are growing fast … except for one that is slower. I think I may have planted them upside down. The sprouts were coming out of the pointy side, so I put those facing up. #sageseeds -> #chiveseeds -> #butternutsquashseeds (+ a random #chinesecabbageseed & #wildspinachseed )

dips! (drawings in progress) that I would like to finish

tiny ones

in the bigger pot. I got this while volunteering at a botanical garden for something with kids. I went once and for some reasons, don’t think I want to do it again … 😋 but the two girls at my table had interesting name combos with their brothers. Piaf and Pierre, Florence and Terrence. It seriously felt surreal when they told me... it came up in conversation when I mentioned I was feeding my sandwich bread to squirrels and sparrows during my lunch break. It’s cool/weird how bonding can happen so easily with kids.

this was my first time propagating a snake plant. I think I needed to because something happened at the middle of a leaf? So after cutting it off, I had the tip, and after letting it dry out so the cut part could close up, I planted it in some soil … and soon, another little shoot came up. Now it’s really tall and skinny and definitely too big for the little pot. Moving it into the purple plastic bowl. Snake plants like pots that are not too big.

lol and the 2nd mystery sprout turns out to be 白菜🥬 Chinese Cabbage. I got a two gallon pot for $2.99, used two bags of organic soil to fill it up ($5.99 each). And let’s see how an indoor cabbage will do! View quoted note →

this *is* a weed! but an edible one that people like to forage for called wild spinach. ok I will grow it and maybe use it as a garnish. View quoted note →

ooOooh it just grew like this

PISCES AND A GEMINI 💥📣 ~ pressed up in the bathroom line ~ ::::: this is taking so long to color ::::: ‘one thing leads to another’

this is a mystery. the four sage sprouts from the second batch of 12 seeds clearly have a uniform look of sage leaves, with the texture that they have . . . which just make the first two sprouts (bigger ones on top) clearly look like they’re not. The rounded huge one looks more like a lettuce leaf, or radish greens. The one next to it, I don’t know. Is this normal variation? the four little ones are also growing at a much slower rate than the two bigger ones did. although those have slowed down, I think. #sageseeds eh, fun tho. Glad I tried growing a herb from seed.