Spring spring 🌸

It’s almost ready 🤠

a flower, for me? The magnolias bloom and the ants of Lincoln Park are excellent listeners

Magnolia trees and ants listening

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That I knew some of them mwhaha

Yes I do what nadir means 🤓☝️

I also refuse to fall into the literacy crisis and lose my critical thinking skills so I challenged myself to read physical books every month and I have fallen behind 😩 but I’ve read more books this year than I have in a while. I also got this app that gives fun vocab words and I was happy

Flowers are blooming, the sun is out, I am therefore also out

Taking flavouring suggestions and if you would like some pls hmu 😍 I have finally emerged from the shadows of the inner walls of my own mind.

I’ve been doing a digital marketing fellowship and it’s been fun. I’ve learnt a lot of things and met a lot of cool people in the process. I also recently went to a kombucha workshop and I’m making my own kombucha 🤩 I named it phthalo because it’s a combination of green teas and a small bit of black

I wondered for a while if I would ever be able to make anything and enjoy it again, but turns out I was just mentally ill 🧘🏽‍♀️ I have experienced many changes in the past few months but I’m excited because it seems like that part is over now

It’s been an interesting time for me 💀 but when I cannot create things, I’ve been forcing myself to consume art instead and that counts in my mind.

Started drawing again 🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️ and continued a screenplay I was writing and also started writing something else, I haven’t been excited to create anything in a while so I may have just locked in and stayed up way past my bedtime yesterday

Revisiting my poetry 🧘🏽‍♀️ and I’m like wow…I low key cooked here…

The barista era is coming to an end soon :] so please enjoy

JaNEWary

The 2nd place fall took place 15 years ago. I thought wow, that story is old enough to have a learners permit…baffling

Many things come soon though and I hope they are all things that can be enjoyed to some capacity

It’s also why making things takes so long 😞 and that I truly apologize for

It gives me the greatest joy to know that somehow, maybe you liked something I made or it made you feel less alone. It’s why everything is priced as low as I can price it and why I have other jobs outside of creating

I make things entirely out of the love of making it 😪 and to an extent, I never want my work to be my overall livelihood because I never want to hate creating. On one hand, there are elements of creating I wouldn’t mind relying on for a livelihood but others, not so much

A while back, someone also sent me a long message. They found my work at Quimbys and said they really liked it and that was the last thing I ever expected anyone to do

Sometimes I think the things I make are useless because I honestly do forget about a lot of the things I do. And I wonder are these things even relatable

I’ve been in artistic trenches and someone paid for a free version of my work today 😪

Mango matchaaaaa

Busy using my art degrees

More, this time w almond milk and matcha

Latte art progression

Happy 11/11, after what felt like an eternity of chasing after the Aurora borealis in Chicago…finally

I listened to my mom and started a substack

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All vegan! I am not vegan but I am experimenting with vegan foods because I know so many vegans 🙂‍↕️

The first is a chocolate tofu pudding and the second is a macadamia nut milk matcha w banana bread cold foam 🤩

The lighting in my apt 💔

It’s tough 😪 I haven’t been able to get ahold of anyone at all

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