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First off, new gets! I visited the stationery store and saw they had a lot of inks on display, so I browsed through the samples a little bit. Wearingeul's I am a Cat had been on my radar for a while, so I left with that and Othello. I took the opportunity to clean my pens! I ended up putting Othello in my Kaweco eyedropper and I am a Cat in my Sailor Profit Jr.! The Kaweco is stained from past dark glitter inks, so it will have to stick with them. Profit Jr. has a smaller capacity, but a fude nib, so the shimmer comes through really beautifully! And I think it really matches the pen. So cute... But now I don't have a pen to match Wearingeul Alice so I think the Profit Jr. will have to alternate between the two.

shimmer ink is difficult to photograph and I'm not going to try again

Also the other day, I got a Christmas gift from hat! She sent me so many cute trinkets! I was really surprised how much was in the small box. It felt endless! Thank you sooo much!

1. three!!! Cherished Teddies
2. a ton of Pokemon cards
3. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
4. postcards of Haupia and Marmie!

They're already uploaded here.

5. bread pins

for painbag

6. ceramic earrings
7. three Redwall trading cards
8. crochet strawberries keychain
9. mini camera

It flashes when you press the button!

10. randoseru strap

金閣寺

11. pressed penny
12. design sleeve
13. Paffy-chan cheki
14. really fun OC art by Seirxi
15. foxboy pin

Other items not pictured are honey straws, lip balm, and tea which I put away right away as the box had been out in the heat for a bit ;~; And lastly, most exciting, a jacket and a skirt!! Right now, Haupia and Marmie are wearing them!

Almost every day I've tried to take Haupia out for dollfoto, but it's either threatening to rain or too damn hot. She desperately needs to be restrung anyway, and I'd like to redo her faceup anyway. So maybe the next outdoor shoot will be her big debut. Perhaps later in the summer, when it's hotter and rainier. I hate summer so much!!! Well, I wanted to take photos of them in their new clothes together anyway so I'll have to get it together and do indoor shooting instead. I'm feeling a little uninspired in that regard lately, but I did my best to get at least one decent photo.

For SoS: A Wonderful Life, I had no idea how strongly it inspired Stardew Valley. I mean, in some cases it's literally 1:1. It's not my first Harvest Moon game, I had A New Beginning when I was younger but I remember not liking it very much so I didn't get very far. I'm really not sure why. I really love Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing (pre-NH) so the feeling of “I don't understand what I'm supposed to do” usually is not so offputting to me.

For creative projects, I have a few things I'm steadily working on. One has been cleaning up this site a little. While fixing php errors I also updated up some other scripts, and consolidated some diary entries. There were a couple times were I had more than one entry a day, I don't know why I did that. However I also decided to dismantle some other things in the process and it's just whatever. Honeybear is not supposed to be in the clock.

I've also been having a lot of fun journaling lately! I kept a journal to document my adventures at grad school and I've been making additions to it even now as I've been cleaning out luggage and pockets and finding things like photos or receipts that I'd forgotten or misplaced. It's so much thicker than I thought it would be when I started! I also found what I guess I'd call a junk journal that I started several years ago and forgot about. I pasted in cute packaging and clippings of J-fashion magazines, not any GLB since I wasn't willing to destroy those (and I'm still not), but KERA and I think Spoon. Well, I still have quite a few paper scraps lying around, especially leftovers from my school adventures journal, so they'll make their way into collages slowly too. I want to redo my stationery page eventually and keep a proper catalog of how I've kept my memories over the years.

Lastly, I've decided to make another quilted shoulder bag, a little bigger than the one I made last year. I'm using the same pattern with some modifications. Actually, I tend to place quilting on the same level as paint by numbers, but I found a bunch of patchwork quilt patterns and upon trying to use one I realized I've naively underestimated the degree of precision that's required to construct a square from 30 other shapes.

My second attempt at a ribbon. You don't want to see the first.

I think I will be using quilted details sparringly this time because I only have so much patience, but I hope the end result is cute and worthwhile. I'm trying to use up fabric with prints too big for doll clothes, but I don't have enough to make much else with it. Perhaps anything leftover will become more book covers!!

Omake