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my coworker DID get tested and WAS negative so now we know that. i feel very whiplashed.

i was busy all day and have achieved basically nothing. c’est la vie. I did bake bread and made soup for dinner, and planned this week’s meals and I cut out the fabric to make a bunch of masks with silk filters. I’m letting myself embroider whimsical things on two of them and we’ll see if I get those done.

dude is taking an online workshop in kintsugi– like, real kintsugi with the actual urishi resin and such– and did that for the first time today. i want to learn too. he is very open-eyed about hobbies; he picks things up expressly planning to only ever do a couple of projects and then drop the hobby. Banjo was like that, he meant for it to have an expiration date, and did it longer than he’d meant only because I picked it up too. I want to go back to it, though, and he doesn’t care.

But it turns out kintsugi isn’t rocket science, so we’ll see if I can pick it up from watching him do it. He’s had the great idea that he’s doing one in the class, but then he collected the rest of our chipped dishes and is doing three or four more in his own time, and then at the next session he can choose the one that came out worst to ask the teacher about, etc. Each step has like, days of curing time, so.

And the guy sells the supplies, and there’s a discount for students, so maybe at the end Dude can buy another batch of the stuff. I sure do have a lot of broken dishes I can’t bear to throw out that i’d like to fix up.

Iiii would like this embroidery to be going on without my input, alas I have lost interest. This is typical for me, but I am always in denial about it and am like “no i can do complicated projects”. I technically can, but.

The other project I’ve been lowkey working on is that Goodwill has online auctions for stuff, and if you search you can find beat-up old fur coats on there, and I’ve been bidding on those. Check the shipping and handling costs before you commit; I just paid ten dollars for a leather jacket in my size but the shipping was almost twenty on top of that. I have a couple of old furs coming and we’ll see if i got enough to make the blanket I wanted to make, but I just got a brand new brainwave about it–

so when i was a little kid I had a huge stuffed woolly mammoth that my mom made me, and I loved it so much, and it eventually got thrown out and IDK why. I want another one, and I’m skilled enough at sewing to make my own. Like, a pillow-sized plushie, we’re talking here. And that’s great, I’ll do that one of these days. But it just crossed my mind that I could upholster that shit in actual fur, if I had any left over from the blanket project, so. Listen this could be awesome or horrible and we just don’t know which. (Your picture was not posted)