April 2024

Well, April was a productive month! I finished my submission for the Trashion Show in Long Beach, and even got to have professional photos taken of me wearing it. Love how this project turned out. Might make myself another one just for fun. 🙂 We had a chalk butterfly on the walk for most of April; now I’m working on something for Star Wars Day, but those photos will need to wait till next month’s report. It’s nice to be doing bigger chalk again, now that the weather might be more reliable. Jake and I finished another instagram series; we found about 20 places we can walk/roll to (so, all within 2 miles of home, and not impossible to reach by sidewalks), that have outdoor seating and food Jake can eat (usually breakfast or dessert items). Also I wrote about thirty more new Wikipedia articles, mostly women in health-related professions.

March 2023

What I made this month. A lot of rain meant there wasn’t much chance to chalk our walkway, but I did get something down for daughter’s birthday late in the month. And I crocheted a bunch, including a cropped short-sleeve sweater for myself from leftover wool gifted by a local knitter friend. I also sewed some trousers, based on a pattern in a Japanese sewing book, using random cottons, including parts of two bedsheets, and part of a blouse.

Also in March, I was “celebrated” by Wikimedia Foundation, which was fun.

January 2023

Last month, we had chalk on our walkway, very briefly (rainy season is actually rainy this year); and I made five hats (six, really, but five in the photo are for the Fun-a-Day LA show in Long Beach on Saturday, February 4). The chalk is based on a woodblock print of a woman in snow by Takahashi Shōtei; I didn’t manage to finish it between storms, but one section was decent enough to photograph, anyway. The hats are crocheted and sewn and dyed and embroidered, and have a whole fake anthropological brochure to go with them, about the material culture of “Warfield Island” during the quarantine years. You can read that material, and see more photos of the hats, at this ipernity album.