Just got started on my April challenge. 🥰 first picture is the inspiration, the second is my attempt at something similar but different.

Does it speak to you?? 😂

This past week, my husband has been out of town, so I’m a little bit of a puddle for using my energy on everything else, but I do have an update on my current portrait and also another work in progress that I’ve been doing since last summer as sort of a easy repetitive stitching project. The idea for this one is just to let the mistakes happen as it is titled “Ugh”. So it is messy on purpose with coffee and marker stains on the fabric to boot.

How are yours going? Any good ideas? Are we keeping it a secret until it’s finished? 🎁🦒 @Maria Hirose @Jen Toll @LeAnn Sagel

I think we have all had our jelly puddle days. When we just want to do a whole lot of nothing. That was me today. I had things I should do, but my whole weekend was taken over by (temporarily) single momming two kids who needed to be shuttled around the neighborhood and mind you, we don’t have a car. I have a battery assisted bicycle that can hold a child in a child seat in the back. That’s the normal in Tokyo. So using mama power all weekend to look after two kids and a dog, I was pooped. And thus today I was a jelly puddle with my Nintendo Switch while the kids were at school. Have you ever had days like this? Did you feel guilty? I admit I felt a touch guilty, so I had to keep reminding myself that I deserve to rest!!