Life detected, activate distraction

Okay, maybe that guy was a bit fishy. We need the right detective for this case.

How to Start by rthwrms

for the times when you really truly want to do something, but find resistance or that starting feels impossible

most helpful action to get into a task is: look at it options include: review what you've already done open the tab on screen blur your eyes at first if that helps fullscreen the image browse or skim relevant texts let your gaze move around how it will JUST...LOOK!!!

Your brain has resistance towards starting the particular project in the way that you've previously conceived of it. Instead of fighting that resistance, try to change your approach to starting your work. Ie, start with colored pencils on a piece you were doing in gouache, include a new stitch in a crochet piece, Step one: identify the process Step two: identify places where something new can be included Step three: brainstorm new options to fill these spots Step four: select one or more options and try your piece from this new angle

encourage yourself by asking questions start with: "What am I actually trying to do right now?" then try: "What would this look like if it were more fun?" "How would I do it if anything was possible?"

divide into discrete tasks make the closest or shiniest one literally as small & specific as freaking possible

image text: I BELIEVE IN YOU screenshot text: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (via billowy)

there is a window now there is a door

Several years ago, a friend of my mom's GAVE me her old Subaru, saying she'd received it as a gift and wanted to continue the favor. At the time I was dead broke and unable to find a job within biking distance, so her gift really changed my life. I didn't know how to repay a gift of this magnitude, so I decided making my first quilt might be a start.

This friend regularly taught kids in my hometown how to identify microorganisms in pond water, so that was my inspiration for the quilt. The colors... Are not my favorite but they were what fit my vision and my budget.

There is not a single straight line or right angle in this quilt. I made many many mistakes and learned how to fix a lot of them. I am so enchanted by the little guys tho and I think they really make up for the wonkiness.

The recipient loves it and immediately sent me pictures and ID's for all the species shown. She also told me her recently deceased mother would have loved it (I wanted to give her the quilt at the celebration of life, but alas scheduling did not allow).

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196979901]

Feral Pigeon || Columba livia var. domestica

Observed in Russia

POV: You cast a spell.

ca. 1860-70s, [hand tinted ambrotype  portrait of a women with her nine-string bango]