I'm still working on my farmhouse. I've wrecked my body with hard work everyday and it's definitely getting cozier as days go by.
I've never spent money like this in my entire life on upgrades. I've been saving it up just for this I guess.
We've had demos and insulation people and plasterers come finish the worst rooms and now my main job lately has been winterizing old 100+ year old windows to keep the drafts out.
I have so many questions. How did the people who lived here before us never really address these windows? Now that it's in my attention I've had to engineer and macgyver various ways to do my best to make the windows stronger, but many are in really rough shape!
I've been using mostly packing materials from all those deliveries we all get when we order online. Foams just shoved in cracks with a putty knife. If it works, it works and it doesn't look ugly.
Dad always put this awful rope caulking over the cracks and plastic wrapped the entire window sealing up the deepset windows sills I love to use.
I'm plastic wrapping the top and bottom panels of the windows separately so the window sill can still be used.
Each window is a little different and has its own set of challenges I have to figure out. I learn something new almost every time and have evolved the process as I go. There are appx 20 or so windows in this house and I'm almost done with the first floor.
If I could go back in time to the days I lived here and my dad was alive, I would have helped my dad do this properly. I just didn't know better and I don't have a time machine.
I'm so exhausted by the time I settle down, All I want to do is relax, do something fun and creative before sleeping and starting up again the next day.
I've been playing with Ai art renders with Capcut and the character Kosmos from Xenosaga in my downtime. We can't get a remaster of the game series anytime soon anyway, so i'm just doing this to kinda scratch an itch and play around with what it is capable of.
I really wanted to share some of the art online with people. It keeps evolving everyday and surprises me whith what it creates. But I know there's a stigma about AI art and artists which is understandable.
Kosmos is a such great model for testing, though. And I'm aware I'm just a hack artist at best with a broken down body and a vision but no time or energy anymore to put in the time and effort to create art myself.
Anyway. I'll keep thinking about how I want to share the art peices I've made while I continue to make more each morning and night.
Thanks for reading the ramble.
Take care 💖













