#hobbytime

Endless scrolling can quietly take over hours of your day, leaving you drained, distracted, and more anxious than before. Replacing even one scrolling session with a simple 20-minute creative hobby can make a noticeable difference. Activities like punch needle, knitting, or sketching engage your hands and calm your mind, helping reduce stress and improve focus.

Research shows that creative work lowers cortisol levels and boosts positive mood, even the next day. The key is simplicity — choose something easy to start, requires minimal setup, and delivers a visible result. Punch needle, for example, is beginner-friendly, repetitive, and deeply satisfying, making it ideal for short, screen-free breaks.

Just 20 minutes a day can build a sense of accomplishment, improve mental clarity, and gradually reduce your dependence on screens. It’s not about doing more — it’s about doing something more meaningful with the time you already have.

I've felt like I've spent 80 hours painting emporer's children and even though i start developing more efficient and cleaner techniques the more I paint it seems never ending because I'll notice something on an older model and go back and correct that mistake.

Experimenting with the flesh tones for the emporer's children using pinks, pearl pinks, light blue washes, and magenta and might have something I'm happy with. I think I might do the lights from plasma and the eyes the same way I did the tubes with the noise marines. They are little battleline units. But they get the same love as a centerpiece model would.

I had no intention of starting a rhino. But this morning was the aftermath of 4 hours of horrendous, nightmare infused, dream of estranged acquaintances and never ending heart ache as I navigate the labyrinth of what I am actually looking for in this life and why is it someone who's existence both infuriates me but also knocks me down on my knees to praise everything about her.

And reality doesnt look like the dreams. So when I am awake I can only pretend that the dreams are real by transfering those emotions into art. Part of why I have been in love with the Emporer's Children has been because their perfection is their downfall. Their ascension to greatness puts them on the precipice of a long downfall. Then the reality that one person's idea of excellence sometimes looks like hideous disfigurement both physically and emotionally. It's visually represented in the golds and pinks and blacks of their army's motif. A reminder that even attempting to be perfect, to stride for excellence, does not make you either of those things.