Friday5: week 32
Closer & closer, I steadily creep. Creep. Creep. Creep (y).

What do I love on this lovely Thursday?

• Egon Schiele. My mother-in-law gave me the big book of his work for giftmas. It’s lovely & inspiring.
• Getting the giraffe & panda cards up in the shop!
• Finishing up 3 custom orders this week!
• Finally felting some boxes that I knit up for clothing storage. I’ve never felted anything before so it was a fun experiment. They all turned out but one in particular is perfection and giving me loads of other ideas.
• An aahhhhmazing sweater I found at crossroads trading. It is by far the softest and warmest thing I have ever owned.
• Totally re-organizing my closet. It’s one of those things that I put off & put off and completely dread doing but once it’s done…it’s so nice!!
• An excessive use of exclamation points!!!
• Ravelry! I love this website so hard. If you’re a fiber fanatic, you should sign up if you haven’t already! Find me on there: juliemackattack & add me as a friend.
• As always: plotting. But this time, my Weekly Moleskine Planner is really helping me kickass & take names. I have so many new things brewing for rottencupcakes!

Alright, lovelies, what’s making you bat your eyelashes & make kissy-faces this week?

Friends of ours are expecting & should be finding out the sex of the babychild soon. I sense baby knitting soon so of course, I’ve got color schemes on the brain!

Coming soon to the shop!

Friday5: week 31
So sleepy this morning. Only one bright morning this week. And now it’s cool & blue & full of snow. Stay warm! Happy Friday!

What in the world am I loving this week?

• The color red.
• Girly Times. Getting some starbucks & then a manicure/pedicure with my bff. Perfect. Also: my nails are a pretty shade of red. Already smudged & chipped but that’s ok!
• My magic bag that somehow manages to fit everything I need it to without becoming a massive blob. Makes me feel a bit like Mary Poppins.
• New inspiration and ideas that have been pumping in my brain. It makes me excited!
• My awesome and cozy electric throw, a supreme giftmas present from my mum. Bonus: it’s a cat magnet!
• Picking up the paintbrush again—acrylics for now. But I am sensing that I’m gathering courage to approach oils again sometime this year. I’ve been working my way back to fine art. I sort of abandoned it when I graduated college in 2005 in favor of graphic design & Being an Adult & Getting a Job. I love design. But I also love art. (I do think these two things overlap; they’re certainly not mutually exclusive but that’s a whole other post!) So I started sketching again with more seriousness. Then watercolors. Now I’m introducing acrylics again into my repetoire. Gouache may be next (even though I despised it in school). Eventually: oils. Basically: I’m making penance with the paint gods.

Deep and even breaths. Warm, muffled rustling blankets. Electric dreams. Cold winter spent snug inside a cozy home.