mid July developments

 Recent developments / 最近のニュース

Why am I writing like this? I don't know, I study Japanese and I felt like remembering some vocabulary 😌 If anyone out there has any corrections or suggestions (i.e. if I haven't translated something properly) please let me know!

🍯 Pottery / 陶芸

• C was very kind and gifted me a Kiln Crafts Daisy pottery wheel!
• The past couple weeks have been fairly infrequent sessions of getting to know the wheel and how best to work with it.
• I continue to go to the local clay studio and have some mugs to pick up soon, hopefully...
• And on Saturday I'm hanging out and crafting with some other local pottery friends 😌

Pot WIPs

🏠 Decluttering / 断捨離

• I have made some more efforts on the decluttering front by selling a few more things on eBay. Not a lot of cash from that, but a little bit, and some % of charity donation as well. I have more to add but it's all like niche stuff that isn't particularly valuable.
• I've been working through my yarn/fibre stash as well, my dad's cardigan now has two finished sleeves and I'm working on the body portion now. It's not using up tons of yarn but it's making a dent.
• I've started work on my maybe magnum opus, a Kosekofte (designed by Skeindeer), and it's nice to see the little balls of yarn (the main colour is in 50g balls, and contrast colours are stash yarn of varying amounts) get used up.
• I gave away some art supplies and portfolio folders to a local school.
• My next section may tackle the large amount of bits of old art in my office.

Spinning up my fibre stash; to be fair this wasn't stash, I actually just bought this when I bought some orange yarn to knit our friends' kid a tea cosy. But it's spun up now, anyway, and can be made into socks at some point!

👩🏼‍💼Business / 事業

• I don't know how much I've written about it here, but I have always wanted my own little shop (online, mostly). Now and again in life I have tried, having a fairly good go at it around 2019-2020, but I've not really stuck with it. Since finally moving home in 2025 I have wanted to try again but have hesitated due to not feeling ready, being indecisive about platforms, etc.
• I've decided I'll just start, ASAP. Probably back with Etsy to start with, even though really they're not very kind to their sellers in my opinion.
• First off I'll put up my old art and stickers I've made before. I know this doesn't sound terribly appealing in terms of branding, "buy my old stuff so I can buy more supplies!" But I hope someone can find something they like; I think my older artwork is actually more polished and finished than my current work 🫠 I'll be selling older work much cheaper as well.
• I'll link it when I do the thing!

📚 Current book / 読んでいる本

The Stand by Stephen King