a blog by selina zawacki
After seeing the pattern weights that Martha of Buried Diamond makes and uses, I haven’t been able to shake the idea of making some of my own. Hers are so colorful and gorgeous, and just looking at the photos I can tell that they’re objects of love and joy (does that sound cheesy?). They just…
This is the first adult cross stitch kit I’ve ever done, and also the last adult cross stitch kit I’ll ever do. I got this kit in February 2016, and probably started it not too long after that. And I only just completed it a couple weeks ago (so it took just about 8 years)….
Here’s our Lunar New Year feast from last night (and probably for the rest of the week – not everything is pictured because it didn’t all fit on the serving dishes 😂)! 🥟🍊🧧 I’m sad we weren’t able to celebrate with friends or family again this year, but hoping it will be safe again soon….
I bought this qipao when we went to LA’s Chinatown over the summer, and after I got these sparkly hair buns for christmas, I knew I had the perfect outfit for Lunar New Year. Cats enjoyed the photoshoot, as always. 🐯💖✨ (I took these photos over the weekend because I knew I’d be spending most…
For christmas I got Mike a bookshelf to go by his desk, and it soon became clear that he needed bookends to go with it. So for his birthday this month I made him some matching ones out of wood. I ordered some plain, sturdy metal bookends with the plan to lasercut a panel to…
Super excited to show off my first ever keyboard case!🎉I’ve been really intimidated by the idea of building a custom case, so I’m glad I found this open source scramble-case by dayofdoom to help me get familiar with the layers and hardware involved. Many thanks to Hugh for recommending the nullbits scramble as a great…
For christmas Mike got me a bunch of different fruit powders from Chef Rubber so that I could experiment with natural flavors and colors in my baking. 🙂 They accidentally sent an extra large container of the banana, so that’s the first I chose to play with haha. I’ve been wanting to make marshmallows again…
Marlin tends to get very awake at night after sleeping all day long. A few years ago we figured out that if we put a shirt on him at night, he’s less antsy, and since then we’ve built up a small collection of (mostly handmade) Marlin-sized shirts. 😂 I’ve included the file below if anyone…
This weekend we visited Palm Springs for the first time, so I took the opportunity to use the hotel room as a photo background – we stayed at Azure Palm Hot Springs and they had the biggest bath tub I’ve ever seen. I was so excited to try out my floating butterfly wings by Stonehart,…
Yesterday I went to my first art show in a really long time. It was Amy of sailorhg‘s first solo art show, titled while(fruit) and hosted at Capsule Corner! I really loved the sentiment behind making computers personal again, and the pun of the “fruit loop” videos playing on each computer was amazing haha. All…