In 2024, I stepped away from working for myself for the first time and it took the entire year of using this app less to start untangling the toxic relationship I had with it as a business owner, artist, and maker.
Sending solidarity to all my fellow creatives who didn’t sign up for this and continue to post and showcase their art. I feel indebted to you all. Happy New Year from my family to yours 🖤🖤🖤
“Champagne for my Real Friends. Real Pain for my Sham Friends.” A toast to live by- chainstitched by me on @jamestheguch ‘s favorite vintage smoking jacket. Cheers 🖤🖤🖤
Women’s Equality Day. A quilted banner project in honor of the women who carried the burden before me and in heartfelt gratitude towards those who will carry it long after.
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(Let us also acknowledge, as we revel in the season of Virgo, the transformative impact of rectifying the mistake I made in the third slide. I am not immune to really careless blunders sometimes and the fix to this one infused a unique essence into the banner that would have been absent had the mistake not occurred. A true Bob Ross happy accident moment that Virgos don’t usually subscribe to)
The way @jamestheguch talks literally made me fall in love with him. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to secretly grab a few moments on tape, but mostly lucky that I’ve got to listen to him for the last 11 years. To my man and Gemini King who has lived many, many lives before me, has stories still untold, and chooses me everyday, happy 40th birthday. I love you more than life 🖤
For the last ten years, @jamestheguch and I have watched the sopranos over and over again on repeat. I had this unhinged idea for our ten year anniversary to draw all over a silk shirt with our favorite moments from one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Complete with our anniversary date on the Rolex and names on the Prozac 😂🤌🏻🖤
Exactly half my life, smack dab in the middle: ages 16 to 32.
If it weren’t for my now husband of ten years, I would’ve been dead at 22. It’s easy to say he saved my life; in such a grand hero type way.
But I choose to save it every single day since that fateful night.
Recovery is not impossible. Always remember when everything feels too hard, you’re just in the middle of the ride baby.
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