{"id":15343,"date":"2016-05-20T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2016-05-20T06:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:58:42","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15343","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! Whenever my mom visits, she’s a little wistful that she’s unable to paint in Seattle. I get it — she doesn’t have her usual supplies, her routine is completely disrupted and most of all, she says she doesn’t feel like she has a space of her own, mentally or physically. Still, she’s an artist through and through so when a watercolor set happens to be lying around, she’ll whip up a painting like the one above while chatting to K. This kind of painting doesn’t count for her though; it’s just distracted doodling and not the sort of focused art-making she does in her own home.<\/p>\n

She’s been back in Los Angeles for a month now happily painting away, but I’ve been thinking about that sense of space, the need for routine and grounding to make things. My daily habits are\u00a0completely out of whack these days and the house is\u00a0in need of yet another purging. For someone who relishes minimalism and is always trying to tidy up, why is it that my house is perpetually in a state of mayhem? I’m almost done reading this book<\/a> (love it), and I sometimes wonder if I’m just destined to read one decluttering book after another while I watch piles grow like weeds in my house. Maybe the very nature of crafting\u00a0is incompatible with keeping an orderly home. Or maybe I’m just making excuses.<\/p>\n

Anyway, these are my thoughts as I head into another weekend. M has been on an epic solo journey on his bike (his idea of fun), so I’ve been single mothering it for the week and that might also explain the\u00a0mess. He’s supposed to be back in a day or two, and I’m looking forward to that. It’s quiet without him. He’s our main source of jokes and liveliness, and though K and I have a lovely time together, we miss him.<\/p>\n

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These were the outfits<\/em>
\nfor week three of Me-Made-May<\/em>
\nHandmade every day!
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Here’s a rough sketch I drew in my notebook today, trying to recollect all the outfits from the week.<\/p>\n

Day 13: Romper<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 14: Striped Renfrew<\/a> + Black Gingers<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 15: Blue and Silver Gingham Tova<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 16: Black knit top<\/a> +Black Gingers<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 17: Nani Iro Free Way Top<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 18: Indigo\u00a0French Sailor Top<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 19: Stripey Batwing\u00a0Knit Top<\/a> + Indigo Gingers<\/a><\/p>\n

My Ginger jeans are getting a whole lotta wear, and it’s obvious that I need to make more because the pockets refuse to lay flat with the current two pairs I have and this limits the number of tops I can wear with them. But first, some more purging\/cleaning….<\/p>\n

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, my friends!<\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! Whenever my mom visits, she’s a little wistful that she’s unable to paint in Seattle. I get it — she doesn’t have her usual supplies, her routine is completely disrupted and most of all, she says she doesn’t feel like she has a space of her own, mentally or physically. Still, she’s an artist through and through so when a watercolor set happens to be lying around, she’ll whip up a painting like the one above while chatting to K. This kind of painting doesn’t count for her though; it’s just distracted doodling and not the sort of focused art-making she does in her own home. She’s been back in Los Angeles for a month now happily painting away, but I’ve been thinking about that sense of space, the need for routine and grounding to make things. My daily habits are\u00a0completely out of whack these days and the house is\u00a0in need of yet another purging. For someone who relishes minimalism and is always trying to tidy up, why is it that my house is perpetually in a state of mayhem? I’m almost done reading this book (love it), and I sometimes wonder if I’m just destined to read one decluttering book after another while I watch piles grow like weeds in my house. Maybe the very nature of crafting\u00a0is incompatible with keeping an orderly home. Or maybe I’m just making excuses. Anyway, these are my thoughts as I head into another weekend. M has been on an epic solo journey on his bike (his idea of fun), so I’ve been single mothering it for the week and that might also explain the\u00a0mess. He’s supposed to be back in a day or two, and I’m looking forward to that. It’s quiet without him. He’s our main source of jokes and liveliness, and though K and I have a lovely time together, we miss him. These were the outfits for week three of Me-Made-May Handmade every day!   Here’s a rough sketch I drew in my notebook today, trying to recollect all the outfits from the week. Day 13: Romper Day 14: Striped Renfrew + Black Gingers Day 15: Blue and Silver Gingham Tova Day 16: Black knit top +Black Gingers Day 17: Nani Iro Free Way Top Day 18: Indigo\u00a0French Sailor Top Day 19: Stripey Batwing\u00a0Knit Top + Indigo Gingers My Ginger jeans are getting a whole lotta wear, and it’s obvious that I need to make more because the pockets refuse to lay flat with the current two pairs I have and this limits the number of tops I can wear with them. But first, some more purging\/cleaning…. I hope you have a wonderful weekend, my friends!    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15348,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions\/15348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}