• Nick’s Exclaim! TV performance of “Night Garden” went live this week! 
• This song is the result of a story I told Nick last summer when he was away. I was in the habit of walking Geraldine through this neighbourhood with massive historic homes & huge gardens. We’d go during the day to look at the flowers & then at night to smell all the blooms. Lilac scent at night. The best thing. It’s actually night garden season again now…

My free range rosebush.

• Speaking of which, my own personal plant philosophy is pretty much to let whatever shows up in my garden flourish. I wish I were one of those people who prioritized more intensive garden skills, but I just am not. I go with the flow. & this week that meant that a pal who was moving out of town dropped off three huge houseplants – two of which are taller than me. Last week there were free forget-me-nots from a friend’s garden. I’m counting on my gratitude to remind me to water these things. So far so good.
• This week there were bonfires & porch parties at my house. Using my outdoor space & sharing it with other people is the best. There were s’mores. There was also the sangria that I posted about last week, which was absolutely as tasty as expected.

• Unsurprisingly I have been listening to Jennifer Castle on repeat. This song just does it for me so hard (even tho there is  that one lyric that I can’t decipher…) This week I was painting my front hallway in the hottest weather – up on a ladder in  my underwear, covered in lemon yellow paint, shouting this one out:

After all this time you still don’t fit in

Everyone wants your smile & everyone wants you to win

And when it’s my body they’re after …

Then honey, don’t be long with my drink

• Solo knitting dates all over the place. 

Cowl & coffee.

• Impromptu cheese-carbs-and-knitting-and-Buffy hangout with some fav knitters.
• My mom got a new job & the voicemail she left me about it sounds so excited. I’ve been saving it & I listen to it if I need a good-news-mom boost.

Vivi, Hel-Looks. She made that blazer & top.

• Sunday is Hel-Looks update day! The most important internet event of the week.
• Spent some after-work time yesterday eating nachos, watching  tv, and applying leopard print nail stickers. The ones I bought are cheap things made of stickers, not nail polish, and have no removal instructions. Hard femme with no exit strategy. Such is my life.

Leopard nails & knitting & lipstick.

• This weekend would have been my grandma’s birthday & I stayed up late last night being thankful that she got to help me grow up. My sewing machine & knitting needles & bad attitude & awesome mom & femme skillz are all from her. <3

Cowl & Cappuccino.