hello ☀️ patreon and happy mail resumed! a quick may recap 🌿 (Patreon)

Hi patrons!!

Welcome back and long time no post (":

Overall, this month was both restful and busy in its own ways. I often thought of you all and small ideas that I would like to try in the upcoming months, I am looking forward to sharing more with you all. Thank you for staying around to see more and encouraging me to create comfortably and passionately. The encouragements you shared at the end of April helped make the transition into this break comforting and I felt so seen.

(Visited the mustard seed flowers in my hometown! There were a lot because of all the rain California got!)

Much of the time I worked on getting used to the day job. Can't believe it has already been a half of the year since starting. My team now works in-person, so that was an element that took time to get used to.

But I love working in-person so far! The environment allows me to be creative in my own ways and I feel challenged to do more in my role.

(Celebrated my coworker’s last day in May (“: it was bittersweet, but proud of her for choosing her passion!)

Other than work, I also had an opportunity to focus on hobbies that I haven't been able to touch since moving in, like sewing! Oh how I missed the good 'ol machine... I made a handful of goodies, like pencil pouches, drawstring totes, and scrunchies. It was really great bonding time with my mum, and we both really missed sewing together! Below is a photo of one of the drawstring totes I worked on that will eventually make its way to the shop 🥰

Community was also a really big thing that I wanted to lean into more this past month. It's been challenging navigating adult friendships and finding people to connect with after moving to a new town. I am more introverted, so seeking and initiating new interactions added to the challenge. It has been going well, I am slowly getting acclimated with the area (not needing to use a GPS too much anymore. yay) and discovering new people that share similar passions or values with me.

On the drawing side of things, I took a full break. It was honestly a little bit of burnout and the desire to completely rest that brought me to not pick up the iPad and draw. Because I chose to bring my hobby and career together, I recognize that I need to have better balances and proper forms of rest like this. Thankful I could do that. But I couldn’t stay away from drawing too much… I did doodle a bit at my work (o: I leave doodles on our whiteboard and little post-it doodles on the computers to send them encouragements -that was fun to do hehe. 😋

Below are some more photo highlights from May!

Played with stickers a lot! Decorating is a therapeutic hobby (0:

Made onigiri with my dad 🍙 the sizes were all wonky because my hands were significantly smaller 😆

Visited cute cafess with friends 🧡

Annd got a haircut! 💇🏻‍♀️

On a final note for this post, I have yet to send out April's happy mail. The vinyl stickers have arrived so I will be sending those out soon, but the sticker sheets had production delays and have not reached me yet.

Appreciate you for waiting and hope that there wasn't too much concern about where your happy mail went :"0 I will share here when the sticker sheets arrive, but I will be sending out mail for those subscribed in April for teacup tier soon. Sending love to you all and see you in tomorrow's happy mail reveal!!