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i don't want to be alone

hullo hullo! october was a weird month full of many highs and many lows. but also many art! my new job is still going great (sometimes i do art there too) and i’m making new friends and reconnecting with old friends and having bestie moments with all the people i love. life really is about connecting with people and sharing love and supporting each other methinks.

good luck keychains

i’ve been really into pinterest lately, and i kept seeing lil good luck charms. so of course i had to put aside my million wips and spend a few hours machine and hand sewing these guys!

they’re not technically done i stil have a few that need more geegaws on them and i have to sew backing fabric to a few but i think they turned out good! i’m hoping to sell or trade them somehow somewhere.

repetition repetition repetition

yea well uh. i rly don’t want to be alone. actually tho these are song lyrics from an absolute banger called be alone by the living tombstone (WHO I SAW LIVE LAST YEAR BECAUSE I AM THE COOLEST PERSON U’VE EVER MET)

uhhhh but also i’ve been thinking a lot about being alone and how it feels to be alone. like if i’m mentally doing well i don’t mind being alone bc i have my music and art and interests to occupy me, and i kinda forget i’m alone. but if i’m too depressed to make art, i suddenly need other people and the alone-ness is so heavy and inescapable.

obviously i still love hanging out with people when i’m mentally well, but it’s like socialization is one of the things that can make me feel okay again, so i crave it when i’m at a low.

anyway i made so many of these. i just find the lyric very compelling. also here’s one more sketchbook piece that is not about being alone, in fact it is about being with cool epic people who i care about!!!!

weather sweater

i’m making a sweater. a big ol chunky wool granny square sweater. here are a few of the squares i’ve finished so far, i loveee this color scheme. and this thick ass yarn is so fun to work with!!

i might not finish this for awhile since it’s going to take a lot of yarn and i’ve got more important things to spend my money on like food and rent and halloween horror nights

did u say halloween horror nights

yea me and angel went to hhn. it and hanging out with the squad the day after were so lovely and made me so happy and filled my heart up with joy and love and rainbows. october has been really rough for me as it always is, so getting to go on a silly trip with my sweet lil family was so healing and reminded me of how much i have to be grateful for. the actual event itself was super fun too! my fave haunted houses were the fallout and five nights at freddy’s! my poor disabled body was pretty destroyed from all the walking but it was so worth it to hang out with angel at his fave place and see him so happy and enjoy all the houses and general spookiness together. i love halloween!

jam’s jams

this month’s jam is an ice nine kills classic, a grave mistake. i’ve been listening to this song sooo much this month, it’s based off of the movie The Crow, which has been on my watchlist for like a year (both the original AND THE NEW ONE BECAUSE I LOVE BILL SKARSGARD HE IS SO COOL). anyway i love ice nine kills soooo much, they have so many other bangers like hip to be scared and tgif and actually i’ll just make a playlist of my fave ink songs lol.

basically they make songs based off of horror movies and they’re all bangers. they sound sooo good live too, i love their concert vids and hope to see them someday.

they also blasted a work of art at hhn lol it was so sick.

photography? actually it’s really quite simple

i’ve been trying to take more personal photography! because i miss it! a lot! so here are some pics i’ve taken lately!

#JACjesterMAL

a creator i really like, Jackass Collective, is running a make-along for the next few months! it’s jester themed, they’ll be knitting a super intricate jester patterned sweater, and provided some other jester crochet and knitting patterns for other people to follow along with. but me being me, i cannot be normal, so i will be sewing something lol. i’m working on a jester hat! with a bunch of patches and weird fabrics and bits and bobs!

it’s in super preliminary stages rn lol don’t make fun of it for being rough. i’ll be documenting the progress on my instagram as well as here, so stay tuned for more updates :]

and that’s that on that

next month i hope to have some updates re: the art card swap, the jester hat, hopefully some more photography, and the ever constant stream of sketchbook art lol. i hope everyone had a pleasant halloween/samhain! i also hope you are having a good november so far and enjoying the cooler weather (or surviving the cooler weather if you’re like me and your disabled body hates the cold lmao) ummmm uh that’s all i got, see u next month!

best wishes
james rice

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