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Magically Nerdy, Seattle, WA (2026)

04/10/2026

Man it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here. If you’ve been following me for a while or if you’re friends with me IRL, you’ll likely know my struggles with my neurodiversity and for some reason since probably around Christmas time(especially after the dopamining of the holidays ended) my brain has been a sieve. Executive functioning has been very hard. I have, however, been utilizing crochet as a way to regulate so there has been a LOT of those projects. I don’t know what made me want to do it, but I randomly went searching for a purrgil amigurumi pattern one night and somehow managed to find one on etsy from . I’d never done amigurumi before but I bought the pattern without thinking twice. It took me a while to complete (probably a month/ month and a half) despite cranking out nearly the whole body in a few hours just because I unwind with mindless/repetitive patterns and this requires stitch counting and concentration. However, the other day my back desided to give out and I used my new found couch time as a sign ton finish him. It feels good to had one less project staring me down but also? I love him. 😂 he’s imperfect but he’s mine (actually, I’m pretty sure my 11 year old will be stealing him). I tried to make mine look like the stickers I made for handing out at cons and I’m digging the effect of the gradient yarn. I also made some crochet/sewn eyes and I’m glad I did. The mandala ombré yarn really gave me the look I was going for with the eyes. Pretty happy with my first amigurumi. I doubt this is the start of many (I’ll mostly stick to wearables and blankets but this was a fun project to work on and I’m glad I decided to try something.m new.

02/05/2026

Life gets busy and I get so behind. I we had a Pirates of the Caribbean themed birthday party for my sweet spunky pr***en last spring so naturally, that meant we’d be doing some cosplay photos. I took a TON of them and immediately got overwhelmed. I only edited a couple that we took on one of our local trails and left all of the green screened photos untouched. I still have many to go but I did finally edit some last week. It’s been a fun thing to do in between the crochet projects that I’ve thrown myself into lately. I hopefully will be getting back into costume making for here soon but I’ve really been enjoying the portability of crochet for the last decade or so but have finally started teaching myself new stitches and have transitioned from blankets to actual wearables and that’s been so fun and satisfying for me. Anyway, these edits can take anywhere between 30 mins to a couple of hours for me to complete so I took a small break again but will be resuming them again shortly because these may be some of my favorites yet because she genuinely enjoyed playing the part of Elizabeth Swann. And for the record, this is all and zero AI… 💛just years of photoshop experience, a greenscreen, stock photos and so many photoshop layers 🙃

12/26/2025

I have zero motivation to get on my computer and do some proper editing so we’ll have to settle for these that I uploaded to my phone from my camera. Was it any less work? Nope. Was it any better? Nope. But it did mean I didn’t have to get my laptop and make sure it was charged so there’s that. 🙈

We always said Max from the live action Grinch movie reminded us of our pup so I finally made him some max antlers of his own. It was a disaster keeping it on him but I finally got a few. Figured I should upload a couple before Christmas was officially over 😂😬 I will do better edits… eventually.

11/05/2025

I told myself that this was the year I was going to figure out my health so it’s been a very long year of trying to proceed as normal with life while also attempting to fit in all of the appointments. We’ve made some discoveries but still have so many questions. Anyway, it means that some things have fallen behind. My socials I made definitely part of that. I also have a habit of working on things and sharing random progress things but never share the final result. I’m currently bouncing around between photo shoots of the kids and I in an effort to not get too bored working on one at a time but also to finally start chipping away at things. If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that my very first 100% seen on my machine cosplay was Redd. I shares several progress things but I don’t think I ever shared the final result. So here she is. Hopefully there will be more to come. I

11/03/2025

This image took ages to edit, partly because I had to edit and mask not only my son but also all of the dancers but I had I had ti individually mess with the hues and saturation and all of that for all of the “dancer” photos. Plus the file itself is almost 2G in size 😬💀 but then, I think due to the size, the file I was working on corrupted and I spent the next several hours attempting to recover it before giving up and just starting again. Previously, I had brought the dancers in and edited them just in the layers. This time, I made those edits their own files instead so I didn’t have to do this again if this file corrupted. Thankfully it all worked out. My kids also like to point out that you can’t see ghosts behind him on the ride. 😂 I know…. But since we aren’t on the ride, it gives more contexts to his shocked expression 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

Also, as much as I’ve loved for years (which is where I found all of the dancers), it’s becoming increasingly hard to not find ai generated images (even after clicking “exclude ai” in the search parameters)… especially if it involves background type images.

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🖌️ in by me

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11/02/2025

I love the whole creative process of cosplay. I love researching and trying to find more budget friendly ways of recreating different characters. I love the challenge of trying to come up with ideas of cosplays that will mesh well together but fit everyone’s preferences. This year, we chose a Haunted Mansion theme (after our youngest pivoted from Ahsoka the white at the end of August before I’d started her costume). I threw together my son’s costume with things we already had, thrifted clothing and a few basic items from Walmart that will make their way into regular wear. And the shovel was an Amazon purchase that got a glowup with some spray paint and acrylic paint (never underestimate the power of hammered spray paint and weathering). Sally was a purchase off of eBay that was advertised “New with stains on the waste area”. For starters, it was definitely not “new” as every single possible tag was removed (including care and washing instructions”) and the stains were 💯 blood. So that was a fun surprise. After a lot of cleaning with peroxide (the reaction with the peroxide is what confirmed to me that it was blood) and eventually tide, we got it cleaned up and I altered just about every part of it to fit my daughter better and give it more detail. And we also had to make her parasol (though it turns out a pink umbrella would have been much better for our weather 🤪) and her capelet. It was fun to do her very first duct tape patterning 😂

They had a lot of fun wearing them but no one seemed to know who they were, so I think we went a little too niche for our neighborhood 😂

Aside from all of why goes into sewing and crafting (inevitably learning something new in the process), I always look forward to editing their photos after it’s all come together. It’s fun making our imaginations come to life. The editing may take hours, but it’s fun when it comes together in the end.

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Original Sally slater costume: ??? (But heavily altered by me)

11/01/2025

One of my favorite newer traditions is turning our downstairs bathroom into the Haunted Mansion in the fall. Well, it’s only been two years but it makes me happy 😂 this year, I added more than just the gargoyle (who lives there all year long) and the portraits but also added so much more. My favorite part is the .candle.company haunted mansion room air freshener. It really and truly does tie it all together.

We had friends over today before heading out for trunk or treat and after using the bathroom, one of those friends described it as feeling a bit unnerving 😂 “I felt like I was being watched the whole time” 💀
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08/29/2025

It’s been a bit quiet around here because we’ve had a fairly busy summer. Our most recent adventure was to Alaska with . It’s always been a bucket list item for me to see a humpback whale and this little guy put on quite the show for us as we were leaving Sitka. I was taking a Timelapse on my phone of us leaving port and its acrobatics even show up in the Timelapse despite it probably recording for an hour or more. You can see the first little blip of it at 7.12 seconds and again at 7.14… and even more. It jumped around for a good 15-20 minutes. It was really amazing to watch. I may post more from our trip. We’ll see. I’ve got to get back to working on client photos and both of my kids’ birthday portraits so we will see how motivated I am after so much editing. 😂😮‍💨
And thank you to for the talk on glaciers and animals in the area. Going back and watching my videos from the day of the massive pod of humpbacks after we briefly chatted, I can definitely see that those were not porpoise backs like I initially thought.

Still in awe of the beautiful weather we got and all of the amazing things we saw and experienced. I definitely see more Alaskan cruises in our future.

(The last photo is a screenshot of one of the “blips” from the Timelapse!… pretty perfectly framed 😂)

05/17/2025

They don’t look like much, but these three (very amazingly soft/textured pillow cases represent growth. Mentally and sewingly (yes, I realize that last one isn’t a real word. I bought a blanket from Value Village months ago when I worked on my Hera Jacket. I basically harvested the Sherpa off of it for her collar. However, I didn’t want to waste it so I kept the fabric with the intent of turning it into pillowcases; I even bought matching invisible zippers. However, at that point, I’d never sewn a pillow case, installed invisible zippers or even used a sewing machine. So it sat… for months. Fast forward to the start of this year where one of my goals was to finish abandoned projects (which I have actually been doing). This has also included ideas of projects where I have most of the supplies but never officially started. Learning how to use the sewing machine has meant that I could actually make a lot of forward momentum. But I would never have been able to even start the process of learning if I hadn’t started to take care of my mental health first. Getting that official ADHD diagnosis after suspecting it for years meant that I couldn’t meds that helped clear up some of that mental clutter so that I could start making some forward progression so many ways. So yeah, these 3 pillow cases may have taken me an entire day to complete and they’re far from perfect but they represent so much progress and I’m so happy to be on this journey. So thankful for all who have dealt with my crazy brain and also those who have encouraged me to just “do the thing”. I’ve been having so much fun learning and creating and am excited to see what l can continue to create.

05/03/2025

Just two little Ewoks cuddling on the couch

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