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Learning Log, Aug 2024

2024 continues to race by, and August was no exception. This month found me:

  • Doing a bit of hiking and drawing en plein air
  • Spending time with friends
  • Catching the garment-sewing bug
  • Clearing all my queues (to-read list on The StoryGraph, to-watch lists on streaming services)

Right at the end of August I had a minor injury that meant I was down for the count all of Labor Day weekend. It’s frustrating to be able to do nothing but binge watch TV for a few days, but I’m taking that as a signal from my body to slow down and do nothing, please!

An alpine lake with hills behind, covered in evergreen trees. In the foreground of the lake lie floating logs. In front of this scene, my hand is holding a small square sketchbook with a rendering of the lake.
Talapus Lake
My hand holding the sketchbook in front of another alpine lake. I’ve drawn the two lakes using water color and Neocolor II crayons
Olallie Lake

In the blog-post-writing / parallel play group that I have going with friends, I was reminded quite suddenly that I used to have an eZine?! That people actually submitted their work to??? It was called Ego Bruise and had very “I’m in college” flair, so I’m equal parts mortally embarrassed and impressed that I had the bandwidth to organize this. Didn’t last very long, but you can find all the issues on Issuu: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3.

🚀 Shipping

At Webflow, we added support for drop shadow filters natively into the Style panel. I’ve started compiling “tiny but mighty” updates from the Styles team; I’m the PM arm of that product triad.

🧶 Crafting

I sewed my first garment, a pair of Carolyn pajama bottoms! Later in August I sewed up a matching top and scrunchie from other patterns, though I have yet to take some awkward photos for a blog post.

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Reading

July was a big book-reading month, so of course in August I only read 2 books. My favorite of the two was “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore, a quite literary thriller.

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