Posted Aug 07, 2025

Learning Log, Jul 2025

A multi-step animation visually represented on a horizontal timeline within the Webflow design editor

The big work win for July was that my team at Webflow shipped Interactions with GSAP! 💚 This launch lays the foundation for the next generation of Webflow Interactions, which will unlock visual-first animation for everyone. There’s so much yet to come with how we’ll bring the GSAP library’s superpowers into the visual builder, but I’m proud of what the team accomplished and excited for what’s ahead.

🧶 Crafting

Two 6x9” quilted mug rugs, with stitch lines in a diamond pattern. The cream fabric features hamsters shaped like onigiri and holding items that are usually paired with the rice balls, such as shiso leaves, seaweed, and octopus

A sock still on a pair or circular knitting needles, being knitted from the cuff down. There’s a flower motif around the cuff in a deep teal color, and the body of the sock is in a variegated yarn of pinks, creams, yellows, and springy greens.

I’m trying a new post format on my crafting blog, i.e. a monthly roundup of what I’m working on. Made in July 2025 covers a couple mug rugs, progress on a second sock, and fairly minimal sketchbooking time.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Side quests

Family came into town to throw my husband and I a baby shower: we’re welcoming our first child in October! 🎃 Pregnancy has been such a singular life experience and I’m nervous-excited for what’s to come.
It happened to be very-low tide while they were here in Seattle, so we took everyone to a beach to go tidepooling! 🐚 We saw a weird-looking algae called Turkish Towel, a starfish, red rock crabs, marine worms, tons of gulls and dragonflies, and some shellfish. For many in our group, it was their first time being spit at by a buried clam or geoduck.
At the tail end of July we went to Climate Pledge Arena (always Key Arena in my heart) to see Death Cab for Cutie on their Plans 20th Anniversary tour. Despite Death Cab hailing from Bellingham / Seattle, I have never gotten the chance to see them live—so it was pretty special to catch them on such a meaningful tour.

A fat bumblebee hovering over lush purple lavender in the golden hour light

A bumpy orange starfish shining in shallow tidepool water, curled around some seaweed in a tidepool

🌱 Digital gardening

Lit Tapes

Added some new book playlists:

🔖 Reading

A lesson I’ve been re-learning—and shared with a friend—is that it doesn’t serve me well to put any goals or “challenges” around my (book) reading, even fun ones that are exciting to me at first. Reading is a hobby I enjoy for entertainment, learning, and casual self-improvement; I am also definitely a mood reader. I don’t need pressure around cadence, volume, or specific materials.

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