My mom brought me a block of cheese from her travels, and instead of putting it in all these wonderful culinary creations, I've just been putting chili crisp on it and taking bites out of the thing

Still working on building up my follows list. I took a pretty good social media break the last few weeks though, so I'm partly to blame for having a pretty bare feed.🙃

Do you always alt text your photos?

when I'm feeling down, I listen to Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World, and pretend I'm the Gaby the song is dedicated to. 🌈

we're supposed to get some rain soon, hopefully some desert shaggy manes pop up. I get so excited seeing mushrooms in the desert

was going through my spice cabinet and i found half a pack of sealed curry roux! Now my mouth is watering thinking about making karē raisu for this week.

I was drawing some portraits the other day, and thought maybe I've been drawing the wrong thing this whole time. I still struggle with faces. Maybe I'm meant to be drawing cactus. or bugs. or dragons. or shoes. or food. but not faces or people in general. New sketchbook goals for the year.

Agreed. You need to be your own marketing, finance, and legal team. It's so much to put on one person on top of managing, well, life.

“I think that millennials and Gen Xers really feel like sellouts. It’s not what they imagined their career to look like. It inherently feels wrong with their value system.” <--- that last sentence for me. It feels wrong to scream and shout LOOK AT ME AND THE SHIT I'M SELLING AND DOING LOOK AT ME

I reposted this article recently too, because this whole "self-brand" thing has been hounding me since I finished graphic design school about 16 years ago, and it's followed me as I tried streaming, and am now starting my business. I hate it :(