Made beans from my own bean zine. Always makes me feel self-actualized 😂
Tag: small pleasures
nettlekopita?
Today’s small pleasure is that I made delicious spanakopita using a pound of frozen stinging nettles instead of spinach, and because step one is “squeeze as much liquid as possible out of the frozen greens”, I now have about a pint of deep green-black stinging nettle juice in the fridge.
Branding
Today’s small pleasure is putting together some fancy root vegetable, wild rice, and mushroom phyllo pastries (prepped slowly over several days). They are delicious, but the main pleasure is in calling them Turnip Rolls
Background info for today’s small pleasure: a friend and I recently started a soup swap, which just means we drop off soup for each other whenever we feel like it.
So today’s small pleasure was texting my friend “HOT SOUPS IN YOUR AREA” to find out whether she was home
Let’s make poop together!
Small pleasure of the day was printing other people’s zines to enjoy at home. Going to highlight this free one-pager about drawing cute poops. A perfect gift for the children in your life.
The Colour of Ink
Today’s little pleasure was this ink documentary and a heating pad. Recommended if you like artists at work, foraging, history of pigments and dyes, diy, or ink in particular. It features several inkmakers, cartoonists, calligraphers, artists, tattooists, and even a paleontologist.
Streaming free on CBC: The Colour of Ink
I yelped out loud when the film cut to Thomas Little in a pawn shop. He is a gentle soul who makes truly haunted iron-gall ink by dissolving guns in sulfuric acid. Very cool to see part of his process.
I make iron-gall ink too, using rusty bits of junk, vinegar, and the beautiful native oak trees in my neighbourhood. Amazing how different the vibes can be for similar recipes. I have some of Thomas’ gun ink and I haven’t been able to bring myself to open it, it just sits on my desk and whispers
Anyway I do think the documentary conveys the profound pleasure of making tiny batches of ink out of weird things you find out in the world
At one point Jason Logan from Toronto Ink Company makes black ink for a tattooist out of charcoal from a recent forest fire in the area. Part of what is so moving to me about this kind of poetic or haunted ink is the scale– you can make a bottle of ink out of a couple of grams of carbon dust, which leaves whole mountainsides of charcoal behind. Something about reasserting human scale is such a relief
Lemon-lime?
Today’s small pleasure is setting up the cutest notebook in the world for my todo lists.
Today’s small pleasure is waking up on February 29th and realizing I am not currently responsible for any legacy software systems ✨