Managing multiple hobbies and areas of interest

Oooh the potential... soon these inflorescences will bloom. Serviceberry. Amelanchier sp.
Turnagain Arm trail, Anchorage, Alaska.  June 1, 2026 

I'm looking for a rhythm to return to this journal.  I put waaaaaay too much pressure on it.  

So, how can I lower the bar and let this be easy. 

I just want to return to posting about what I'm working on or excited about.  I want to keep track of how things are going in general.  Mostly I want to encourage myself and keep an archive of my projects.

So. let's recap the past month and what I continue to learn about myself and process, and what I want to write about here.  

My three big areas of overlapping interests are:

PLANTS:  gardens, flowers, culinary and medicinal herbs, ethnobotany, and dye plants.

FIBER ARTS:  plant (basketry, willow, grass) and animal (sheep's wool mainly), weaving, handwork, spinning (new!) and most other hand crafts (sewing, embroidery, knitting, crochet, quilting).

ARTWORK: drawing (pencil, pen and digital) or painting (watercolors, ink and gouache(new!)).  I like to draw the plants, animals and landscapes of where I live.  Big and small.   Then I like to transform them into repeating, seamless patterns or large panels that can be printed onto fabric.  I upload my designs to spoonflower, a digital fabric printing company in the US.

I allow myself to circle around the year with these interests, riding the wave as they come and go, seasonally.   

• It hasn't always been that way. 
• I used to be hard on myself for having too many interests.   
• Now I celebrate it.   
• Even when it's chaotic. 

Update:  I wrote this draft in January.   Now it is June, 6 months later.   100% I believe in what I wrote - and I am trying not to be hard on myself about having multiple interests, but right now it is chaotic and overwhelming and also I am so overflowing with projects and obligations that it does feel like a little much.  However.  I am also nudging everything along.  

What if I wrote a little everyday instead of trying to find a cadence?   I have lots to write about right now.  Lots to record and reshow.  I feel scared declaring this everyday challenge, but I think now that I honestly don't care if anyone reads this (but if you are reading this - cool!!!) I think that this just has to be my own little personal feed, where I celebrate my highs and lows.  What I worked on yesterday and start to build more momentum in these projects and areas of my life that I list above.  

That actually feels really exciting.  Not as scary as I thought.    Here goes nothing and we'll see what happens next.  

Love Oona.