Hello my darlings!💖
Pardon my little delay — my husband and I suddenly had a few important things to take care of in Kyiv, right in the most inconvenient moment possible. So we had to cram our entire weekend with plans. I was planning to work on posts, but on the way there my laptop decided to turn into a brick — some weird PIN processing error.
I’m already off schedule, but honestly, I’m just going to relax and keep going as planned (maybe even better — I managed to make something fresh in the meantime).
So if at any point you think I’m a bit late with my summer vibes — nope. These are still my warm honeymoon memories, and I stubbornly refuse to let autumn apathy into this room. It already tried, but if I pretend I don’t see it — it doesn’t exist.

Oh, and since I lost a week, things might look a little messy now.
But I think you’re already used to my chaos — this is the light version😌

I’ll tell you a bit about what’s going on around me — life, random thoughts, a bit of stress, because it seems I got too relaxed...
Everyone was waiting for the exhibition, and I was waiting for the moment when my brain would finally let me breathe.

To be honest, after that exhausting trip I hoped I wouldn’t have to leave town for at least half a year — those awful shuttle buses were enough.
But plans changed: one of our friends had a posthumous exhibition, and we couldn’t possibly miss it.
God, I keep thinking about his incredible graphics — so delicate and alive, I could stare at them forever. But honestly, it hit me hard. It’s painful to think about how much beauty he didn’t get to share with the world — and how many questions I never got to ask him.
And, of course, the weather’s been awful. Well, it’s autumn — it’s got a talent for bringing that heavy, useless kind of melancholy, even when you think you’re emotionally strong enough to dodge it.

Last weekend was chaotic (as usual for us). If we go to Kyiv, we somehow manage to squeeze every possible plan into three days — and then crawl home completely exhausted. We came back dead tired, carrying heavy thoughts and a light cold after getting caught in the rain.
Before that, my motivation was glowing like a spotlight, after I felt like a broken bulb. Sadness, fatigue, deadlines to fix again because they’re outdated — everything piled up. For a few days I felt completely drained and couldn’t get back into my work rhythm.

And then, for the first time in a while, the blackouts started again — they turned off both electricity and water for several hours.Because the fucking ru**ian terrorists are once again bombing our critical infrastructure.
Four years into this madness already. Will anyone finally do something about them? Or is everyone “deeply concerned” again?

Anyway — electricity-wise I’m fine, because last year I made sure to be energy-independent. Sadly, there’s still no heating, so I keep the air conditioner on constantly, because 15°C inside is a nightmare. That’s a bit too much for my inverter, so I’ll have to warm up the apartment to the max before every blackout. In this context, bad weather becomes even more annoying — I really don’t handle cold well.
Activating fleece-cabbage mode!

The good part is that my computer keeps running during blackouts, so I don’t have to worry about my art — it’s still being made at the same pace. Though, my weird moods sometimes create little traffic jams in my workflow - I honestly have no idea how it works🥲
Like, everything’s ready done — I just need to write a bit of text and press the button… and also reply to people… And then there are a few finished artworks that have been sitting for days, but for some reason I just can’t crawl over to actually send them to the client… And the ones I already sent still somehow haven’t made it to the gallery…
All this year I kept postponing finished works because it’s hard to make myself write the text, and then there are all those damned tags and everything else. I know I could skip it or make it super simple, but I feel this almost vital need to do it properly. And then I decided to finish an artwork I technically took “yesterday,” because — I don’t know — I just really want to do that one right now. Even though it’s not nearly as important as finally finishing the honeymoon post I was supposed to publish a week ago😭

And you know what comes next? The sea and summer!🏝️🏖️🍹🌊 Even though Halloween is in a few days, yep! But Halloween will happen too — everything’s according to plan. The plan exists!
I’m an idiot, I’m sorry…

That was a random breach of emotional containment, I’m composed again.
For now, my plans are only slightly off track — nothing critical. I’ve already made myself sit down and I’m ready to continue the exhibition. Hopefully this time — without any more surprises.

Alright...
Inhale. Exhale.
Let’s begin.
Make yourselves comfortable :)

Thank you for reading! I love you all💖