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September 2025

  1. weekly retro #31: big pharma deez nuts
  2. weekly retro #32: hospitals, trucks, and a little coke
  3. here is the latest on "candles" #2
  4. weekly retro #33: being bad at new things is good
  5. my "shopping" note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time

August 2025

  1. weekly retro #26: let's hope this is the last one about teeth
  2. weekly retro #27: new coming soon business
  3. you do not have to use generative ai "art" in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free
  4. weekly retro #28: pivoting to video
  5. weekly retro #29: (close to) an ego death by wax and words
  6. weekly retro #30: live laugh cup

July 2025

  1. my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options
  2. weekly retro #22: another week of *not* eating the flowers
  3. weekly retro #23: my last week with this one specific tooth
  4. weekly retro #24: fake teeth, real busy
  5. weekly retro #25: burns, exposed ankles and other horrors

June 2025

  1. weekly retro #17: blog birthdays, blood and buds
  2. weekly retro #18: june in bloom and gloom
  3. weekly retro #19: garbag'ino, garbag'outo
  4. weekly retro #20: what if a haircut smelled like fresh cut grass
  5. weekly retro #21: just a little something to take the edge off

May 2025

  1. weekly retro #13: crunchy flowers and interesting feline shapes
  2. weekly retro #14: the 'late because i went to boston' retro
  3. weekly retro #15: spider feet have hydraulics
  4. on 'important changes coming to glitch'
  5. weekly retro #16: one of those winding road kinda weeks
  6. five years of living, laughing and blogging

April 2025

  1. figure drawing session - april 2, 2025
  2. weekly retro #9: seeing deftones, drawing nudes, and practicing patience with myself
  3. weekly retro #10: the one where i accept that i can't have a humanoid body like krang
  4. weekly retro #11: playing radio, chandlery and blue prince
  5. figure drawing session - april 16, 2025
  6. weekly retro #12: the one where i became a walking weather stick

March 2025

  1. weekly retro #4: the one where i have a party and then get mad at my computer
  2. making custom matchboxes
  3. weekly retro #5: are there brokers in the ocean?
  4. trying to learn to enjoy markers
  5. weekly retro #6: the one where i got sick
  6. weekly retro #7: despite the haters (germs) i'm back
  7. weekly retro #8: touching grass

February 2025

  1. some figure sketches from january
  2. weekly retro #1: last full week of my 30s
  3. making butter (kind of)
  4. weekly retro #2: lordy lordy, jenn is forty
  5. weekly retro #3: three teens in a trenchcoat start a business on their period

January 2025

  1. 2025: another year of blog on the desktop again
  2. a pixel watercolor sketchbook i filled up
  3. books i read in january and thoughts on medicine and literacy

December 2024

  1. the pee-hole post or a quick fix if your air compressor's drain valve is leaking and other sidequests
  2. ten years of cattoo, or a comparison of a tattoo i got 10 years ago and what it looks like today
  3. candle math
  4. a collection of candles i made

November 2024

  1. brighton boobs
  2. photos from 2004
  3. that tfw when the world ends again
  4. my airbrush library

October 2024

  1. i made a very hard decision this year

September 2024

  1. ten years ago i let people fuck up my 8-bit art

August 2024

  1. there's a good reason i didn't blog this month yet

July 2024

  1. kissy lips again, this time about an art residency i did at the ace hotel in 2015

June 2024

  1. join my freaking mailing list
  2. kissy lips won't delete šŸ’‹

May 2024

  1. wonderville turned 5! also we're doing another show there this month
  2. last week i learned cpr and now i've got a new personality
  3. just some upcoming events and things on my mind

April 2024

  1. an april photo dump before april is over

March 2024

  1. falling for prince's fridge
  2. the intersection of candles and code

February 2024

  1. i made a second watercolor palette from eyeshadow
  2. catching up on candles

January 2024

  1. my 2023 year in code
  2. 10 years since i warned you's about bitcoin
  3. 2024: another year of blog on the desktop
  4. grade school entrepreneur

November 2023

  1. get a sticker book

September 2023

  1. my 2016 electric objects interview, revisited

August 2023

  1. karol polak made 8-bit art

July 2023

  1. arnold palmers for people who are trying to cool it on the sugar

June 2023

  1. condemned to blog

January 2023

  1. 2023: the year of blog on the desktop
  2. command strips and lemon dill chickpea pasta
  3. fmk: butterfly clips, thyroid disease, seventh grade?
  4. how to grow a web presence, 1/n

July 2022

  1. i spent the last month on a pretty cool watercolor project

June 2022

  1. circling back on the aquatic toilet seat
  2. pickling red onions
  3. candle-making my way to a cento fine foods sponsorship
  4. oh boy, she's making watercolors again

May 2022

  1. welcome to year 3 of live laugh blog
  2. a few very good youtube videos
  3. carousels, cashews, candles and community
  4. this isn't necessarily the aquatic scene toilet seat i will get but it illustrates my 'point'

February 2022

  1. on friday i turned 37
  2. she's still balding
  3. the grey muse, an etsy pin haul

December 2021

  1. this is a post about a haircut, spicy candle, elusive vegan turkey roast, gray cake, etc.

November 2021

  1. brb, circumnavigating the globe
  2. she is beauty, she is grace, she is balding

October 2021

  1. i’m giving an important talk at ā€œinternet explorersā€ on saturday 10/9
  2. here's what i bought at some dollar stores this week
  3. i spent most of halloween chaotically making candles

September 2021

  1. some foods that have been comforting me this past shitty month

August 2021

  1. hello, august ć€°ļø āž° āžæ
  2. bug vs. shark
  3. reverend jenn
  4. domesticating feral tomatoes
  5. yes, i am trying to get back into painting pixel art again

July 2021

  1. my candles needed thicker wicks
  2. a review of the remarkable 2, or 'i love my cutting edge digital paper technology!'
  3. my truth

May 2021

  1. an early birthday gift to my blog
  2. we began a candle-making adventure, i messed up!
  3. lemon cake, hold the shingles!
  4. i bought a heatless curling rod on etsy, and then i used it!

April 2021

  1. illustrations of procrastination: semi-homemade vegan chicken wrap

March 2021

  1. live laugh yawn, a tuesday morning stream
  2. a good video on how to make soy candles
  3. a lady of the evening's nails

February 2021

  1. happy 36
  2. pumagroggy
  3. demand justice

January 2021

  1. my 2020 gratitude thread
  2. how do sunscreens work
  3. napping on the job
  4. dear planet fitness,
  5. how to cheat at nail art
  6. repurpose your alcohol vessels as flower vessels instead
  7. there exist more palatable fusions of ā€œitalian for kidsā€ and baked goods than just that spaghettio pie

December 2020

  1. illustrations of procrastination: sweet potato and black bean bowl
  2. today i put jeans on, on purpose!
  3. emotionally stable woman crushes baskin robbins turkey cake challenge

November 2020

  1. halloweens of yesterjenn

October 2020

  1. some things that are helping me get through october
  2. commemorating a nice sunday with a large fake snake skeleton (as one does)

September 2020

  1. i’ve made it 6 weeks into a 12 week strength training program, so i’m ready to talk about it

August 2020

  1. 6 statement pieces that really make a statement
  2. here’s a ā€œwhat a vegan eats in a dayā€ post for me to point folks who are artificially concerned about my protein intake to
  3. getting a tofu press made a huge difference in my faux ā€œeggā€ salad and my stress levels
  4. i was a virtual fan at an nba playoffs round 1 game
  5. i vividly remember the first time i was made to feel dumb for asking a question
  6. i dropped off my food scraps and no one yelled at me

July 2020

  1. 3 quick and healthy dishes i make when my last meeting went 20 minutes into lunch and my next meeting is in 40 minutes
  2. ayyy iā€˜m walking (more) here!!
  3. the first ever live laugh conf was both two weeks ago and a huge success
  4. rating some of my favorite photos of me, except they were augmented by my friend gianni to have weird smiles
  5. celery soda for adults (real grown ups only!)
  6. finally, a classic smoky eye tutorial that works for my down-turned, hooded eyes
  7. this blog is not even two months old but i’ve already given it a new look
  8. i am a stamp collector now

June 2020

  1. lizzo told us to fry oyster mushrooms so i did
  2. shocking: cursed woman makes cursed spaghetti and "meatballs"
  3. how is this for "aesthetic"
  4. here is the latest on "candles"

May 2020

  1. hello world
  2. 6 very important things that had been sitting in my work bag since before the quarantine

category list

  1. art
  2. food
  3. health
  4. laughing
  5. living
  6. style
  7. tech
  8. working

tag list

  1. 3d
  2. 3d-printing
  3. ace-hardware
  4. adhd
  5. aerial-yoga
  6. ai
  7. airbrush
  8. alice-cooper
  9. alopecia
  10. anatomy
  11. andy
  12. animals
  13. anniversaries
  14. announcements
  15. apple
  16. appliances
  17. apps
  18. art
  19. art-books
  20. art-collection
  21. art-fairs
  22. art-supplies
  23. artists
  24. baking
  25. basketball
  26. bathroom
  27. beauty
  28. because-i-got-high
  29. beeswax
  30. beveraginos
  31. birds
  32. blogging
  33. blogging-while-high
  34. blogging-while-menstruating
  35. blood
  36. book-binding
  37. books
  38. boston
  39. botnik
  40. brooklyn
  41. bugs-rock
  42. business
  43. cakes
  44. candle-making
  45. candle-science
  46. candles
  47. cats
  48. ceramics
  49. certified
  50. chickens
  51. childhood
  52. chores
  53. code
  54. codepen
  55. coffee
  56. college
  57. colored-pencil
  58. comedy
  59. community
  60. computers
  61. concerts
  62. conferences
  63. cooking
  64. creatures
  65. cricut
  66. cssperverts
  67. cursed-kitchen
  68. decentralized
  69. decor
  70. diy
  71. dollar-stores
  72. drinks
  73. dumb-shit
  74. dunkin
  75. eggs
  76. email
  77. etsy
  78. events
  79. exercise
  80. exhibits
  81. family
  82. feelings
  83. figure-drawing
  84. fitness
  85. flowers
  86. food-art
  87. friends
  88. fundraising
  89. gaming
  90. gardening
  91. gianni
  92. glitch
  93. gouache
  94. gratitude
  95. gym
  96. habits
  97. hair
  98. hardware
  99. hashimotos
  100. haul
  101. history
  102. hobbies
  103. holidays
  104. home
  105. home-office
  106. hoobastank2
  107. hormones
  108. hosting
  109. htgawp
  110. html
  111. hypothyroidism
  112. illness
  113. ink
  114. interviews
  115. jamie
  116. jams
  117. javascript
  118. jersey-city
  119. jerseyscript
  120. juan-pablo
  121. karaoke
  122. kglw
  123. kitchen
  124. kremer
  125. labels
  126. latest-on-candles
  127. libraries
  128. library
  129. lifehacks
  130. lifting
  131. lips
  132. lisa
  133. live-laugh-conf
  134. live-laugh-yawn
  135. macos
  136. mail
  137. make8bitart
  138. makeup
  139. manhattan
  140. manicure
  141. manicures
  142. markers
  143. matches
  144. math
  145. media
  146. meetings
  147. meetups
  148. meta
  149. mike
  150. mocktails
  151. movies
  152. music
  153. nail-art
  154. nba
  155. neocities
  156. newsletter
  157. non-alcoholic
  158. nutrition
  159. nyc
  160. obsidian
  161. old-photos
  162. ootd
  163. overconsumption
  164. overthinking
  165. pain
  166. paint-making
  167. painting
  168. paperwork
  169. period
  170. photography
  171. photos
  172. pins
  173. pixel-art
  174. pnc
  175. portfolio
  176. potch
  177. printing
  178. prison-abolition
  179. procrastination
  180. pumagreg
  181. purchases
  182. quick-meals
  183. randwiches
  184. rating
  185. reading
  186. recipes
  187. remarkable
  188. render
  189. repurposing
  190. residencies
  191. resources
  192. reverend
  193. robot-karaoke
  194. routines
  195. satire
  196. school
  197. selfies
  198. shipping
  199. shirts
  200. shoes
  201. shopping
  202. shows
  203. sick
  204. sketchbook
  205. sketching
  206. skincare
  207. sobriety
  208. social-media
  209. sonic
  210. speaking
  211. spf
  212. sports
  213. spreadsheets
  214. stamps
  215. steps
  216. stickers
  217. storytime
  218. streaming
  219. suppliers
  220. sustainability
  221. svg
  222. talks
  223. target
  224. tattoos
  225. tech-talks
  226. teeth
  227. television
  228. thanksgiving
  229. thingiverse
  230. threejs
  231. thyroid
  232. tie-dye
  233. tiktok
  234. tips
  235. toronto
  236. touching-grass
  237. travel
  238. tutorials
  239. twitch
  240. twitter
  241. upcrate
  242. upcycling
  243. valtown
  244. vegan
  245. vegetables
  246. video
  247. videos
  248. virtual-window-shopping
  249. vlog
  250. walking
  251. water
  252. watercolor
  253. watercolors
  254. web-development
  255. weekly-retro
  256. wfh
  257. whats-in-my-bag
  258. wikihow
  259. womens-prison-association
  260. wonderville
  261. writing
  262. xoxo
  263. youtube