Helped my dad set up his new phone last weekend. While transferring his notes I found one called "Things to ask" right next to my name

It had stuff like how's my car doing, did I hear back about that promotion, whether I finally fixed that one problem and a bunch of other stuff. It also said "don't mention the breakup unless he brings it up" lol looked like he added that recently.

My dad has never been much of a talker. Most of our calls don't even last 3 minutes and I'm usually the one ending them because we run out of things to say.

Didn't realize he was actually preparing things to talk about just to keep the conversation going.

Made myself a toasted sandwich for dinner tonight and can't stop thinking about all those calls I rushed through.

Fresh on the left and healed 8 months on the right

I hand embroidered this skeletal leaf with floral wire, thread, fabric and dyes using stumpwork techniques. The veins are embroidered and the rest is fabric. This is part of a larger project I'm working on, but I felt it was too pretty not to share by itself. I've made several leaves like this one and while the process is always the same, I love that each one turns out a bit different. This one was dyed to give it a slightly frosted/icy look.