WHITE RABBIT MOONLIGHT SOCIETY QUARTERLY ☼ vol. 2

It is still technically the second quarter of the year so I haven't missed the deadline yet. Originally, I naively thought I could aim for monthly updates, but now I think quarterly is a bit more realistic.

I have been making stuff since the last update. Not consistently, but regularly. I've actually made a lot of stuff for work. I'm not in an artistic field, but I volunteer for different committees and initiatives and kinda force my artwork onto them. However, I'd like to keep that separate from my hobbies online, so I won't share that here.

Otherwise I've just been having fun by going with whatever creative impulse strikes me at the moment. For a while it was crocheting, and then baking, and now I'm back to playing around in my sketchbook. I spend a lot of my time outdoors now that it's so hot out and I can easily bring my sketchbook along. I cannot deny my Leo nature, the sun rejuvenates me!

I've also been going to various workshops with crafty friends. I like workshops because they let you play around with different materials and media that you don't normally have access to. This is ideal as someone who likes to try a little bit of everything but really does not have enough space and/or money to start yet another hobby. 

I've crocheted a bunch of practical items: more book sleeves (for friends), a banana hammock, and a stuffed animal net for my ever-growing collection. I do have vague plans to crochet some net tote bags and waterbottle holders, but I think my crocheting season is finished for the year. It will resume once the weather starts to get colder and I stay inside again.

And even though I just said I cannot afford to start new hobbies and buy more materials, I bought acrylic markers! They've been my most recent tools of choice because they're just so fun. I am such a lazy painter in that I hate the set-up and set-down that comes with painting. These markers are super convenient and I love the bright colours. Colour theory has always been a weakness of mine, so this is forcing me to experiment with a more limited palette.

And I've always found this to be true: the more you create, the more creative you become. Intentionally creating makes you start to see the world in a new way. I'm excited to see where the second half of the year takes me.

WHITE RABBIT MOONLIGHT SOCIETY QUARTERLY ☼ vol. 1

Welcome to a new series, created with good intentions and not a lot of thought. But I thought this space could start to function a bit more like an actual blog.

For a while, it has been intermittently updated with mainly travel, sometimes art (and crafts), and rarely something personal. And I think I would like to keep it impersonal because the internet is a scary place. But as I resolved at the end of 2025, I think it's important to have a somewhat independent space to make and share art.

I'm going to use this series to share the various creative things I am working on.

To start off the new year, I spent most of the weekend decluttering and reorganizing my 'studio'. (That's a play on words because my art studio is really just my studio apartment.) I've accumulated a lot of art supplies throughout my lifetime. It is my main hobby and I enjoy playing around with so many different media, but it makes me uneasy when I have a lot of stuff sitting around my apartment. I don't have enough storage space for that.

On the other hand, sorting through all of these materials inspired me to restart a few half-finished projects I'd forgotten about.

I have a lot of things I wanted to crochet last year, but that fell to the wayside once the weather got warm and I refused to stay inside. Then I crammed a bunch of crafting in December for Christmas gifts. Now that the holidays are over, I am slowly working through my crochet list. I am starting off with a practical love letter book sleeve so I can carry my books around without them getting damaged. But I ran out of white yarn so it ended up being too small for my current book.

I also have quite the stationery collection, which only grew with my most recent trip to Japan. There are so many high quality stationery goods in Japan, but I get overwhelmed by choice so I ended up purchasing brands I was already familiar with. Below is the Hobonichi Weeks and A6 blank Midori I started this year. This is my first time trying the Hobonichi weekly planner and I am loving it, it has a lot of fun themed pages. I am using my Midori as a catch-all for notes and brainstorming and I covered it with a pink paper book sleeve I also got in Japan.

The year just started so I don't have much else to share. I also don't know how often I'll update this series. Stay tuned, I suppose.