V In Everything

Month: April 2025

  • Worshiping at the Alter of Mending

    Worshiping at the Alter of Mending

    I’m being wildly dramatic with the title, I know, but the pun potential of “worshiping at the altar” and “alter” as in clothing, could not be resisted! While the tide on this surge of creation is receding, I am still interested in mending and altering my clothing, the least of which because I am bothered…

  • Making, Mending, and Misadventures

    Making, Mending, and Misadventures

    One of my lifelong skills, instilled within me by my mother, who lived in the Soviet Union for a vast portion of her life, has been mending. I have never been great at it, but I knew how to do a couple different stitches and how to sew on a button. In the past couple…

  • Collage as Curation

    Collage as Curation

    I have been aware of collage as a medium for a few years now, ever since I followed a then-grad student on tumblr who mentioned that she occasionally did collage. This was the time that I first heard of Mod-Podge. Not too long after that I acquired my own jar of Mod-Podge and then it…