iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 14/06/2026

New board is Keychron J3 SE. I want to find a cool set of mallard or mint caps that will go well with this minty color. They have another model with a white body, but I went with this because when do you see a mint board? Switches are silent and it's nice coming from clicky & tactile.

a Keychron J3 SE mechanical keyboard. The body is a mint color, balanced between a light green and a light blue, and the keycaps are white with pink legends and pink with white legends.

030

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 06/05/2026

I cackled at someone's take on Philly drivers on Threads. "...a horse named Benjamin" laid me out this morning🤣

A threads post about Philly drivers.

"I'll never understand honking your horn at a SEPTA bus like you've identified a lack of urgency in the situation. No one wants to make that light more than a SEPTA bus driver. They're operating a 40-ft rectangle through these Philly colonial streets that were designed for a horse named Benjamin.

A yellow light to them is not a warning, it's a closing window of destiny so your little beep from the 4th row back is not providing any new information.

If the driver could legally phase through the Altima in front of them, they absolutely would have."

1147

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 25/04/2026

These are pics of just my acrylic gouache (and one tube of Liquitex soft body acrylic). I've used my watercolor paints since the move, but not these. I want to do something with all of these so I can use them up and not have these cups taking up space in my art drawer chest.

Mini cups with attached lids that contain mixes of acrylic gouache paints. There is a range covering mauves and light taupes to deep greys. There's also a bottle of Liquitex slow-dry fluid additive.

A chest drawer opened partially to show a variety of Turner Acryl Gouache tubes and Liqiutex acrylic gouache bottles.

020

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 16/04/2026

I know I’m gonna be tired in the morning but I can’t sleep and I want to paint blobs and squiggles.

A photo of a watercolor palette, poured pans from tubes all ranging from buff titanium to neutral tint

130

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 31/03/2026

I had a good no-cracks-in-my-TWSBI run (12+ years?). I had a smoke Vac 700 and various 580s (mini and full size); most were traded except for the aquamarine 580AL. This was the one TWSBI that I kept in the fountain pen rotation and inked.

A TWSBI vac 700r, a vacuum-fill fountain pen. It has a cracked band where the cap screws onto the body to close.

150

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 15/03/2026

Working on knitting one of the resized samples for one of my patterns. Also need to figure out how I want to set up my new planner. I know I don't want to use anything bigger than an 0.38 pen (anything Uni holds me down).

a hand knit sweater in a sky-colored heather yarn, fingering weight, in a ribbed stitch. both the front and back are on circular knitting needles.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout and the right side holds a dot-grid space for notes and a "to do this month" section.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout and a section for tracking trackable in the middle.

031

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 18/02/2026

I love this. Stardew Valley for the win!

a Threads post saying:
I kid you not, I learned business systems from playing Stardew Valley lmaooo
1. Start with small processes.
2. Focus on the primary task first.
3. Upgrade your tools whenever possible.
4. Focus on the tasks that provide the highest return.
5. Build systems out of simple processes.
6. Multiple small revenue streams > one big one.
7. Automate the most labor intensive processes.
8. Don't overwork yourself.

051

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 16/02/2026

Any mechanical keyboard fans looking for an Alice layout? It came with brown switches, and I can include the creamy cyans, too. $100 for everything with free shipping.

The box for a Keychron Q10 75% mechanical keyboard.

The Keychron Q10 75% mechanical keyboard. It has a silver frame with grey (dark and light) keys and yellow accent keycaps.

The Keychron Q10's tools. include a keycap puller, switch puller, and screwdrivers. There are also power cords and extra modifier keycaps for windows layouts.

Akko Creamy Cyan switches in their packaging

011

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 16/02/2026

About to put this up for sale. It came with brown switches, but I’ll add these (Akko creamy cyan) in there as one package. Realizing I need a low-profile board.

A mechanical keyboard without the key as on the switches. The layout is Alice and the switches are Akko creamy cyan.

131

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 13/02/2026

A God of War Greek trilogy remake (with Sons of Sparta out now), a John Wick game, and Ghost of Yotei DLC.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 08/02/2026

Going through stuff and found 7 skins of this marigold and 4 skeins of the koi, so I guess I’m gonna crochet a quick something and put it up in the site? Gotta cover some of these moving costs somehow. burkehousecrafts.com

Two skeins of Ella Rae merino superwash, one in a bright koi orange and the other in a marigold heather.

020

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 03/02/2026

Get 15% off patterns (and small pouches!) in the shop for new customers! burke-house-crafts.mybigcommerce.com

picture of hand knit socks in a heathery purple color, with some knit/purl texture

picture of hand knit socks in a bright variegated Koigu color from years ago. there's blue, yellow, pink, green, purple, and the pattern is a twisted rib panel

picture of hand knit socks in a bright coral orange color with eyelets and garter stitch blocks.

picture of hand knit socks in a variegated pale mint color with multicolor speckles in a knit/purl rib pattern

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 26/01/2026

I ignored the internet for a good chunk of time today and made 4 pouches. I can't get good pics since it's snowy and icy as hell outside, but I might be able to find my lightbox somewhere.

4 hand sewn bags: one with a fruit sticker print, one with granny square print, another with neon cat food cans, and another with various animal family members.

043

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 26/01/2026

This is on you, @notalegalrecord.net. New pouch going up on Etsy later. 9.5”x5.75ish”, and with a lil loop on the side.

A handsewn bag with bright neon colors of cat food cans. There are plastic clips in the background and a not-yet-sewn bag with crochet design off to the side.

110

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 19/01/2026

I’m going through my fabric stash and finding bags that just need cutting out and assembly! SMH 😩

Fabric on interfacing, ready to be sewn into pouches. One has high-top sneakers in pink, lilac, goldenrod, and turquoise colors and the other fabric has pencils running parallel to each other on an aqua background.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 18/01/2026

I finally decided to sew the sleeves into this jacket and sew the side seams. I haven’t started back up making bags or coasters (letting Printify do some of that with stuff I design), but I do miss sewing.

A multicolor, almost eye-searing, printed fabric with monkeys, toucans, and plants and flora and fauna all over.

060

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 14/01/2026

I found the missing sock! I can get the pattern up and published (hopefully) sometime this weekend.

a hand knit pair of socks in a lilac fingering weight yarn, Perennial from Kelbourne Woolens. There's a good about of ribbing on the cuff and there's a diamond-like design that has garter and eyelets.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 11/01/2026

THIS heifer, Pythona. She gave me nightmares for the longest.

Pythona, an animated GI Joe movie villain. She has al almost bald head except for a ponytail, snake-like eyes, a pink/magenta bodysuit or skin made to look like scales, and a deep indigo cape.

100

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 10/01/2026

I love ripping out a whole half of a sock because I knit the foot AND the gusset as if it were 64 stitches instead of the actual number. 🙃🫠

a handknit sock in the making, on the left. there's a knit/purl pattern that looks like brickwork of garter stitch a little. on the right is the pile of unraveled yarn that the knitter took out in order to fix a mistake in construction.

150

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 31/12/2025

I think I'm the most excited about playing around with this watercolor card, the reddish browns, sienna shades, and rusts. I can LIVE in the aqua, blue, purple, pink, and cool shades, but there's some room to see which of these will catch my eye.

A watercolor sample dot card from Daniel Smith. It's one of 5 cards and features reddish brown shades, earthy rusts and browns, and a few lighter coral and gold shades.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 29/12/2025

This was a fun one to make. www.etsy.com/listing/4431...

A ceramic mug with pink on the inside and pink-iced donuts on the outside in an allover pattern

031

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 12/12/2025

Thanks to TNT's schedule back in the day, I can't watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas earlier than the 10th or later than the 15th. Kid picked today, and here we are, watching him just hope and wish them people would've kept the noise low without him calling the HOA.

120

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 09/12/2025

I'm so wanting to knit this in a worsted weight that I have left over from a sweater project. Just a big, grey, warm thing to drape around myself.

A woman is standing outside, somewhere with open plain, looking at mountains. She's modeling a shawl knit with a handpainted yarn in a variegated color way of red, gold, green, and maybe purple. The shawl has chevron chunks with a different stitch pattern in each, and picot edging. There's a green version hanging on a fence in front of the woman.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 07/12/2025

LMAO we're all going to be the traumatized therapy fox.

An image of a taxidermied fox sitting on a chair. Its legs are crossed and it has a very traumatized, thousand-yard stare in its beady little eyes.

010

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 05/12/2025

This chump doesn't offer to help with anything. Not ONE email replied to, no pivot table input, nothing.

picture of a cat with mostly black/brown hair and some white. he's sitting on a lap blanket and facing away form the camera.

030

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 03/12/2025

My Apple Replay belongs to that Black couple on the block, Ms. Beverly and Mr. Charles. His car is always pristine, whether it’s the car wash or him washing it while wearing that Myrtle Beach t-shirt, and her hair STAYS in that Anita Baker mode. She has good purse candy.

Screenshot of apple Replay
Top Genres 2025
1 -R&B & Soul-7,303 minutes
2-Contemporary R&B-4,509 minutes
3-Soul-3,292 minutes
4-Quiet Storm-2,741 minutes
5-Funk-2,162 minutes

000

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 01/12/2025

I love doing my nails, just taking time to do something nice for myself. It's much easier than dip and has more longevity than the ole regular glue-on sets I saw my mother rocking years ago.

000

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 18/11/2025

Repeated and concerted harassment of Black women, and you think we gon keep you around because you might've had a song or two that earwormed us?

A Black man is standing in a house, living room, in a grey sweat suit with hands on hips. he's bent at the waist and looking into the camera with a "are you kidding me?" look on his face.

130

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 30/10/2025

My face when I read that last sentence.

030

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 08/10/2025

Anyway, I’m knitting a hat. The yarn is Kelbourne Woolens Germantown and it’s friggin’ great.

A hat being handknit. The yarn is a worsted weight and has 2x2 ribbing, on circular needles for knitting in the round.

030

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 09/09/2025

If I sign up for this, y'all have every right to cuss me out.

Kermit the Frog on a t-shirt. There’s a skateboard underneath him while he’s in the air. There are letters above and below him that say “the vibe is in shambles”.

000

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 09/09/2025

There are Keith Haring Blackwings!?!?!?!?! Please, God, I see what you do for others....

a picture of Blacking pencils with Keith Haring designs on them, and a pencil sharpener with a red dog in the same style.

130

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 16/08/2025

A tricky color to capture, but maybe I can get a few rows knit (and a few pages read) on the back this weekend.

A heavily cabled cardigan back being handknit in Kelbourne Woolens Cricket, a tweedy singles yarn. The color is a deep Virginian with lime, magenta, and indigo-purple flecks. It’s sitting in front of “Stokely: A Life” by Peniel E. Joseph.

130

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 03/08/2025

I put on T2 and I guess today is going to be a Terminator movie day. It started because I saw this on IG this morning. 10am and 12am are where I am. Let Arnold from the 1st, the T-1000 from the 2nd, and Gabriel Luna's model from Dark Fate come. Some of y'all can't have nice things.

an IG post of a screenshot that says
My emotions
7am: Today I'll be more positive
10am: I hate my job, the sun and myself
Lunch: ok I think I overreacted
5pm: another stupid day is over
8pm: if I get enough sleep I'll be fine
12am: [crying] I hope aliens destroy earth

020

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 30/07/2025

It's not just you. My cousin both have said that this one takes the fucking cake. I won't even lie and act like I didn't cry a lil bit earlier out of frustration. It doesn't help having virgo and gemini placements, which are most affected.

000

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 29/07/2025

I just chopped some garlic yesterday and put it in a mason jar. So much cheaper than buying a tub of minced garlic and it makes me want to use it more often. The only thing that takes time is the peeling, but the kid helps with that.

a picture of a green manual food chopper. there's a pull mechanism that moves the blades inside the container to chop whatever ingredients are placed inside.

100

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 17/07/2025

I clicked to see where it went and it looks like a form asking for my name & email. Googled the source and it's some anti-trump site. If y'all don't leave me tf alone. Signing a form is going to do what, when there are people in power who can do something about him? (Istg don't answer this.)

a screenshot of an sms message:
NEW: Senate officially defunded NPR & PBS this morning. Stand with public broadcasting: no-surrender.us/npr-pbs?t=2c4AYk

-No Surrender
Text STOP to quit

040

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 16/07/2025

I culled the kid's school supply stash so we can start to get what's missing/needed now (September will be here in a blink). Found an entire 48-count set of (unpictured) Sakura oil pastels that she hardly used, and one of M's former coworkers gave her some Winsor & Newton water-mixable oil tubes!

a set of Winsor & Newton water-mixable oil color tubes from lemon yellow to raw umber and various red, pink, blue, and green shades in between.

170

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 15/07/2025

Our district sent an email re: plans for unapproved/pending budget parts & how they'll still commit to the kids who need them the most. Curious to see how many join virtual in the fall. Mercury tardigrade is circling my block, and I'm mildly irked at a lot. BUT... I painted today.

a 9x12" acrylic gouache piece of triangles. the bottom left corner is a lemony yellow and the colors change to a chartreuse, then mallard greens, and then an aqua in the top right corner.

151

Don't Play In My Face @burkehousecrafts.com · 14/07/2025

I was JUST thinking (the past few days actually) that I should rewatch from the beginning. Then, I remember. I remember the show. I remember the books. I remember the differences between them. (I remember that George still needs to finish a damn book.)

An image of Gavin, the internet's nephew, screaming. There is a filter that shows emphasis lines around his body while he screams.

130