sticksandbones | [OPEN] gardening & sewing log for your domestic cottagecore needs

Who: Ain & You
What: Gardening + new tailor shop log
When: A day or two after everyone gets back from the Grove... people might be dying in the log under this we'll deal with it
Where: The Grove
Warnings: None, this is a peaceful and happy log-

I. - The Tailor Shop Prompt

[The Grove has a new shop when everyone returns from the beach. It's little, the outside sign woven with wooden motifs of leaves and carved text reading "NEEDLE & THREAD", and the windows having displays of mannequins in them, one of which has only fabric draped around its neck and the other which Ain is using to sew a dress. He's also wearing his own as he does this, ten different bobby pins in his hair to keep his bangs out of the way while he works.

Although he looks busy, shuffling about to get the display set up, he'll cheerfully greet people who come in and ask if they want anything done. He doesn't have anything premade yet because this place just opened, but he's happy to take requests — or sew something up, if you need it.]

II. - The Gardening Prompt

[After the tailor shop is fully set up, Ain can be seen walking around in short overalls with a ton of gardening supplies. Flower pots, seed packets, a toolbelt filled with gardening tools he got from Heimr... he has thirty-six packages of seeds, three each of any one type of plant, and he looks overjoyed digging in soil. He has become a Dirt Boy. Which is to say he has somehow gotten swipes of dirt on his face. If you want to help, or just stare at him, you can find Ain either:

a) futzing with flower pots and hanging planters that he's trying to get hung up on the awning of the tailor shop and on the other buildings, once things get planted; and he specifically tells you that the cacti need to be planted in large pots because they grow out too, not just up, and can you help him reach this and that or move this big heavy cactus flower pot over there?

b) digging holes into the actual ground, but not near the sunflowers so he doesn't harm them by accident, around the various buildings. Here is where he's planting lilies and frangipani and a bunch of other flowers, watering the spots the seeds are buried where they immediately spring to life thanks to him asking Moder to make them grow faster earlier. The Guardian herself is lingering in the distance supervising like a mom at the park.

c) Of course, if you didn't want to help with the process of planting things, you can find Ain a few hours later making flower crowns from the lantanas and lilies.]

[[ooc: if it's helpful to anyone wanting to garden, this is the full list of plants bought: cactus, aloe vera, lilies, frangipani, wisterias, fuchsias, begonias, hydrangeas, poppies, lantanas, calendulas, & gardenias. have fun planting plants :) ]]

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I am! I hope they are useful to you!

[ He carefully settles himself down beside Ain in the dirt, looking right at home there. Gardening is his joy, and he sorely missed it. Then gently sets the little pots down, pointing them out. ]

Rose. Hibiscus. Lemon Balm. Butterfly pea! Please, take them!

[!!!!!! PLANT]

Haha, wow, really? Thanks, Mr. Sheep!! I'll take good care of them!

[He's picking up the pot of hibiscus and observing it. Hm hmmm. Ah, this one would look pretty over here...]

I'll ask Ms. Moose Monster to make them grow faster, like with the other ones I'm growing. Then they'll be all pretty~.

I know you will, my friend, you seem quite exuberant about it!

[ It's refreshing, a breath of calm after everything. Simply looking around at all the flowers already planted, at the holes being dug, and feeling a welling of peace in his chest. ]

They are all very lovely. I am glad you have decided to do this. If you need any help, do let me know, I cared for the gardens back home in the Kingdom.

Oh! Well, if you're offering and you're good at digging holes like Mr. Fluffy is, I could use some help with that.

[Hums a little tune... hands Pure Vanilla a trowel.]

I want to plant a row of hydrangea bushes along this pathway here. [Points.] They need a lot of space since they get so massive.

Aha, I may not be quite so good as Mr. Fluffy, but I can handle my own!

[ He'll take the trowel and roll his sleeves up and tuck them (Ain gets to see those markings all over his arms, grats Ain, you are the Second, other than Dark Cacao), and turn his staff to look. ]

Excellent! Do you have plans for cross-pollination?

[ He will shift himself over to begin getting holes prepared for the hydrangea. Talking flowers is making his tail wiggle. ]

[Ooh markings... Ain opens his mouth to ask, but Pure Vanilla's question interrupts his line of thought.]

Oh! I've never tried before, so I didn't really think about it. I'm just planting them in ways that will look pretty.

[No thoughts, only aesthetics.]

If you know how, maybe you can show me.

[ Oh. That's cute, really! Just wanting to plant to make things look pretty, rather than thinking of possible hybrids. ]

There are a few that should be able to produce hybrid offsprings, but so long as they are all relatively close together, our little pollinators shall do the job well enough for us!

[ He ponders the plants as he digs, carefully making sure there's no rocks or etcetera in the holes that will inhibit root growth. ]

I am not entirely familiar yet with non-sugar variants of flowers, but I believe there's a few here that should produce viable hybrids.

Ooh... haha, I'll take your word for it. I know there are little bees here, one flew into my head and bonked off of it earlier. They have too many eyes like everything else, but they're cute.

[His church pigeon Zinnia tried to eat one. She did not catch it. Speaking of, she is now desperately trying to steal Ain's ribbon from his hair. If Pure Vanilla isn't careful or happens to be too close... she's going to hop over onto his shoulder with it and tuck it into his collar.

Victory.]

They are quite adorable, and most gentle! I am sure they will appreciate all the new flowers you are planting most of all.

[ As well as every other little bug.

The tiny weight on his shoulder is met with a soft sweet little 'hello!'. He is unaware he's been made an accomplice to a crime until he feels the ribbon get tucked in, making him pause and his ears go up. ]

What have you brought me, little one?

[ His fingers go to the ribbon to feel it, pulling it free from his collar in bemusement as his Staff tilts it's eye around to look. ]

A ri-oh!

[ He recognizes this and laughs, one finger coming up to pet the little pigeon. Ah, ruffian! ]

Ain, my dear, are you missing anything?

[Runs his hand through the back of his hair and gets dirt all up in it (RIP).

...]

Zinnia!! [The pigeon simply coos, both because she is being scritched and because her pranks are very funny to her.] What did I tell you! I said you can only steal from people we don't like!

[Dachsologie is under the same orders and yet he doesn't listen either.]

[ Oh. Rest in peace that hair. Peepaw's fingers itch to wash it now.

But for now he laughs, shifting himself to lean over to Ain and hold the ribbon out, smiling brilliantly. ]

Ah, but what does it mean when she steals from her friend?

[ He loves birds, they're such characters. Maybe that's why he's particularly fond of Gnosis and them. He carefully rubs his horn along the little one on his shoulder. Zinnia. ]

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