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

[eidxiety]

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 :) ]]

Comments

the way im 5 days late to this

[eidxiety]

[HUGS!! Mizuki gets squished back.]

Haha, Ms. Magician taught me how to sew several Harmony Festivals ago. It's tradition to make your own outfits for it. But I can sew you something! I need to take measurements, though.

[Picks up Mizuki mid-squish

moves him to the middle of the shop floor. Plop.]

Stand there, and hold your arms out to either side of you so I can.

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki pretty immediately holds his arms out like he'd done this a dozen times before. Realistically, he probably has, considering his modeling job. He straightens himself out and holds steady so Ain doesn't have too much trouble getting the measuring tape around him. ]

I'm not the creative sort, so I don't think I could make my own outfit, ehe... I can put things that are already made together, though. That part's pretty easy, though, I feel...

[eidxiety]

[Good, he loves it when people are easy to measure.]

Haha, don't worry. I'm pretty imaginative. [Comes with the anxiety!] I guess it depends on what you want though, too. Do you prefer short things like this? Or something long? Puffy sleeves? I can sketch something, but I'm not that great of an artist, so the most I can do is general shapes.

[Like he cannot draw a full person but he can at least do the fashion designer thing of using a model and making a doodle.]