In 2023, I started taking film pictures, getting them developed, thinking oh hey this film is great omg I’m obsessed everyone looks like a film star so I should definitely get this film again – and then not having a clue what film I used. Box thrown out months ago. So, this is my solution. I made GABARAZZI, a downpour to keep track of the film I use. it’s not so much a photo album, though i like making a note of my favourite picture from a roll. I have a physical album downstairs full of prints so this is more for when I go to the camera shop to buy film but stare blankly at the shelves. I have three different cameras now, too. So it’s useful to quickly compare what they each produce.

I love to knit. This downpour is called TEJIDOS meaning knitted things in spanish. as above, I don’t want to lose track of the yarn I use! or the patterns I use! or if I enjoyed the yarn or the patterns at all, because what if I liked the final product but it was a struggle? Tejidos is a record of all of that, adjustments and so on. It’s the one I like the most because it’s fun to click on each ball and see it turn into a Thing. Quick before and after. Also useful when I go to the yarn shop – my favourite place maybe in the world? I have a record of the exact shades and yarn weights if I wanna make something again, and when I started knitting I realised straightaway that that’s a pretty important thing to keep track of. soooo glad I have downpour for that.

This one is the newest downpour in my rainy little ouvre. It is a collection of things that I like. Outfits and sweets and knitwear designs and random shit I see online and, up until that point, had just been screenshotting and never looking at again. I realise this is why people have Pinterest, or at least I think that’s what happens over there. But I was looking through Fruits and thinking I’d like to look back at some of these pictures again at some point. If I take pictures on my phone, I’ll never look at them again though. Ah-haaaaa. There’s Downpour for that! When it comes to people asking me what I want for christmas or birthdays?? SEE HERE. If it’s payday and I think time for a treat or I wanna knit something new but don’t know what, SEE HERE. Importantly, the last page is a comment box where people can suggest things they think I might link so I hope I like more things in the future. hehehehe

people of the salt was my first downpour, and it’s also the biggest one. in terms of externalising my brain, I made it in 2023 when I was so sick and so out of it that I kept forgetting how to help each one of my many symptoms. I thought it could be a tool more than anything. a nurse inside my phone. something to care for me when I was too sick to remember how? I think I went about it in a mad way, and it could be a lot better, and I should definitely update it with all the things I do nowadays. But I still get messages from people who think it’s useful for their own experience of POTS; plus there’s a list of POTS-friendly foods on there that I continue to send to people when I am going to be staying in their house. okay yes, a 2025 update is now on my to-do list. bear with 🧂

finally, not much to say on this one. it’s called becoming my mother because it is the sewing counterpart to the knit downpour above, and my mum is go-to person in my life who sews and mends and fashions and crafts. I did a bunch of sewing last year but to be honest nothing I made has ever been AS functional as the knits I complete, so I got frustrated and put my machine back on the shelf. I really wanna go back to it this year. But I really feel like I am missing the precision required so maybe I am not becoming my mother after all. Knitting is so much more forgiving, so it was easier to get better at it. Sewing is so intimidating to me still. I think I’ve been aiming too high and need to pare it back or something. Idk, maybe if you’re clicking on this later in 2025 there’ll be better things on there. I hope so!!