Side quests.

Things I make when nobody's paying me. AI tools, home hacks, and whatever is on the craft table this week.

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The Crown Design Jobs welcome screen and job list on two phones.Live

AI tool · Nov 2026

Crown Design Jobs

A free, mobile-first feed of design jobs at Canada's federal Crown corporations. Built with Claude in under 4 hours, after my own daily job-scan task proved it was worth sharing.

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The anna-og.com homepage: Design that grows your business.Live

AI + brand · Oct 2026

This website

Brand, design system and case studies, made with AI and directed by me.

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An I am hungry, send help raccoon meme NFC tag.In progress

Home automation · ongoing

Neurospicy house that runs on NFC tags

Tap-to-run Apple Shortcuts around the house: laundry reminders, animal feedings reminders, a two-freezer inventory that feeds a Claude meal-planning workflow, and meme labels so the family actually uses them.

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Five photo strips in red, orange, yellow, green and blue from the colour hunt.Weekly

Mindfulness · weekly

Capturing rainbow

Every week I pick one colour and hunt for it in the wild. The point isn't the photo. It's making myself pause and actually be present in the space around me.

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The porch goose in a giant red cardboard poppy for Remembrance Day.Monthly

DIY · monthly

Silly Goose Shenanigans

Every month our porch goose, picked out at Walmart by my daughter, gets a new outfit.

Meet this month's goose
A wide abstract canvas of white trees cut by beams of coloured light.Ongoing

Art · ongoing

Abstract paintings

Real paint, made at home. All abstract, no rules, no client brief. I'll post new pieces here as they dry.

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The family in handmade ocean costumes on the front lawn, faces covered with emoji.Done

DIY · Halloween 2026

Family ocean costumes

Halloween is my favourite holiday. This year money was tight, so I took it upon myself to DIY every costume. Theme: ocean. Everything was made out of recycled materials. Anecdotally we won the best costumes in our neighbourhood.

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