iso: any old/discarded/hole-ridden or worn out 100% wool garments (@slowandsoftly on instagram)
not relevant to this post but i feel like this might be up your alley (its from instagram)
Highly recommend bookshop! Link it to your local indie bookstore so they get a cut!
A week ago I found out that the grant I was confident would fund our spring mural will not, bc we're 2 blocks too deep into Kensington. This STINKS.
This project rocks bc it's community driven, biodiversity-focused (& more! read on!)
We're raising money to make it happen
givebutter.com/KenzoMural
I spin my own yarn, both cotton and wool: the vegetable lamb and I are old friends!
I am the vegetable lamb, resigned to my fate
its The Best Zoo! Well worth visiting, and the enclosures are really well done - all other zoos make me a little sad in comparison
I had drivers ed through school - they taught us two at a time and the other student I was paired up with was in a band with two of my exes. My drivers ed teacher was like "oh, you know each other? are you dating??" and I was like "that would be one band member too many" and refused to elaborate.
Just to make this abundantly clear:
"Which bunce cunts" 😂
Rolling the dice by buying something from an estate sale auction: how much will they charge me for shipping? its a mystery!!
The Chickahominy river raised me but I belong to the Schuylkill river now.
Scheming about carving my own distaff for spinning flax into yarn using the top of a Christmas tree - except I might be a little late so it may have to wait for next year. I guess Christmas tree whisks are a thing (I saw a post) and the shape is basically the same so I'm full of blind confidence
Three weeks of hand hives and I HATE IT, going to gnaw my hands off at the wrists if the antihistamines and steroid creams don't make it stop soon
A white cat with an orangish face is curled up in a funny position. He looks sleepy.
You can always give yourself some top of the line medical treatment and buddy tape it at home
whipped ricotta with sliced figs; butter and chili crisp
Every one of these was so lovely in my inbox, the one email I always make time to read
I would also like a soundtrack cd. Physical media me.
Watched Heated Rivalry and I need them to sell me dvds, I need physical media about this. I will bite people if there are not dvds.
Not LotR but this might be a job for David the Gnome? I loved him when I was tiny.
You absolutely GET his vision, he'll be so pleased to hear it
Mine works in vomit and mixed media textiles (curtains, chairs, carpets, quilts), he's very avant-garde
Handmade gifts were going well but today I have doom spiraled - where are my pattern pieces??
In those cases I cut store bought puff pastry into rectangles with a smaller rectangle scored, then throw the fruit with cream cheese and honey and bake it for lazy tart things
oh hell yes, this looks great!
The secret to green bean casserole is to use exactly the canned ingredients - fresh is a mistake - and put in an entire teaspoon of black pepper instead of the 1/8 the recipe calls for (you must trust me on this, it WILL look like too much). (If that doesn't work, the dish is just not for you)
This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.
Because it delivers ART!
USPS stamps where the only vehicles are the low hood height USPS trucks and the streets belong to the people
USPS 250th Anniversary Forever Stamps are a model for walkable communities, urbanism, and car-free neighborhoods.
In this essay (1/250)
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Warning coloration to tell people I'm poisonous if eaten!
