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The world is falling to shit in new and interesting ways. One of these ways is the destruction of the very meager U.S. social safety net and the possibility tha...
Category: gettin’ crafty
Why?
Watched this the other night and thought that they brought up some good questions. As a person who has always struggled with justifying my existence and why I c...
A bit of cleaning before creating
Once upon a time, in another life, my 3rd floor, raw attic space was finished off with Sheetrock and carpeting and became a bedroom. Then when it was no longer ...
Con crunch
Except for one Star Trek convention my best friend and I went to in high school (it was right downtown, a bus ride away so why the hell not go?) I came to con l...
A Home for Hortense – the adventure continues
Sometimes, when the world is literally burning, flooding or otherwise turning to shit, I just have to retreat to shore up the internal defenses before venturing...
Project Housewife
house·wife /ˈhousˌwīf/ noun noun: housewife; plural noun: housewives A while ago I realized that there’s an awful lot of sewing that should be happening i...
Tiny Study
I think it was the towards the end of 2019 that the book nook craze hit the interwebs. Spent more time then I’d like to admit scrolling through endless po...
Long live the Independents
The youngest and I spent the afternoon and a good part of the evening shopping about a week ago. We don’t do that often. We needed supplies. It was two w...
Stitching through time
I know I’ve mentioned this before but it keeps popping up and surprises me like the first time I realized it; I have a lot more time on my hands these day...