I wanna make scones. I found the last recipe I used (when I was like 12). But like, I’m hungry… should I eat first and bake later? Or bake and then eat what I bake?
I’m always super nervous when I’m putting anything new out there into the world. When I was posting those resin rings today I was like, omg what if no one likes them, no one hearts them. One was like a total accident in terms of the colour scheme too. But the reception has been amazing. I’m glad too cause I paid a lot of money for that ring mold. I’ve been wanting to make those rings for AGES. I finally bit the bullet and bought the mold and I’m so happy everyone likes them.
Sometimes I think everything I do in life is an experiment. I see artists who have such a clear aesthetic and direction to their work. Mine is basically ‘whatever I feel like making’. I’m always working on something new. I probably would have a lot more money if I didn’t keep investing all my profits in exploring new things. But this keeps me happy. What good would the money be if I was bored? My mind never stops running, thinking about what I could try next. Some things work out and I stick with it, some things I don’t care for so much. Most things I try tend to make me happy though. I guess that’s what I do it for. To please myself. So people’s positive reactions are just a bonus. It feels really good to be validated, but I learnt a long time ago not to hinge my self-worth on other people’s opinions. It has to be good enough for ME.
I just went to buy a perfume for Chris’s Mom for Mother’s Day, and when they rang it up it was the price on the bill was $100 less than they told me it was. And it wasn’t on discount. Somebody made a mistake. Yay me!
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This sexy black quartz and gold leaf ring is the perfect pieces to wear on a night out! 💃🏽🕺🏽.
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I’m so excited to debut these new resin rings made with real crystals and semi precious gemstones. Available in sizes 6-9. This pink delight was made with resin, gold leaf and rose quartz, the stone of universal love 💕 .
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Isobelle Ouzman is a 24-year-old Brit currently based in Seattle, WA. She
carves intricate 3D illustrations into discarded books.
I am a quiet lady with a wild imagination and a fascination for all things nature and fairytale related. Everything I make uses repurposed or recycled materials and I’m trying my best to keep it that way.
“Dad ranted about how LGBTQIA+ identities were getting too confusing to keep up with, my 88 year old grandma shut him down. ‘The way things are now is better than when people had to hide away or killed themselves because nobody understood who they were. Respect costs you nothing.’”
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that’s the only way we can keep the tree alive. It’s hard and it hurts, but it’s what’s best.”
Because of wrong information given to me by the Social Security office several years ago when I got divorced, I ended up owing them almost $17,000. They settled on allowing me to make a $20 a month payment (which will take 111 years to pay it down but what do I care, I’ll be dead). For the last couple years, I’ve had them draft the payment automatically and at double the amount.
Anyway in January I had to get a new debit card, so I called SS to make a payment and request a new bank draft form. They never sent it, and in the move and all the ensuing busy-ness, I forgot that the payment wasn’t being drafted, and forgot to call them to make the payment (not being used to having to do that). So I owed them $60 in payments.
For that, the IRS “offset” our entire tax refund of nearly $3000 and sent it to the SS to pay down some of the debt.
Our old Corolla that has 386,000 miles on it is currently inoperational. I’m driving a 32 year old Ram truck that gets 8 miles to a gallon, so except for church and a trip to the grocery store once a week, I’ve basically been homebound because the truck is so expensive to drive.
That tax refund was, among other things on the “wait” expense list, going to buy a Camry that my SIL and his friend just put a brand-new transmission in.
I figured out that if I can sell down yarn in my shop, for every 7 yarns I can buy more yarn to dye, and if I turn over a 20-skein multi pack 8 times, I can make up what we just lost due to my own ineptitude.
I don’t like to put things like this up, and I don’t like to beg. Wolf’s job pays just fine for our living expenses (and we help support another family with disabilities) but there’s not enough extra to raise money for a car in less than about a year.
If you knit or know someone who does, please send them my way (I take special colorway requests too). There is a 10% off shopwide discount running, no coupon necessary.
I went to a business place today to pick up some packages. The parking lot was full so I decided to pull behind the cars, out of the street, and wait until someone moved, knowing it wouldn’t be long.
I then realised that the SUV to my left put his car in reverse. I was about to change gears when he started backing up, straight into my car. I started to panic as he kept moving backwards and did a quick calculation. Even if I got my car in reverse I still wouldn’t be able to get out of his way in time. So I let my horn do the talking and honked frantically hoping he would hear me.
Thank god he did. He stopped inches away from my car and waited just long enough for me to get out of his way, then reversed into the street and drove off. Didn’t even acknowledge me. Next time check your side mirrors buddy. Driving 101.
I’m telling you elephants are chill motherfuckers. They fucking love being helpful. They once defended a man with heatstroke from a truck that came to rescue him. They knew he was sick, laying against a tree for shade. They were watching over him and petting him, and they threatened to charge the vehicle for coming towards him. Another person passed out, and elephants cried over her and buried her body in a traditional elephant funeral. (Piling branches on her). And were quite spooked when she got up later.
And an elephant was helping workers to put logs in holes for a wall. On one hole, the elephant absolutely refused to set the log in, despite being punished and goaded. Turns out there was a sleeping dog in the hole.
There are so many good elephants stories. They will even help zookeepers wash other elephants– literally, a zookeeper can be like “[Name 1], please wash [Name 2]” and he will go wash that elephant correctly.
Listen guys. Not only are elephants people, but they’re largely better people than us. I’m 10000% serious.
When I’m working in the studio I love to listen to audio books. It’s the fastest way for me to get through them and a good use of my time.
But when I’m working on my computer, doing layouts or whatever I’ve found it’s almost impossible to pay attention, I get lost constantly and lose the story. I seem to access a different part of my brain or something. I find it really interesting.
I decided to do an emotional healing meditation today. This one had a visualization exercise and those sorts of things work really well for me as I think in pictures. Toward the end I started seeing these radiant colours in my mind’s eye, just the most brilliant purple, with bring pinks and oranges flashing through and I just sat there enjoying the light show basking in their glow. I was sad when the meditation was over and I had to open my eyes again.
When I was in college I’d often to go my friend Gary’s apartment and lay down in bed with him in between classes and entertain him with a narration of the visions that were happening behind my closed eyelids. I would often be like looking at a movie playing and all sorts of weird characters would show up and do thing. It’s always been that way. It never makes sense but it’s always entertaining.
When I was a child, before I fell asleep every night I’d lay in the dark and wait for the red snow to come. My eyes would be open and something that looked like a bright red crack or a fissure would appear and begin to vibrate and suddenly the room would explode with what I can only describe as bright red snow falling gently. It was a very vivid red almost like it was lit up. And I’d watch it fall in sheets all over the room until slowly it would dissipate and come to an end. It never lasted more than maybe a minute but I looked forward to it every night. These days I go to bed and close my eyes and fall asleep, but sometimes if I’m awake and I open my eyes I can still see it. Lately I discovered I could see it with my eye closed too. I don’t know what it is, probably something ocular, but I’ve always loved the show.
I got invited to this event today to sell at. it was a private affair, and they had food and drinks for those of us who were selling. It was raining and cold so I drank two cup of coffee earlier in the day, along with copious amounts of water to keep myself warm and hydrated.
At the end of the event a woman was buying a necklace from me and asked me to adjust the length. She came up with a solution to just add another jump ring where she wanted it to close, that way I wouldn’t have to go through the process of cutting the chain and moving the clasps.
Well! Even though I had had the coffee hours ago my hands were shaking like crazy. She actually tried to help hold the chain still for me to attach the jump ring. That didn’t work. I couldn’t hold my hands steady enough to get it in. Then I picked up the chain and dropped it so we had to measure again where she wanted it. Then I didn’t put it high enough. Then I put it on the wrong side of the chain. At this point we were both cracking up about what we called our comedy of errors. Finally she held it for me again and I steadied my hand on hers and I got the jump ring in, was able to close it, and she was like great! I’m going with it on! We both had a good laugh.
So the moral of the story is that I THOUGHT two cups of coffee were my limit and I stand corrected. One. Or none. Just water.
“Yes. They all are. All stones. All crystals. All things that have matter have a vibrational and electromagnetic field.” is my response, to which people respond ��. It cracks me up.
Why am I looking at a recipe for fucking bagels online? I don’t even eat bagels like hardly ever. These damn food blogs just make shit look so good the next thing you know you’re checking to make sure you have the right ingredients for something you don’t even wanna eat.
I was listening to BBC in my car and they were playing some French music, and as I parked my car I hit I pothole and exclaimed, “Merde!”
I don’t know why my brain does this but I hear another language and it takes over my brain. I don’t even properly speak French but there I was all up in it. My brain is linguistically confused apparently.
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One of the funniest things I ever experienced was when I went to go see John Mulaney live, and halfway through a bit about how expensive college in the States is, he looked down at the sleeve of his suit jacket and just. stopped. dead halt, mid sentence.
And after like three seconds, where we’re all trying to figure out the punchline because the story clearly hadn’t ended, and John Mulaney quietly says, “Has there been tinfoil on my buttons the whole goddamn show?”
He’d taken his suit to the drycleaner, and they’d wrapped the buttons on the sleeves and the coat with tinfoil to protect them, and John Mulaney didn’t notice until half-way through his set, and was SO FLABBERGASTED that he never did finish the story about college and instead did five minutes on how stupid it was that his buttons were reflecting the light and he just didn’t notice, and in that moment I understood more about John Mulaney as a person than I ever have.
during one of his portland shows, he noticed this like 7 year old girl in the front row and asked her (and her parents) if she ‘is aware that she is physically here right now’ or if she was just brought along. turns out her favorite john mulaney bit is the “and I’m new in town” bit and that she’s seen all his stuff. He was so shocked and discomforted by the fact a SEVEN YEAR OLD has seen his shows, that he couldn’t get through a bit about donating to charity without interrupting himself at least three times to import good life lessons on this small child, as if that makes up for all the horrible things he’s said that she heard
When I saw him in Ft. Lauderdale, there was a bar in the lobby that people kept leaving to go to. At one point, a guy in the front row just got up and BOOKED IT to get drinks. John Mulaney looked over at a woman who was next to the empty seat and asked, “Are you with him? What’s his name?”
She was, in fact, with him, and she did tell him her date’s name. John Mulaney considered this, looked around, and unplugged his microphone. Leaning in to us, he told us that we were going to trick this guy so fuckin hard. He said, “At some point during the show, I am going to stop and say, ‘Well, you guys know what they say here in Ft. Lauderdale,’ and then you guys are all going to scream back ‘WE LOVE MILKSHAKES!’ He’ll be so confused.”
He then continued on with the show as normal, the drinks guy returned to his seat, and that was that for quite a long time. We thought he had forgotten about it until, at some point during what I believe was his McDonald’s drive-thru bit, he shrugged his shoulders and said, “You guys know what they say here in Ft. Lauderdale…”
Naturally, we erupted with “WE LOVE MILKSHAKES” and John Mulaney SWUNG around to face the drinks guy and said, “I bet you’re real confused now, huh, JASON?!”
ah so john mulaney is a chaotic neutral cryptid
i saw him last night and there was a good ten minute interlude where a woman told him everything she found wrong with his suit, including that his pants were too high waisted to which he replied “that’s where my hips are” and someone in the back shouted “look at that high waisted man he’s got feminine hips!” and he yelled back “that’s my joke! i’m offended!!”
Twitter has asked all users to change their passwords because of some bug they had that was saving them. So I diligently go on the site and request a change password link. Click it. Change my password. The next screen asks my why I changed it. I’m like, Cause you told me to! Then I catch myself yelling at Twitter at twelve past midnight and realise it’s probably time to go to bed.
marvel: ‘infinity war is the most ambitious crossover event in history’
me:
It’s true! Especially given a) the technology they had at the time to pull this off, and b) that they had characters from TWO separate companies as opposed to different characters from the same comics publisher.
So yeah, Roger Rabbit wins the ambitious crossover award, hands down. Sorry Marvel.
The agreement with Disney and Warner Bros was that they could only use their biggest characters (Mickey and Donald, Bugs and Daffy) if the other corrosponding character had the exact same amount of screentime. This is why, in the movie, Bugs and Mickey are sharing scenes, and Daffy and Donald are sharing scenes.
It’s also worth mentioning that every single animator in the industry that wasn’t already working on something was called in to work on this film. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
I tried to take a picture of this magnificent samaan tree on Sunday. This is just a portion of it. I’ve tried many times but could never capture her splendor. She’s so ancient and beautiful I love her.
Over here we’re not at all used to warm weather…so it can hit some of us really hard, especially during anything that is really strenuous, like running a marathon…
we are not made for the rays of the sun, which is a Deadly Lazer
we are not made for
the rays of the sun which is
a deadly lazer
^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.
Here in the USofA’s Sunny South, our typical temperature from April or May to about October/November ranges from 90-100F (32-37C). Yesterday it was 84F (29C).
It was hotter inside my living room while I painted it yesterday (cathedral ceiling peak and all) than it was during that marathon – 77F (25C)
I got in my car yesterday and the outside temperature was reading 33C. I would LOVE a “scorching” day of 23 degrees.
I contacted the zoo and asked if they have an adopt an animal program because I fell in love with Patches. They said it’s coming. Fair enough.
I gotta say the local zoo has really been doing amazing things. Like, I’m not a huge fan of zoos, I’d rather animals live in the wild, but I get that for purposes of conservation and rehabilitation they’re necessary. Anyhow our local zoo pretty much looked like the same shit hole for like forty years. The cages were too small, the animals looked bored or crazy, it was crappy. But in the past, I’d say decade or so, they’ve been doing a massive amount of work to upgrade the facilities. The enclosures are much larger, the animals look a lot more stimulated and happier, and they’re doing to lot of rehabilitation work. And I go to a lot of events where they bring animals to raise awareness. And they’re happy to let you interact with them which is really cool. I don’t know who’s been running the zoo but they’re doing a really great job. I mean it’s not the Bronx Zoo by half or anything, but compared to what it used to be it’s really good.
I will eagerly wait for the adopt an animal program. I wanna adopt a giraffe too.
What a cool experience! Is there a way to sponsor her at the zoo?
You know what? That’s a great idea. I would love to find out. I would definitely pay money if it meant I could come visit her from time to time. I’m gonna call.
OMG YOU GUYS! I got to PET an OCELOT today!!!!!!! I went to this thing and they had some animals from the zoo and she was in a cage her name was Patches and they let me play with her and she was giving me playful nibbles on my fingers and she totally melted when I stroked her neck and her fur was soooooooo soft and my whole weekend was made. I want a pet ocelot now. Or maybe an ocelot friend if they can’t be domesticated. That’s not a picture of her by the way it’s just so you know what they look like. A bit bigger than a large house cat but live in the rain forest. They’re lovelyyyyyy.
Thousands of slides found in a box lost for 40 years, taken in the summer of 1978. The photos in this article are amazing. They fill me with a sense of nostalgia because even growing up in Trinidad were exposed to so much American television, much of which was shot in this long ago version of New York. On a personal note what makes this so special for me was I was there that summer in 1978, my first ever magical trip to a city I’ve loved all my life.
Meet the guys… Herbert and Stanley. They told us their names separately. Apparently our succulents are some old dudes. #stanleyismine (at Trinidad Country Club)
Went to the horticultural society’s big show in country club today… meet oldest bonsai, he’s 30 years old, was about two feet tall. (at Trinidad Country Club)
Do I want to go to the horticultural society’s annual flower show tomorrow or do I want to be a lazy fuck and sit on my ass and do nothing? I mean, I did that today, mostly. I’m not sure if future Natasha feels like doing that tomorrow as well. I guess we’ll find out.
I’ve found a way to satisfy my icing cravings. The bakery near me has the most delicious vanilla cupcakes. I even love the cake part. The icing isn’t buttercream I’m not sure what it is but it’s light and fluffy and delicious. I’m about to have my second. The only upside to PMS is they’re guilt free.
so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
who knew a white guy could be capable of such an iconic response, he knows what’s up and is having none of that shit, every other white guy take notes tbh
I love that he said Pakeha
Can someone write what its being said in this?
Male co-host: We have had a whole heap of feedback regarding
Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis’s proposal to institute a prison run on Māori
values into New Zealand. He’s looking at potentially establishing this prison
up north. It isn’t Labour policy just yet, it’s just an idea of Kelvin Davis’s.
And this has been really really divisive on our Facebook page this morning. (sarcastically)
Here I think we have the single greatest email, the single greatest message we
have ever had on breakfast.
(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m
sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live
in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them
to it.”
Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That
is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they
were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned
up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant
insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“
Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you
just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk.
Just when you thought-“
Male co-host: (mimicking letter) “’Put them all on an
island, leave them to it.’ Yeah. What a great idea that is Janice.
I really need “What a great idea that is, Janice.” to be a meme filled with those stupid complete cognitive dissonance bigoted statements.
This father consoling his baby son at the doctor’s office is SO CUTE 😍😍😍
Awwwww😂😂😂
This father is doing SO much more than consoling his infant son …
• this father is showing up as a pillar of safety; he’s told his son he acknowledges and believes in the boy’s strength.
• the father is completely present and accepting of his son’s story and helps him tell it. When the son recognizes that his father was fully present and heard the story of his experience of pain, the boy calms completely.
This piece of video will now be at the very top of my teaching tools when training parents and caretakers to work with shock and trauma in infants. It’s one of the finest examples of exemplary parenting I have ever seen in my 35-year healing career. ❤️
things like this make me smile and cry at the same time as it bums me out I picked such a shitty father for my kiddo
“Dance. Sing. Cook. Do what ever it is that makes your heart sing. Step by step, you’ll discover what you’re meant to do in your life, and with that my friend, you will fall completely in love with. You’ll find it, don’t worry. All in good time.”
soulsistrin 