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Sunflower petals beautifully preserved in resin, for our many Caribbean nature lovers out there. Available next weekend at the New Fire Festival. @newfireworld #handmadejewelry #uniquejewelry #beautiful #buylocal #trinidad #caribbean #caribbeanlife #artisan #artjewelry #trinidadandtobago #artisanjewelry #sundarajewelry #handmade #fashionjewelry #tandt #forher #sundara #abstract #resin #resinjewelry #organic #nature #ecoresin #floral #plants #naturejewelry #secretforesttreasures #sunflower #petal #earrings

Remember all those cucumbers we picked on Monday?

I was at the supermarket today. The retail price was 14X what we sell them for wholesale. When you see that you kind of just have to shake your head.

When you’ve decided you’re finished with work for the day but one of your retailers wants to talk business…. *sigh*

Seems like my iPad bit the dust. Meh. I’ll get a fire tablet I only really used it to watch videos when I’m working.

Sterling silver stacking rings with colorful cabochons in #garnet #moonstone and #citrine. #handmadejewelry #uniquejewelry #beautiful #TT #buylocal #trinidad #caribbean #caribbeanlife #artisan #customjewelry #artjewelry #trinidadandtobago #artisanjewelry #sundarajewelry #handmade #fashionjewelry #tandt #forher #sundara #abstract #druzy #goldfilled #semipreciousgemstones #gemstonejewelry #gemstones #stackingrings #rings

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Some new fairy 🧚‍♀️ terrariums I cast with enchanted mushrooms 🍄 from the Secret Forest! 🌳 🌲. We’ll be at the upcoming New Fire Festival with these and more beautiful resin nature jewelry @newfireworld

I just found out that my work on a campaign from last year won a silver Addy. I was doing some freelance work at an agency and even though the client didn’t seem interested the creative director really pushed for it and they used it and it won an award. That was some cool news to get today.

macrolit:

eeyore9990:

toomanyfandomstocountcx:

greeedybastard:

diggly:

mamacastiel:

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

no one tell him

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

The ides of March have come

Beware the ides of March.

Beware!!

hopefulmisanthrope:

carbsandcathair:

overlydiscreetuntildrunk:

asslicker2012:

i am so jealous of europeans

three hours of travel and they’re in a whole different country, a whole different culture like seriously

three hours of travel and i’m in another town that’s just like mine

except three hours away 

truth

Y’all if I drive three hours in the wrong direction it’s not a town. It’s just more trees.

Trees forever.

If I drive three hours in any direction, I’m still in construction traffic five miles from my house.

Three hours away and I’ll likely be in the ocean

katschy:

busseekatx:

aintnosuchthingastoothick:

hoekagei:

thickgirlsweremade4cuddling:

buzzfeedtasty:

Wakandan Jeweled Vegetable Pilau With Berbere Braised Lamb (Narrated By Black Panther: Long Live The King Author Nnedi Okorafor)

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That looks good af

I wanna try that but homegirl used like 80 ingredients

80 😭😭

I can see my momma making this 😂😂

Just because I want to make this, I transcribed the recipes as well as I could. If I’ve missed a step, or flubbed one, do let me know. 

Berbere Braised Lamb

2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 lbs lamb shoulder
salt
black pepper
2 red onions, chopped
¼ c ghee
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp ginger, minced
1 tbsp paprika
1 tsp cayenne
½ tsp ground fenugreek
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground cardamom
¼ tsp ground cloves
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground allspice
2 tbsp tomato paste
2 c beef broth

Brown the lamb in the vegetable oil and remove it from the pan. In the same pan place the red onions; cook (I assume over medium heat) until soft and browned. Add the ghee, garlic, ginger and spices and stir it all together. Add the tomato paste, stir well; add the beef broth and stir until everything is well mixed. Return the lamb to the pan and stir well; bring to a simmer and cover, and let simmer for an hour.

*****

Jeweled Vegetable Pilau

¼ c ghee
2 red onions, julienned
½ head green cabbage, shredded
2 c carrots, shredded
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp ginger, minced
salt
black pepper
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp curry powder
1 tsp cardamom
2 cups basmati rice
1 bay leaf
1 cinnamon stick
1 star anise

Melt the ghee in a pan and add the onions; cook until soft and browned. Add the cabbage, carrot, garlic, and ginger, stir (over what I assume is medium heat) until the vegetables are soft. Add salt, pepper, spices, and rice, and mix well. Add 3 cups of water and stir very well. Add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and star anise. Cover and cook over low heat, 20-25 minutes. Remove the bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and star anise before serving.

Serve the lamb over the rice, sprinkled with chopped scallions, cashews, and pomegranate seeds.

genderspork:

tree4life25:

i-love-word-association-games:

So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.

I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).

And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:

“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”

And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them

“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”

I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before

This is the best thing I’ve ever read in my life.

four guys, chillin in a hotel, sleeping on the floor cause they’re not gay

brightquietude:

This reminded me of a study I read about in Cordelia Fine’s book Delusions of Gender:

“Kristi Klein and Sara Hodges used an empathic accuracy test in which participants watched a video of a woman talking about her failure to get a high enough score on an exam to get into the graduate school she wanted to attend. When the feminine nature of the empathic accuracy test was highlighted by asking participants for sympathy ratings before the empathic accuracy test, women scored significantly better than men. But a second group of women and men went through exactly the same procedure but with one vital difference: they were offered money for doing well. Specifically, they earned $2 for every correct answer. This financial incentive levelled the performance of women and men, showing that when it literally ‘pays to understand’ male insensitivity is curiously easily overcome.“ (Emphasis mine.)

(An endnote also states that “Men also scored equivalently to women when the sympathy rating was requested after the empathic accuracy test.”)

The passage goes on to add

“You can also improve men’s performance by inviting them to see a greater social value in empathising ability. Cardiff University psychologists presented undergraduate men with a passage titled ‘What Women Want’. The text, complete with bogus references, then went on to explain that contrary to popular opinion ‘non-traditional men who are more in touch with their feminine side’ are regarded as more sexually desirable and interesting by women, not to mention more likely to leave bars and clubs in the company of one. Men who read this passage performed better on the empathic accuracy task than did control men (to whom the test was presented in a nothing-to-do-with-gender fashion) or men who had been told that the experiment was investigating their alleged intuitive inferiority.“

In other words: men aren’t necessarily worse at sensing and understanding others’ feelings than women are; it’s just that quite a few of them don’t feel the need to put for the effort unless it profits them in some way… and perhaps don’t want to show too much empathy, because doing so would make them feel less masculine/manly.

makerswomen:

“Growing up, I always assumed I would go into space. But I knew full well that people expected me to behave a certain way. I bucked the system. I don’t want mothers sayin’ ‘put that mud down, stop doing the because you’re going to ruin your dress.’ You get dirty sometimes. Who cares? You cannot do some of these things and keep your hair all nice.”—Mae Jemison

Today’s TechMAKER reached for the stars and then some. Mae Jemison saw the gender and racial discrimination in space exploration, but that didn’t stop her from becoming the very first African-American woman in space. 

You can see our full interview with Mae Jemison over on MAKERS.

thigh sore

I’m trying to see if using the heating pad on my thighs will help ease my pain. I guess if you do the equivalent of three hours of squats anybody would be sore.

I’ve only ever once been in this kind of muscular pain and it was when I started at a new gym. I was using the leg press machine. I hadn’t worked out in a long time so I had it relatively light.

One of the trainers came over and looked at the size of my thighs and insisted I could, and should, use more weight, and piled them on. I insisted that it was too much but he was like nah look you’re doing it just fine. I knew I could do it but I also knew given my fitness level it was too much too soon. Plus I wasn’t trying to build muscle. I was trying to tone.

Anyway the next day I woke up and could barely walk and for the next several days I had to tiptoe in lieu of raising my thighs when I had to do anything, including walking up stairs. I’m sure I looked very awkward. Almost as awkward as I’m moving right now. So anyway heating pad to the rescue. Let’s see it it can loosen up my right thigh. Can’t hurt. Right?

Someone wanna explain to me why this picture of a sunset would be marked as sensitive? Did I take an accidental pic of something that I’m not seeing? Wtf?

I hate when people pronounce it plan-tayne. That is not how you say plantain. But that’s how it’s spelt! Oh? So how do you say fountain?

I tried to call my mother in law an Uber the other day and couldn’t get one. So I tried the Drop app which is the local version and within fifteen minutes had her on her way. I was surprised. We know the guy who owns the service I have to make sure to let him know Drop pulled through when Uber didn’t.

pansticks:

Mayaro sights.
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#theartysts #socality #folksouls #if10k #earthfocus #travelstoke #forgeyourownpath #discoverglobe #bevisuallyinspired #stayandwander #viewtt #ttunseen #ig_caribbean #igworldclub #ttphotosoc #lifeintrinidad #mayaro #river #fishing #l4like #fishingnet #trinidad #trinidadandtobago (at Mayaro)

We weighed them out last night and it came up to just over 300lbs. We picked 300lbs. Of cucumbers yesterday.

Today my thighs are seriously feeling it. Farming is seriously hard work.

I went up on the farm today with Chris. None of his workers could come out so we picked all of these cucumbers by ourselves. Each bag weighs about 40lbs. It took us about three hours. Right now he’s picking ochro (I think y’all Muricans call it okra) while I’m taking a rest.

Things I learnt:

• Cucumbers have thorns on them. On the actual fruit (vegetable?). More when they’re younger. They’re not really harmful you can just brush them off but it feels gross to pick them still (next time I’m wearing gloves).
• They grow on a vine on the ground so picking them involves either a lot of bending over or squatting and getting back up repeatedly. I did both. Now my legs are trembling, I can barely walk and I have buns of steel.
• The leaves tend to cover them so you have to hunt for them. It starts feeling like an accomplishment when you spot one, kinda like finding an Easter egg.
• I am VERY out of shape.
• I was thinking of inventing something that you could sit on that would move through the bed without disturbing the plants so you could pick with ease but then I realised if that could have been invented someone would have done it already.
•Ochro plants scratch. Gloves AND sleeves.
• I’m filthy. I’m thought jewelry making got you dirty. Omg this is so much worse.
•I could eat a horse right now. I’m ravenous.

happylittleblogger:

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rob-walks:

rob-walks:

Black Panther is now at $899.9 million at the box office.

update: $909.8 million

update: $915.1 million

update: $932 million. Now being the 44th highest grossing film.

update: $940.4 million. Now being the 41st highest grossing film. Beating out Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix & Finding Nemo.

They hit $1 Billion y’all!!!!

NINTH HIGHEST GROSSING FILM IN US HISTORY

Attention Struggling Artists and Makers:

treasures-and-beauty:

Send me links to your stuff so I can post it on here. I post fashion, jewelry, weapons, 3-dimensional art, pottery, textile arts, accessories, and armor. (No 2-dimensional art, please). I am also poor, so I can’t donate to people’s gofundme’s, but hey, I’ve got this blog with a bunch of followers, so I might as well make use of it.

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A burst of sunshine 🌞 I just finished drilling these beautiful sunflower 🌻 petals, ready to be made into earrings. I’ll be selling these at the upcoming New Fire Festival, hope to see you there! #handmadejewelry #uniquejewelry #beautiful #TT #buylocal #trinidad #caribbean #caribbeanlife #artisan #customjewelry #artjewelry #trinidadandtobago #artisanjewelry #sundarajewelry #handmade #fashionjewelry #tandt #forher #sundara #petal #resin #resinjewelry #organic #nature #ecoresin #floral #plants #petals #naturejewelry #secretforesttreasures

relatablepoetryandquotes:

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

via @the-book-diaries

muchymozzarella:

T’challa is a Good Male Protagonist ™ mainly because he is humble and without the ego you see from so so many other male protagonists in blockbuster films

He defers to the wisdom of his mother, his sister, his general, his love, the women around him. He was a sweet and loving son who expressed and enjoyed physical and emotional tenderness from his father.

He’s proud but doesn’t ever disrespect anybody. He values family, affection and emotion and expresses it freely, but still retains the poise of a king.

That’s kind of rare in a lot of the mostly white, mostly male Hollywood protagonist lineup.

I had the weirdest dream that I knew Winston Duke (M’Baku) from Tumblr and we went out to lime with some friends and it got really annoying quickly because people kept stopping him for pictures. Then like I lost one of my slippers and something to do with ducks and the whole thing just went downhill.

I woke up annoyed at him ready to message him on Tumblr until I remembered i don’t actually know him.

I saw one of my mom’s friends today and he looked down at my stomach and asked if there were any babies yet and said something about my mom wanting grandkids. I burst out laughing and reminded him she already had two and said ain’t nobody got time for that and that was the end of that.

Since I was a teenager I’ve suspected that there was a day of school in which they handed out “the key to life” or some shit and I was home sick that day and ever since then I’ve been cluelessly trying to catch up and figure out the shit that everybody else seems to have gotten ages ago.

I just handed off both my laptop and my iPad to my mom’s friend to go up to Miami on Saturday for repair. I feel bereft. My laptop is like an umbilical connection for me. I’m having serious withdrawal already. All I have is my (beautiful fully functioning treasured please don’t go bad too) iPhone. Omg I’m gonna dieeeeeeee

I think this particular ring might be my most popular… wide copper band with brass dragonfly. Mixed metal before it became trendy! #handmadejewelry #uniquejewelry #beautiful #TT #buylocal #trinidad #caribbean #caribbeanlife #artisan #customjewelry #artjewelry #trinidadandtobago #artisanjewelry #sundarajewelry #handmade #fashionjewelry #tandt #forher #sundara #abstract #copper #ring #dragonfly #wideband

me-and-bobby-mcgeee:

“If you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like ‘anger,’ ‘ambition,’ ‘loudness,’ ‘stubbornness,’ ‘coldness,’ ‘ruthlessness.’”

—Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

thebobblehat:

floozys:

floozys:

straight boys are weak and pathetic, queer girls walk into the ladies changing room and see ten women naked, do they stare? do they say something inappropriate? do they make them uncomfortable? no because they have the common fucking sense to recognise when a situation is sexual and that people deserve the most basic level of respect to not be harassed, yet here we are banning shorts and low cut tops in school because straight boys are weak and pathetic

okay i made this post this morning and it has since had eighty two thousand notes, it’s been featured on reddit, facebook, twitter i’ve been sent multiple death threats and messages that i don’t even want to describe 

and i have to apologise

i’ve seen the error of my ways

straight boys are not ’weak and pathetic’ 

straight boys are weak, pathetic and fucking annoying

I will reblog this every time I see it posted

I, Y

I – Is there something you wish you could change about yourself? 

I guess I wish I were someone who had better control over their emotions. Everything always just bursts out of me… anger, joy, enthusiasm… the only thing I seem able to contain is sorrow and pain. I like that I am so expressive but sometimes I can be too much. At least it appears that that’s how people around me feel.

Y – Your biggest fear?

I can’t think of one, really. So much of what I’ve feared in life has already come to pass. I’ve weathered it and come out relatively intact on the other side. I think aside from losing another close family member, things I fear are more along the lines of serious bodily harm, injury or illness, which will likely never happen to me anyway. I tend to fear losing my loved ones more than anything else, really.

I recently listed these beautiful druzy necklaces in my Etsy shop… have a look https://SundaraArtJewelry.etsy.com .. . . . #handmadejewelry #uniquejewelry #beautiful #TT #buylocal #trinidad #caribbean #caribbeanlife #artisan #customjewelry #artjewelry #trinidadandtobago #artisanjewelry #sundarajewelry #handmade #fashionjewelry #tandt #forher #sundara #abstract #druzy #goldfilled #semipreciousgemstones #gemstonejewelry #gemstones

J, O, and T!

J – Jealous or laid back? Already answered

O – One wish? 

I mean.. I’m not sure where I even start with that… for me? for humanity? What would I wish for all people… peace of mind, man.

T – Tell me something random about yourself?

I once had a dream where I was speaking Cantonese and I was using this one word repeatedly. When I looked it up apparently I had been using it correctly. Never really was able to explain that one.

J, N, P please :)

J – Jealous or laid back?
I can be jealous sometimes. I don’t think it was my natural inclination to be that way but over time having partners who did not respect boundaries made me less trusting. I try to remind myself that my current partner is not like that and it helps.

N – Name something you love? 

Books. I love reading, I love collecting them. Something about books makes me feel safe and comfortable.

P – Perfect day out?

I recently had one of these. On my birthday we got up early and went to have breakfast at the bagel place nearby. We hung out long after we ate, then sort of meandered our way through the day. I stopped to see a friend, decided to go visit the museum, went to the zoo, and in the evening we ended up in a bar drinking with some friends. It was completely spontaneous and relaxed. My perfect kind of day 😀

Q- What are some things you would tell your younger self?

That’s a really good question. I’d tell myself that everyone feels nervous or weird and like they don’t fit in and that we’re all much more concerned with other people’s opinions of us than they’re actually thinking about us. I’d tell myself to always listen to and trust my gut, that my inner voice will lead me in the right direction 100% of the time. I’d also tell myself to learn to sit on things before reacting to them, to take my time with life, school, boys, and that things will work out ok in the end.

wtf-is-that-about:

tilldeathdousart:

Send me a letter?

A – Are you allergic to anything?
B – Birthday?
C – Cats, dogs or both?
D – Do you prefer sunrise or sunset?
E – Early bird or night owl?
F – Favourite food?
G – Good at?
H – Hair colour?
I – Is there something you wish you could change about yourself?
J – Jealous or laid back?
K – Kiss or hug?
L – Look for in a partner?
M – Middle name?
N – Name something you love?
O – One wish?
P – Perfect day out?
Q – Question of your choice – ask away!
R – Reason why people should smile more?
S – Something that makes you happy?
T – Tell me something random about yourself?
U – Under the influence of alcohol you are likely to?
V – Vampire, zombie, mermaid or ghost?
W – What’s your favourite colour?
X – X-rays – had any? Why?
Y – Your biggest fear?
Z – Zodiac sign?

Why not?

docislegend:

maa-iingan:

commander-side-eyes:

micdotcom:

Courtney Demone is a trans woman currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy and, as such, is starting to grow breasts.

Given this opportunity, she has a found a brilliant way to #FreeTheNipple.

Demone is launching the hashtag #DoIHaveBoobsNow and will post topless images of herself on Facebook and Instagram, “until those networks decide that my breasts have developed enough to be sexualized and worthy of censorship”

Demone is exposing privilege and hypocrisy all at one.

The salt inherent in this is delicious and makes my heart soar.

Love

this is actually pretty brilliant

I’m sure that was a very good post but sigh

Paragraphs are your friends man… use em

mossofthewoodsjewelry:

mossofthewoodsjewelry:

Moss of the Woods Floral Prism Giveaway!

Hey folks! As I like to do when I make a new product, I’m giving away one of the first of these new lights!

This Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) floral prism contains a Red Clover flower, underlit by an embedded warm LED light, mounted to a 3D printed Wood base, and can be switched on and off via a twisting switch at the bottom. The whole piece measures 4″ in length and can fit snugly in the palm of your hand.

To enter!

  • Please reblog this post and tag it with the word “entry”.
  • Please be over the age of 18 or have a consenting adult who can claim the package.
  • Multiple reblogs count, but excessive reblogs (like more than 3 or so at a time) will be automatically discounted.
  • International entries are okay, but will take much longer to process if you are a winner, unfortunately.
  • A winner will be selected tomorrow, Monday, March 5, at around 9pm EST.

This giveaway is being run by me, Moss of the Woods, and is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.

Hey folks I’m drawing names in about three and a half hours so get those reblogs in if you’d like to win!