Tumblr ate my post so if you see this twice you know why. I was playing with my metal stamps tonight because I want to make a series of necklaces with profanity on them. I was playing around with a few ideas, I have a bunch more. What y’all think. Would you buy one?
If gender is innate, if girls and boys are just naturally different and naturally like different things, want different things, show different behaviors, why do we have to put so much effort, so much work into separating them?
If gender was innate it wouldn’t have to be indoctrinated into anyone. Everyone would naturally pick what they want to pick, and every girl would pick the same thing while every boy would pick the opposite. We would never have to tell any little girl or little boy anywhere, “this is not for you, it’s for boys/girls”.
I don’t think either of my siblings when bitching about the state of things in Trinidad see the irony of the fact that both of them with their multiple degrees chose not to live here and contribute to the country that birthed them.
…I get a bunch of blogs that seem to be filled with click bait “news” stories all the time. I guess you click on the article and somebody gets advertising revenue or something I dunno but it’s just as annoying and only slightly less offensive than those other blogs.
For the past few days my lips have been getting really dry and peeling. Since yesterday they’ve been feeling smooth but the kind of smooth where they sort of burn when anything touches them. This sometimes happens when I have a fever, but I haven’t been sick. I thought maybe I was dehydrated but I’ve been drinking water like crazy and it hasn’t really helped. It’s uncomfortable. Y’all have any winter remedies for dry lips that I can use?
Wine jar with turquoise glaze and gilt copper-bound mouth rim (1600-1700 AD), Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China [OS] [750×919] (x-post from /r/MostBeautiful)
Spherical Astrolabe, Museum of the History of Science, 1480 – 1481. This astrolabe is made of brass with the inscriptions, hour-lines, meridians and circles of altitude in silver; the rotating star map is made of brass, laminated with silver on the ecliptic and equatorial circles
Please explain how cop’s are innocent? Please explain how this cop was in a life threatening position that he had to mase the handcuffed individual? #Hate it!
What was the point of that?
Nah but like, you have to keep wondering if some of these cops are psychotic. Do they psychologically test them before they allow them to become cops? Cause this is fucking insane.
Tough bubbles could trap and deliver medication while providing a protective barrier between the wound dressing and the damaged skin, they believe. The Strathclyde University researchers have begun making a synthetic version of foam. They are taking inspiration from the tiny Tungara frog from Trinidad.
I left home at 10 today and only now got back at 5:30. I was supposed to run a few simple errands and come home. But other people move at their own pace and it’s so often not mine. I’m a go in, get it, and get out kind of person. But my mom’s neighbour wanted to chat, and my friend Rohan had to take two hours to prepare himself for the outside world, and so my day stretched on. I’m exhausted. At least tomorrow I get to stay home. God I love to stay home.
In the filing, the five players contend that the women’s team is the driving economic force for U.S. Soccer, the governing body for the sport in America, even as its players are paid far less than their counterparts on the men’s national team, their lawyer, Jeffrey Kessler, said.
Citing budget figures released last month by U.S. Soccer, Kessler said the players contend that they earned as little as 40 percent of what players on the United States men’s national team earned even as they marched to the team’s third world championship last year, and that they were shortchanged on everything from bonuses and appearance fees to per diems.
“This is the strongest case of discrimination against women athletes in violation of law that I have ever seen,” Mr. Kessler said.
“I never had children, so I wasn’t forced into any permanent box that required a long-term commitment and a formed life. I also didn’t have any careers—I just found jobs that I could make money at. I wanted to pay the rent and to play, to go explore different things. I’ve spent my whole life learning new things, and even though I’m living alone, my life is very full and rich. In some ways, it’s very selfish. I’m not working with children. I’m not educating young minds, or bringing people along on my journey. “But a long time ago, I decided I was going to walk out the door with complete strength and power over who I was as a person—not as a girl, not as a woman, not how I was supposed to act. I didn’t dye my hair when it started to change color when I was 21, even though women in the 1960s weren’t supposed to have any touch of gray. I’ve always felt that, because I refused to mold myself into what somebody else thought I should be or needed me to be, I’ve been a kind of warrior. I’m not trying to be a powerful person. I’m simply living up to my potential.”
1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland. He was named after his grandfather and his stillborn brother who died one year before Van Gogh was born.
2. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he painted his first piece.
3. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models. He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.
4. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures.
5. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.
6. During one of his seizures, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – but not the whole ear as is often rumored.
7. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
8. Vincent Van Gogh visually depicted turbulence, an incredibly complex (and still unsolved) mathematical principle in several paintings during a particularly chaotic time in his life.
9. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France, but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37. His brother Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”
10. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.
We are at a bar watching Trinidad playing St Vincent in a World Cup qualifier and the music in here is so loud it sounds like a carnival fete. Why Nari? Why?
l was tagged by the lovely @meyechael, thank you my favourite polar bear!
Insecurities: I guess I have general body insecurities, some of them related to age, others not. I feel insecure about my place in the world at times and my ability to achieve my goals.
Fears: I’m afraid of turning out to be just a mediocre person. Of never standing out in any way. Of not being able to distinguish myself professionally.
Turn-ons: Laughter, great conversations, an independent thinker, height, a cute ass.
Life goals: To travel a lot more, to find a place in life where I feel like I’m not struggling, to open an artist cafe/shop where I can simultaneously work and showcase my jewellery and other local brands.
Things that make me happy: My family, good food, great conversation, laughter, dogs, horses, sitting on the grass, peace, living in Trinidad
Weaknesses: I’m impatient, I’m not good at planning so I can be impetuous, I have a temper. I am hard on myself.
Things I love: My husband, my family, my tribe of friends all over the world. New experiences, adventures, learning new things.
After a four day weekend and waking up late this morning, I can’t seem to focus on anything long enough to get started. My head feels like it’s filled with cotton balls.
Speaking of which I need to give myself a pedicure. I think I’ll be doing that right now. I can’t seem to be productive enough to do anything in the studio.
Sitting on the living room couch listening to BBC drinking Earl Grey tea while my love makes a breakfast of smoked herring and dumplings. This has been a nice Easter long weekend.
Irish historian Liam Hogan is at the forefront of efforts to debunk the “Irish slave” myth. He says the position of the unfree Irish in the New World was one of “indentured servitude” and describes articles like that on Irish Central as “ahistorical”.
More needs to be done to stop the spread of this inaccurate mythology, Hogan suggests.
“These articles have created an Irish slave trade timeline, ostensibly a fantasy, which runs from 1612 to 1839,” he explained. “This is to make it appear that there was a concurrent transatlantic slave trade of Irish slaves that historians have covered up because of liberal bias.
“Historically, the majority of Irish prisoners of war, vagrants and other victims of kidnapping and deception – thought to have numbered around 10,000 people – were forcibly sent to the West Indies in the 1650s. Those that survived were pardoned by Charles II in 1660.
“In contrast, the transatlantic slave trade lasted for four centuries, was the largest forced migration in world history, involving tens of millions of Africans who were completely dehumanised, and its poisonous legacy remains in the form of anti-black racism. So this neo-Nazi propaganda is false equivalency on an outrageous scale,” he said.
The plight of the indentured Irish, however painful, was not racialised and their status was sometimes voluntary, with a migrant working for free for a period of time to pay off the cost of their trip across the Atlantic.
Indentured servitude was a widespread practice at the time, so it is difficult to ascertain the exact number of Irish affected by it. But in his book, The Irish Diaspora, Andy Bielenberg estimates that between 1630 and 1775, 165,000 Irish migrated from Ireland to the British colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean. Of course, not all of these would have been indentured.
Matthew Reilly is an archaeologist at Brown University who has researched slavery in Barbados. He says the idea of Irish slaves has no historical foundation.
“The Irish slave myth is not supported by the historical evidence. Thousands of Irish were sent to colonies like Barbados against their will, never to return.
“Upon their arrival, however, they were socially and legally distinct from the enslaved Africans with whom they often laboured.
“While not denying the vast hardships endured by indentured servants, it is necessary to recognise the differences between forms of labour in order to understand the depths of the inhumane system of chattel slavery that endured in the region for several centuries, as well as the legacies of race-based slavery in our own times,” Reilly said.
Well I mentioned talking to myself. I just sort of tend to crack myself up a lot when I’m alone. I might sing or dance which I certainly don’t often do in front of others. Nothing too interesting.
66-Something you do without realising:
Gosh I dunno. I think I can dominate a conversation sometimes. It’s not because I don’t like to listen, it’s because my thoughts go by so quickly I try to get everything out at once or I’ll forget it. But I think I’m sort of aware of that.
69-Leave me a compliment:
I’ve really enjoyed our conversations and just getting to know you. You’re interesting, insightful and I feel like I’ve found a friend here when I didn’t expect it. We have a lot in common and I look forward to the day we meet.
Thanks for the questions again. I was playing video games so I’m getting to them a little late.
Nah. Sometimes other people’s lives can make me envious but I have to remind myself that we never know what other people are really dealing with.
46-Do you replay things that have happened in your head?
Oh yeah all the time. In fact I replay things that haven’t happened in my head too… conversations that I anticipate and so on. It’s not a good habit.
68-Someone you’d like to be for a day and why:
I can’t think of anyone in particular I’d like to be. But I think it would be nice to experience being very wealthy or famous for a day to see what that would be like. I’d probably love the former and hate the latter.
Yes. I have a small crescent moon with stars on my inner right ankle. And I have this scene on my upper back which was sort of a coverup of a previous tattoo. It was sort of done over and embellished.
64-A famous person you’ve been compared to:
When I was younger I had a few people compare me to Halle Berry. Now I get Gina Torres. I’m very flattered either way.
53-Ever come close to death?
When I was five I was mauled by a doberman and he ripped up my face and then went for my neck. He was millimetres away from piercing my jugular vein. So I think if that was the closest I think I have come to death.
36-Has someone ever spread a nasty rumor about you?
Oh I was going to say no and then I remembered something. YES! When my ex husband and I broke up he told everyone I left him because I was having an affair instead of owning up to the fact that he was an abusive shithead. I only found out two years after the fact because I really didn’t have much contact with anyone we knew after we split up. To be honest, there were very few people who believed him but I was really angry and insulted to hear that he tried to smear my reputation. He could simply have told people to mind their business instead of lying. Ok I’m getting mad about it again. Let me move on to the next question.
56-What are three things most people don’t know about you?
a) I’ve had many prophetic dreams that came true in my life.
b) I have flat feet.
c) I am always battling fear.
58-Share something about yourself others might think is weird:
I talk to myself. A lot. Out loud and in my head. I’ve always done this and I’m aware that people think it’s crazy or strange but to me having the ability to dialogue with myself has been one thing that has kept me sane throughout my life.
U can pick 3 or even 4 questions! C’mon, let’s play:
1-How are you?
2-Post a picture of yourself.
3-Do you ever wish you were someone else?
4-What is your entire name?
5-How old are you?
6-Age you get mistaken for:
7-Your zodiac/horoscope and if you think it fits your personality:
8-What did you do on your last birthday?
9-What is one thing you would like to accomplish before your next birthday?
10-What is your hair color?
11-Have you ever dyed your hair?
12-What is your eye color?
13-If you could change your eye color, would you?
14-Do you wear contacts/glasses?
15-Your opinion about your body and how confortable you are with it:
16-Have you ever considered plastic surgery? What would you alter about your body?
17-Say 3 facts about your body:
18-Do you have any tattoos?
19-Do you have any piercings?
20-Left or right handed?
21-What’s your sexual orientation?
22-Do you drink?
23-Do you smoke?
24-Do you have any pets?
25-Where do you work?
26-Something you are working on right now:
27-Do you have any “rules” about food?
28-Where are you from?
29-What would you say is your best quality?
30-What do you think you’re really good at?
31-What do you think you’re really bad at?
32-What talent do you wish you’d been born with?
33-Are you a bad person?
34-Are you nice to everyone?
35-Say 3 facts about your personality:
36-Has someone ever spread a nasty rumor about you?
37-What is your ideal bed? Why?
38-Do wake up cranky?
39-Do you sleep with a stuffed toy?
40-What do you think about the most?
41-Share 2 habits:
42-What you want to be when you “get older”?
43-What are your career goals?
44-What is your ideal career?
45-Is your life anything like it was two years ago?
46-Do you replay things that have happened in your head?
47-Have you ever had an imaginary friend?
48-Say 10 facts about your room:
49-Do you have any phobias?
50-Have you ever been to a psychiatrist/therapist?
51-Are you allergic to anything? If so, what?
52-Ever broken any bones?
53-Ever come close to death?
54-Things you like and dislike about yourself:
55-A random fact about yourself:
56-What are three things most people don’t know about you?
57-An unknown fact about your life:
58-Share something about yourself others might think is weird:
59-Five weird things that you like:
60-Do you have a facebook? If so, would you add the person who sent you this?
61-Do you have any pictures on your Facebook?
62-Describe yourself in one word/sentence:
63-A quote you try to live by:
64-A famous person you’ve been compared to:
65-Weird things you do when you’re alone:
66-Something you do without realising:
67-5 things you want to change:
68-Someone you’d like to be for a day and why:
69-Leave me a compliment:
Today we were supposed to go to this art/music festival and ended up deciding not to go. What a relief.
I’m trying to engineer to set-up between two friends. I think they’d really hit it off. I’ve never really played matchmaker much so I’m hoping it doesn’t blow up in my face.
Chris decided to watch over all GOT episodes. It’s been entertaining. You don’t realise how much you miss when you don’t know everything that’s going on. Looking back, Theon really got what he deserved, little shit.
I sometimes wonder how people end up having affairs on tumblr and I’ve concluded it’s because they’re open to it. I’ve been on here for five years and never had so much as a flirtation, and I’ve been single for half of it. Things don’t “just happen”.
This wasn’t directed at anyone it was just a random thought don’t get your panties in a bunch.
You ever follow someone without really investigating their blog because you have a lot of mutuals so you figure they’re cool and then they keep posting shit that turns you off and you start regretting you ever followed them? Yeah that.
The skeleton called the “Ring Lady” unearthed in Herculaneum (near Pompeii). 79 AD
Aprox 45 years old woman was found buried in ash with her gold jewellery: rings and braclets. This photo was made few hours after discovery. 2000 years old jewellery was in perfect condition.
Here we eat fish on Good Friday (we didn’t we had BBQ chicken and pork) and hot cross buns and Sunday we just do the thing with the eggs. I think that’s about it.
Indian widows are traditionally not meant to partake in Holi – the auspicious festival of colour. But this March 21, thousands of widowed women gathered at temples in Vrindavan in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to celebrate the spring festival.
Ok so doubles is a type of food. It’s made with two thin flat fried pieces of dough (hence doubles) called barra, filled with curried chick peas (we call chick peas channa). The channa can then be topped with sauces made of mango, shadow beni (cilantro), cucumber, coconut, tamarind, or extra pepper sauce. It’s our most popular street food. It’s origins trace back to an Indian street vendor in the 1930′s.
Now liming. Liming (verb) I would say is our national pastime. It is the way Trinidadians socialise. In American parlance it would be hanging out, but liming involves more than just hanging out. A lime (noun) usually involves alcohol, good company, plenty shit talk (that is talking humorously about everything and nothing in particular) and plenty picong, which is part of the Trinidadian sense of humour of good natured ribbing. There is often food and music involved as well. Sometimes card playing. A lime can happen spontaneously or can be planned, but the point is always to have a good time. Trinidadians are well known for our friendly and happy disposition so as long as you are liked, you are welcomed, whether your are a friend or a stranger. Anyone who spends any amount of time around Trinis eventually picks up this one word and habit.
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel.
Every colonized people—in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality—finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle.
i have the most beautiful daughter who i am so very fucking proud to call my own. i love my child. i hope people that make posts like these dont have children because you seem like you would be a shitty parent.
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I went home and Googled the statue to see what the internet had to say about this mysterious black man, and I found that the New York City Parks Department website did not mention the presence of a second human being in the monument at all. Instead, it read:
“The work, set in a picturesque pink granite steele designed by architect Henry Bacon, features a heroic-sized Lafayette standing next to his horse.”
Lafayette and his horse. His horse. Nary a mention of the grown man standing there, blanket over his shoulder and a look on his face like he’d rather be someplace else. I was perplexed, and then angry, and then curious. I went to the library.
The statue, by Daniel Chester French, had been commissioned when a Frenchman turned Brooklynite named Henry Harteau died and left the city $35,000 to cast a monument to his celebrated countryman. (Lafayette and Harteau are identified on the statue’s base, and it was dedicated in 1917.) He asked that the statue be based on a painting called Lafayette at Yorktown by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon. The painting was actually of two men named Lafayette; one was the familiar marquis, and the other was named James Armistead Lafayette. The marquis was white and James was black. Still, I wondered: Were they brothers? Why did they share a last name?
It turns out that James Armistead was an enslaved man from Virginia who enlisted to fight against the British and ended up working as a double agent. The information he acquired helped to win the battle of Yorktown; hence, the heroic painting. He served under Lafayette, and the two men became such close friends that the marquis successfully petitioned to have James made a free man, after James’s own request for manumission was denied. (Apparently, they were only freeing “slave-soldiers” who fought in the war; being a “slave-spy” didn’t qualify.) James Armistead then took the name of his friend out of affection and gratitude. He lived a long life and become a farmer and a family man.
Isn’t this beautiful gold pendant great! which has been buried in a field in Galloway for over ten centuries.
An ornate gold pin in the likeness of a bird found buried with a hoard of other treasures in a Galloway field.
More than ten centuries after being buried in a field in Galloway, the pot of Viking treasure has been viewed for the first time
Four faces gaze from a silver brooch buried in the Galloway hoard nearly 1,100 years ago. Interred with loving care, the treasures were never retrieved by their Viking owner.
Partly flattened, this silver arm ring could have been used by a Viking chief to reward loyal followers.
Swaddled in cloth or leather and packed with other valuables in a decorated vessel, this Anglo-Saxon brooch was clearly prized by its Viking owner, who “took just the greatest care of it,” says archaeologist Olwyn Owens
A tangle of silver arm rings lay in the hoard’s upper layer. Viking elites used such jewelry like cash, hacking off pieces of silver to make purchases.
Made of gold, this bird-shaped object may have been a decorative pin or a manuscript pointer designed to keep dirty fingers from the lines in a medieval book.
Surrounded by swirling tendrils, two mythical creatures embellish one of the nine silver brooches interred in the Galloway hoard. “My heart beats at the sight of them,” says archaeologist Olwyn Owens.
Wrapped in a delicate silver chain, an enameled Christian cross was meant to be worn as a pendant.
Treasures from the Viking world, the arm rings are bound to reveal more details in the years to come. The runic inscription on the upper band, for example, has yet to be studied
Intertwining snakes or serpents form an intricate design on a silver disk brooch from the hoard
The work of a master metalsmith, this disc brooch may have been stolen from an Anglo-Saxon settlement during a Viking attack.
A hinged silver strap may have once enclosed a precious, rectangular-shaped object—possibly a book.
I watched this on TV tonight, amazing, I’m getting a metal detector this summer, I’m friends with three Scottish farmers in the central belt.
Ooh I heard about this but this is the first time I’m seeing pictures of the artifacts. How beautiful
“A group of 22 medical experts convened by Johns Hopkins University and The Lancet have called today for the decriminalization of all nonviolent drug use and possession. Citing a growing scientific consensus on the failures of the global war on drugs, the experts further encourage countries and U.S. states to “move gradually toward regulated drug markets and apply the scientific method to their assessment.”
A “striking increase” in homicide in Mexico since the government decided to militarize its response to the drug trade in 2006. The increase has been so great that experts have had to revise life expectancy downward in that country;
The “excessive use” of incarceration as a drug control measure, which the experts identify as the “biggest contribution” to higher rates of HIV and Hepatitis C infection among drug users;
Stark racial disparities in drug law enforcement, particularly in the United States;
And human rights violations arising from excessively punitive drug control measures, including an increase in the torture and abuse of drug prisoners in places like Mexico.”
Aesthetics are more important to me for general life. The more beautiful the environment the more comfortable I will be. I’m more of a sensual person. Lighting is really important to me. Nice fabrics. Smooth clean surfaces. Simple spaces without clutter. I find those things very soothing and they make me feel very sensuous. It’s only part of the equation though. If I’m into someone, I don’t really need any of that stuff 🙂
I’m taking a break from the studio now even though it’s only 10:45. I made a bunch of gemstone resin rings this morning. I can’t do anything else until the resin sets. I don’t really sell these on my websites anymore as thurs not really the kind of direction I’m going in anymore, but they sell quite well at upmarket. I used clear crystals, amethyst, iolite, peridot and garnet for these. Just trying to use up my supplies until they’re all done.
and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues – often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process – because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way – because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
I woke up at 6 this morning after passing out around 9 last night. I have no idea why I was so tired but I woke up ravenous. Did 35 minutes of yoga this morning and didn’t die. Waiting for breakfast to finish steaming I am having pows, what you Muricans call sticky buns I think? Anyway my hair is being an asshole so I will be washing and (dyeing) it into submission today. It’s a holiday here tomorrow so happy Friday for us and happy mini friday for the rest of you xxx
Turquoise #silver #chevron with or without #stackingrings Love this gorgeous #boho look! #handmade #artisanjewelry #trinidad #rings Newly listed at www.sundarajewelry.com
“The cliché that when women are liberated men will be liberated too shamelessly slides over the raw reality of male domination — as if this were an arrangement in fact arranged by nobody, which suits nobody, which works to nobody’s advantage. In fact, the very opposite is true. The domination of men over women is to the advantage of men; the liberation of women will be at the expense of male privilege. Perhaps afterwards, in some happy sense, men will be liberated too — liberated from the tiresome obligation to be ‘masculine.’ But allowing oppressors to lay down their psychological burdens is quite another, secondary sense of liberation. The first priority is to liberate the oppressed. Never before in history have the claims of oppressed and oppressors turned out to be, on inspection, quite harmonious. It will not be true this time either.”
— From “The Third World of Women,” by Susan Sontag. Partisan Review, Vol. 40, No. 2 (1973).
I was craving doubles these past few days and tonight we went out liming with a friend of Chris’s named Learie and as the lime was winding down he mentioned he was going for doubles and I asked him for some and he brought them home to me and I got my craving satisfied and yay!
I am so completely and totally fed up of looking at my own products today. I’ve been photographic them and touching up said photographs and listing them and writing descriptions about them and honestly I’m so up to here with my own pieces.
My body hurts. I decided to do 35 minutes of yoga today and I felt like I was gonna die. I didn’t even finish it. Whoever those fools are that think yoga is just about stretching need to get a clue. That shit is hard work.
THEN I decided to do photography today in the studio which means contorting myself to get the right angles and so more pain.
I decided to open another online store on a site called DaWanda. It’s a German site catering to mostly EU customers. I’ve read that quite a few Etsy sellers do well there, largely because it’s smaller so it’s easier to get found. Etsy is just too big sometimes.
Unfortunately I can’t import my listings so I have to re-list everything. It’s really a matter of copy and paste but it’s still time consuming. So that makes four online stores. I probably won’t keep my Amazon store open after August which is when they start implementing a $40/month store fee (seriously Amazon?).
I’m off to do some yoga and work on photography today. Happy Tuesday bitches xx
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