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took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I’m now finished. going to have it framed soon :)

#JRR Tolkein #LOTR #Middle Earth map

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Sooooooo cute!

First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

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Crochet a 'Square Scramble Sweater' … The Coolest Granny Square Cardigan! 👉 https://buff.ly/48qloph

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This is something I would love to try! I may take a look at Abby Franquemont's site and YouTube to see what's what.

I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.

When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"

When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...

"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.

"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"

Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."

People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?

#spinning in 2024 #spinning on the move #learn spinning

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Winter wonderland

#winter wonderland #quiet and peaceful

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#wintertime #snowing #Brrrrrr

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Alexis is up to her usual hijinks!

Book 23 finds Alex and James in San Diego setting up the new businesses. Alex is supposed to be staffing the office, but a jigsaw puzzle has held more interest until a grief meeting brings her a new client, her odd cop friend brings her a cold case challenge, and the boss schedules interviews for her. She and James are working overtime, as usual, but that doesn't stop Alex from making friends in all the West Coast cop shops. Detective Petrochelli is no fonder of her now than when he first met her. Fast-paced and full of twisting action and intrigue, you’ll fly through this book as fast as I did. But you still can't read the last book until it comes out in October 2023. Recommended.

#GK Parks #Alexis Parker #action #intrigue

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Really weird

What do a witch and a shifter have in common? Nothing, except that they are both lonely. Being known as the Wickedest Witch doesn't exactly endear you to people or make dating easy, especially when you work at deserving the title and Rasputin is your grandfather. And being bigger than all the others in the pride, taller and more heavily muscled, makes a guy scary. Not someone you want to spend your life with. So both Evangeline and Ryker are loners. They shoot sparks off each other when they meet, and things heat up quickly between them. Though half the time, they're fighting or threatening each other. It didn't take long for the other half of the time to be sex, which became so constant I started skipping it. There is a story in here, and the couple accomplishes their task and gets their HEA.

#3Stars

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The Barribault Eight

I almost DNFd this book several times before I got a third of the way into it. It didn't seem to want to get going. But while Mr. Phillips was taking me hither and yon, he was introducing me to the broad cast of characters and setting the stage for murder. His characters definitely had character. I do love his coppers. I was a bit frustrated with his habit of chopping off the end of conversations, but I suppose that's how you keep the secrets in a mystery. I always like it when there's a journal involved, and this was a good one. Then add in a second journal type of book and forgery. Well, that was great. It all seemed to work out well in the end. Recommended.

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Hey, CHICKENS, what fun!

Anna and her group of lady friends are some very interesting characters. Anna, of course, being the most interesting. She's beautiful and upbeat and all sorts of wonderful things. She's a very nice person with an easy sense of humor. So when she gets that random email, she answers it, starting off a life-changing relationship. Her sister and other friends are with her through it all, as close female friends are. They provide the humor, advice, and shoulders to cry on as needed. They also provide the wine for the celebrations 🍾 as they roll along. A great friendship into romance as well as women's friendships. Recommended.

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Art by Juan Ruiz

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Unusual combination makes for a refreshing read

There have been heroines involved in helping women escape abuse, but they usually donate money or clothing to the cause. Or some have a house that can be used for housing runaways with help from servants. This heroine was involved in the nitty-gritty of the work. She not only helped financially and kept the ledger, but she went out to meet with the women along the way to provide additional funds and directions to their next safe house. She had done it in the city and was now doing it in her local county. Our hero was an assassin for the War Office, which is not unusual. What is unusual about him is that he took personal revenge for his unusual childhood on his final mission for the War Office. He made the decision to quit because duty had now become murder. He then became a hermit. It was in this iteration of his life that he heard a husky female laugh. It wasn't a giggle or tinkle or twitter. It was an honest laugh, and he fell in love with it and the hope it gave him. The combination of these unusual things made for a refreshing read. Yes, it was still a romance written using the formula for historic romances. It might even be considered a bit on the dark side with the death threat against the heroine. However, it was great reading something I hadn't read before. Something completely new. Recommended.

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opposum in trash can! with banana peel hat! by Parking_Quantity1205

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Crochet an Incredible Hornbill Bird Amigurumi Designed By Chundra Chun: 👉 https://buff.ly/3I0EM0T