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99% of all murders committed by women in ancient greek plays are completely justified

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Sew, I made another thing.

My headband bases finally arrived and, since I'd already made the cover from a self made pattern (I can share the tutorial if anyone is interested), I covered it up pretty quickly. Not as well as the first time I did this with different material (I made a headband cover earlier in a different material and liked the size that I wanted to get more bases of that size), but as this is only for me, I don't mind too much.

I also found a tutorial for making a Sailor Bow and while I had to make a smaller version, I think it worked okay. It's attached to a clip so I can interchange it with other decorations I have yet to make, or just wear the headband without a bow.

#Sew I made a thing #Covered headband #Sailor bow #Hairclip #Sewing #Floral #It's not fantastic but I like it

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Sew, I made something.

Just some simple fabric earrings. I plan on making a headband with the same material but I need the headband bases I ordered to arrive. I do technically have a headband done with matching earrings but I can't get a photo right now cause there's a dog asleep on me.

#Sewing #Ameteur sewer #Fabric earrings #Upcycling #Sleeping dogs are too adorable to move

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For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality

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Imagine building your home on the back of a moving mob. What if it dives? What if it dies? What if you stop off somewhere and it swims away and you can't find it again?

the living island

thinking about designing more ocean beasts for the game

#Minecraft #Minecraft mob #This could be brilliant and yet go so horribly wrong

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This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I'm going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I'm so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

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Thank you lovie <3

I'm rather proud of this, even if it did take me about a month to complete.

Let me explain.

I'm normally a cross stitcher, but I'd been seeing a lot of embroidery tricks on Pinterest (chronic scrolled) and have been wanting to try the tulip button stitch for quite some time. Unfortunately, I had no jackets or cardis appropriate enough to try it on, so I hit up the Rockmans website and got this fuzzy thing for $20 (marked down from $80, mind, so I'd call that a win). It eventually arrived and it came with buttons like this:

Blingy, no holes, and so heavy they were drooping off the cardi and making it a lop sided garment when worn unbuttoned.

In other words, perfect.

Before I could start lopping them off, I had to make sure I had replacement buttons. As I live in small town with barely any decent crafting supplies, I needed to wait for a day off work where I could travel the hour and a bit away to my closest Spotlight. The day finally came, I took in the spare/replacement button the cardi came with, hunted through the minimal button section (why do buttons not come in those long tubes with the sample button on the lid anymore? Sometimes I would like to buy more than one button? Or more than three??) and walked away with a packet of mixed white buttons.

Then my stupid brain hit.

When I finally had another day for me to work on my cardi, I opened the button packet and started rummaging. I pulled out the various buttons that had been the same size as the original buttons, lamented that the creamy ones with the slight flower petal design on them only numbered 3, and realised that in order to find enough of the right size buttons that were all the same type, I was going to have to sort them.

I ... may have a problem when it comes to sorting.

Sorting things takes me AGES. Not that I think I'm bad at it, I think I'm too GOOD at it. My usual sorting items or choice are books. You won't believe how much enjoyment I get at spending days sorting our library after every time we've had to move house. And just like with sorting books, buttons seem to have their own distinctions. Buttons with 2 holes. Buttons with 4. Buttons with writing. Buttons with SHEEN. SPECIFICALLY COLOURED SHEEN. THERE WERE SO MANY BUTTONS WITH GREEN SHEEN AND, LIKE, THREE WITH PINK?!

Anyway.

I believe the task or sorting them into pairs or more of identical buttons - with a small pile of Lonesome Larries to the side - followed by bagging up the piles, and followed THEN by glad wrapping the rest of them because I had limited amount of little baggies, took me a good couple of hours. In the end, I had a pile of 7 of these plain white buttons of the right size, so at least I have 2 spare if I ever lose any in the future.

And then I discovered just how difficult a French knot can be.

Mini videos on Pinterest generally don't explain how to do things in words. I'm a visual learner, I think, so I thought I'd be able to do this just by following the example. I struggled for a long time, @itchylimpet 's Ma even tried to help me to no avail, and after watching many videos and reading one article on how to do it, I finally managed to do it without making a horrible mess. I continued on, paused for dinner, and by the pitch of night I had finally finished.

So, there you have it. One project that resulted in barely much but took forever to do. I am proud that I eventually managed to get it and I am excited at trying out some other embroidery projects I have in mind. I know this is probably silly, considering it was just a button change, but I like this.

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Fuck it Rat Fairies

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I'm rather proud of this, even if it did take me about a month to complete.

Let me explain.

I'm normally a cross stitcher, but I'd been seeing a lot of embroidery tricks on Pinterest (chronic scroller) and have been wanting to try the tulip button stitch for quite some time. Unfortunately, I had no jackets or cardis appropriate enough to try it on, so I hit up the Rockmans website and got this fuzzy thing for $20 (marked down from $80, mind, so I'd call that a win). It eventually arrived and it came with buttons like this:

Blingy, no holes, and so heavy they were drooping off the cardi and making it a lop sided garment when worn unbuttoned.

In other words, perfect.

Before I could start lopping them off, I had to make sure I had replacement buttons. As I live in small town with barely any decent crafting supplies, I needed to wait for a day off work where I could travel the hour and a bit away to my closest Spotlight. The day finally came, I took in the spare/replacement button the cardi came with, hunted through the minimal button section (why do buttons not come in those long tubes with the sample button on the lid anymore? Sometimes I would like to buy more than one button? Or more than three??) and walked away with a packet of mixed white buttons.

Then my stupid brain hit.

When I finally had another day for me to work on my cardi, I opened the button packet and started rummaging. I pulled out the various buttons that had been the same size as the original buttons, lamented that the creamy ones with the slight flower petal design on them only numbered 3, and realised that in order to find enough of the right size buttons that were all the same type, I was going to have to sort them.

I ... may have a problem when it comes to sorting.

Sorting things takes me AGES. Not that I think I'm bad at it, I think I'm too GOOD at it. My usual sorting items of choice are books. You won't believe how much enjoyment I get at spending days sorting our library after every time we've had to move house. And just like with sorting books, buttons seem to have their own distinctions. Buttons with 2 holes. Buttons with 4. Buttons with writing. Buttons with SHEEN. SPECIFICALLY COLOURED SHEEN. THERE WERE SO MANY BUTTONS WITH GREEN SHEEN AND, LIKE, THREE WITH PINK?!

Anyway.

I believe the task of sorting them into pairs or more of identical buttons - with a small pile of Lonesome Larries to the side - followed by bagging up the piles, and followed THEN by glad wrapping the rest of them because I had limited amount of little baggies, took me a good couple of hours. In the end, I had a pile of 7 of these plain white buttons of the right size, so at least I have 2 spare if I ever lose any in the future.

And then I discovered just how difficult a French knot can be.

Mini videos on Pinterest generally don't explain how to do things in words. I'm a visual learner, I think, so I thought I'd be able to do this just by following the example. I struggled for a long time, @itchylimpet 's Ma even tried to help me to no avail, and after watching many videos and reading one article on how to do it, I finally managed to do it without making a horrible mess. I continued on, paused for dinner, and by the pitch of night I had finally finished.

So, there you have it. One project that resulted in barely much but took forever to do. I am proud that I eventually managed to get it and I am excited at trying out some other embroidery projects I have in mind. I know this is probably silly, considering it was just a button change, but I like this.

#Cardi #Cardigan #Changing buttons #Embroidery #Embroidery flowers #The Internet made it look so easy I'm kinda mad at that #Sewing #I'm not used to this

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So cute!

These sheeps will be in April 4th Etsy update! There will be mostly all white friends and only a couple of the black Suffolk-like sheepies, but I wasn’t sure how I’d like them and I super love them, so will be making more for the future.

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Part Five of KarmaGotMe's Op Shop Finds!

After around 4-5 hours of wandering around in Albury and North Albury hitting up the op shops, I ended up with a decent amount of loot and... this.

Is it a triceratops? Is it some other form of dinosaur? Or is it, as it is so elegantly labelled, a LIZARD? Who knows? Whatever it is, the dish is cool, it made me laugh, and I couldn't leave it behind.

#Is it dinosaur? #Is it LIZARD? #So odd #So cool #Op shop #Op shop find #Thrift #Thrifting #Thrift find

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It's been a hot minute, so here is Part Four of KarmaGotMe's Op Shop Finds!

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this. For months I've been looking at all sorts of floral brooches online and I'd seen ones like this selling for around $30 or more, but I found this beauty for $2!

So, this hand painted black lacquer brooch comes from the Pakleh artworks. From what I can tell, brooches and boxes seem to be the main 2 bases, with the majority of the artwork either being floral or religion based (there are others that aren't, you just don't see them often). No two brooches or boxes will ever be the same, so getting your hands on something so unique is just an awesome feeling. I highly recommend checking out what other pieces of art there are from this Russian village.

#Palekh #Palekh artwork #Floral brooch #Unique #Op shop find #Op shop finds #Thrift #Thrift finds #Thrifting

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He was purring so much!

Nos is being a lap cat! This is odd because he's never been a lap cat! I have to get up to feed everyone dinner but how can I now?!

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Nos is being a lap cat! This is odd because he's never been a lap cat! I have to get up to feed everyone dinner but how can I now?!

#Nos #Nightshade Detroit #lapcat #A rare moment

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Part 3 of Karma Got Me's Op Shop Finds!

Sorry about the photo quality, the lighting where I took these shots isn't great and doesn't do them justice.

The credit for finding this actually goes to my partner, @itchylimpet. We hit up one of our local Mt Beauty op shops a few weeks ago on the hunt for brooches and she found this absolute treasure for $2. (Yeah, you may have noticed a lot of our finds are fairly cheap. Our small town doesn't price high like Vinnies and whatnot.)

This brooch and matching earrings are all signed by de Passillé-Sylvestre, a wife-husband crafting duo from Quebec who made so many gorgeous pieces in the 1960s-70s. I think they started with just basic floral enamel type items before moving on to the more stylised imagery and abstract pieces they are recognised for, someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I do suck at Googling.

#de Passilé-Sylvestre #Brooch #Earrings #Op shop find #Op shop finds #Thrifting #Thrift finds

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hey, don’t cry. one half flour one half yogurt knead into dough and fry for easy flatbread and dip in balsamic vinegar, okay?