I have come across a website full of knitting patterns that are so incredibly up my alley. I adore modular knitting design because they’re both satisfying to knit and open up such interesting designs possibilities and I don’t see it done often enough. Tragically these only sold as kits which for several reasons makes buying them not at all practical for me but just look at them
ezen a ponton jöttem rá, hogy túl bő, és persze lehetne mondani, hogy “második zokninak otthonra jó lesz”, de már van kettő túl bő zoknim, és már szeretnék egy passzentosat.
szóval most bontás következik, send thoughts and prayers
Uristen de iszonyatos menő! Megborulok ettől a kétszínkombótól, nekem is kelleni fog valami ilyen
En most puha es vekony cashmere fonalbol kotok (nem zoknifonal, de ez volt itthon, es amugy csodas viselet), 48 es 60 szem kozott kezdem a szarat (2-es kototu). Szerintem egy vastagabb zoknifonalbol boven eleg a 48.
standard zoknifonalat használok 2-es tűvel, és a mintaleírást követve 68 szemmel kezdtem, ami túl sok volt
ezen a ponton jöttem rá, hogy túl bő, és persze lehetne mondani, hogy “második zokninak otthonra jó lesz”, de már van kettő túl bő zoknim, és már szeretnék egy passzentosat.
szóval most bontás következik, send thoughts and prayers
A Starbucksban a limbódalt játsszák, de a David Hasselhoff féle verziót, amelynek ismeretét ezúton is köszönöm Timinek 1992-ből, akinek megvolt a teljes kazetta és rongyosra hallgattatta velem
Plusz: ingyen bétablokkoló!
Még nem volt erőm nekiállni 200 szem norwegian twisted castonnak
kitartást küldök a várakozáshoz, mi múltkor baleset miatt 8 óra alatt tettük meg autóval a Budapest-Bécs távolságot két gyerekkel és egy macskával, de legalább készen lett a kardigánom ujja.
Trying to chain fly some wool but then cat approaches lays on lap. Now I’m stuck. One hand holding chain fly can’t type because of that so we’re doing voice to text. See how that works out other hand. Trying to keep cat from yarn but he’s so big and so heavy. I can’t scoop him up with one hand to move him. So now I am just stuck and text send post done stop
Chain ply not fly play no ply . Done. Send post finished. Stop typing! Oh Jesus Christ don’t capitalize Jesus Christ. This is this is Tumblr don’t do. Don’t do that. Don’t capitalize Tumblr this is the worst drop stop
aw prev your tags made me smile so big!! Thank you and I’m really glad that my little criminal causing chaos made you laugh :) and I WAS able to finish plying my yarn, we reached a “look but don’t touch” cold war agreement and were both equally annoyed at each other the whole time 😌
You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?
So it was with this desktop greenhouse.
I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.
I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.
I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.
I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…
Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.
I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.
This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.
I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.
Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.
In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…
I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.
Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.
illetve valószínűleg ma kurva sokan fognak seggre huppanni, mert egy korcsolyapálya az egész város. Még sosem láttam ilyet. Emberek inkább az úttest közepén sétálnak, csak ne kelljen a járdára lépniük. Mondjuk az úttest ugyanúgy egy jègtábla. 😢
És nálatok hogy indult a reggel?
ezek szerint tökéletes időzítés, hogy most megy végig a családon a hanyos vírus
I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a fair number of drug addicts come through, and there is a thing where if you’re like, on your first offense, they’ll do a thing where you can go to treatment and if you complete it they’ll take the conviction off your record.
And he would tell his clients, “Look, everyone’s going to tell you not to do drugs. They’re going to say it over and over again. And it’s like, if people tell you not to think of a white elephant, you’re going to think of a white elephant. But the trick to not thinking about a white elephant is to think of a red balloon. So you need to find your red balloon. For some people it’s yoga. For others it’s woodworking. For some people it’s scrapbooking or gardening or any of a long list of things to do. They focus on that, it’s a lot easier to succeed in ignoring the white elephant.”
So yeah, “watch yourself” is one thing… but the better idea is to watch something else. (Even if it’s fanfic about werewolves fucking.)
It’s a form of productive dissociation, and is super, super helpful.
It’s easy for me to get bogged down in how much pain I’m in… but some of the most painful periods of my life have also been the most productive, writing-wise, because writing is one of my red balloons.
There is a phrase I use A LOT in my parenting and my son gets very sick of it, but it’s true:
The thing you practise is the thing you get good at.
You may not intentionally be practicing “being grumpy” but if you don’t put effort into practicing “not being grumpy” then I’m afraid that’s what you’re doing. It’s hard! It’s really hard! Sometimes, for some things, it’s pretty much impossible and that sucks!
But being carefully aware that you are going to get good at the things you do most of is a good way to be more careful of what those things are. If that makes sense.
You gotta appreciate sometimes how tumblr works in such a way that everyone who wants to reblog this interesting or useful psychological advice is also forced to reblog the thing about werewolf fucking
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