Vaduz, Liechtenstein (by Marina Zvada)
So I spent hours working on a silyanka using a pattern I got off Pinterest and it completely failed. The pattern didn’t work into a necklace or choker. I don’t know how to explain it. It doesn’t “bend” so I thought it was a choker but when I put the clasp on and wore it for the first time it didn’t work as a choker either. I won’t take a photo of it because it doesn’t work. I’m frustrated because I spent hours on this and money because I had to buy thread to start this project. The colours are perfect but the pattern does not work.
It wasn’t AI, it was made by some user on Gerdan Editor and I didn’t see a photo of a finished silyanka someone made from the pattern. I’m not going to use another Gerdan Editor pattern again.
This is the quilt my great-grandmother made from the ribbons her gravedigger son brought home when the funeral wreaths died and had to be thrown out. Back then, the ribbons were made of good-quality satin and it seemed a shame to let the fabric go to waste, so she washed and ironed them and kept them rolled up in a drawer until there were enough to make a quilt top. It's faded quite a bit over the decades and lost some of its sheen. The bedstead was hers, too.
(The shams are modern and made of quilter's cotton.)
@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours
Besides the essentials (keys, phone, wallet, ID, cards and pads) in my purse I also have: a boxcutter, bottle of ibuprofen, thumb brace, pens, sharpie, passport, bandages, appointment cards, lip balms, and receipts.
The sharpie and boxcutter are from when I worked at the hospital in materials management because it turned out to actually be useful to carry those around with me all the time.
The thumb brace is an orthotic for my hand because I have problems with hypermobility, especially in my thumbs. I keep it in my purse in case I need it while at work.
it is really cool that there is now an official maori word for autism, created with input from autistic maoris, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental
quote from article:
“In my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as ‘takiwatanga’, meaning ‘his or her own time and space’,” [Keri Opai] told government-funded Maori Television.
(source)
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
It’s also key to note that the word for disabled in te reo Maori is now whaikaha (to have strength or to be differently able), and at the same time takiwatanga and whaikaha were minted, about 200 words were added that also describe other mental health, addiction, and disability issues.
So now, about 125,000 of the roughly 561,000 Maori people in NZ will be able to effectively describe and discuss autism and so much more in their native language for the benefit of themselves and their loved ones. That is the best thing I’ve heard all day.