After literal YEARS of thinking about it, at the start of this year I finally managed to get the very tall ladder from facilities to add rainbow diffusers to two small, high, south-facing windows I have in my classroom. And its finally paying off 🤩🌈🔬

As a high school teacher, I really want to start a documentary-style photo blog titled “Backpacks of Gen Z/Alpha,” but i dont think I will ever top this absolute unit I saw today

I tell my students all the time how even the subtle things in the wide panoply of human experience can lead to groundbreaking breakthroughs in understanding, so maybe they should get out there and try everything #liberalarts #stem #steam #fiberarts

Still desperately trying to finish my last major quilting project from the summer (due for a birthday at the end of the month) but I was at a street festival yesterday and tl;dr oh nooo, new yarn 😳😳😳

Oooooo does BlueSky do a BlueSkyRichterScale?? #earthquale #berkeley

Please consider supporting my Fiber Arts class through Donors Choose. We are a Title I middle school located in historic Little Havana. #art #fiberarts #weaving #knitting #crocheting #macrame #crossstich #teachersky #DonorsChoose #teaching #education www.donorschoose.org/project/crit...

Christmas Obsessives: “Wait, Halloween is over a month and a half out, why are you decorating now?” Halloween Obsessives: “BECAUSE I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU DAD!!!! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!!!!”

Thanks Kristyn! For anyone interested, all the STEM and STEAM curricula I make is FREE, here is the detailed project writeup (also embedded link to instructor guide at the top) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Whelp, with Spooky Season fast approaching it's probably time to get back on my Etsy jewelry bullshit >.< But I do LOVE how this #pentagram #mala #necklace turned out, though, and hope that this is the year it finds its forever home! www.etsy.com/listing/4363...

As someone who grew up in 4H--at the historical periphery ofall this--this makes PERFECT sense.

Finishing my komebukuro lunch bag reminded me to finally finish this #sewing pattern I designed to sell. It's instructions on making a #DIY silverware roll out of #upcycled fabric materials, with infinite room for customization! If interested, check it out on my Etsy! www.etsy.com/listing/4362...

So I DID finish one of my summer sewing projects! Made a komebukuro (aka, "japanese rice bag")-style bag to use as a new lunch bag! All the fabric came from the fabric haul I adopted from an estate sale this summer. I love the 90s-quilting color palletes ☺️🥰☺️

@techconnectify.bsky.social I've been getting clap-back from people saying, "ItS nOt As EfFiCiEnT" but I'm a biologist not a physicist I can't explain it to them halp

New full-#EV owning experience like

The downside of having Too Many #Fiberarts #knitting #quilting #crafts

Back on my #paracord bullshit! 😂 I played around and came up with this great pattern for beaded key-fobs and started churning out a bunch of fun combinations. The blue beads are actually mood-ring beads and change color. Tried selling some while chilling in the park yesterday but no takers yet ;)

Hey #CraftsSky! A childhood friend of mine is an art teacher now and is raising funds to do traditional hand-carved block printing with his middle school students! Check it out if you are able! www.donorschoose.org/project/lino...

Communicating with your kids in 2025 be like:

(Picnicking in the park when a yellowjacket decides to make a pass at our smoked salmon) Yellowjacket: 🐟 😀🐝———— Me: *brushing her away* “Ma’am, no. Go away.” YJ: 🐟 😀🐝———— Me: “Ma’am. No. Stop.” YJ: 🐟 😀🐝———— Me: “Ma’am.” YJ: 🐟 😀🐝———— Me: “Ma’am.” YJ: 🐟 😀🐝————

Meme-ifying another page in my #Tarot journal. Guess the card! 😂

Meanwhile, in my summer break:

VeryGayTweenager: “BRO, you guys need to watch #Arcane so I can tell you all about my favorite ships!” Rest of the family: “Eh, no.” VGT: “PLEAAAASE?? Just watch the first episode with me!” RotF: “Urgh, fine.” Rotf:

Looks like we found our wedding DJ!! 🤩

Ive been trying to invent more “NA Well Drinks” besides just arnold palmers that i can easily order at bars. So far ive come up with: - “Tea and Tonic” : ice tea and tonic water, with a lemon - “Stormy Teas”: ice tea and ginger ale, with a lime Please make fetch happen for these, people!

SFO-bound pilots: Note that when you have a go-around, you go right over my house. So if you happen to do TWO go-arounds within 20 minutes on a clear, low wind day...yes I notice, and yes I am judging you.

Alright so by now we all know The Thing About Beets, right? (ref: Portlandia) Well add to that list…artificial ube coloring-flavoring. “Oh my god, do I have internal bleeding or!?!—oh wait no, I just got back from Hawai’i last week.” (Look, im a basic bay area bitch, if it’s purple i eat it)

Me after inheriting $$$$ worth of quilting fabrics: "OMG i never need to buy fabric again!" Me literally two weeks later: *buys $100 worth of Hawaiian and Japanese prints at Kahului Fabric Mart*

Whelp, it finally happened. 42 years old and i sewed through my finger with the sewing machine needle 😳😱🫠 Its fine, more clipped the edge than punctured, and I didn't bleed on the project! But still feeling very 😒 at myself. Bandaid shot so i don't get dinged for showing gore 😆

I hurt my foot…somehow?…the last week of school and ive spent weeks barely able to walk on it (tho its slowly getting better) Its been extremely upsetting and i keep doing tarot draws to help me recenter. And literally every single one has been like, “Just stay off your feet and rest you dumb shit”

Craft project 1 goes well: 😀 Craft project 2 goes well: 😀 Craft project 3 goes well: 😀 Craft project 4 bombs:

Everyone in the family except me keeps bonking their heads on this low-hanging walnut branch. My fiance said we needed to cut it down. I said he needed to develop better spatial awareness. Exasperated, he asked if maybe I could figure out a way to mark it better to help people avoid it? 😆

Just in time for Joanns closing, I may never need to go fabric shopping again. Our local BuyNothing group had an estate giveaway of a master quilter who passed. I came away with $$$$ worth of fabrics and half-finished quilting projects which I am so honored to take on 🤩🤩🤩

Represent the vibes of your household with one photo:

This whole story is a microcosm of the complete audacity of Fiber Arts and the Machine: 1) Our entire modern computer systems were literally spawned by tech like this, but there's no respect for the heritage 2) Yet we STILL NEED innovative fiber tech--as evidenced by the military project mentioned

Welcome to Summer Break, ya’ll! Aka, Microdosing Actually Having A Retirement

Look, ChatGPT can help me carefully reword an email like a champ, but everytime I’ve experimented with having it “assess and provide feedback” on a student’s work, its response is ALWAYS: 1) “This is pretty good! Maybe write better and add more detail.” 2) Grade = B For all work, every time

Last day of school and look at what my AP Bio kids made me 😂🤣😂😂🫠🤣

Realtalk: with the AI Wars looming and the Catholic Church suddenly coming up out of nowhere to be back at the center of global social justice issues, I didn’t expect to be living in The Hyperion Cantos Future but here we are I guess—

Sup dawg I heard you like buns—

#FiberArts was the canary in the coal mine **before we even needed coal mines** to fuel rampant systemic-cannibalizing industrialization

Two teachers slowly waking up at 6am: Im still flat in bed, while my finace is up staring out the widow sipping his coffee in the morning silence. Him: “…Is summer coming?” Me: *muffled* “Yep.” Him: *sip* Him: Him: “…OH LAWD HE COMING!!!!”

Its my secret weapon and its not even secret, i tell people all the time. “You know what ‘MSG Syndrome’ actually is? Racism. Its just racism.”

Probably says something about the end of Joanns that now, here in its death-throes, pretty much the only fabric left in the store is ROW UPON ROW OF UNTOUCHED FLANNEL FLEECE.

🎶"Learn your rules, you better learn your rules, if you don't, you'll be eaten in your sleep"🎶

People at my place of employment gradually learning about our new CEO like:

On a quick walk during my prep to get some lunch, but made an immediate detour when I passed this sign outside #SFCC 's new STEAM building 😂 lovely little fiber arts and mixed media sculpture exhibition by Liz Harvey

I am rapidly learning that there are some knitters out there who are *outstanding* visual designers but *terrible* technical writers but they are selling their patterns anyway 😒

@auntydonnaboys.bsky.social HOLY FUCKING SHIT ITS A BOBBY T MIRACLE!!!

def feels this way sometimes: Me in 2010: *gives crochet a try* Fiber Arts Internet: “Haha, we’re all into knitting, good luck with that.” Me in 2025: *gives knitting a try, finds she likes it much better * Fiber Arts Internet: “Haha, we’re all into crochet now, good luck with that.”