Wow, my mental health has taken a nose dive this week 🙃

Update! He really liked it! He said it was pretty cool and seemed genuinely interested about learning how to do it. Unfortunately I did also learn that he is deeply afraid of needles. 😬 so i showed him the ball-tipped needles online and he thought they my by be ok! 🤞 #crossstitch

Cheers to family members who accept being shown their started half completed handmade christmas presents with only joy and love. #craftsky #merrychristmas #crossstitch

Input needed, please!! ✨️ I'm making hanging banners as gifts to display buttons and pins collected from their travels (they are kiddos). I've got one name down, but I think it needs some zhuzh? Maybe corner embellishments around text and/or at the bottom? #crossstitch #stitchsky #wip

Gifts for my daughter's preschool teachers. My daughter picked the colors for each and wanted them all to be lizards. 🦎 My husband asked where I learned to make them LOL these were daily recess activities in the 90s 😁 #craftsky #parenthood #1990s

Christmas gift help needed from people who understand #teenagers and also #OnePiece fans would you find this gift appealing for a 17 year old reclusive nephew who talked your ear off at Thanksgiving about One Piece? I'd put together a kit for this and even teach him how to #crossstitch. #stitchsky

I have a beef with a children's library book. I remember it clearly as being the stupidest book ever and immediately never wanting to read it at bedtime again. Then it went missing and it has been due back for so long I'm being charged $18.99 unless I find it.

Had all the craft supplies ready to purchase (I'm making my nephews 🎄 gifts). Just as I'm mental mathing the investment, I pause and find a handmade large component to the project for far less on Etsy. The overwhelmed, overachieving wolf inside me breathed a huge sigh of relief. #craftsky

I stitched in low light this morning and was using the wrong color floss the whole time. 🤦‍♀️ #crossstitch #stitchsky #craftsky #crossstitching

Also this is my new favorite ort storage - a basic squeeze coin purse!

When doing stamped cross stitch with big color block areas, how do you tackle it? Row by row or do you start meandering around for funsies? Maybe I'll even spell out a word next time? 🤪

She is finished (Nov 1, while the veil is still thin!?)

Guys, I am so close 🥲🥹 will my adhd let me finish before Halloween?? 🎃🐈‍⬛️

On the home stretch of this pattern. And 😍 my new needle minder.

My WIP update for the day 🤗

First day as an official stay at home mom... trying to hold the blessings and missing working at the same time. Committed to making the most of this season as well as October, the best month. #parenthood

Progress update. Will I finish her before Halloween?

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

In my free time, I used to edit Wikipedia articles related to the museum work I used to do -- because I am crazy and find research fun. Post job loss, the allure of those previous topics has gone straight to the trash. 1/2 #wikipedia

Decorated for Halloween and planning weekend fall activities. Recently got let go from my 10+ year career. Been going through some things. I have my family & friends. And Halloween. I am released from a toxic work environment but yet still mourning. Very demure. Very mindful.

Just a little progress tonight. ✨️

She's back! 🎃 Maybe this is the year I'll finish her. ☺️

Cats with boxes and bags pattern from Etsy shop BoxAndFox, stitched on natural aida 🧶

May have started a new craft obsession! I haven't been beach combed in ages, but now I'm itching to get back out there.

Working from home, but my crafts call to me.

I think time invested to make sure the new iPad kiosk at the museum is tamper proof is time we'll spent? And removing the ability of the user to accidentally do something by swiping the wrong way is time well spent? 👀 #museums 😒🤔

My soul needed this today.

Where are are the antique, thrift, haunted treasure collectors at on bluesky? My slight obsession is collecting vintage #squirrels lol and I just picked up this one today. ✨️It✨️lights✨️up✨️

Not me standing my ground to my kids' full-blown meltdown on wanting to take a book from the charity donation bin. After I've stated "these are for kids w/o books. You have books at home" to their crying faces as other parents walk by, only to finally read the sign: please take a book home! :)" 🫠

Heard earlier today about a colleague receiving a notification that an IMLS grant had been reinstated. Great news. Hope our efforts continue to produce positive results. #imls #libraries #museums #grants

Sorting out an old stamped kit with a new hoop stand - never done a stamped muslin like this before. Making all my stitches look super janky 😅

My $20 goodwill haul today! I have no idea what any of the brands are, but it feels like Christmas.

Loving the sunset colors coming together. Cross stitching is giving me some semblance of peace. Our AmeriCorps member got terminated this week. 😢 He's served for almost a year with barely any pay, and every dollar invested in the AmeriCorps yields $34, but yeah, it's "saving" money.

Love having to google if my rights are going to be revoked. #SaveAct.

White Lotus spoilers are EVERYWHERE 🙈🙉🙊

My sinuses have been on a roller coaster ride all week.

Everyone at IMLS got put on administrative leave. A smaller issue is that an IMLS reimbursement grant my organization has received is now in jeopardy. Anywho, here's my WIP. 🙃

Lazy Sunday Update.

Sleeping in my kiddo's bed until they fall asleep (they've been having trouble sleeping lately) and 2.5 hours in my stomach growls, and she has the nerve to say, "Your stomach is keeping me awake." 😑 #parenthood

My Kindle, while in possession of my child, got switched off of airplane mode, and my libby book got sucked back to the library. 70% finished on the edge of my seat suspense book, and now I have to wait 1 to 11 weeks to get it back. 😭 iykyk #parenthood 📚💙

Perused #Joann Fabrics for probably the last time. 🥺 didn't buy anything because I don't really need anything right now. But it felt sad, and I will miss the possibility of being around so many craft things and crafty people. #crossstitch #stitchsky #craftsky

I think the news lately has been getting to me more than I realize.

Nothing like cleaning after you've been in a funk. 💚

Starting a new project. Finish ETA February 2026. 🤓 #crossstitch #craftsky #stitchsky

I'm in love. Over a years worth of work, and she's finally complete! This is my largest project ever and also a stamped kit. Now, to explore washing it and maybe framing?? #crossstitch #stitchsky #craftsky

Oh my goodness, this small project did wonders for my spirit. ✨️ #crossstitch #craftsky

I don't know what makes me happier! ✨️🥰✨️ ✨️This little cross stitch kit cost $1.25? ✨️This itty bitty needle minder gem? ✨️Attaching the paper pattern for reference? #craftsky #crossstitch

The final slide from my talk at Texas A&M today. All #DHmakes posts from the last week, with a poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social.

Ready for jury duty!

I'm proud to be prepared for this crafting emergency 😆 Can't #crossstitch at jury duty but coloring is allowed 🥰