I’m preparing for my first craft show and some of my items are handmade one-of-a-kind notebooks. I’ve been wondering how I will display them in my booth. And then today at Joann’s I was able to buy two of these… they hold the notebooks perfectly and now I have a piece of Joann history 🥹

inner luigi rising as I clicked submit on my health insurance application and the premium went up by $800

Episode 6 of Crafting Through It is only one part of an epic journey to make a tiny couch. youtu.be/kFZj1ySYjYY?...

the dollhouse FB group I'm in is ABLAZE because a lady posted a pic of miniatures she'd bought at Hobby Lobby and added that she ate lunch at chik-fil-a

Me trying to write a response to a confrontational email from a toxic friend:

She was inspired by the needlepoints she learned to do as a kid. She’s now 71 years old.

Taking up 2 spots as per doge policy

We're gonna move fast and break things. Sometimes we'll make mistakes. If we remove the wrong organ we'll put it back in. We are disrupting surgery

Just finished this lovely book by @saraschaefer1.bsky.social and oh, I cried, I laughed and I cried and then I laughed again. A beautiful, hilarious, poignant and inspiring story. Thank you, Sara. Your words helped heal my tender heart as I navigate grief & life! Hope you don’t stop sharing stories.

Every day I have to hear about some asshole

This is how you write a FB marketplace description

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

I’m fine

i'm in my guillotine era

Someone else named Sara Schaefer who lives in Iowa has accidentally used my email for a few things (my guess is it's in her autocomplete and she doesn't realize). Salon appointments, and now she bought some Avett Brothers tickets and is trying to transfer them to someone else...SARA! WHERE R U GIRL

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1% Swiftie, 99% Livie. One of my puffy paint embroidery projects, this one conceptualized by my niece Jana. For those who don’t know (me, one week ago), a LIVIE is an Olivia Rodrigo fan. We here at Crafting Through It will not shy away from controversial embroidery!

Decided to put some banned words on a sweatshirt. What brave white man will wear it? Who will he hero we need?

Trump’s sudden suspension of US foreign aid is like walking into a hospital ward and just pulling all the plugs out of the sockets without looking to see what they're attached to first. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

I feel like we’ve lost touch with the phrase “I hate your guts”… and we need to elevate it once again. You hate someone’s guts? Their whole biome? Damn. Harsh

Finally! I am offering a DIY Miniature Murder Board Kit! Comes with all you’ll need to make your own tiny evidence board. With full instructions. The kit makes for an excellent gift for the true crime fan in your life plus the ability to ~CUSTOMIZE~ craftingthroughit.etsy.com

From my federal worker friend: her friend (also a govt worker) had their name placed on some kind of DEI "snitch" site, and now they've been getting pizzas they didn't order delivered to their house. It may sound like a prank but this is meant to send a message "I know where you live" / intimidate.

Episode 1 of Crafting Through It is live! In this episode I teach you how to make my popular Miniature Murder Board. Here’s the intro!

Feels like an insane time to launch a new show but here we go! TOMORROW 2/5, my new web show CRAFTING THROUGH IT. It’s a long form, chill n chatty show where I teach you a new craft each week. Don’t worry if you’re not crafty! It’s kinda like Bob Ross. subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@CraftingThr...

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Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

Making a playlist, and if this isn’t proof that Google broke itself with the stupid AI thingy…

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

My lifelong best friend and her husband are both career federal workers. She said it’s chaos. Her husband doesn’t even know if he has a job right now. Here’s what she said we can do.

This applies to all creatives, whether you're posting ASCII art of Gritty kissing T. Chalamet or recording podcasts or writing articles for your Patreon. We need the diversions.

The federal grant pause may have a devastating impact on so many people in so many ways. I am most familiar with organizations that provide emergency shelter & assistance to prevent people from falling into homelessness. Please take a moment to contact your reps. endhomelessness.org/actions/act-...

They’ve got a point. Helping regular American people doesn’t improve the day to day lives of “those we serve” (billionaires)

People cannot survive on calamity alone. I need news, facts, and opinions, sure, but also: I need art I need craft I need design I need memes I need cute animal gifs I need humour I need passion I need growth I need to see people doing cool things, being frivolous, and learning. I need humanity.

For a one second shot of my Cute Index Cards ad, I outlined an entire fake movie… don’t lie you’d watch this. What should the title be?? And who should I cast

I know it’s his last name, but Hegseth sounds like a guy named Seth who wanted his name to sound more Nazi-y

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

Great thread on how to live right now

The HaHa Hole, 1:12 scale miniature comedy club by me, 2021

I get no thanks or recognition for Not Being Worse. I could be worse and yet I choose not to be. But if this continues perhaps I'll be forced to reconsider...

David Lynch on sheds

Cryptocurrencies are now like podcasts. Everybody’s got one

Added some of these cute card holders to my shop, plus you can buy a pack of mini cards of all different patterns if you want! CraftingThroughIt.etsy.com

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension by EFF that blocks trackers—like Meta’s pixel—from loading on websites you visit. It also replaces embedded Facebook posts, Like buttons, and Share buttons with click-to-activate placeholders, blocking another way that Meta tracks you.

Small batch, handmade index cards by me. Because regular index cards BLOW!! Each pack is OOAK (one-of-a-kind) and made from vintage greeting cards, thrifted / found / scrap paper. Hit up my shop if you want to treat yourself!

small earthquake in Richmond VA a few minutes ago. LA, you are on my mind in more ways than one

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.

Thinking of all my pals in LA right now. I used to reassure my family that we didn’t live close to where fires would usually happen and now I’m seeing that our old neighborhood is under evacuation warning. Terrifying