I read about this years ago and, being a book lover, decided The Kid and I would start doing it as well. Tonight we bought our books to give one another tomorrow evening. I hope The Kid likes what I got them! 💗 www.treehugger.com/icelanders-g...

Monochrome Monday… from a million years ago when I did some modelling.

Having curly hair means it looks amazing on day when you don’t leave the house.

Thoughts on the anniversary of our move to the West Coast last December…

Mr. Cedar Flanagan III believes he is a master at hiding. No one look at him.

Took The Kid to watch The Nutcracker at the Mt Baker Theater tonight and managed to get a table at the amazing Storia Cucina afterwards! It was a pretty awesome day! (Also stumbled upon an amazing coffee shop but I have no idea what it’s name is lol)

The nice thing about teaching yourself how to do watercolour painting… when you receive a card from someone unexpectedly, you can quickly make one to send back 💗

I often talk about vulnerable things online, SA, DV, abuse, things I have lived through, survived. I never talk about my relationships , as those things are for me. This one I will share. Vulnerability is hard, sometime. open.substack.com/pub/sassymet...

I’ve had issues posting to YT so decided to create a Substack account. It will have my music videos, some of my writings, spoken word pieces and poetry. Please help by subscribing 💗 substack.com/@sassymetisc...

It seems the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has officially gotten out of their contract with ICE. While I am happy they have managed to disentangle themselves from this, I am still interested to know how they got into it to start with. It is not my Nation so technically not my business, but I’m nosy

As a single Mom I rarely have gifts under my tree. One year my ex bought me a vacuum cleaner for my birthday & two side lamps for Christmas. Lamps, he informed me, that I said I loved. I had NEVER seen them & they were ugly. He must have confused me w/his side piece. So, nothing is JUST fine lol

Wait.. WHAT?!! people.com/rob-reiner-w...

1/2 As a parent in the U.S. with a child who went through school in Georgia, who now attends college in WA state, this will never be fathomable to me. The fact that we have normalized active shooter drills for school children is a moral failure. We ask kids who still believe in magic

Met a watercolour artist at the craft store today, completely by accident. I asked if I could show her my attempts. She laughed and said she knows artists who make a living with their watercolour art who would be pissed off at my two attempts. Then she called me an artist and I almost hugged her lol

Just like Jesus. “Attack everyone” Jesus probably

To round out all the random new “things” I am trying to master lol I have been doing line drawings of historical photos of Vancouver BC (my hometown). I plan to print them, frame them, and hang them in my place 😊 I have a couple others I am working on that aren’t done yet.

Just a woman, curled up with her cat, making a wishlist of better things to do watercolour paintings lol

Today’s water colour painting attempt. It’s on the front of a card as I plan to send it to someone.

lol My first attempt at water colouring painting. It’s supposed to be a Christmas ornament. Not great lol but I’ll keep trying l

Do you a comfort movie? Something you can have on and watch when needing the noise or sound? A movie you love that brings you joy and contentment? I have several, but one of my main movies is the one I just posted - “Midnight in Paris”. There’s something about it that settles me. What’s yours?

Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment Now they’re proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days True work life balance Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can’t afford food or healthcare.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Teaching myself how to do embroidery as I am making something for one of my friends for Xmas. This is how it’s going so far lol I can’t post the entire thing as I think they would guess it’s for them if they saw the whole thing. The star is a bit wonky but I will fix it later.

1/2 This holiday season don’t forget your newly divorced friends who are parents, especially Moms. Even divorced we will often buy gifts for our ex from the kids, while we get nothing. Going from a family where everyone gets a gift to realizing you

I need to see everyone’s holiday decorations! Immediately! Inside, outside, cars, whatever you’ve got!! Photobomb me!!

Okay, FIRST OF ALL! It was not “based on” it WAS Shakespeare. And, in my opinion, was a great version of Romeo and Juliet. John Leguizamo as Tybalt and Harold Perrineau as Mercutio?! Brilliant!

Taking myself out to watch “When You’re Strange” this weekend. I am super excited!

Completely done with the pin for my brother. It’s really big and sparkly But he’s 6’5” so it will just look regular sized on him lol

Just finished this for my brother for next year’s Remembrance Day. I still need to add the edge beading, which I will do tomorrow once the backing glue dries.

Late night beading snack, because I forgot to eat dinner lol *that’s vegan sausage. I don’t eat meat but I do eat dairy.

I designed a poppy and Métis sash to bead for my brother. It is coming along really well (I will post it when it’s done) but when you’re beading with size 15 seed beads it takes forever lol I started beading around 6 and just stopped. My back now looks like a question mark lol

His OoC & Companion of the Order of Canada need to be returned ASAP. He says he will NOT return them as they were bc of his writing. A writing career BASED ON A LIE! “King, who built prolific career telling Indigenous stories, reveals he is not part Cherokee” www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Nothing like waking up with a weird headache that is not a migraine but still caused me to be horribly horribly sick. If you need me, I will be crying, with an ice pack on my head, trying to fall back asleep.

A kickass jersey giveaway and a worthy fundraiser! If you are able to donate, please do. You will be entered in the giveaway (read the instructions in the original post). If you love hockey (and who doesn’t?!!), you definitely want to enter!! Please repost for more reach 💙

Get me, I’m a cartoon lol

Just a ridiculous post, with an equally ridiculous video, because everything is awful right now. But this bit o silliness beings me joy.

Tickets for Avatar Fire & Ash go on sale today. Native moots, please support and share this petition (if you haven't already): c.org/mNWjkxpYPv @sgj.bsky.social @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social @winonanelson.com @jennabeet.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @wolf-kin.com @littlebadger.bsky.social 1/2

I cannot fathom why they thing INDIGENOUS PEOPLES would aid them in this horror show. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Great, now give back everything else the church stole. All. Of. It. “Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada” www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

A few years ago I recorded the Audible version of the self help book “Detachment”. With the holidays coming up, now is a great time to learn, relearn, or get a refresher on how to manage toxic people using detachment as a tool. a.co/d/7JeUQ73

Finally finished! My first time adding edge beading. Had some issues at the end as the thread got a wee bit short but I managed it anyway 🙌🏽 Deer hide backing with two pins to make sure it won’t spin when worn. (Quarter for size comparison)

Working on four more of these poppies for next year (for my family). Just finished this one, so it still needs the backing and edge beading added but so far I am happy with it. I have another design I am working on will have a Métis sash behind it. I’m a slow beader so this took a bit to finish lol

The hard part about living in the PNW is when you hear of a great restaurant and check how far it is… “64 miles (103km), that’s not too bad” Then see it will actually take 2.5 hours to drive to, because it’s on a damn ISLAND lol

Cozy party bus roll call! Hands up if you’re coming along!!

Wait… wait.. WAIT! Are people using the word Doppelgänger for someone who has their same name?!! Because that is NOT WHAT THAT MEANS! Stop that.

Monday morning moment of Zen from the PNW 🩵💙 <sound up>

Dear people merging onto the interstate/highway/freeway, etc, SPEED UP! Seriously, don’t slow down to hesitantly merge, GUN IT and zipper in. Hugs and kisses, A woman who drive a six speed manual and never makes people slam in their damn brakes when she freaking merges 💗

Absolutely disgusting. The fact at least two of the three, I believe, are minorities makes it worse. They MUST be fired! Period. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

Yay!! 🙌🏽 I’m doing my part, how about you? 😏

It’s raining and I’m home with the kid who isn’t feeling great. Their class was canceled today, thank goodness, so they can rest and hopefully be able to go to class tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m beading some poppies, and hoping to get them all done and sent off to my family ASAP!