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During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

#important truths #money

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#cleaning #organizing #advice

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oh right i dont think (maybe i did and ive forgotten) ive posted this commission but

for yall lotr's out there

#lord of the rings #calligraphy

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making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

#art #yeah

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sometimes i wish i had facial hair

like sexy stubble or something that would be so cool

#wayyy back in middle school I remember that we had an anonymous question box in health class #and I asked something like 'Why do boys get to be hairy and we don't?? so unfair!' #I never realized till many years later but all I was thinking about duting those health classes was 'why do boys get the better puberty?' #why do we have to get boobs and go bra shopping when that's horrible and clearly nobody wants it?? #hah. oh you fool! tiny baby oblivious boy! #amusing things #gender #transgender #gif #beautiful people

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#NINE eggs??? #wow #recipe #recipes #cake #video #b dylan hollis

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A herding dog at work

#what a good dog! what good sheep! #video #dogs #sheep #animals #farming

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The Lake   -    Gill Button

British, 1973 -

Oil on linen , 160 x 160 cm.

#art #paintings #scenery

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My latest New Scientist cartoon.

#comics #botany

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Most of the stuff I work on at my alterations job is suits, but today I did a prom dress for the daughter of an acquaintance, and everyone else at the prom is going to be soooooo jealous of the 40 cm deep pockets I added.

#sewing #alterations #she had a matching stole that she didn't want and asked if I could use that fabric for pockets #and fortunately the shop has a serger #and the side seams were easy to get at and it's a fairly heavy poly satin so they barely even show! #I put a giant cone of thread in one of them to see if it'd cause any weird puckering and it didn't #actually they're more like 44 cm long in total and I cut them about 20 cm wide at the bottom

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Yay monsters!! Yes, I remember you posting the first dress, and the fabric was from MyFabricDesigns. They went out of business without even sending me an email about it :(

(And I'm pretty sure I had about 4 dollars in earnings that vanished along with them. Hmph.) I do have designs up on Spoonflower, of course, but the print quality isn't quite as nice.

I'm glad to see the fabrics being used! I still have some frog toile from that site that I've been meaning to make into a jacket someday. Also, I post my art mostly on @vincentbriggs

Little Monsters

Little Monsters everywhere!

I bought this fabric from @pterribledinosaurdrawings designs (but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the website) quite a while back. I made the green design into a dress for my little niece last spring, and saved the rainbow monsters for this year.

Small dresses are so quick to sew up compared to adult-sized ones!

#fabric #sewing

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Kitten Sleeping in the Arms of Madame Ingres

#art #cats #sketches #19th century

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via @indiarosecrawford

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

#frogs #video #animation #cooking #delightful

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so the average american is not aware of the controversy surrounding jk rowling, like this is a very online kind of knowledge to have. I mean that there are people who fully know I'm trans who talk about harry potter to me and there's no awareness of any of the discourse surrounding the work that's been going on for years, and idk where I'm going with this but sometimes there's a huge gulf between what we expect people to naturally know by virtue of us being on tumblr versus people who are not

#jk rowling

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Dutch Delft tiles with various types of ships, Netherlands, around 1660

#17th century #art #ships #tiles #1660's

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One tiny little very annoying thing about blogspot is that when I'm doing stuff with multiple tabs open I like to switch between them using the command & number keys, and I have to remember to not do that if I'm on the blogger tab because hitting those keys there will change the size of the font.

#irksome things #I really need to write blog posts more often #I still have sewing projects from like 2 years ago I haven't blogged about

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#fashion #safety #delightful