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[9thbutterfly]

#flowers #9thbutterfly pictures #birthday flower #for a friend elsewhere on the internet

[bogglebabbles]

9thbutterfly replied to your post “Sometimes self-love is just saying ‘fuck it’ and allowing yourself to...”

Tell me all about the gardening you did!

Unfortunately no planting or anything. We’re way behind on planting because we had snow not that long ago (and yet it’s like 30C this week?? Thanks New Brunswick weather), and so today was really just weeding and getting a bunch of the old debris out of the garden. We do have some vegetables coming up, courtesy of my older brother and his little portable greenhouse, though! Some peas, tomatoes, and some peppers that I’m going to give a little TLC because he’s not quite as experienced with those as I am.

I’ve been supremely tempted to get myself plenty of annuals I can scatter around in pots, though, since we’re going to (hopefully) be moving within the year and Mom refuses to plant something that she’s not going to be able to take along without digging things out of the garden.

#9thbutterfly #the peonies are coming in beautifully though #will have to get pictures once they open up

[bookshelfdreams]

Baby Viking Pt 1 - undertunic

Is this a bad time to mention I have literally never sewn an article of clothing before. I might have bitten off more than I can chew. and I decided to sew it all by hand cause I wanted to use this really nice linen thread I found

Anyway!

I got this really nice linen/viscose blend for the undertunic. viscose is an artificial fibre and of course not period accurate for anything, but at least it's plastic-free (made from cellulose) and biodegradable. and the fabric looks great! slight grey tinge, incredibly soft, amazing drape.

luckily, a tunic is a pretty simple garment. here's an unprofessional step-by-step guide:

1. draw your pattern & add in measurements

not pictured: little squares for the underarms

2. Cut out all your pieces. make sure to leave enough seam allowance.

3. sew everything together.

4. clean up your seams.

5. add in a neck opening & facing at whatever point seems most convenient.

6. hem it.

7. add whatever else you want to add - ties, decorations, belt loops, possibilities are endless.

ta-daa! and you're done.

piece of cake.

(@9thbutterfly expressed hopes that I'd add in enough seam allowance to take it out when the child inevitably outgrows it which I didn't do; I did make it a bit too large so hopefully it will become too short before it becomes too tight & I'll just be able to add a few cm length. if he even wears it that long. or at all lol)

here have a close-up of the ties because those did turn out kind of nice

#jk this took me forever & it's abundantly clear that I'm not v skilled at hand sewing #& the neck didn't turn out really good #whatever! I'm done! with one piece out of - ughhh 4 at least lol #but at least I finished it before I go on vacation as planned #fearsome baby viking #crafts #look what I made

[9thbutterfly]

Watching the rain radar on my weather app is so frustrating. Rain passing to the north of us, rain passing to the south of us. Rain stopping just west of us. New rain showers forming just east of us.

Every time. It is so dry.

#9thbutterfly garden #I'm not posting pictures because I'm already far too easy to find as it is #don't need to add a map #but. GAH. i just want some proper rain. #something that goes deeper into the ground than a millimetre

[9thbutterfly]

NaClYoHo day ?? - 14:

Actual progress at last:

- swept and mopped the staircase

- cleaned off the dining table

- cleaned off the coffee table

- cleaned off the kitchen island

- cleaned off the cabinet and chair in the hallway

- tidied up my desk:

Oh and LG mowed the lawn and moved the empty suitcase and travelling bag from our honeymoon back up to the attic.

#9thbutterfly life #NaClYoHo #keeping it clean #i had to take the before picture twice #because right at the top of the pile were OR's birth announcement with their full name #and a neighbour's death announcement with their address #i might not be hard to track down but let's not make it quite so easy #although considering the modest quality of my phone camera #you probably wouldn't be able to read it anyway

[9thbutterfly]

OR and I are both dressed in purple today, and it made me remember a picture book I read as a child, in which a witch and a wizard decide to have a baby, and the wizard wants a son and magically turns the nursery blue, and the witch wants a daughter and turns the nursery pink, and iirc they just keep going back and forth until the baby arrives and goes, screw you, I'm neither blue nor pink, I'm purple.

#already tracked it down on google #apparently it's called 'Das kleine Hokuspokus' #and now I want to buy it #even though it will still be a while before OR is interested in picture books #9thbutterfly life #(not so) obscure reference

[9thbutterfly]

You know, I actually adore photos taken by small children.

I've given my camera to Squirrel a few times since he was about two years old, and I just found about 200 from two years ago, when he was five, and I just love them.

Like, some of them are just normal garden pictures:

and some of them are "strange angle but kind of neat":

and some of them are just odd details:

feet

flowers at eye-level

blurry

motion

(I get dizzy looking at this, like I'm actually spinning round and round)

actually cute picture of me, thank you Squirrel!

critters:

and then some normal garden pictures again and I thought he'd given the camera back and I had taken those, and then

and a bunch that are just... green, but I've reached the picture limit, so you'll have to take my word for it.

#9thbutterfly pictures #except actually #Squirrel pictures #best damn kid in the world #with apologies to all the *other* best damn kids in the world #but he is my personal best

[9thbutterfly]

Happy birthday, dear @bogglebabbles!

#bogglebabbles #birthday flower #9thbutterfly pictures

[9thbutterfly]

A quick walk around the outside area at work, after closing on Wednesday.

Maybe if I do enough of these, I'll get used to how my voice sounds in recordings?

#spring delivery service #9thbutterfly pictures #covid cope blogging #flowers

[9thbutterfly]

I spy, I spy... flower buds on my Jacob’s ladder!

This plant has been through a lot - I bought it when I was allowed to share an acquaintance’s garden, planted it under the cherry tree where it promptly got run over with the lawn mower; a few months later I had to dig it up again and move it to my balcony for a year, then it lived at work for months more before it finally got planted in the rainbow garden, and it’s been thriving there!

#spring delivery service #covid cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #plants

[9thbutterfly]

I know I’ve posted forget-me-nots before, but what better flowers in memory of Her Blueness, Cyan of Baychester, Cyanabik of the League of the Scroll?

I’m grateful to have known you and to have been your friend, Cindy.

Sinya'a du-n'sha e-d'treyesa inro.

#spring delivery service #not just #covid cope blogging #but more #grief cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #flowers

[9thbutterfly]

A picture from this morning (so, about 8 hours ago now) - the corner of my vegetable garden.

We always have a few of those 'Tête-à-Tête' daffodils at work that don’t sell quickly enough, so last year I brought all of those home and planted them all around one of my rhubarb plants. I have three more rhubarb plants, so I have space to plant many more daffodils if I have any left this year.

And the rhubarb, of course - I’m looking at it greedily every day, waiting for the day it is big enough to harvest.

#be patient with me while I figure out how to take decent photos again #spring delivery service #covid cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #flowers

[9thbutterfly]

I found this lacewing today in a heap of dust after sweeping the staircase. I cleaned it off as much as possible, and took it outside to the flowers (some semi-double flowered daisies) and the sunshine to recover. Since lacewings/their larvae eat aphids, I’m always glad to see them. And I think they’re pretty, too!

#spring delivery service #covid cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #flowers #insects

[9thbutterfly]

Moroccan daisy. They did not like the recent cold nights much, so I moved them back into the greenhouse. Luckily they perked up again.

#spring delivery service #covid cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #flowers

[9thbutterfly]

The red part of my rainbow garden, with bonus red work shoes, and a closer look at a raindrop-sparkly Persian buttercup.

#spring delivery service #covid cope blogging #9thbutterfly pictures #flowers

[9thbutterfly]

There is something oddly wonderful about the completely incomprehensible photos taken by tiny children.

(I’ve been sorting through photos from 2016, and I lent my camera to Squirrel on New Year’s Eve, when he was not quite three. I think this is a bit of a couch and of LG’s sweater.)

#9thbutterfly pictures #except really it's #Squirrel pictures