If you need inspiration to help you figure out how to catalog and organize your yarn stash, I've been using this:
In this book, I have organized my yarn by things I personally find important, so that includes:
The brand and colour
The weight of the yarn
Recommended hook sizes
Material the yarn is made of
Laundering information
Some more information you might want to include if you decide to do this:
Recommended gauge
Knitting needle recommendation
Lot number/s
Where you purchased the yarn from, especially if online
It isn't a perfect way to organize my collection, and I need to catalog more because I have a big project coming up, but I really like having it in a notebook. It might be helpful to save your labels, too, but I don't prefer that, because I want to memorize and physically write out the specs of my yarn.
You might want to dedicate each page to specific projects, as well!
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Doing between 3-5 birthday parties every weekend means I get to see a lot of different people doing different types of parties, and this includes Instagram style parties.
For the record as long as the kids are happy and safe, do whatever the hell you want. It literally doesn't matter just give the kid a happy birthday and everything else is irrelevant.
However if you are prioritising how your party looks to others over your kiddo on their special day, then it's a problem.
The frustration I feel over kids in expensive outfits who can't play incase they get dirty, or kids being torn away from games I'm running to take a thousand photos with their parents friends, or kids who clearly don't like whatever theme the parents chose yet the parents doesn't care because the party is more for their followers than their baby, is immense. I can't say anything, all I can do is try to make sure the birthday kiddo is having some fun.
But here's the fun revenge.
I have gone to so many 'white' and 'beige' aesthetic parties. You'll have seen them, all white aesthetic that looks amazing in pictures but is depressing as hell at a 6 year olds birthday party. There is an infamous set of white ball pits and white bouncy castles and white soft play that I constantly see rented out for these events.
You know what's great about those all white rentals? It takes one kid with a runny nose to make every picture of that bouncy castle look nasty. You know what my job is? To run birthday parties. You know what I have the power to do?
Have the kids run about getting muddy and dusty and filthy then send them all screaming into the EXTREMELY easy to stain bouncy castle and decorations and 'accidentally' make all the photos the parents are so concerned about look awful.
Yes it's petty but god lord is it hilarious watching then boil red with rage but not be able to do shit about it without looking insane because screaming at children for playing at a birthday party is generally not a good look
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Just saw a post that's like "if you don't have someone of [x race/gender/sexuality/religion] in your friend group you're racist/sexist/homophobic/etc."
Girl.
My friend groups are Not Here for your fucking representation. Real actual life is not a show or a videogame. You click with who you click with and I immediately distrust someone with like 20 friends from every known minority more than someone with like 2 friends that have things like race/religion/gender in common with them.
Like. Is it not infinitely weirder and more x-phobic to feel the need to walk up to [specified token minority] and try to befriend them even if?? You don't have any reason to and don't think you'd get along?? Like if this person isn't wearing cool clothes (especially related to stuff I'm into like bands), or saying anything particularly interesting that I'm listening to, what? I should just make it my job to be their friend? Because my friend group needs more "rep"? I'm not a corporation. I don't give even half a fuck about your movement if your movement wants to tell me who I must and must not be friends with. Fuck you.
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since henry was born in '97 you know he grew up listening to busted / mcfly . i dont make the rules , he's just part of the generation of british kids where it was a core music memory .
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I think that easily the funniest thing about me as a writer is the insane amount of research I do for things that no one gives a single shit about
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made in picrew
Last one for today, I promise! The two halves of myself; the wounded girl of my depression, and the (self-reinvented) prettier, highly ambitious, much more likable and happy woman of my hypomanias. I have seen myself like this for ages now. The broken self holds me fast, despite my attempts to rid myself of her.
There is one liberty I have taken, and that is is my colour-changing hazel eyes. They used to be brown more often when I was little, typically appearing green when I cried. (It's rather unsettling to hear, "You have such pretty green eyes," when one is a traumatised child in tears.) They went permanently green in middle school, with the onset of my manic-depression (announcing that I was now broken). I only made them brown here to hark back to the happier, more innocent spots of my early youth.
All that is to say, I need to finish my poetry manuscript.
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丅𝐇ᗴⓡ𝓔'ş 𝐒๏𝓜𝕖тℍ𝔦ℕ𝓖 卄ά𝓹𝐩𝒆nⒾng!
(eyestrain and lots of eyes ahead!)
ᑕ𝕃𝓞𝓼є ⓤ𝓟! 𝐰ᵒʷ! ʰᵃ𝐡𝒶!
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(Hellooo i just wanted to draw my shapeshifter's human desguise with bright stuff please forgive me gfgdfsdffxdsd and yes i have been listening to the song for most of the time i've been making this just to keep the vibe going.)
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