Unsolicited advice is received as criticism.  I read that a couple of years ago and it changed the way I behave and clarified why posting things like this bench on the internet is so hard. Because every time I do (ig posts over here and here), I get comments saying 'use a different dye' or 'wear gloves' or 'tape off the wood' or 'do it a different way.' And that's absolutely exhausting. Each and every one of those comments is basically saying 'I, a person who has watched a very brief video wherein you share a tiny bit of what [...]

So I had people over, we put things in buckets, they came out blue, and a good time was had by all. But then, then a few days later as I was dragging the conglomeration of seating options I'd hauled out for the festivities back to their usual locations, I had an idea. I had an idea bout this sweet little bench. Now you probably do not realize it, but if you've been here for a while, you've seen glimpses of this bench before. For years it sat in my office, holding up the giant rocks I used to take [...]

Help me decide! Should we do a regular mail club shipment next week, or a double mail club shipment next month? These started out with the organza laces (shout out to the eight year old ballerina still dwelling deep in my heart), and the original plan had been to send everyone a little handful of those. I dutifully got those all set and ready to go out next week. But theeeeeen I realized a person could put aglets on icord and make their very own knitted shoelaces, and I suddenly became obsessed with the idea of adding that option to [...]

So yeah, sitting in the sunshine, doing a little project, and laughing with people who are every bit as horrified by everything that is happening as I am was  exactly what I needed. It doesn't make anything better, precisely. But it reminds me of why we rail so hard against all the horrible things. And that reminder is restorative in a way that sitting alone, on your couch, with posture that would shame a shrimp, doom scrolling on your phone for the third straight hour, simply isn't. If there's a way for you to do some version of being in [...]

Ok so I told you last time that I was feeling stuck. And now I'm going to try something to get unstuck. I'm going to sit out in the long summer twilight with a bunch of friends and do a craft. I've gotten all the stuff to do an indigo vat, summoned every person I can possibly convince to show up at my house on a Thursday afternoon (don't give me that look, you know how hard it is to get a doze busy adults in the same place at the same time), rounded up a bunch of rubber bands [...]

So that green icord I've been making? Yeah, it's going to get a wire shoved down it so it's bendy. And then it's going to get pressed into service to wrangle the curtain I use on my porch (to manage the blistering sun and/or pouring rain + window screen situation) into submission. And I figured it could probably use some cute little yellow flowers on there to help out...erm...for reasons (reasons I have not yet devised, but surely some little yellow flowers can't hurt). So I puttered about trying to make a flowerish sort of shape. Iteration one came out [...]

Every time I post a video on instagram showing an icord machine in action, at least a few people feel in their hearts a sudden, burning desire to come to own one of their own. Which is fair! I, too, have felt this longing, which is why I own not one but two of the little beasts. Alas, this burning need to own one does not always translate into, you know, doing things like reading the caption or listening to the audio (which almost always say something like 'it's called an icord maker' or 'it makes a little tube of [...]

I recently had a of couple posts go and break containment on instagram...which is moooooostly lovely, but does mean a small influx of folks who don't know the rules or don't match the vibe. So I did a little intro & reminder post both there (because if someone is going to storm off in a huff when they find out who I really am, I'd really rather save everyone time and have them do it early) and on patreon (not because anyone there was shitty, more just as a vibe check). I basically just lay out all the things that [...]