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 [...]

June's Notable Nonsense went in the mail yesterday and should start arriving in mailboxes early next week. Is that two days later than I'd have liked? Yup! Did the package with the cards ship a full week after it was supposed to? Mmmm hmm. Did Fedex then have an unexpected delay and take an extra day to deliver the package (the package that I paid extra to have delivered via overnight express) until July 1? You guessed it, also yes. Was I able to stuff hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of envelopes in the two hours between when the box [...]

I did tell you I was entering a slipper phase. And if you've been here for more than a minute, you know I don't usually do things by half measures. So it seems perfectly reasonable that the slippers would, eventually, come to include grommets and/or laces. At least for some values of reasonable... Never fear, both the grommets and the laces are optional. You can do neither, just laces, just grommets, or both grommets and laces. But opportunities to frolic through your days, twinkle toed and beribboned, are scandalously infrequent, so I know what I'll be doing. This will likely be [...]

But boy on boy are there small but deeply frustrating problems from time to time. The good news is I've already solved this one! Quick version up top for anyone in a hurry: There was a manufacturing error with the first batch of cards, so I got them reprinted. They'll be here next week, so you've got through Monday to get on the Notable Nonsense tier (or until it fills up, which may well happen first) if you want to get these in this month's mail club shipment. Being on the Notable Nonsense tier is the only way to get [...]

So the idea of elbow patches on the (previously mended, once chopped, heavily worn) sweater we discussed in the last post seems to be quite well received, but some folks had some more specific questions about how I'm actually going to do it. The short answer is 'erm, sew some other fabric onto it...like how patches always work?' But the longer answer is that all mending is always a bit improvisational, because all damage is different, and all mends are specific to the damage they're addressing. It starts with looking at the thing you're mending to see where the wear [...]

So back in the halcyon days of October 2024, when the phrase "for profit cage match on the white house lawn" had not yet been uttered by serious journalists, I took scissors to a sweater that had languished in the back of my closet since about 2015. I didn't like the length, so I chopped it off. This was, according to some of the internet's more ridiculous busybodies, an absolute scandal. How very very very dare I modify a piece of my own clothing from my own closet so that it suited me better (rather than, apparently, either continuing to [...]