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I'm going through my plethora of drafts and mass reblogging stuff. If there's something that seems weird to have been posted in the present, that's why.

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Jesus Tapdancing Christ... THIS is a good welt pocket and the people who designed Simplicity 2895 ought to be blasted well ASHAMED of themselves for the crap way THEY wanted a welt pocket made. *SNARLS*
This is how I learned to do it and a good example of what you want to see in a short form tutorial: pinning, pressing, seam finishing, good fabric handling.
I would mention that you can make the pocket facing with a small panel of your matching fabric that is visible and the rest in a lighter fabric to reduce bulk. That's a lot of denim layers for comfort.
More pieces from the Vinita Cultural Center from last year's basketry exhibit
#the museum i worked at had a collection of these baskets!!!#they are like #idk its hard to describe them #they dont look quite like regular baskets they look like so beautiful #anyways check out the Mountain Heritage Center's exhibit on cherokee/rivercane baskets to learn more
Yes, for some reason I don't think they had any Rivercane baskets at this exhibit, the Vinita cultural center is a bit small so maybe that had to do with it? But traditionally Rivercane baskets look like this:
(credit to Lizzie "Nannie" Youngblood and Rowana Bradley, artist unknown for the Chief's Heart shoppers basket)
The basket pictured in the post is likely commercial round reed (with some flat reed), the commercial form of the materials we would use such as Honeysuckle, Buckbrush, or Trumpet Vine. Many Western Cherokee picked up round reed basketry due to lack of supply of Rivercane after the forced removal to Oklahoma.
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to in regards to this post but I am a tribal member who is posting this and these were taken at our own museum within our own territory in Oklahoma. This information provided is provided by our knowledge keepers and elders.
I am one of these people you talk about being alive, sharing my culture 🙂
I strongly dislike how "some museums have unethical practices, and repatriation of stolen goods should be a high priority when applicable" has morphed into "all museums are evil, and museums are an unethical and untrustworthy source of information by nature."
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
why so silent good messieurs
I’m SEVERELY disappointed this post didn’t include the eye witness statement of the mirror crash incident in question

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ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
my friend wanted me to make this
text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]
are any of (obama voice) my fellow usamericans also getting a lot of hyperpatriotic car commercials. it is genuinely unsettling to see
#how do you make a *car commercial* hyperpatriotic#is it like#us flags and stuff?#they got the fuckin troops in there???#like i can imagine a regular patriotic commercial#where they've got flags and all sorts of generic patriotic stuff#but like#hyperpatriotic?#are they us flag designed???????#they got flags out the wazoo???
this is the shit i'm talking about
the second one isn't even the complete / worst version! but i can't find the one i saw recently anywhere on YT. but still. most car commercials i see aren't like, making speeches on the nature of Our Great Nation. it just feels like recently they've born pointedly patriotic in a way that feels. charged?
It's because the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is this July, and while most of us would rather chew glass than engage in patriotism this year of all years, well--the corps are hoping that going RAH RAH PATRIOTISM will at least make the MAGA crowd buy extra shit for the event. Happens every 25-50 years, but this particular cycle makes me personally want to vomit every time I see it.
It’s the quid pro quo dollars at work. That “proud partner of america 250” logo tells you that money changed hands between these auto makers and the US government’s marketing department, who would have dictated how these advertisements should be made. Stellantis and Ford are courting them to skirt around tariffs/fines/etc since US vehicle manufacturing has largely been outsourced and bringing it back domestically is hugely expensive short and long term. That these ads are likely also appealing to their target demographic is the cherry on top for them.
^ see this is what I mean by these feeling charged! patriotic commercials are one thing and the 250th anniversary of the dumb fucking paper explains why its happening at all. but watching these commercials I just can't shake the underlying feeling of "see Daddy Trump see how loyal we are!!!!!!" anyways
The department said it is preparing for the banknote in response to legislation proposed last year.
lord help us this july 4th is going to be so fucking annoying
The concert is busted at least
They will probably only print like 25000 of those dumb bills, like they are doing with the passport (limiting the fallout)
He will die soon, and just die not be killed, not special enough for that
They will probably never print the bills. It would require a change to federal law.
I could see them printing the bills and pretending they’re real currency without them actually BEING real currency. Kinda like how Nicki Minaj’s “gold card visa” is actually a “memento” rather than an actual legal visa.
That is actively also a crime. Which doesn't mean they will not do it, but that is actively the crime of forgery. There is a huge difference legally between a fake credit card and fake money.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

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this is my favorite comic ever i never don’t want to see it on my dash
have you guys seen this
[Transcript.
Chef (voiceover): I'm a private chef for a famous billionaire and here's the average meal I cook. I start with chopping some green onions and shredding cabbage, and then I get it into that wok, then I keep chopping some -
Kaiba: Dammit. I lost to him again.
Chef: Oh Mr. Kaiba, welcome home s-
Kaiba: Quiet! Blue Eyes white Dragon nuggies. Now.
Chef: But sir, th-this is the fourth time -
Kaiba: No questions! Just do it.
Chef: *heavy sigh*
End transcript]
guys i have to show you my favorite house of all time. words cannot describe. have you ever wanted a house with a pool because do i have the house for YOU
2 bedroom, 2 bath, a nice exterior. i like the red door and red chimney!
Everything about that layout is Certainly A Choice but...
Wtf is this nonsense???
Why are there 6 rooms labeled bath???
Why are they all clustered together around that one room???
Why does one single room have direct access to 3 of them???
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET IN THE ONE ON THE BOTTOM LEFT??????
Can we talk about the insane pricing history, too. This is clearly a nightmare to sell.
OK SO I HAVE INFORMATION
This house was not originally a house. That's why it's weird as shit. It and the house next door were built as a single property in 1948. The 'Master Bedroom' was a glass enclosed hallway connecting the two. See this plan from when the properties were subdivided into two in 1992
Previously, both buildings - which were really one building - were owned by a Robert H Belsky. He sold the building on the left (the main house) in 1992 and retained this weirdo building.
This is the main house (left) with our Weird Fucking 'House' sort of of behind it to the right. There's no listing photos of the main house as the person who bought it in 1992 still owns it, so it's never been listed on the internet.
The Main House is ~3,000 sq ft and has 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathroom. It sits on just over 3/4 of an acre and is valued at about 600k
This was a BIG house for 1948. I mean it's a big house for now but it's an enormous house for 1948 (assuming none of tat square footage is from later additions)
selling the house and moving into the pool house………mr belsky i salute you
really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you

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lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me
maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots
Good news, everyone! Encountered a kind of library book damage today that I've never seen before!
Someone embroidered a page in a Hardy Boys book.
[nodding in comprehension] you deedle, yeah