Hold Your Breath, Make A Wish, Count To Three

The man can't stop leaning against/on things and sitting on tables (or standing on them while singing, lol. I am a firm believer that Aaron Burr's table part in The Room Where It Happens was inspired by Rutledge's delusional auction bit of Molasses to Rum)

Also, I realized that I do indeed have a thing for voices - because his fucking voice, with that absurd southern accent, has had me in a chokehold ever since I first watched the movie.

Long story short, I absolutely love this movie - yes it's goofy, and it's not exactly a musical with memorable tunes, but just for Rutledge, his accent, his Molasses to Rum, and whatever the hell he had going on with Dickinson, I would rewatch it a thousand times and always love it the same.

And I know he's a villain, pretty much the biggest villain in the story, he doesn't have a single redeeming quality, but he also has a point. And I always love it when a villain has a point.

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

Leucistic Loon on a remote lake in British Columbia, Canada.