Savour the little things

I don't know where to start this post so uh.

The very basics is that we're being evicted from the land that we've been working for the last five+ years to turn into a profitable farm (*mumblemumble generational trauma and family infighting mumble*)

The good news: there's options near by and I'm relatively confident we can qualify for a farm operations loan to secure new land!

The bad news: since goImagine closed, we've had to completely rebuild the store on a new platform and traffic/sale have cratered because no one knows where to find us. That's where you can help!

Please signal boost this post and check out our store!

We have soap, fiber, stickers and BRAND NEW lip balm! Our stuff is made from things we produce right here on our farm, and other ingredients and equipment sourced from local businesses.

Our current goal is to build up $2500 in capital and use that to fund purchases of more supplies and equipment for operation.

Big ticket items include:

A drum carder

New spinning wheel (in case I can't recover my old one)

An electric milker (I'm milking all of our sheep by hand currently!)

More soap molds

Getting the current back log of fleeces to our local mill to become yarn

This winter's supply of hay

And just various other supplies that are in constant need of reordering I have a LOT more planned, so please reblog this post and add our store to your watch list.

THANK YOU!

“‘Fate’ is just a word people use when they’re too lazy to change the outcome. Me? I prefer to sharpen my own luck.”

A whirlwind of kohl-rimmed defiance and shifting silks, the Silver Tongue is the unpredictable spark in a rigid court: a reformed thief who treats the palace like a high-stakes gambling den.

Behind the winsome smile and playful wit lies a skeptic with serrated edges hidden in their scarves and a heart that only answers to an unknown currency.

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Hiya moot, I feel u and have the same struggle :’). Tried to include references with men’s clothing—especially for Minoan/Mycenaean casual wear because that’s harder to find. (plenty for armor though! salimbeti.com is the goat)

I like this because it describes what garments were worn for what purpose

hats and headdress book (for several periods and locations, yippee!)

Obligatory Salimbeti plug of course

Minoan, Mycenaean, ancient Crete clothing:

Daisy Viktoria is a costume designer that’s done some Minoan and Mycenaean inspired clothes, but the site is harder to navigate bc they’re all sort of conglomerated into an Ancient Cultures section

And Peter Connolly's book The Legend of Odysseus has some Mycenaean stuff like this

you need an archive account but you can borrow it for free here

Diana Wardle is an archaeological researcher where if you dig into her stuff there’s a lot of websites talking abt museum exhibits she’s made for Aegean costumes

I also believe mir-costuma is a website that has more Hellenistic oriented clothing buttt I can’t find it for the life of me, I can only find reposted images

They decide to carry the hobbits on their necks through the snow because they thought it was too deep for hobbit legs. I think there's multiple instances of them carrying the hobbits through cracks and high places. Aragorn and Boromir carry Sam and Frodo out of Moria. Halfway through the walk after Moria Aragorn goes "I forgot you two are injured and need help!" and instructs Boromir to carry Sam on his back. Which Boromir does.

They never ask whether the hobbits actually want to be carried. They just carry them like toddlers on the top the shoulders.