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a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

But TBH I prefer the MIT Open Coursewear approach. Feel like taking a class on the policy and economics of nuclear engineering? MIT’s got you covered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

In fact they’ve got  you covered with A LOT of their courses, everything from fine arts to immunology.

2018.09.14

[09.05.2018]

Day 5 of 100 Days of Productivity

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There’s a cafe on campus I really like. I rescheduled my job interview for tomorrow and I ranted on twitter today which made me feel a little bit icky and anxious, because I stand by what I stand for, but it’s just… twitter, you know? (I’ve had my acc since 2012 but I’m trying to use it more)

buy in bulk from middle eastern stores I buy all my legumes, lentils and such from middle eastern shops. This helps me make filling meals for cheap

make soup. Honestly when I’m in a bind… SOUP! Very easy with simple ingredients you can make tomato soup, pumpkin soup, sweet potato soup. Use some veggie stock without MSG and make some tasty stuff!

buy fish tinned! honestly so much cheaper than the stuff in the deli. You can get tuna, salmon and a couple of other types I’m fairly sure.

buy your veg from the frozen section I buy a massive variety of frozen veg and defrost them to bulk my meals~

ask and find out when your local shops start their sales honestly, it’s worth it. Ask the people who work there when things go on sale, what will go on sale.

for fresh fruit ask to buy in bulk bananas about to go off in the back! Life saver. They’re most likely going to throw that stuff out! Ask if you can buy it on sale, freeze anything you don’t use immediately and use in smoothies, pancakes, banana bread!

grow your own veggie patch life saver. Whether you only have space for herbs or you have an entire garden, plant whatever you can!

42/100 days of productivity