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Look at this!!!! This bag is a collaboration between me and my husband that resulted from him wishing there was fabric with VHS tapes on it as opposed to the many designs out there with cassette tapes. (“I’m a film guy, not a music guy” he says.)

So I was like why don’t you make some? AND HE DID! He designed the tapes, made linocuts of them, then block printed a couple yards of canvas with 3 different colors and black on top. (“Never again” he says.)

All the design elements were picked by him, and we made an 11th hour choice to add the black piping and I’m so glad we did because LOOK!!!

We’re both very excited. (“Hahaha! Hoohoohoo! Heeheehee!” he says.)

I found myself in a mall today and decided to try on some Levi’s and was very surprised to find that I no longer hate the way I look in fitted jeans. I stopped wearing them years ago [mostly for comfort reasons (jeans are not comfortable to sit down in) but also because I was self conscious about my hips].

- when it rains you listen to the sound of the water dripping into the 17 strategically placed pots and pans scattered around the house because of your shitty leaky roof, and if it rained before anyone was home to put out the pots, have fun because your pillow is wet now sorry

- if it’s windy and storming you listen to the tall trees all around you creaking and cracking and hope that the one dead one you can see from your window doesn’t fall on your house while you’re sleeping

- when it’s cold outside, it’s cold inside and it’s a *wet* cold that gets into your bones and even if you’re wrapped in blankets your nose is still freezing and it’s drafty as hell

- maybe you have a fireplace that heats the living room only but also it’s always a little bit smoky inside, or you have space heaters around the house running up the electric bill and being potential fire hazards because:

- the electrical system is old and sucks ass

- sometimes the wind causes power outages that last multiple days in a row

- if the storm is bad enough the one and only road in and out of town might get shut down because of landslides so good luck getting to work or the good grocery store 30 miles away

- BUGS always, year round, no way to keep from getting bitten by mosquitos in the summer, and spiders always and forever in all the corners

- getting woken up every morning at 5am when the FUCKING stellar jays decide it’s time to SCREAM