Category: Crafty
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Watercolor Purge
This Summer required extra Weekend Therapy to unpack everything we went through the last two years. When it started, I was still feeling floored that we had shut down the year prior, let alone the ups and downs of the most recent school year. So I took pictures, traveled a…
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Summer Photog
Five purchases later I have two 35mm Minoltas that actually work and I am OBSESSED! Despite weighing 10,000 lbs, I yanked those suckers all over the place with me this summer and I can’t be more happy with how my pictures are starting to turn out! It take a second…
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NEW SUMMER OBSESSIONS
By the end of the school year this year I was itching for a new hobby to dig into for the summer to avoid my mid-July-I’m-not-serving-society-no-one-loves-me-I-miss-the-students-and-I-am-bored funk. As if by cosmic design, while traveling in WV to see family in Ohio, I found a super cheap 35 mm camera in…
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Rope Basket Weekend Therapy
So here’s the deal: when your 19-year-old kid asks you to do some plant-related business with her, you don’t ask questions. As is true for many parents, we are in a new phase of kin bliss following the tumultuous years in which I thought my teen might be a sociopath…
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Collage Self-Care
Mini collages based on our Legitimate Rights… Legitimate Rights, Marsha Linehan in DBT Therapy: You have a right to need things from others. You have a right to put yourself first sometimes. You have a right to feel and express your emotions or your pain. You have a right to…
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Linocut Therapy
I’m participating in my second linocut print exchange! This one is inspired by a student from a couple of years ago. The title is 8th Grader, and I drew an image of her that haunts my mind often. She would sleep on my office couch during times when her home…
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Down the Rabbit Hole
With a new crafty: punch needling thanks to this beautiful magazine- Resolutions? Blog more. (Obvi)
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Easter crafty
First of all, get a Cricut. Second, if you are in the saintly way or Catholic, check out Tiny Saints because they’re adorable. I love a good collection and these little charms can be picked based on any lucky recipient’s personality so they’re super personal little gifts. I may or…
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Bossest Ever Crochet Hook
I am literally in love with this new (to me) hook. For real, we will have a Summer wedding with flowers and puppies. I was checking out some of the rubber-enforced hooks on Amazon and found the Addi Swing Hook by chance. My tension is usually pretty tight so I…
