A Very Knotty Girl

I'm a geek. I'm a mom. I'm a knitter. I swear like a sailor. I watch Star Wars and the LOTR trilogy therapeutically. I love to play in the dirt.

[bookishmews]

It’s done 😊.

[calamity-bean]

emotional ramblings re: american gods 2.07

I told myself I was gonna make a post with my thoughts on 2.05 first, and I still will, but I am absolutely bursting with thoughts and feelings and emotions about 2.07 and I can’t just keep them in. At the very least, I have to gush a little about Sweeney and his character development and his relationships in this ep. 

Major spoilers from the leaked 2.07, as well as some minor details from the novel for the sake of comparison.

Keep reading

[jafaaar]

A man holding his baby up to paintings and talking to him at an art gallery

[1dietcokeinacan]

:)

[1liv]

[knitalicious]

Can I get a little resurrection please?

[imsoglitter]

some old progress photos i’m posting bc i crave validation. Both the front and back are now finished and i’m working on weaving in the ends!

For more updates check me out on instagram

[knitalicious]

I love this lol

[knitalicious]

This makes me really sad. I know he’s already had a much longer run than in the book, but he’s the best character in the show and they just finally got serious about #madwife. Was hoping it would be Sweeney’s blood that resurrected her but he has to sacrifice himself for her to realize it and then she saves him right back with the coin. Then they go kick some ass. No interest in seeing her and Shadow at this point and the episodes without Sweeney just aren’t as good. Boo.

[archiemcphee]

Ravelry contributor Anke Klempner used her creative knitting skills to realize something that we’ve long suspected: teapots look a lot like snails.

Anke designed an adorable teapot cozy that accentuates the teapot’s resemblance to a snail’s shell and adds a pair of eye stalks to complete the transformation. They really do look like cute snails, but with the added bonus that these charming mollusks won’t eat your garden plants.

Click here for the Snail Tea Cozy pattern and instructions.

[via Neatorama]

[schreiberpablo]

I thought we were going to save somebody. We can’t just give up because the fucking road ends.

[deathonyourtongue]

You’re. Welcome. 

[mxopifex]

I finished the thing! I’m still very much a novice at this whole cross stitch thing, so it’s a little wobbly, but I’m proud of myself all the same. Here’s the pattern I made should anyone else want it. (with some modifications from what I actually stitched to fix some problems with the top not being symmetrical that I missed until after I had already stitched it) Colors are DMC. I made it to fit in a 6 inch hoop using 14 count aida.

[ethansembroidery]

When I first saw this I thought it was some one in cosplay holding up a GIANT cross stitch.  Probably should have my coffee before I scroll tumblr. :-P  Great stitching!

[foodffs]

MIXED BERRY DUTCH BABY

Whether you call it a German pancake or a Dutch baby, this puffy oven pancake is an easy crowd-pleasing breakfast with a light flavor. A snap to customize!

Get the recipe here:  https://homemadehooplah.com/mixed-berry-dutch-baby/

Follow for recipes

Get your FoodFfs stuff here

[duncan-rohanne]

sw characters:  i’m no one

[kushandwizdom]

When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Unknown, (via kushandwizdom)

[chaoticum]

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

[knitalicious]

One of the shittiest things you can say to someone is "Don't cry". What you probably mean is "you're display of intense emotion is making me uncomfortable". If I'm crying it's because I need to. It's because I am healthy enough to stop shoving all my shit down and FEEL and GRIEVE and be vulnerable and those things are all okay. So GTFO with your "don't cry". I want to hear, "let it all out and I'll just sit here and hold you. I love you. I can just change my snotty shirt after".

[knitalicious]

My bright, beautiful, sweet toddler was diagnosed with autism this week. Getting this tattoo today for Mother's Day healed my heart a little, made me feel stronger and not so lost. A lot of tattoo artists will refuse to do plain lettering because it's cheesy or it isn't art. I wasn't afraid to get the tattoo in the least (I have a few), but I was terrified that the shop I went to would turn me away because what I wanted wasn't what they thought was "cool" or worth their time. I didn't think my heart could take that. I was so emotional I got choked up telling him why I came in. He told me after that he absolutely hated lettering and basically he was glad I cried so he wasn't a jerk to me on Mother's Day. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't that he would have told me he couldn't help me. It's my body. The letters face me because it's FOR me. It is incredibly meaningful to me. I don't give two shits whether anyone else approves.

[wooyoun-g]

[im-simply-me]

This makes my heart so happy.