#not crafty

[cottonkhaleesi]

Made an early bee friend 🐝 🐝 🐝 (who was convinced I maybe had nectar. Lookit that lil tongue!!)

[billyskullknits]

Just dump your corpses on the moors.

[celebratingthemagic]

Excuse the giant moving mess....Class of 2018 

I am not crafty at all but I am so proud of this!!

[cottonkhaleesi]

a rare non-crafty post from me today: So this tonsillitis is kicking my ass thoroughly and thus the soft brain wants comfort movies, and what's more comforting (about to really date myself here) than the Jonathan Creek Christmas Specials.

Seriously, they bring back a whole host of feels for me, my ma loved detective and whodunnit stories, my da loved magic tricks, and I loved watching the interplay of characters that you could have picked up of the street so well written were their foibles and talents.

Jonathan Creek especially fascinated me by having such a quick mind and not caring that the world didn't appreciate his special interests but also blatantly awkward and bad with people in a real way. Think Sherlock Holmes if Sherlock Holmes grew up at a state school, wasn't ambitious or overtly pushed, learnt the basics of how to get along with people by osmosis and was absolutely harmless -I can't stress that enough Jonathan Creek is not dangerous due to his vast intellect and knowledge, he is just a guy, who happens to be good at his job which is setting up tricks and thus is suited to unravelling them as well. And the women / love interests are all their own characters, not suped up Hollywood caricatures of women, but women with their own agendas who are often won over by Jonathan through exposure to the way his mind works and the addiction that being part of solving an impossible mystery brings.

I also used to joke in my pre-teen brain that Jonathan Creek was my third dad, because my father and he shared so many traits (up to and including t-shirt flannel shirt and oversized duffle coat fashion; inexplicably being invited to lots of parties despite being the creature who will sit in the corner, drink beer and possibly go through your bookshelves without speaking to anyone the whole time; good at crafts; wants to/does live in isolated/interesting places) and then the traits my dad didn’t share I do (analytical brain and autism-coding*)

So whilst the special effects (of which they tried to apply many) are really terrible in today's climate of CGI, and the situations sometimes require a bit of wilful suspension of disbelief, the Jonathan Creek series and especially the Christmas Specials, remain in my ultimate comfort box. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[cottonkhaleesi]

Ooof sorry this isn’t craft related and features too many pictures of my face, but I’m in need of some opinions:

These are my current glasses, I always get transitions because I have that photic sneeze reflex and this gets rid of that.

Now i need to update my prescription so of course that’s an excuse for new frames

But do I go for the exciting transitions that end in mirrors? I’ll wear these every day I don’t want to look like a douchecanoe at work…. And if I do, do I go for the silver or the gold? (Or the blue or the green?

What transition lenses do I get

Mirrored gold

Mirrored silver

Mirrored green

Mirrored blue

Normal grey

Normal brown

I don’t like these choices

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

[cottonkhaleesi]

Found a beetle chilling with my succulents in my second story bathroom. Very confused how this gentleman got there but he has since been relocated to somewhere more appropriate 🪲

[persepinesascent]

I've had like 100ft of cotton rope sitting around for over a year, and I wanted to make maybe a rug. But then I decided I need a meditation cushion. And the good zafus all cost way too much. So I thought I will make one. This rope is so soft. And I have plenty.

But it turns out the reason zafus are so expensive is that buckwheat fill is expensive.

And that's not even taking into account that I also gotta come up with some red pillow fabric thing to put the buckwheat in to put the rope cover around.

Why does making a thing yourself always turn out to be not worth it at all. I have neither the money nor time nor spoons for this.