Yelling poetry into the void

Cute and fluffy

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

Here's a cute little felted bowl I finished recently. It was supposed to be a Xmas present last year. Finishing it only 6 months late is pretty good for me!

I ended up turning it inside-out from what I'd planned. The zig-zaggy side is the "wrong side" of the crochet, but I really like how it looks.

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A hummingbird built a nest on our porch.

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

The world is cruel and the wind blows without caring how much it sways a string of lights, making a tiny nest bounce and rock. Its even tinier precious cargo is lost.

Hopefully Mama has one more egg to lay while we figure out how to stabilize her nest.

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

Some drama just went down! Another birb showed up. Our queen kept her cool and stood her ground.

Not sure what the visitor was up to. It's not her mate since hummingbirds don't form bonded pairs. Plus, they're both female and if they were lesbian (lesbirdian?) they wouldn't need the nest, right?

Maybe Nosy was scouting out a place to build her nest and is jealous of our queen's cushy digs.

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We set up a camera to spy on Mama bird.

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A hummingbird built a nest on our porch.

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I FINALLY DID IT! I LEARNED HOW TO KNIT!

I tried so hard to learn from books and Internet tutorials but couldn't figure it out. Then I went to a small neighborhood art festival in the park last week. A local yarn store had a booth teaching people how to knit and crochet. This nice lady sat with me and helped me knit and purl a few rows (and gave me a set of needles and a ball of yarn for free)! It finally clicked for me and now I'm a knitter and today I finished my first project...

It is the Butterfly Shrug for dolls (pattern by Shannon Talbot)

Pretty challenging for a first project but fun.

Modeled by Mr. Bear.

Modeled by Joshua.

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Made a small art today

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Made a turtle for our garden out of air-dry clay and glass pebbles

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

The Shape of Love

She painted love like a watercolor sky

Sweeping strokes

That seep and blend

With gentle persistance

Intentional but unrestrained

He offered his love hesitantly

A tiny found object

Strange and unfamiliar

I'm not sure what this is, but it's for you

[yayxstitch]

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

Sometimes when I'm out in Wide World, I feel like life is a movie that I'm watching and then I'm caught off guard when someone talks to me like, oh shit, I didn't know there was going to be audience participation. I didn't think you could see me and now I have no idea what to say or do.

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

I work with a group of teens and half of them are trans. The first to arrive today told me it was trans day of visibility. I said "Oh THAT'S WHY I can see you today. Normally I just see your clothes floating in the air."

They apparently liked that because they turned to the next kid to arrive and yelled, "I CAN SEE YOU!" Only explaining it was Trans Day of Visibility once they were sufficiently bewildered.

The third kid through the door was cis so he got "CAN YOU SEE US?" in unison from the first two.

This chorus grew as more kids showed up and joined in, each greeted by either "I CAN SEE YOU!" or "CAN YOU SEE US?"

[rimonoroni2]

if you don’t build time slots into your schedule for Being Disabled then you’ll never get anything done

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

Is this why I'm burned out pretty much 24/7?

[crow-of-crochet]

Current wip is this pony bead weighted blanket for my child. Almost halfway done. Trying to make it look like mountains with the gradient

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

Genius way to make a weighted blanket!

[theonewhoisntburnsie]

I think it would be funny when someone is ranting or even just talking too much to say "Listen, listen" as if I were about to tell them something but then once they pause, not say anything else. Just a general reminder to stop and listen once in a while.

[anxeious]

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