u/markedhand asked how I made the stripes on some of my stamps so I tried to film an example! I never film stuff so this isn't my cleanest work since holding my phone was distracting me 😅 but you get the point!
So hard to pick favorites for this month! I can't wait to do some Halloweenie ones for October.
As always let me know your favs!
A little early but I needed the stress relief so we can all deal with the early post haha. I finally feel like I've gotten my stamping mojo back!!
I did entirely too many this month and easily couldve filled a second page. The stamps that don't make it into my journal either get cut up and used as scrap wax or melted down into lil beads. Or if I like them too much to reuse I just save them in a box to look at whenever.
The lucky clover and seashell stamps are new for this month and I loooove them! As always let me know your favs!
hey everybody, hope you're feeling well today. I'm going through some changes and could use some emotional support and advice if you've got it!
here's the tl;dr, I've had Kaiser for nearly 20 years now. I've been unemployed since April 2025 due to loss of funding for my field, and just got a job offer. The job sounds like a dream and pays decently, but they only offer Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Usually this would be a deal breaker for me since I'm so used to how things are with my medical insurance, but I'm considering making the move and would love some advice/emotional support.
some more info if you want it: everyone's experience with pancreatitis is different so here's the short basics on my situation:
have you had a big change in medical insurance while dealing with your pancreatitis? how did you handle it? do you have experience with BCBS (specifically in Oregon?) are you willing to give me a quick pep talk? or some advice on why I shouldn't go through with it? I don't have to accept/decline their offer letter until next Friday 9/4 so I have some time to think thankfully.
anyways thanks if you made it this far, appreciate yall and hope you're able to rest easy these days!!
(I'm hoping this doesn't violate rule 5, but if it does let me know if I can edit my post to make it more suitable, thanks mods!!)
hey all! hope everyone's doing well, especially if it's hot and smokey where you're at with all this summer nonsense.
I (36F) have wanted to go NC with my abusive mother my entire life and have been more actively and intentionally working towards that over the past year or so with my therapist. I won't give too much info in the initial ask so I don't overwhelm the situation, but am super happy to talk more about it and add context in the comments!!
I've been trying to figure out how exactly I want to go about going NC. I'm convinced a letter detailing my reasons isn't going to be a good option. Likewise a letter that is grey rocking/too blunt or robotic may set off alarm bells and get the cops called to my door for a wellness check (I've already decided that I will inform the non-emergency line before I do anything to hopefully prevent something like that from happening.)
where I've landed as a potential option is here:
>we haven't talked much since I moved back to (STATE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHERE THEY LIVE) and that was intentional on my part. It's working for me so I'm going to keep that up. I'll reach out if I want to talk, which may be never in all honesty. I don't wish you any harm, I'm just not interested in continuing this relationship. Bye!
I would send this text in response to my mother when she reaches out on Christmas. whether she texts me or tries to call, this would be my response. thoughts? (for context I moved out of state when I was 21, but went back to live with them from 2023-2025 because my dad was very sick, and my mom convinced me he was on his death bed (he wasn't, but he was seriously ill and continues to be.) I will have been back in my "home" state for 1.5 years this December, so that's 1.5 years of being very low contact.)
my thought process is this really does sounds like me. it doesn't sound overly dramatic, it's casual in the way I am, especially in my writing (I've been told I write with a lot of "voice" which people either love or hate lol.) it's blunt, but not necessarily outwardly cruel. like obviously I see how it'll be twisted to be that way by my mom because that's the kind of person she is, but feel like it's neutral enough that if she showed it to someone they'd think she's the weird one for overreacting rather than me.
anyways, I'm not set on this, it literally just came to mind, so any feedback or discussion would be greatly appreciated! thanks yall :)
Definitely my weakest month so far. Do you guys struggle to do wax seals when it's hot out? Multiple heat waves in my city left me with little will or inspiration for the month. Just can't bring myself to light a candle when it's 100 out and my ac has been chugging away nonstop for days, you know? I do have two new seals coming soon that I'm super SUPER excited about! but there's also a heat wave rolling in on Tuesday so... we'll see how August goes! I am super happy with the new duck seals though. Looking forward to doing more soon!! 😊
As always let me know your favs! Good luck in the coming month, stay cool yall!!
Pride month continues in my heart!! I didn't get to do as many rainbow/pride stamps as I wanted because I didn't have the materials to do so unfortunately. I bought some new wax that I was super excited about, but unfortunately the package was stolen before I could get to it, so I made due with what I had.
I also attempted to do a bunch of wax seals on my new yearly planner. The one I bought was boring as hell so I tried to spruce it up to uh... mediocre success?? It was my first time trying something like this so for a first attempt I'm not mad at it, but definitely feel like I could do better with more practice! I want to try again but to do a more intentional color gradient. I think that could be super cool!!
As always let me know your favs! If you look at the planner, below the date, second from the right? Something about that purple/white/green/black pattern just scratches the perfect itch in my brain!! I'll have to try and recreate that because I'm obsessed!!
Also, I'm in the market for some new stamps, if you have anybody that you'd like to recommend who ships affordably and quickly to the US please give them a shout out! Thanks all, happy stamping!! ☺️🕯
I've noticed in the TVL show that there is a common theme of scenes having clips flipped upside down before the full scene segue... do we have theories of if that means anything or if we think it's nothing more than a stylistic choice? I thought maybe it could be a callback to IWTV, how there were often two different skylines with one flipped to imitate fangs, but I haven't noticed a theme with this season? but I also haven't gone back to really thoroughly examine what's going on yet so I'm curious to see if others have picked up on it as well
To be honest this was another month where my heart wasn't in it. I had some stressful medical stuff going on and while wax sealing has been great for stress relief, the only cure for this stuff was laying on the couch catastrophising. Thankfully all is good and I'm feeling much better now!
I made a lot of black green "hello" stamps while trying to make a charm to match my bag. There were a lot that I liked but that just didn't make the cut so I put them in the journal for this month. I'm looking forward to making lots of rainbows stamps for June!!
hey all! long term pancreatitis haver here. diagnosed at 10 y/o, currently 35. the tl;dr of my question is this: does hospitalization length differ depending on the cause of the pancreatitis?
the long of it is this: I recently had an endoscopy to check out my pancreas since it had been ages since I had one, and it sparked a conversation that I didn't get to finish with my doctor. I was having a lot of anxiety about the procedure since the last time I had an endoscopic ultrasound I was already hospitalized with a flare up and the procedure made my pain a lot worse. I was nervous that the procedure would spark a flare up so I talked to my doctor about my concerns. thankfully he let me know that the chances were extremely low since he wasn't planning on doing any biopsies unless absolutely needed, and even then it would only up my risk factor to (his words) 1%. not sure if any of that is true but it made me feel better in the moment so there you go. I wanted to ask if I DID get a flare up because of this, how long he would expect me to be hospitalized for, but we got off track and needed to get the show on the road so our conversation ended shortly thereafter.
typically my hospitalizations last around 2 weeks, if I can get out before that day 14 mark then I'm very happy. I've had complications in the past and my longest hospital stay was something like 52 days, it was horrific. back in 2022 I had a pancreatitis flare up when I had a gallstone, and thankfully my condition improved majorly a few days after my gallbladder was removed, so that was a very short hospitalization.
when I was a kid they told me there were several causes for pancreatitis. alcohol, blunt force trauma, hereditary, etc etc. (I have mine due to a genetic mutation, so fun this luck of mine lol.) anyways, I'm morbidly curious about the healing times and if they differ depending on the cause. like if somebody got slammed in the stomach and that somehow caused them to get pancreatitis, would that take longer or shorter to heal on avg? obviously everything is flexible and there are no clear cut answers... but I wonder? if anybody has insight I'd love to hear it!!
hope everybody is hanging in there and if you're not pain free now then I hope you get some relief asap. thanks everybody!! 💕
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