There are some OLO colors on sale at Blick, and ive been wanting to give them a try, but idk, they seem a bit annoying how everything is separate? How do we feel about them?
Blick has the entire set of prismacolor premiers on sale for $90: https://www.dickblick.com/products/prismacolor-premier-colored-pencils/?Item=20508-0150
A Blick-specific bundle set of Derwent drawing pencils, which includes 36 pencils, a sketchpad, and some sort of case is on clearance for $45: https://www.dickblick.com/items/derwent-drawing-pencils-set-of-36-with-sketching-paper/
I have 2 mp3 players and neither of them can read thr m3u playlist format. I just want them to be exported as a simple list. Is there a way to do that?
Apologies for the awful lighting in my kitchen. White blobs are unincorporated sugar from my glaze.
I followed this recipe using a well-established starter. (I didnt mske the cream cheese frosting) https://countryroadssourdough.com/sourdough-cinnamon-rolls/
I work at a bakery and took the discard home! Im glad to have access to such good starter lol.
The recipe worked very well. I was initially worried because they didnt rise at all during the second rise, but i baked them anyway, and they came out great. Definitely a recipe for the ages!
I'm not a crocheter (I'm a knitter) but I'm doing a trade with someone and I would like some kerchiefs. I work at a bakery, and our hair had to be covered:) I'm not really liking anything I'm finding on ravelry, and Etsy is a scourge at this point... I'm looking for cute patterns with fruit, animals, etc, something a little different than typical. Does anyone have any favorites?
We moved, and there are a lot of things i want to get rid of. Please feel free to claim multiple items!
An acrylic painting of a white fox in space. This was made by a friend's ex, so i don't really need it hanging around lol. Its pretty large, maybe 24x 18 in?
Nautical-themed needlepoint canvases
I have no idea what this is. Its something for stamps, i think.
Wool roving for spinning. The purple one is blue faced Leicester wool, the blue is corriedale
Various yarns. The yellow/orange bundle and the 2 bundles on the right are all silk, the blue-green one is alpaca (might be baby alpaca) nd the other blue one is merino
Not pictured, but old denim jeans for scrap. Light wash, dark wash, black. I always say "ill patch these up", "ill use this fabric", but i literally never do, and it just takes up space.
Im mainly looking for professional artist-grade watercolor paints, alcohol markers, and colored or watercolor pencils, Artist brushes, palettes, paper, but obviously, im open to other things!
Im also open to finished items, mainly crochet or ceramics, but let me know whatever else you have.
I dont need beads or yarn. I will probably make a post with my beads at some point since i just dont use them.
This is a coloring page from lidia cambón's book, "the modern manga coloring book"! I make copies of pages so i can do them more than once :)
Copic ciaos and Blick Studio markers :D
Theres no way I can every afford (or justify the expense even I were to save up for it) for caran d'ache luminance pencils. However, I would like to find a pencil with similar characteristics. Does anyone have any suggestions?
We just moved into a new apartment, and it has this weird thermostat. I assumed it was a touch screen, but it doesnt respond to touch. When we tried to turn it, it popped off the wall. Its connected to the wall with wires. We have the wifi set up, but how am i supposed to connect it? I sent a few messages to the landlord, but he hasn't responded (classic landlord behavior). Im quite chilly at 70 degrees, and we need to save money, so we need to keep the AC on low. Thanks for any help!
I wanted a red mixer as a wedding present, and i was given gray against my wishes because "it would age better", as if i give an F. It makes me so sad to use it because its gray and so i dont use it as much as i want to. I thought about repainting jt, but i dont have the facilities to do that currently. Does anyone know of any companies that make full skins or something to recolor it?
Lately ive noticed that i talk about myself constantly when having conversations with people. I used to be a really good conversationalist, but in the past few years, i just havent been able to do it as well. If someone doesn't ask me a question, i dont think to ask them anything, And so we sit in silence
Does anyone have any tips with this?
Im visiting family on the ring (grandma grew up outside caherdaniel), and im an avid knitter/fiber artist. I would really like to get some very local/heritage yarn, like, "this sheep farm sells their own yarn" or "this lady spins her own wool" kind of thing. Are there any farms that do that around here?
I would also like to find some general places to buy heritage crafts. All the shops weve been to all around the ring basically have the same tourist stuff, and im just not interested. Or jt says "hand-knitted", but it doesnt say where, so i can only assume its some poor 3rd world country...
Im willing to go anywhere on the ring!
Thanks :)
Im travelling to Ireland today from EWR, and i have 2 questions.
(Im only bringing a carry on and personal item)
Im an artist and i really want to bring my artist (alcohol-based) copic markers. Every source ive read says its fine, but im still worried theyll get confiscated. Should i be worried, or will it be fine?
Airplane food makes me want to throw up (i feel so disgusting on planes) so i wanted to bring a sandwich or something through security so i can eat it when i get hungry on the plane. Is that allowed?
Thanks so much :)
Edit: decided not to bring the markers. Knowing my luck, something would happen, lol. I am bringing a sandwich!
I have about 100-120 markers or so that i really want to bring with me on a trip. Im only bringing a carry-on. Im really worried about them getting confiscated, even though all the websites and posts ive read said that its fine. Has anyone ever had their markers confiscated by TSA?
Theyre $2 down from $4-7. I was going to begrudgingly buy some copics to fill in the holes in my color collection (mainly earth tones and yellows) and i was able to stock up quite well when i saw blick was having a sale!
u/runaway_smoke made me this little crocheted pineapple bag in exchange for a goldfish! Its amazing!!
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Father Mulcahy was in the audience after they got the movie, even though the cause of all the excitement surrounding it was the assumption it was basically a porn movie.
Hawkeye: "I've never seen a cleaner movie in my life!"
Fr. Mulcahy, "One of the characters did say 'virgin'!"
Hawkeye: "That's because everyone was!"
I've heard that the Sketch line has a manufacturing defect where the caps crack and the marker gets dried out. I got some Ciaos, and I love them, but the colors are limited compared to the sketch line. Is that still an issue?
I can't believe I spent my life refusing to watch MASH. I really couldnt tell you why. Maybe because no one in my family liked it? When I was watching I Love Lucy on TVLand as a kid, MASH would come on after, and that was a "grown-up" show, and I just never gave it a chance as I got older? I think also I thought that it took place in Vietnam, and I just wasn't interested/that bothered me for some reason? I don't know.
I don't need to tell everyone here this, but it's just a fantastic show. The mix of comedy and tragedy is a delicate mix, and they balanced it perfectly. One episode, they have me laughing, the next, I'm trying (and often failing) not to cry. Some people I knew wrote it off because they felt uncomfortable about a comedy set in a war, but I think that it just attests to the banality of the everyday. War isn't one momentous moment into the next. It's a lot of boredom and waiting around, then a lot of fear and everything happening at once.
I think about the historical context of it all, both in a medical sense and in a societal sense. What amazes me is how far medical science has come. I've said this several times here on the sub, but it blows my mind EVERY TIME I see the glass IV and blood bottles, more than anything else, somehow. Antibiotics were literally just invented.
I think about all the wounded soldiers they treated, the ones that died, the ones that had mental breaks, the ones that ended up okay.
All the characters (especially after season 3) are developed so well and are such strong characters.
After so many years of refusing to watch it, it's now on my top 5 favorites. I'm stopping myself from starting it all over again!
I love my new job at the candy store, but even though i like it, i feel like a wreck at the end of the day. Ive only been working 3 days a week, and im starting 4 days this week, and im worried about it. I have to take 2-3 hrs to recover in bed when i get home, which makes me feel like i don't have a life.
Ive barely been cooking. I've been skipping meals, eating quick foods, or going out to eat and wasting money because i just can't exert any amount of energy. Laundry isnt getting done. Luckily, my husband does the dishes and some laundry here and there, otherwise idk what id do.
Im barely brushing my hair, which i normally am very proud of. Its 3 feet long, but i just put it in a bun most days and then have my husband help me brush it like 2x a week, which isnt great. Half the time im only taking 2 showers a week. (Rest assured, i brush my teeth 2x a day every day though).
I feel like i can either have a job or do anything else.
If you guys can believe it, this is an insane improvement over my last job, in which i cried pretty much every day and felt emotional anguish on top of it all.