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head of youth services. mawrter. saltwater conch. fueled by tea + fries. she/elle 🏳️‍🌈✨
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Well that’s… new.
A screenshot of the United Airlines app with a text alert that reads: The U.S. government plans to restrict flights beginning Friday, November 7, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. We're making updates to our schedule and will let you know if your flight is affected as soon as possible. Check your flight status.
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This is extremely accurate. Crazy Rich Asians is the perfect plane movie and I will not hear otherwise.
A photo of the seatback inflight movie selection on a United flight, with a list of curated films titled Perfect Plane Movies. The photo shows the film posters for Oceans 11, Mean Girls, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Blues Brothers.
November 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Happy New Year, witches. The veil is thin and I am ready to rock some faces. 🖤⚡️

(work bestie is dressed as the well-behaved 80s twin with leggings and crimped hair)
A white female human is dressed in a rainbow sequin jacket, The Cure tshirt, black skirt, green and pink fishnet tights, and knee high doc marten boots. She has bold 80s makeup and a fauxhawk hairstyle. She is making rock fists while facing the camera, and is standing in a children’s library section between a large stuffed unicorn toy and a large stuffed zebra toy. A white female human is dressed in a rainbow sequin jacket, The Cure tshirt, black skirt, green and pink fishnet tights, and knee high doc marten boots. She has bold 80s makeup and a fauxhawk hairstyle. She is standing with her arms crossed in a profile shot, in a children’s library section between a large stuffed unicorn toy and a large stuffed zebra toy.
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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From humble beginnings, my children begin to multiply. I also think the folks who work at the farmstand may be questioning my sanity.
A photo of a cream-colored pantry shelf with two large jars of bright yellow wax beans, two large jars of green beans, and several smaller jars of vegetable broth stacked together. They have been home canned.
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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This week was a pile of hot garbahhhje but hey I finally finished my latest project.

9”x24” finished, crewel wool on traditional groundcloth. (pattern by Avlea Folk Embroidery)
A long rectangular cream linen table runner with fringed edges and a geometric design worked in brick pink, navy, and muted teal wool thread. The pattern is from Avlea Embroidery and is based on Prairie-style architecture leaded glass windows. It took around 45-50 hours to embroider and finish, in case anyone wonders why this would not be a lucrative side hustle.
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I’m glad we all decided that Strega was thee equinox drink this year
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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🤣

Eric Carle conveniently left out all the little 🐛💩s !!
A yellow silicone cutting board is covered in small black dots of caterpillar poop. A bunch of kale stems that have been stripped of their leaves sit off to the top left.
September 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Just a little guy (and his 4 little friends) I found munchin’ on my kale from the farmstand. He and his buddies were relocated to the bush outside my kitchen window with their own individual pieces of kale for a road snack (this is why I wash my greens 😅🐛)
A very small caterpillar, about as long as a penny, with thin black and white stripes on its back and a bright green underbelly, is happily eating a piece of raw kale being held by a human hand.
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Decided to go home for my birthday and was the best decision I’ve made in a long time. IYKYK.
A nighttime photograph of a grey stone building with a bell tower and pointed roof on the tower, with two large trees flanking stone stairs leading to a wooden doorway. The sky is a deep saturated blue and you can clearly see stars. It is a building on a college campus that is immediately recognizable to anyone who went there. It is also home.
August 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The dice were not with me on my first full play-thru of Votes for Women, but what an engaging game! Single player vs. Oppobot took me 2-2.5hrs (first time = having to reference the rules book A LOT). I’ll get you next time, patriarchy!!! Thx, @downtowntbrown.bsky.social & @fortcircle.bsky.social 🫶
A picture of the game board from the game votes for women, which is a map of the contiguous 48 states of the United States divided into regions. Each state has a green check or a red X, depending on whether the player rolled luckily to vote for ratification of the 19th amendment at the end of the game. The player, of course, did not, and so 13 states voted against ratification, which means our humble Suffrage player lost.
August 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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That was YOU, holy shit!!
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Just another Saturday night after work spent disappearing into a project to stave off screaming into the void.
A closeup of a cross stitching project on off-white linen fabric. The pattern has large light blue diamonds with negative space shaped like a flower, bordered by dark green geometric vines along their sides and light green stars at their corners.
July 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Time to bring back our sign?
A pale cream background with a watercolor image of a red beet, with the text in pale red script “you ate beets” above it and underneath the beet in pale red print “it’s ok don’t panic”
July 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We held a community art project today at the library. Patrons of all ages chose from a rainbow of cups of paint & decorated by pouring, using their hands (or feet in the case of one toddler), and with brushes. I love the result!!

(amazing 9ft canvas roll from @blickartmaterials.bsky.social )
A 9‘ x 5‘ roll of canvas lays on the floor surrounded by newspaper. It has been decorated in a modern art style in a multitude of colors by about 50 different library patrons. The paint is in splotches, poured in ribbons, painted on with brushes, and splattered in all different directions. There are also several handprints in the paint.
July 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Bonus intense Mothman eye contact.
The side profile of a white woman with brown hair cut into a bob, wearing a pink tshirt and a white lanyard, staring at a large cardboard cutout of an illustration of the cryptid Mothman, with red glowing eyes looking back at her
July 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Plus one signed ARC just for me, and a copy of Votes For Women that I won from @alagamert.bsky.social !
The cover art for the book “it’s me they follow,” by Jeannine A. Cook, the owner of Harriett’s Bookshop in Philadelphia, which features a painted style of the top half of a woman’s head with medium-dark skin, dark hair with blunt bangs, and a flowery blue headband. She is peering over the top of a yellow book, looking directly out of the cover. A picture of the outside of the box of the tabletop game “votes for women”, developed by Tory Brown, which features vintage style suffrage art with a robed liberty walking across a map of the US toward a crowd reaching out their hands to her.
July 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I must say, I think I was surprisingly reasonable at #alaac25: 7 signed and 11 unsigned titles that will become summer reading prizes, 7 ARCs for our eager young readers to preview, and 6 titles that will go straight into the collection.
A stack of 31 graphic novels and prose fiction and nonfiction, mostly for children and teens, is piled high on a desk in an office.
July 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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GOAT MAGIC by @kagwheeler.bsky.social (thx, @oni-press.bsky.social !)

I am, to put it mildly, possibly obsessed now? Please everyone order this thank you.
The cover art for the graphic novel GOAT MAGIC by Kate Wheeler, which features an illustrated scene of two girls super imposed behind a lush mountain landscape, with one of the girls riding a goat in the foreground
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Delighted to spot @rollforsandwich.com front & center at the Fox Chapel booth at #alaac25 !
Two shelves worth of specialized cookbooks from Fox Chapel Publishing are displayed face-out at a booth at the American Library Association annual conference. The top shelf in the center has the new Roll for Sandwich cookbook in pride of place.
July 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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These extremely kind folks offered me a bunch of grapes as I was rushing by their booth (2247). Please go look at their book if you’re at ALA!
A business card for the book “Spray, the Bug: The Importance of Commas” by Joyce Shui, illustrated by James Smith. The cover of the book is featured, with a yellow background and a cartoon illustration of a flying insect surrounded by commas.
June 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#ALA2025 Saturday in a nutshell
A female-presenting human relaxes in an antique bathtub filled with orange pingpong balls. She is relaxing from a full day of conference sessions.
June 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I quickly ran out of room in my tote with stuff I grabbed for my director, but I did manage a goof few. Tomorrow it’s on!
A stack of nine books, a mix of published and prepublished titles, plus a notebook sit on a wooden table. The books are all YA or middle grade fiction and comics.
June 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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ALA in late June in Philly means ironing every piece of linen I own. Although I seem to have accidentally missed a rather large wrinkle in there.
A small stack of black and white linen shirts and dresses hang over the back of a dining room chair, which sitting is on a navy and white circular rug. In between the top dress with a black and white palm frond pattern and the black shirt behind it is a small head sticking out of the clothes. It is the head of a tuxedo cat who is very much hoping to be taken to the conference with his mother.
June 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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A gift on this, the last full week of Pride, was left on the Children’s Department coloring tables this morning. May I present to you:

RuPunzl 💅
A young child’s drawing done in purple crayon on a large sheet of white paper, which is taped to a coloring table. The drawing is a crude sketch of the character Rapunzel with long hair and stars in her braid. The way the name is written next to the drawing is spelled “R U P U N Z L”
June 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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So excited to be offering this through our library! We even made little otter craft kits to go with registration. 🥹
A recycled 6-egg carton painted blue, with a small otter figurine, three real shells, and coral and seaweed made from scraps of craft foam and pipe cleaner. The craft is designed to look like an ocean scene.
June 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM