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I only took one singular blurry photo of the bracelet we made for my mother-in-law - the teen made the stone (it's ceramic) and I did the wire stuff. It's not a craft I'm going to keep doing, but I do think the result is pretty ok for an unskilled attempt.
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I only took one singular blurry photo of the bracelet we made for my mother-in-law - the teen made the stone (it's ceramic) and I did the wire stuff. It's not a craft I'm going to keep doing, but I do think the result is pretty ok for an unskilled attempt.
My dog would like to know if you have any of those Christmas breakfasts for him.
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My dog would like to know if you have any of those Christmas breakfasts for him.
We've got the cheese straws, peanut brittle, fruit and chocolate dreams, and fudge down. Now I just have to wrap everything and do the stockings and finish an entire bracelet and do the liver of sulphur thing and knit a dog sweater and we're good to go. I think I'm ahead of schedule this year?
December 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We've got the cheese straws, peanut brittle, fruit and chocolate dreams, and fudge down. Now I just have to wrap everything and do the stockings and finish an entire bracelet and do the liver of sulphur thing and knit a dog sweater and we're good to go. I think I'm ahead of schedule this year?
Poor sad boy in baby jail because he won't stop trying to help make the cheese straws.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Poor sad boy in baby jail because he won't stop trying to help make the cheese straws.
My youngest made these, not me, the only thing I've ever crocheted was a spiraly worm bookmark thing. I just love them - they're coasters that roll up into bouquets. Pretty! Useful! More decorative than a worm! #crochet
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My youngest made these, not me, the only thing I've ever crocheted was a spiraly worm bookmark thing. I just love them - they're coasters that roll up into bouquets. Pretty! Useful! More decorative than a worm! #crochet
Finished the stockings! I didn't care for the pattern and I wouldn't recommend it, but I'm happy with how they turned out, even the ones with wonky toes and double names. They are VERY BIG and still used less than half of what the pattern called for. Now I never have to do colorwork again! #knitting
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Finished the stockings! I didn't care for the pattern and I wouldn't recommend it, but I'm happy with how they turned out, even the ones with wonky toes and double names. They are VERY BIG and still used less than half of what the pattern called for. Now I never have to do colorwork again! #knitting
Yesterday I went to the dollar store for some Christmas bags and there was some really nice-looking garland and I touched it to see how long one strand was and it turned out to be really light foam covered in insanely sharp glitter. I've touched fiberglass before and never got that cut up before.
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yesterday I went to the dollar store for some Christmas bags and there was some really nice-looking garland and I touched it to see how long one strand was and it turned out to be really light foam covered in insanely sharp glitter. I've touched fiberglass before and never got that cut up before.
The thing that bugs me most about #gameofwool is that it has no excuse to be so bad. Everything it did wrong is a solved problem, it just chose to reinvent the wheel, badly. Hats should have been challenge #1, the finale should have been one of their design challenges, done at home.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The thing that bugs me most about #gameofwool is that it has no excuse to be so bad. Everything it did wrong is a solved problem, it just chose to reinvent the wheel, badly. Hats should have been challenge #1, the finale should have been one of their design challenges, done at home.
I don't even know why I'm making stockings. Ours are already hung on the mantel.
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I don't even know why I'm making stockings. Ours are already hung on the mantel.
THE ONLY PERSON SABOTAGING ME IS ME. I just stitched my husband's name on the wrong side of his stocking and unlike the wonky toe, I can't let it go. He's gonna get a double-sided name and I'm gonna repeat all that stupid duplicate stitch and be very briefly mad about it.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
THE ONLY PERSON SABOTAGING ME IS ME. I just stitched my husband's name on the wrong side of his stocking and unlike the wonky toe, I can't let it go. He's gonna get a double-sided name and I'm gonna repeat all that stupid duplicate stitch and be very briefly mad about it.
My dog is a genius and I love him. He only begs on Sunday mornings when I do some type of egg and cheese situation and he knows he'll get a crumb at the end. And even then he knows to sit politely and wait, he just does it so full of "LOOK HOW POLITELY I SIT!!!!" energy it cracks me up.
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My dog is a genius and I love him. He only begs on Sunday mornings when I do some type of egg and cheese situation and he knows he'll get a crumb at the end. And even then he knows to sit politely and wait, he just does it so full of "LOOK HOW POLITELY I SIT!!!!" energy it cracks me up.
I only had enough plastic card to make 2 blockers, and was using that as an excuse to not finish, which makes no sense. First two down! (Names redacted.) Yes, I know I goofed the toe on the tree, I'll fix it next year but for now it's good enough.
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I only had enough plastic card to make 2 blockers, and was using that as an excuse to not finish, which makes no sense. First two down! (Names redacted.) Yes, I know I goofed the toe on the tree, I'll fix it next year but for now it's good enough.
I thought by the time I was this age I'd be able to flee to Mexico instead of doing Christmas, but no. Maybe 10 more years? Never having a Christmas I didn't hate is definitely going to be something I regret on my deathbed.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I thought by the time I was this age I'd be able to flee to Mexico instead of doing Christmas, but no. Maybe 10 more years? Never having a Christmas I didn't hate is definitely going to be something I regret on my deathbed.
I try not to push my interests on my kids, but the teen just did an Edgar Bergen impression by shutting the door in my face and yelling from the other side "wow, I am such an awesome ventriloquist! My lips aren't even moving, trust me bro!" Can't help picking up some things, I guess.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I try not to push my interests on my kids, but the teen just did an Edgar Bergen impression by shutting the door in my face and yelling from the other side "wow, I am such an awesome ventriloquist! My lips aren't even moving, trust me bro!" Can't help picking up some things, I guess.
I'm glad I misread the pattern as needing 50g balls instead of the 100g it called for, because I bought 50g balls and I'm still going to have enough left over to make a free dog sweater. I don't like this pattern for a lot of reasons, but if I'd bought enough for an extra man sweater I'd be pissed.
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm glad I misread the pattern as needing 50g balls instead of the 100g it called for, because I bought 50g balls and I'm still going to have enough left over to make a free dog sweater. I don't like this pattern for a lot of reasons, but if I'd bought enough for an extra man sweater I'd be pissed.
Man, e7 of #gameofwool pissed me off so much I had to turn it off and watch the second half later. This week on Top Pâtissière, the chefs have to make lemonade stands out of old pallets! They'll be judged on nail straightness and how much a child can earn selling lemonade while the judges watch!
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Man, e7 of #gameofwool pissed me off so much I had to turn it off and watch the second half later. This week on Top Pâtissière, the chefs have to make lemonade stands out of old pallets! They'll be judged on nail straightness and how much a child can earn selling lemonade while the judges watch!
The best thing about Christmas shopping is telling my mom I don't want anything after DECADES of listening to her say she doesn't want anything, and then listening to her complain about me not being helpful. This is not sarcasm, I think it's hilarious.
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The best thing about Christmas shopping is telling my mom I don't want anything after DECADES of listening to her say she doesn't want anything, and then listening to her complain about me not being helpful. This is not sarcasm, I think it's hilarious.
I tweaked my back so I tried the recliner for awhile, and my dog insists on laying directly across my neck. If I were an ancient Mexican with a sore throat he'd be just what the doctor ordered, but I am a modern person who wants to be able to see the tv.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I tweaked my back so I tried the recliner for awhile, and my dog insists on laying directly across my neck. If I were an ancient Mexican with a sore throat he'd be just what the doctor ordered, but I am a modern person who wants to be able to see the tv.
The other day I realized I hate fishing minigames for the same reason I hate sewing up knitting - I'm already doing a fun thing, and I'm interrupted by an unfun thing for no reason other than the designers thought it was necessary.
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The other day I realized I hate fishing minigames for the same reason I hate sewing up knitting - I'm already doing a fun thing, and I'm interrupted by an unfun thing for no reason other than the designers thought it was necessary.
Man, sometimes radio adaptations just don't give a fuck. I caught a Christmas Carol where they fully axed the ghost of Christmas Present to fit the runtime. Marley even said 3 spirits! Scrooge's transformation was pretty unconvincing at the end.
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Man, sometimes radio adaptations just don't give a fuck. I caught a Christmas Carol where they fully axed the ghost of Christmas Present to fit the runtime. Marley even said 3 spirits! Scrooge's transformation was pretty unconvincing at the end.
I listen to WWII-era classic radio particularly because I like its messages, like "Nazis are bad" and "working together is good". But today I learned another bonus, which is that Little Drummer Boy didn't come out until 1958. I'm gonna win this year!
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I listen to WWII-era classic radio particularly because I like its messages, like "Nazis are bad" and "working together is good". But today I learned another bonus, which is that Little Drummer Boy didn't come out until 1958. I'm gonna win this year!
My week! I feel like Isaac has instinctively *understood* lace - it's easy, you just have to follow the chart and never make any mistakes. (Also Holgar's "necklace" was very ugh and Lydia's was gorgeous and I'm still shocked the judges were able to make the right call for once.) #gameofwool
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My week! I feel like Isaac has instinctively *understood* lace - it's easy, you just have to follow the chart and never make any mistakes. (Also Holgar's "necklace" was very ugh and Lydia's was gorgeous and I'm still shocked the judges were able to make the right call for once.) #gameofwool
The more I think about it the more mad I am the green sweater didn't win on ep5 #gameofwool. Everyone's sewn something together wrong at some point, it was kind of reassuring to see Holgar make such a silly mistake, but it shouldn't *win* just because they're judging lace unblocked. Unfair!
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The more I think about it the more mad I am the green sweater didn't win on ep5 #gameofwool. Everyone's sewn something together wrong at some point, it was kind of reassuring to see Holgar make such a silly mistake, but it shouldn't *win* just because they're judging lace unblocked. Unfair!
We use the dog gate to prevent the *dog* from going upstairs, but just in the last couple days he's decided the child is also bound by its strictures and becomes a barky boy full of tattle energy when they don't obey. OH BOY MORE THINGS TO TRAIN!
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We use the dog gate to prevent the *dog* from going upstairs, but just in the last couple days he's decided the child is also bound by its strictures and becomes a barky boy full of tattle energy when they don't obey. OH BOY MORE THINGS TO TRAIN!