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Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Keeping busy while not feeling well 🪡🧵💖

#ds9 #deepspacenine #startrek
#crossstitch #needlepoint #crafting #crafty #anime #manga #slime #chronicillness #holidaygifts #handmade #wip

Picture of a needle point project of an anime character with an iPad near it with the title of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

November 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Starting on some holiday things 😊

#hollowknight #videogame #pixel #pixelart #crossstitch #countedcrossstitch #handmade #holidaygifts #gifts #purple #silksong

Counted cross stitch of a hollow knight video game character with a purple scarf on with some blue underneath.

November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Current read 🙃📚
(I did end up reading the last one again)

#Fawning #trauma #booksky #books #reading

Book cover for
Fawning by Dr. Ingrid Clayton

October 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

My garden is holding on for as long as it can before the frost hits, lol.

#autumn #gardening #garden
#nature #flowers #yellow #flower #southernoregon #oregon #oregonlife

Close up photo of a yellow flower with a dark golden yellow center and green background.

September 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

I finished reading this one this morning. Not my usual read but it was very enlightening (am considering reading it again tbh)

⚠️ Talks of WW2, concentration camps, ect.

#searchformeaning #psychology #booksky #reading #books

Book cover:

Man's Search for Meaning by
Victor E. Frankl, with a new foreword by Harold S. Kushner.

September 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

My current read. This one has a lot of personal filler but the the anthropology bits are really good sofar 😊📚

#booksky #reading #books #neanderthal #cafeneandertal
#anthropology #science

Book cover for Cafe Neandertal by Beebe Bahrami.

September 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Current read this week 😊📚
#booksky #reading #books #anthropology #history #evolution #science #currentread

Book cover;
Seven Skeletons, the evolution of the worlds most famous human fossils by Lydia Pyne.

September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

I think I made a friend today 😅

#prayingmantis #mantis #latesummer #oregon #southernoregon #nature #pregnant #bug #insect

Praying mantis peeking over and looking towards the camera.

September 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

My current read. Sofar it's pretty good 😊📚

#booksky #reading #books #neanderthal #anthropology

Book cover says,
"Kindred. Neanderthal life, love, death and art" Rebecca Wragg Skyes.

"A wonderful portrait of these majestic, long lost relatives" Alice Roberts.

Bloomsbury.

September 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

I guess it's finally time to start on holiday gifts (I really don't want to make them last minute this year, lol.
😅🧶🎁

#holidays #knitting #indieyarn #wip #handmade #hat #knit #handmadegifts #ravelry #freepattern (department store nock-off beanie by Jennifer Star) #oregon #yarn

Work in progress of a variegated grey/black knit hat on circular knitting needles.

August 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

August 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

🥰

#southernoregon #oregon #lavender #heebs #honeybee #bees #goodday

August 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Got the heels done 😊🧶

#sockknitting #oshenknits #goonies #neversaydye #goonies40thanniversary #wip #yarn #sleepingcat #ChickenNugget #gato

Work in progress of two at a time socks on circular knitting needles. They're laying on top of a sleeping and very fluffy, house cat.

July 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Not far off from the half way point. Yarn's a little splitty but soft af. I want to do a textured pattern for the cuff but I'm undecided just yet 😅 🧶

#sockknitting #sockyarn #indieyarn #oshenknits #astoria #oregon #vanillasocks #showmeyourknits #goonies #neversaydye #goonies40thanniversary #wip

Two, half knitted socks on one circular knitting needles, earthy color tones.

July 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

#fourthofjuly

July 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

This was a good read. More of a slower read for myself but the science wasn't too heavy or over my head. I'd reccomend this one

😊👍💖💖

#Neanderthals #booksky #reading #books #hystory 📚

The Neanderthals Rediscovered. How Moder Science is Rewriting Their Story. By Dimitra Papagianni & Michael A. Morse.

July 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Finished this one today. It was a really good read and I would like to think I learned a bit too 😅💚💚

#booksky #reading #books #ecology #nature #summerreading #globalwarming

Book cover of mostly green, with a blue and yellow bird and a plant.

Our Green Heart. The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Best selling author of To Speak for the Trees.

June 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

I am participating in our local library's summer reading program for adults (there's a kids one too) and this is for my "well designed cover" pick. I found it by random near the ecology section.
Sofar, sogood 📚😊💖💖

#ecology #memior #poetty #worldofwonders #aimeenezhukumatathil #Nakamaura #booksky

Cover says:

World of Wonders,
In paradise of fireflies,
Whale sharks, and other Astonishments

"This book is about to shake the earth" -Kiese Laymon

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

June 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Am glad some of my flowers are finally blooming 😊💖💖

#southernoregon #oregon #gardening #bloomingflower #purpleflower #nature

A somewhat close up view of a purple flower in a garden.

June 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

Multi-tasking lol 😅

#kindle #booksky #reading #sockknitting #sockyarn #toeupsocks #rainbowyarn #june #pridemonth #indieyarn #alwaysbekindyarn #rainbowsaftermidnight
#fiberart

Image is of a half done pair of socks on circular knitting needles. They're self stripping rainbows. Next to them is a kindle, open to chapter XXVII of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Comment above the image says "multi tasking lol"

June 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

The socks I finished before Father's day. Thankfully its been too hot to wear them just yet (I still need to weave in ends lol 😅)

#showmeyourknits #sockknitting #sockyarn #fathersday #handmade #socks #indieyarn #yarn #handdyed

Two hand knitted socks in neon yellow, teal blues and off white colored yarn.

June 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Allison

@zombiemumsy.bsky.social

My apologies if I forget descriptions sometimes.
I saw this Western Tiger Swallowtale butterfly before I had to run some errands this morning 😊

#westerntigerswallowtail #swallowtail #butterfly #flutterby #pacificnorthwest #oregon #pnw