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  #ScribesAndMakers π21 Tell us about a non-fiction book you've enjoyed. My favorite non-fiction book of this decade is “Rest is Resistance” by Tricia Hersey. It’s about how to reject grind culture and incorporate rest in our lives. Hersey talks about how racism and White Supremacy have made it so people of color have not been able to rest and how they can reclaim it. She talks about how rest can be as simple as daydreaming for a few minutes. Or it can be a curated group rest experience as par...

• Post #3937945

  From a mailing list I'm on: "A researcher doing work for her dissertation is conducting a survey about the Royal School of Needlework stitch bank. She is trying to understand how it is currently being used and how it might be beneficial in the future. The survey is only live for a few days more so if you feel so inclined to help her out feel free to click": https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_0I1TJjHJBU10qCW #Embroidery #FiberArts

• Post #3624956

  #ScribesAndMakers §27 What's your favorite woodwind? I would have to say flutes because flute music is one of the most relaxing sounds to me.

• Post #3624955

  #ScribesAndMakers §28 Aside from obligations, what are your biggest distractions from your creative work? I think it’s lack of organization. I hate deadlines but when I have one, I’m able to project manage creative things so I actually get them done. I have an idea for a pebble mosaic I haven’t started it. I should set an arbitrary deadline like my birthday in mid-October and see if that helps. If I get it done, past me will have made future me a present. It’s also something I have to do in my b...

• Post #3624954

  OMG I loved this!! I’ll be reading more in the series. So much queer representation!! This was the first thing I read for the Prideopoly challenge and was my favorite out of the whole month. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d2446e38-0894-4cbe-9011-b71847b6f0cc

• Post #3624953

  #ScribesAndMakers §30 Choose an adjective to describe how you're feeling about your creativity going into next month. Tired. Renewed? Tired mostly because I've been doing a lot of hand sewing over the past week to help with a very important outfit for someone. It's been fun and it's been tiring. Maybe by tomorrow when it's done I'll feel renewed. At least I was there to see the person try his outfit on last night and his smile was everything.

• Post #3624952

  #ScribesAndMakers π1 Our featured creator is a former librarian. What has been your experience with libraries? I love libraries! Libraries are cozy places where you can learn so much and escape into other worlds *for free.* I visited my local one just last week. I usually borrow e-books through my library but going to Alameda Free Library in person was delightful. One librarian told me about a summer reading challenge that comes with prizes. Another librarian told me where to find the Pride mont...

• Post #3624951

  π2 Talk To Me Day Featured Creator Elyse Grasso @ElyseMGrasso #TTMD #ScribesAndMakers Happy birthday!!! What's your current fiber arts project? (photo if you'd like to share one)

• Post #3624950

  #ScribesAndMakers π3 We have some new people in the community. Re/Introduce yourself and tell us about your creative work. Hello, new people! I'm Denise and I live on Alameda, an island in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm a photographer, embroiderer, and writer. I like taking photographs of things that are crumbling, fleeting, and kept in arrested decay. I embroider lots of different things. Someday I might embroider some photographs . . . I also write articles about Traditional...

• Post #3624949

  #ScribesAndMakers π4 Sample? This is what happened when I held a tiny prism, in the form of an Eiffel Tower souvenir, in front of the camera lens while taking a photo. #Photography #FediArt

• Post #3624948

  Even though I don't celebrate the holiday, these are #ThreeGoodThings : 1) I'm looking forward to sharing cherry soup that I made with friends at a BBQ. 2) Part of my chosen family will be there. 3) We will be able to see fireworks from the end of my girlfriend's block.

• Post #3624947

  #ScribesAndMakers π5 You're whisked away by faeries to a woodland cottage for a weekend. Necessities will be provided, but for entertainment you're allowed 1 item of your own creation. What are you bringing? I would bring my camera with special fairy dust for the lens that will allow the photos to show up on the memory card once I’m back home. The fairy dust will not ruin my camera in any way. It will be proof I was there.

• Post #1964178

  #scribesAndMakers № 4 How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart? I have no idea but there are many new wave and other pop songs from the 80's that will be forever in my head. Exception: Duran Duran is one of my favorite bands but their lyrics are sometimes hard for me to understand. And I don't think the lyrics websites are 100% accurate.

• Post #806097

  #ScribesAndMakers 22 Create a micro-story in six words. Sit. I'll put the kettle on.

• Post #806096

  #ScribesAndMakers 23 Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is? I'm starting a club of non-froods who know where all the towels are. Are you in?

• Post #806094

  #ScribesAndMakers 24 Do you have a sewing kit in your home? It will be no surprise to a lot of you that I have several sewing kits. I have one for my embroidery projects at home and a smaller one for when I travel. I also probably have a few of the tiny ones in a box that you get at some hotels.

• Post #806092

  #ScribesAndMakers 25 Do you use music as a storytelling tool? Give an example. Sort of. I listen to music when I'm out photographing sunrise. It keeps me motivated, especially when it's cold and dark and way too early. No one ever gets to see hear the soundtrack except for me but music helps me take photographs.

• Post #806091

  I watched the movie "Ingrid Goes West" so you don't have to. I mean, I would love Aubrey Plaza to be obsessed with me . . . or would I?

• Post #806090

  #ScribesAndMakers 26 Do you dance or move along to music when you listen? If it's upbeat, yes. (I don't necessarily dance to lofi or artists like East Forest.) If I'm in a moving vehicle, I will car dance. Speaking of which, I have to go to my school foot patrol shift (to look out for ICE) and car dance on the way.

• Post #780203

  I’m sad that #StarFleetAcademy had been cancelled. I have enjoyed it a lot. I’m only up to #DeepSpaceNine watching all of Star Trek with my husband. I will remember SAM when I get to Voyager. And whatever else happens, we thankfully got a queer Klingon. And we got to meet Jett Reno’s girlfriend, Lura Thok. No Star Trek haters can take that away.

• Post #738140

  #ScribesAndMakers 20 Self-promotion day. Shame optional. For my acupuncture practice, I have a new e-book available about the Seasonal Magic of Spring to help you align with the Spring season and the energy of the Wood element inside and out! It includes information about Wood element energetics, a seasonal acupoint, Chinese medicine nutrition and recipes, essential oils, and more. Plus all of the photographs are by me. https://www.cicutoacupuncture.com/products/seasonal-magic-of-spring-e-book