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Ok. Who let me loose in the library?
Oh. There I am…
I’m on a basket-for-Christmas kick. Like knitting then felting. Photos 1 and 2 are finished baskets (one already received and one not on social media) and the third is the only before-felting photo I’ve remembered to take!
Rug wool! (Yay for spinner neighbor-friends with giant stashes!) Finally getting started on Christmas presents. Any guesses what these will be?
My 4 year old has a winged unicorn piggy bank named Laura (previously named Snowman). Today she made her extra fancy!
I make a habit of not sharing kid photos but there’s something so perfect about this one ❤️

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Tag: likable

January 27, 2022

Unlearning

As a kid, how to make people like me–or at least not dislike me–was a constant calculus in the background hum of my brain. I learned how to read the expectations of people around me and how to contort, to fit myself to them. Even when I came home from college, I still made a […]

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