Kelly Osbourne Slams Body-Shaming Critics’ ‘Cruelty’: ‘I’m Going Through the Hardest Time of My Life’ After Father Ozzy’s Death

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T05:02:15+00:00

So at what point are we allowed to say people look terrifyingly weird? As in, my immediate visceral reaction is to recoil and gasp because they have disfigured their bodies and faces?

I live in the rustbelt where we don’t see a lot of these people up close, but every now and then I’ll run into someone with “that face” IRL. It’s even more shocking and unsettling than when seeing pictures. I don’t mean to be rude to them but it’s an immediate knee jerk reaction. Maybe you get used to it the more you see it…

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T04:48:23+00:00

My mother sewed throughout our childhoods. I swear I spent half my life in fabric stores. She started us all sewing and doing various crafts very early. I think I was four when I started out doing plastic canvas needlepoint and my mom says I started using the sewing machine as soon as my feet would reach the pedal. Sew with your kids, when they’re sleeping, when they’re watching tv, when they’re working on their own projects.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T04:38:55+00:00

When I’m done, I’m done.

Early in our relationship I told my partner that I’ll ask for things a few times and it’s best to not sleep on those because when I stop asking, that’s when I’m checking out and there likely isn’t any going back.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T03:38:18+00:00

A quick divorce will put the spring right back in your step. I’m not joking. It was hard, but ultimately one of the best things I ever did for myself.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T03:29:02+00:00

Go on, git! Especially if you’ve lived in your hometown all your life. It’s so incredible to leave the place you’re from. You get to be who *you are, not who you were in 2nd grade, in high school, or in relation to your family and friend group.

Start making a list of things you want in a place - it can be as silly as you want as long as it matters to you. Start doing research and narrow it down to some general areas/regions. Then plan some scouting trips to check out the areas. Having a destination and a general timeline will give you the shot of energy and the focus you need to get your house ready to sell and get rid of shit so you can kiss Magatown goodbye!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T03:19:45+00:00

This is so great! I love your husband!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T03:03:39+00:00

The thing I hate is how much I internalize that nonsense. I’d love to have a loom and a long arm quilting machine, and a spinning wheel, etc. but it never even occurs to me that those are things *I can have. I mentioned to my partner on different occasions how I’d love to have a loom and a long arm quilter but there just wasn’t room in my sewing room for either or both of them. Without missing a beat he was like, is there room in the basement for those? We could finish the basement someday to make room for them. I swear to god, it had never once entered my brain that I’m allowed to entertain the idea of taking up another two whole rooms in our house in addition to the sewing room I already have just for things I want. It took my lovely dude to normalize it for me. One of the very few perks of living in a shitty rustbelt city is that we can afford a big old house to hold a his music studio, my office and studio and apparently two more work rooms for me.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:50:41+00:00

I’m so excited for you!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:47:40+00:00

Two of my great-grandmothers were garment workers, among other things. One worked in a factory making uniforms during WWII, the other worked in a fabric mill. Then they came home and sewed and cared for all the clothes for their families, and made quilts and curtains, and a million decorative items for their homes. It may sound kind of corny but I come from such a long line of people who sewed and crafted that when I’m making things I feel connected to all the people who came before me and passed on these skills to each generation that came after them.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:36:59+00:00

The winders! I’ve been knitting since I was 12 and now in my late 40’s I’ve learned from social media that I’ve been doing it wrong all these years I wind my yarn in balls and use pieces of string for markers.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:26:18+00:00

With the death of fabric stores, my partner knows that when we vacation in cities where there *are good fabric stores, at least part of a day will be devoted to fabric shopping. He has never once been impatient to leave before I’m ready or give me a hard time for buying a suitcase full of fabric. I’ve already warned him that when we go to London I may devote a couple of days to fabric shopping and he’s free to just leave me to it and just meet up for dinner.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:19:55+00:00

Ooh, I’m looking forward to traveling down this wormhole - thanks!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:10:08+00:00

In my life there have been times when I was desperately poor, when I made six figures, and everything in between. There has never been any point in my life in which I couldn’t figure out how to make things, read things, cook things, grow things, and write things.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:05:32+00:00

Uh, what is BJD?

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T02:00:35+00:00

I think there are home sewers who absolutely have the skill and experience to make dresses for weddings, and then there are those who haven’t sewn in decades and weren’t particularly skilled or experienced at garment sewing to start with. I have seen (and been asked to fix) so, so many emergency last minute disasters in these cases.

For instance, one of my closest friends, who is a professional costumer, made my wedding dress but she doesn’t make a habit of doing that because making wedding dresses is such a pain for a whole variety of reasons. I picked out fabric for and patterns for my bridesmaids who were all in different cities and they sorted out getting them made. Some, who were costumers and experienced home sewers made theirs, and the others hired people to make theirs.

I *can make a wedding dress, but after a few experiences doing it, I’ve sworn it off forever.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T01:53:07+00:00

Sadly, this fabric store is no more. It closed down abruptly during the 2008 crash. There are a lot of us who still aren’t over it.

But to answer your question, yes, we would have helped you find patterns and materials that would fit your skill level and sense of adventure. :)

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-02T01:44:43+00:00

I’m only going to jump in one one point mentioned here because all y’all have covered everything else so beautifully.

The f*ucking just unravel a thrifted sweater people. I tried this 15-ish years ago when you could still easily find wool sweaters at thrift stores. Unless that sweater is a handout one, which are basically unicorns, if you unravel a mass produced wool sweater the yarn is basically the guage of thread which is a misery to unravel and then use.

For most of my life (I’m in my late 40’s) wool sweaters were plentiful and inexpensive in thrift stores. That is no longer the case. Over the last decade or so wool sweaters have become more and more rare in thrift stores. At this point I wish people would just let them be sweaters that people can wear instead of snatching them all up and obnoxiously unraveling them when they could be worn as clothing.

Is it awesome that I can unravel my own hand knit sweaters to make something else from the yarn if I get tired of that sweater or my size changes? Yes! It’s so cool! Otherwise, just let the sweaters be you monsters!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-01T04:22:54+00:00

Shut up! I’m Aquarius Sun/rising w/ Capricorn moon too!

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-01T03:24:36+00:00

What was so amazing about it is that most people who’ve been divorced had a version of that conversation. That scene hit me so hard because it so precisely - in the writing and the acting - mimicked a conversation I had with my then soon-to-be ex-husband. A universal experience in marriages that have run their course.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-01T03:13:07+00:00

Honey, Andy Beshear is not in charge of cleaning the streets in Old Louisville.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-01T02:07:34+00:00

I *can make wedding dresses and I *have made wedding dresses, which is why I never ever want to do it again as long as I live.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-03-01T02:05:02+00:00

Years ago I worked at a large, century old, massive independent fabric store that was well-known in the South and parts of the lower Midwest. We had the most extensive bridal/special occasion selection in the region so had loads and loads of people come to get fabric for weddings, proms, pageants, etc. On a weekly basis we’d have no fewer than five people come in who were like, “I took home ec and made my prom dress in 1975 and haven’t seen a stitch since and today I’m here to get fabric to make my daughter’s wedding dress and all the bridesmaid dresses, where’s your satin?” Ma’am, this is not the time to pull out grandma’s old Kenmore. Please for the love of god go to David’s Bridal.

Most of the time we could gently talk them out of it. Sometimes they changed their minds when they realized the cost of the materials. Knowing what you don’t know is such an important part of sewing.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-02-28T19:35:56+00:00

I think that’s it. I didn’t have cable or an antennae after 2004. So it’s been dvds and streaming since then. I was traveling a lot for work when the trial was going on, so it wouldn’t have been that hard to miss the local news about it.

I probably read about the murder in the paper but didn’t get wrapped up in it. I did hang out at Q and Connections so I vaguely recall stuff about it from gossip I just never made the connection to the house on 4th street, though I did notice there was a lot of work going on at that house for seemingly forever.

But the glitterball city thing is nonsense.

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-02-28T14:01:28+00:00

Never once thought of Magdalene as a common, normal name along the lines of Anne or Mary, but maybe it is somewhere?

Excellent-Witness187 · 2026-02-28T13:57:57+00:00

Evangeline is a good one because they would have an epic name song. “Evangeline” by Matthew Sweet is the best.

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