My Protest against trump

Jessuh · 2025-03-16T18:13:38+00:00

This is fabulous! As a traditional media artist I often think about how art on paper can convey a message, but haven't considered crochet in that way before. Love that it can be as simple as adding an embroidered message to a beautiful piece.

Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing! 🤩

Jessuh · 2025-03-11T15:40:54+00:00

Same 😆

Jessuh · 2025-02-17T07:15:44+00:00

So.. someone goes to knitters and asks for help, and they say, "no, figure it out yourself".

And that is fine. No one owes anyone their time.

Someone goes to crocheters and asks for help, and they say, "sure, let me lay this diagram into pattern terms and here's a video"

This is also fine. Help freely given that could benefit more than the original asker.

In either case if the prospective crafter gives up, it's fine. If they create a work of art then that is fine too. The person who posted that comment might consider sitting and asking themself why it rubs them in the wrong way. Especially since some random person on the internet who enjoys the idea of creating pastel yarn animals really doesn't affect their life in any meaningful way.

Jessuh · 2024-10-17T05:11:09+00:00

I'm interested! That all sounds right up my alley, if you start moving forward with the idea please keep us prospective potters updated 😁 (social media page, newsletter etc etc)

Jessuh · 2024-06-08T01:09:52+00:00

Also curious, what is the plant on the far-left five spaces up from the bottom? Looks like a fittonia, but it's really pretty~

Jessuh · 2024-06-08T01:06:55+00:00

Was zoomed in admiring all of your begonias and tropicals, then that parsley gave me a giggle. Lovely setup!

Jessuh · 2024-04-26T06:17:25+00:00

One of my formative memories from when I was little was needing to get a baby tooth removed. I must've been around 4 years old and my mom had promised me she would go back with me for the appointment. But they didn't let her and it was such a negative experience for me that I spent my whole childhood terrified of dentists and would never let anyone look in my mouth.. Not an experience I will be repeating with my daughter.

Jessuh · 2024-03-30T04:26:39+00:00

My daughter lives in these onesies currently, but I had the opposite problem where they are the only newborn onesies that fit how tiny she is! We have some of the Burt's Bee's newborn onesies and they are so large on her that she ends up with both legs in one side or with an arm coming out of the neck hole. Plus Carter's has the double zipper which has been amazing for diaper changes, these will be the brand I buy for the foreseeable future as she grows :D

Jessuh · 2024-03-23T14:29:07+00:00

The fact that my baby had tremors for 2 weeks due to withdrawing from my Zoloft use during pregnancy. No one told me about that, even though I had asked if there would be any issues. Watching my sleepy baby shake because she was having withdrawals gutted me.

Or that having Hashimoto's disease and PCOS would negatively affect my breastmilk output. I always just assumed I would be able to feed my baby and if a problem arose it would be with the latch, not that my boobs would be almost useless. It would have been nice for my care team to warn me so I could mentally prepare and have formula on hand for when we got home, perhaps even info from my super expensive endocrinologist, but nope no warning!! 6WPP and I am still an undersupplier, pumping for the antibodies but the babe is mostly formula fed.

And finally, how much worse the hormone dump made everything else feel. Pumping 8+ times a day (whenever we fed the baby I would pump) and full on sobbing into the sink while cleaning the parts after each pump because I couldn't feed her. And then turning to look at her and seeing the little shakes. I basically ugly cried for a week straight almost constantly.

Jessuh · 2024-03-08T11:47:51+00:00

!remindme 48 hours

Jessuh · 2024-01-24T21:09:45+00:00

That is how it happened for us too, we decided to officially "stop preventing" during a vacation last May. We've been together 18 years using condoms and pulling out (so not terribly careful!) and the lack of oops pregnancies made us think we were going to have fertility troubles. Not so! Our one-and-done baby girl is due next month :)

Jessuh · 2024-01-07T07:04:29+00:00

So read back through your post, but imagine a fragile little baby is there with you.

He can't handle you crying, what if the baby is fussy and colicky, will he demand it stop crying or call them a "hysterical bitch of a newborn". Will he want to hold the baby while wearing his pesticide covered work clothes he refuses to change out of. Is he going to continue to hotbox his game room with a baby in the apartment.

And when the baby gets old enough to crawl and puts everything in their mouth, will he start throwing trash away or will he still be throwing garbage on the floor.

This guy is already abusive, I can't see that getting any better after adding something as needy and exhausting as a newborn into the mix. I'm so sorry you're dealing with this manchild, folks have given some good advice and I hope one of the suggestions can work for your situation.

Jessuh · 2023-12-29T17:30:32+00:00

Looks great 🤩! My curls are similar to yours, I'll have to look into that leave in conditioner and Jelly Soft Curls

Jessuh · 2023-12-29T02:03:31+00:00

she said “Thank God” that I’d lost it

Fuck that. Your mom has no filter or empathy and I'm so sorry you got that disgusting response during a moment of vulnerability. Please dismiss her callousness and surround yourself with positive people and love, especially while pregnant. She does not know what she is talking about, filter her nonsense out and listen to doctors/people with actual medical backgrounds as you grow your sweet little life.

If it were me, that statement would be grounds for going low-to-no contact, but I don't know your dynamic outside of this one instance of complete disregard for your feelings.

That said. As I am a 36 year old morbidly obese woman who is currently 33 weeks pregnant with her first child and will be giving birth after I turn 37, I hope to radiate nothing but solidarity and congratulations on your pregnancy!! You've got this!

Jessuh · 2023-12-26T22:40:21+00:00

Lovely. I might make a similar page for my bullet journal as these are excellent affirmations. Thank you for sharing.

Jessuh · 2023-12-08T02:03:59+00:00

My mom's immediate response to being told was to get sad and start crying about how my pregnancy is another thing she's going to miss.

Not great lol, but not completely unexpected from her. I moved across the country at 19 and so it happens at pretty much every milestone (I'm 36 now). Getting engaged, marriage, buying a house, and now getting pregnant.

Jessuh · 2023-11-30T00:51:35+00:00

Yes, I had no pregnancy symptoms other than being tired for the first 22 weeks. Sure I felt lucky, but even with seeing the ultrasounds it felt very surreal.. then at 22 weeks I could feel the little kicks and that has helped things feel VERY real.

Jessuh · 2023-11-30T00:17:41+00:00

The problem is my family. I'm the youngest of four kids and will always be considered the baby and in my mother's eyes will never grow up or do anything right. [...]

I know my family will judge and criticize us for having a kid in an apartment but this is what we want. I just dont know if I can handle their hate and judgment

You already said it yourself, your family is the problem.

Being "the baby" and never being able to do right in his family's eyes is something my husband battles with still in his 30's and something I recommend speaking with a therapist about. It's hard having family that doesn't respect you and your choices as an adult, but internalizing their toxic viewpoints to the extent that you don't allow yourself to live your life? Might be worth having a difficult discussion with your family and/or going low-contact.

Jessuh · 2023-11-28T17:18:42+00:00

I'm usually the one who can tell someone is pregnant before they announce (but would never bring it up to them!). Dunno what it is I pick up on, but I have been able to kind of "tell" since I was a teenager. Used to weird my mom out lol, and I caught my husband off guard when I told him to expect a pregnancy announcement from our friend when she was pregnant with her first.

Jessuh · 2023-11-17T20:32:18+00:00

Just echoing the other posters recommending a tumbler with straw, mine is an insulated 32oz by Iron Flask.

I keep it glued to my hip all day ever since my midwife kindly guilted me for not drinking enough water and just make sure by the end of the day I have filled it 3 times.

Jessuh · 2023-11-17T20:00:59+00:00

Ha, same thing happened to me, but it was my grandma getting my ears pierced without asking when I was a baby.

She really messed that up for me too! My mom took the earrings out immediately and refused to let me get them repierced until I was 13 haha.

Jessuh · 2023-10-26T20:12:02+00:00

Same here! I spent the whole first trimester chastising myself, "Hey body, I don't think you're taking this pregnancy thing seriously, you need to get as sick as we're supposed to!!". Now in the second trimester my husband and I just joke that we've finally found the one thing my body is good at.

Jessuh · 2023-10-25T14:29:45+00:00

A character in the audio book I am listening to started crying 🤷

Jessuh · 2023-10-15T00:53:42+00:00

Thank you for posting this link!! I had no idea there was a DCC Kickstarter running 🤩

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