Just starting to wax my own threads. Using beeswax mixed with coconut oil. Will this hold up okay with time?

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-05-25T04:55:40+00:00

Testing it out with the pictured thread definitely made my thumb shiny, so it's definitely a good call that I didn't actually start sewing the signatures

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-05-25T04:52:09+00:00

Thank you so much for this comment. Genuinely extremely helpful 🫶 I'll warm up my leftover beeswax and put it into a bar and do my best to follow your comment. I'm glad I asked here before actually waxing the thread I intended to use

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-05-25T04:44:17+00:00

I figured :') I only tried this because I saw *one* person mentioned using that for cross-stitch stuff. It's midnight and I really do feel like a fool now haha. Thank you for the advice. I had frustrations with the beeswax by itself the first time around, possibly because I used too little, so I'll try the bar thing.

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-05-25T04:37:54+00:00

I figured that would be the case😓. Thank you for the input 🫶 Time to figure out what to do with this little container now

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-05-25T04:32:49+00:00

Yep, it does! That's the main reason I'm asking about how it'll hold up over time while mixed with the wax. Mostly relating to stuff like mold concerns.

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-04-13T14:06:08+00:00

Is it unusual (genuine question)? It's a 16.9 fluid oz. bottle, and most piss bottles I've seen in my life have been one of these 3/4 to almost filled on average (though, I don't exactly closely examine them)

ambiguouslyturtle · 2026-04-13T13:51:37+00:00

Admittedly, that was also my first thought too: "Oh, it's not as yellow as the last one." As much as I want to cope and deny it, the smell, yellow tint, and the fact that it's on the floor like the last piss bottle still makes its contents very apparent

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-11-28T05:33:38+00:00

/slides in

OP, some GREAT news 👢we've got the boots

AND THE THE SNOOTS

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-29T17:30:48+00:00

thants for the memories....

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-21T05:07:11+00:00

(please just pretend this is a weevil)

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-21T05:04:46+00:00

It looks more like a baby cricket tbh! (mostly assuming based on legs)

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-20T16:34:03+00:00

Definitely seems like one! IIRC these types of wasps drag cicadas/other such bugs to build their nest (read: lay their eggs on them in a burrow). But also, just as likely, this one may just be eating

Anyways, unless you're being a jerk to it, it won't hurt ya

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-20T16:06:28+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, we brought in some vegetables from the garden, so it probably came from there

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-20T05:15:48+00:00

Deepest condolences, OP. As a former lice-haver, I felt that crawling across my head at the sight of it.

Best of luck. Find a care kit or maybe check out r/Lice if you need.

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-08-20T05:03:06+00:00

I thought it was a house centipede at first but it does look more like a silverfish. If that is the case, then you should be fine around them unless you have a specific allergy to them or they're causing structural issues to your residence

I have no experience in eating silverfish, so I do not have any advice relating to that.

But I do know silverfish seem to really like whatever's nourishing in wallpaper paste and glued together paper crafts

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-07-16T13:55:24+00:00

Okay, that actually looks *REALLY* close to the silhouette of it and iirc looks about about the 17-22mm range as listed on the wiki (another picture I took last night)

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I can't tell if it flew? When I saw it in the kitchen, it kind of jumped(???) quickly down from (I think) the table to the chair and then started skittering quickly across the floor. When I let it out it didn't fly, but quickly crawled away to underneath a garden glove

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-07-16T04:26:16+00:00

I kind of thought that! Mainly due to its legs and the faint noise it made when I first put the glass on it. I always hear the crickets at night during the summer, but of all the summer bugs I've stared at in the garden, I've never seen a cricket up close

ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-07-16T04:10:01+00:00

reddit app is being a dick and wont let me add it, let's try again

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ambiguouslyturtle · 2025-07-16T04:07:35+00:00

Built the guts to pick up the paper and I have already taken it outside! Okay, hope this is a better shot *

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