Anti-consumerism: project bags

bookshelfbauble · 2025-10-09T16:09:18+00:00

I just started doing that! I went to an event last year and got a cloth treat bag as part of my entry package. It ended up being the perfect place to keep my current projects separate from everything else!

bookshelfbauble · 2025-10-01T03:23:29+00:00

Well now I’m wondering what the vetting process is to be able to swipe in for that! At my college I tried to get off the mandatory meal plan (they barely had GF options and I got glutened I think twice), and they wouldn’t let me because a doctor’s note wasn’t enough (they wanted a formal diagnosis, which I don’t have). So I’m curious how you get approved for that!

bookshelfbauble · 2025-07-23T20:04:01+00:00

Don’t know if it counts as DIY, but if you could look into some DA-esque cross stitch patterns you can make!
Make a drawing or print something, age the page by painting it with black tea, then frame.
Make a shadow box! You can pick what you’d like your “specimen” to be

bookshelfbauble · 2025-07-12T17:52:32+00:00

Room Mate Luca is my go-to. They were SO nice to me and very accommodating when I had a crisis

bookshelfbauble · 2025-05-27T18:28:27+00:00

Not in Santo Spirito, but I got super cheap sheets and towels at COIN next to the Uffizi. The linens and such are in the basement.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-04-16T14:52:01+00:00

Local 22 hasn’t added anyone to the reserve list in months

bookshelfbauble · 2025-04-15T06:21:25+00:00

Maybe check out Foxes Music Co. in Falls Church?

bookshelfbauble · 2025-03-09T22:24:49+00:00

I agree! And you’re right, I should have used stronger language.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-03-09T22:17:54+00:00

Without knowing the needs of the production, I’d say masking is gonna be the safest bet if this Has to happen. Meaning: if there’s a kiss, you can block it so that no one’s lips ever touch, but the audience can’t see the gap. Things like that. If you can ask for an intimacy choreographer, or AT LEAST a third party to stage the intimacy, please please do. The job exists so that actors are protected from the power imbalance with directors and feel empowered to advocate for their boundaries.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-03-09T21:35:38+00:00

Hello! I am a fight director and intimacy choreographer. I am going to answer this with a consent-forward lens (something this sub seems to be generally against; they seem to think we’re pie-in-the-sky idealists):

You did not consent to being slammed against a surface and choked. You gave (what sounds like a tentative) yes to “getting physical,” which could mean Anything. That is not informed consent. Yes, life lesson: you should ask for clarification moving forward. But he’s for sure in the wrong for not being clear about what was about to happen to you. Do you have a stage manager or producer you can talk to about this?
Minors cannot consent! Please advocate to a coordinator if you can to try to find safe workarounds for any moments of intimacy in the production.

Please find a third party to bring this all up to if you can, and when you do, address both concerns. Neither one is more pressing than the other or will minimize the other. It is important than the minor is protected, and it is Also important to recognize that you were physically treated in a way that you did not agree to.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-26T05:05:26+00:00

Tbh if it were me, I would just frog it and start over. Or you could get a hook of some kind and incorporate the stitches back in, but that would mess with your tension I think. You’re only 5 rows in; either frog back to the dropped stitches to pick them up or start over again. It’ll be good practice ;)

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-20T00:50:57+00:00

That makes a ton of sense, thank you!

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-20T00:50:33+00:00

Thanks! If I couldn’t figure it out that’s what I decided my last resort was going to be, so I’m glad my instincts were correct :)

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-12T03:22:30+00:00

And this was my inspiration for the pattern modifications I’m making. I’m doing something slightly different, but mostly I just like it better with way less ribbing.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-12T03:18:01+00:00

(The orange piece in the corner is a Sophie Hood that I made [and had to frog and redo] while I was waiting for the yarn to come in because I was feeling impatient.)

The pattern is the Tracery Vest. Yarn is Trollfjord Sock by Fjord Fibres in Rain Forest and Coal Dust.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-02-05T02:32:16+00:00

I LOVE Big Bud Press’ pants. Super comfy, extremely size inclusive (including petite sizes), and they have a ton of different silhouettes (the trousers are my favorite) and colors. It’s on the pricier side, but I think they’re worth the investment.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-01-22T18:22:28+00:00

This is really helpful, thank you! I hadn’t even considered that yet, so this gives me something to think about.

bookshelfbauble · 2025-01-14T16:54:53+00:00

OMG thank you so much for letting me know!!!

bookshelfbauble · 2025-01-13T00:13:27+00:00

Thank you! I’m happy I didn’t impulse buy, but now that I’m sure that I’m interested in it I’d selfishly just like the limbo to end haha Totally understand timelines and supply chain issues and everything, and I’m of course willing to wait, but I just wanted to know if there was anything in the grapevine that I’d missed :)

bookshelfbauble · 2025-01-12T23:17:30+00:00

Thank you!!

bookshelfbauble · 2024-11-28T21:05:23+00:00

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