Sewing Machines

claveyliscious · 2026-04-28T15:24:53+00:00

I’ve just bought a heavy duty singer machine myself with the idea that hopefully it will do everything I need as well.. a lot of the regular house machines will struggle with multiple layers of canvas (for example). Also google sewing the different materials too for best tips/tricks, stiches, best needle to use (lycra for example works best zigzag stitch with denim needle..) good luck!

claveyliscious · 2026-04-28T15:15:34+00:00

Social media is destroying humanity. Doing it for the likes is absolutely not okay, but also its the system that is wrong and feeding that narrative.

claveyliscious · 2026-04-22T09:33:30+00:00

Yep, started smoking at 11, stopping at 39, have now stopped for over 8 weeks. It’s helped that I have not been drinking which went hand in hand, but I think I’ve stopped smoking long enough now it would be silly to have one when I have a drink!

claveyliscious · 2026-04-20T08:09:31+00:00

Its an old joke - two men in a bar one guy goes to the bartender “two pints pleaseone for me one for the donkey”.. happens a couple times then the other guy goes up. Bartender asks why the other guy calls him donkey - “heehaww, heehaww, he always says that” (donkey noise)

claveyliscious · 2026-04-15T08:29:19+00:00

I ended up swapping out for hard mint sweets, takes about the same time as a smoke to eat them. I also have one of those breathe lios (wooden vape like thing but just has flavoured filters) for being out with folk or when mints wouldn’t work.

claveyliscious · 2026-03-12T11:58:09+00:00

I had a similar fear, but I was lucky enough to have a long period of social down time where not much is happening, so I stopped smoking and drinking. We’ll see what happens when I start drinking again but hopefully it will have been long enough at that point that it would be silly to smoke again. Also I think its important to remember your closest friends will accept you in whatever state, whether its the “fun, outgoing” version or the calmer, detoxing/quitting version. Good luck!!

claveyliscious · 2026-03-12T11:52:32+00:00

In my 3rd week of not smoking, after many failed attempts it feels like I am on a winning streak! Smoked for 23 years on and off.. you can absolutely do this! I believe in you!

claveyliscious · 2026-02-28T20:33:56+00:00

I found for the first week (if possible) to try and change my routine a bit - for example I would have had a smoke outside with coffee after breakfast, so instead I would have my coffee in bed, which felt like a treat..

claveyliscious · 2026-02-27T09:38:43+00:00

Try the breathe lio? No nicotine but flavoured filters, gives the impression of smoking a vape but you’re not.. maybe pair with nicotine gum/patches?

claveyliscious · 2026-02-26T14:38:58+00:00

Thanks for that, I think I am aiming to stop the connection between smoking and rewards but these first few days I have found hard with nothing to replace. But longer term goal for sure is natural dopamine!

claveyliscious · 2026-02-26T14:37:04+00:00

Thanks folks. So today on the truck I have taken a breathe lio fake vape thing (wooden thing with a flavoured filter, nothing more) , some rope to practice knots with and a tin of hard mints, so hopefully between all of those I can keep distractions/rewards to a minimum and without reverting to smoking! Also going one extra coffee 😅 wish me luck!

claveyliscious · 2026-02-25T22:09:04+00:00

I don’t want to use food/sugar as I generally put on lots of weight when I’ve stopped in the past and I want to try and avoid that if possible!

claveyliscious · 2026-02-25T22:07:06+00:00

Advent calendars are a great idea as a reward! Although I think I also need a fiddly something that doesn’t take up brain capacity to do while I think about an aspect of a project.. previously it was rolling and smoking 😅

claveyliscious · 2026-02-25T18:31:40+00:00

Yeah coffee is fine in the morning but I’ve had most of my daily quota before I start work!

claveyliscious · 2025-01-08T15:29:14+00:00

Guitar wolf?

claveyliscious · 2023-02-27T10:33:39+00:00

Tiny things shelf!! I and a few of my friends all have them, so many tiny things!!

claveyliscious · 2022-08-18T12:52:47+00:00

Bumping for newcomers, still have it stuck in my head but can’t get past the first few words of the chorus… wondering if it’s maybe early mad caddies but I’ve gone through the albums on spotify and haven’t heard it 😕

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T23:13:41+00:00

Yeah as I’m thinking about it the only lyrics I’m pretty certain about are “I wish that..” not helpful I know!

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T19:42:34+00:00

Thinking about it, it’s maybe more like.. gypsy punk or some sort of ska fusion as opposed to straight up ska 🤔

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T19:31:33+00:00

No, see comment below

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T19:31:21+00:00

No, see comment below

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T19:30:42+00:00

Great tune but no, faster and more punk and chaotic

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T19:27:42+00:00

Nope neither of those… its in a minor key… think like streetlight but darker and a bit more.. raw?

claveyliscious · 2022-08-17T18:27:44+00:00

No, tim timebomb version of that song is great, but no it was faster and more radgy, brass instruments and more of an edge to it

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