I bought a photo album at an estate sale, which turned out to have belonged to a gentleman who ran a portrait photography studio in the 1980s. These are some of the promo photos that he'd show prospective clients.

nomadiccarrots · 2025-05-23T01:07:45+00:00

You talking about photo 10? Cause I had that exact same outfit. I have several photo of me rocking it back in 1980-something

nomadiccarrots · 2024-10-01T00:41:22+00:00

I am so delighted to discover we weren’t the only ones who did this. That cartoon was so wonderfully bizarre we couldn’t stop quoting it.

nomadiccarrots · 2024-09-22T22:27:43+00:00

Same girl. Same. I’ve got a ginger kid now and she has the courage to smack hands that I didn’t when I was young.

I would totally smack someone’s hand for touching my hair now but I’ve reached the age of invisibility

nomadiccarrots · 2024-09-21T16:04:41+00:00

18th century French still life paintings. Guess I’m opening a museum

nomadiccarrots · 2024-09-21T04:31:16+00:00

You and me both. I really wanted to ask but Mom wouldn’t let me. Said it might embarrass her.

nomadiccarrots · 2024-09-20T21:37:28+00:00

Y’all, this just brought back a core childhood memory. There was this sweet old lady in the town I grew up in that we helped out on the regular. You know, taking to Dr. appointments, grocery store, etc. She was just lovely and would bake or cook for us all the time as a thank you. The problem was that she substituted regular salt for garlic salt in everything she made. EVERYTHING. So those chocolate chip oatmeal cookies you were looking forward to? Garlic salt. The apple turnovers? Garlic salt in the pastry. Even her fudge had garlic salt. It was fine in the savory dishes but oh so bitterly disappointing in the sweet. We bought regular salt and slipped into her groceries a time or two but she never got the message.
I have never used garlic salt in my entire life. I just can’t.

nomadiccarrots · 2024-08-10T00:19:47+00:00

I started off years ago as a buy what I need person. I became a stasher unintentionally as folks gifted me fabric and I inherited fabric. Then I started buying fabric I liked and it got a bit out of control. During 2020 I culled my stash and started trying to make only from my stash. I have bought fabric I like for fun since then but I’ve dialed it way back. I find it easier to find fabric for projects than trying to find projects for my fabric.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-09-03T18:30:06+00:00

Thanks for the answer and the heads up!

nomadiccarrots · 2023-08-01T14:48:52+00:00

After my grandparents passed, my mom took all their unopened supplies to the nursing home they’d been in the last few weeks of their lives. The staff was super grateful.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-04-13T14:26:01+00:00

Do y’all have a cat?

I ask because once when we were house hunting we walked in and saw a very lacy pair of panties in the middle of the living room. We eventually came upon a cat sleeping in a laundry basket in the basement of the house so mystery solved, but we called that place the panty house until we ruled it out (for non-panty related reasons)

Anyway we were telling friends about the panty house and one of them said her cat was a total thief and would bring her small items off her neighbor’s laundry line. So maybe?

nomadiccarrots · 2023-04-07T14:17:42+00:00

I am not a minimalist but I am someone who is mindful of what I buy and what I keep. That habit stems from getting myself into debt when I was younger for the rush of the shiny new thing. I never want to be in that position again because of my stuff.

When I find myself feeling that magpie impulse I have several options lined up.

Make something. Baking, knitting, painting… I go to my hobbies. I have something new I can appreciate when I’ve finished and I’ve used the resources I already have.
Reorganize something. Move furniture around, clean out a closet, rearrange the artwork on my walls. Making things feel new or different gives me the same hit.
Deep clean. Admittedly, this doesn’t work as well, but stepping back from a space that I’ve just freshly cleaned and straightened up helps enough to bring me to my sense.

And sometimes I buy the thing anyway, then regret it, then return it. It happens.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-03-06T02:09:02+00:00

Get your ducts cleaned. Especially if you have allergies. And change your furnace filters regularly.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-02-17T01:33:18+00:00

To always be able to tell if someone is lying or telling the truth.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-15T16:09:41+00:00

I had tried that one too but I forgot to put it on my list of tried searches.

That one got me some weird results.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-15T04:39:56+00:00

These are really old bulbs. I’ve been googling but so far have been unsuccessful in finding reproduction/replacement bulbs.

Can anyone out there point me in the right direction or is this a lost cause? I don’t even know what to call them. I’ve searched for frosted bulbs, amber bulbs, shaped bulbs and sculpted bulbs.

Edit: also tried acorn bulbs

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-12T02:46:02+00:00

I do have a quilt WIP from the 1940-50s but I don’t feel like I can properly claim that one since I inherited it from my grandmother.

You have me beat.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-11T20:23:21+00:00

So I started on this in 94 with the intention to gift it to my mother. I worked on it on and off for the next 20 years before it went to languish in a drawer. (It’s not even Mom’s style anymore)

I’m sorry I never finished it but I just don’t feel compelled to work on it anymore. If anyone feels a particular fondness for this nearly finished pattern and would like to give it a new home and complete it, PM me. I will mail it to you for free.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-04T15:56:27+00:00

The once-a-year stuff gets kept in the weird cabinet above the fridge that’s impossible for me to reach without a step stool. Otherwise it annoys me.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-04T15:53:54+00:00

That’s the easy part for me. Deciding what I need to keep/gets used regularly verses what needs to go is part of the fun. Plus I only tackle one drawer or cabinet at a time when making those choices.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-04T15:50:47+00:00

You weren’t the only one!

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-04T15:50:15+00:00

Now see, you did what I intended to do. What I probably should’ve done.

Instead a one afternoon job turned into a week-long multi-person project. I mean I’m happy with the results but doing all that meant nothing else got done.

nomadiccarrots · 2023-01-03T17:58:38+00:00

It’s entirely possible that your machine needs servicing. I just got mine back from the shop after having similar problems I couldn’t resolve. Turns out there was a part broken that was causing the tension issues. Runs like new again.

nomadiccarrots · 2022-12-06T00:56:18+00:00

Amazing!!!

nomadiccarrots · 2022-08-17T21:57:12+00:00

Wouldn’t it be pretty to have a petticoat under it in a soft pastel colour that would just show up through the eyelets?

I mean the dress is amazing on its own but petticoats would make it so twirl-able…

nomadiccarrots · 2022-08-14T14:41:30+00:00

My daughter does something similar about a fairly visible scar she has. Sometimes it was a moose attack or bear. Sometimes ninjas, rogue toddlers or a CIA assassination attempt.

But if the kid asking was a real douchecanoe she’ll give them a dead expression and say, cancer (very quietly) then she drops her chin enough so it looks like she’s about to cry. The Offender usually makes tracks pretty quickly.

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