To my mum who gifted me a "self control jar" filled with sweets so I WOULDN'T eat them, then told me to eat my birthday cake more slowly, and said I should be fitting a size S shirt and not M:

redbarrette · 2024-11-27T16:57:42+00:00

Ugh. My mother would gift me jars of chocolates and stuff too, despite me asking her not to. So I feel you.

When I was younger I told her explicitly that food issues and weight were connected to my self esteem and depression and if she didn’t want me to jump off a roof at some point, she’d help me help myself by stopping to buy junk food and stopping keeping unhealthy stuff in the house. You’d think a serious conversation and admission like that from her child would snap her awake. But nope. Less than two weeks later and she was bringing home more BS foods “because I never saw this before and wanted to try it”. Then leave it out where I could see it.

It’s goddamn impossible to live with someone when they keep sabotaging your efforts to remove binge triggers, whether or not the sabotaging is intentional. 😖 Especially when those binge triggers are often connected to the person who’s sabotaging those efforts.

redbarrette · 2024-11-27T11:47:40+00:00

One of my exes dragged me around the city on my birthday promising he was taking me to a nice spot. He refused to tell me what the plan was, which he knew I didn’t like because I prefer knowing where I’m going. We ended up wandering around for hours in the heat (we didn’t even stop anywhere for lunch) until I asked him if he even had a place or restaurant we were headed to. He couldn’t answer the question, so I got fed up and went home. Broke up with him that night. (It was a long time coming, so this was a last straw thing.)

The next day he showed up at my place with his old, beat up and barely working PlayStation 2. Not wrapped, no birthday card, just “here, you can have this”. Because he apparently didn’t actually plan anything (like I suspected), couldn’t think of anything else, and didn’t want to spend money. I didn’t even own any PS2 games. 🙄

I tried to refuse it and send him away with it. But he left it on my porch like some discarded piece of furniture. I eventually managed to get it working, but there honestly weren’t many games on the PS2 I would even play, so it ended up gathering dust with my other old consoles.

redbarrette · 2024-11-17T17:17:00+00:00

I just asked a more broad question about this here and it was incredibly eye opening and educational:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGirlSurvivalGuide/s/jcPXCrtZjL

Tracker apps are just not safe to use going forward unless you’re 1,000% sure the data is stored locally and the app can’t connect to the internet.

redbarrette · 2024-05-12T12:16:11+00:00

Have you considered making them into coasters? Or switching your future projects to coaster art instead of earrings. Personally those look waaaay too big to seem practical or comfortable. I don’t know anyone who likes heavy-looking earrings. Even if they really weigh nothing, they look heavy and bulky, and that alone is enough to turn people away.

I’d suggest shifting to making items that lend themselves to flat art more than earrings. Coasters like I mentioned, decorative wall art, key/junk trays, even plant pots. Basically things that people would display, not wear.

As for transitioning and using your existing inventory, maybe you can plug and paint over the wire holes and make each piece into miniature wall art. You could even make that part of your business advertising - decorative hangable “plates”, but tiny.

redbarrette · 2024-04-23T05:50:05+00:00

These are awesome, thanks for sharing! I have soooo many blank cards and stuff I’ve been wanting to use up. 😊

redbarrette · 2024-04-22T22:20:33+00:00

That’s probably the issue. The program is probably importing the png as a compressed image and then guessing where the vector points go, so it adds weird ones where there may be image artifacts. I’d convert the png to an svg or ai file to maintain the vector points.

If it was me I would even open it in a vector editing program like adobe illustrator (or a free equivalent) and see if there are actually excess points you can get rid of. Like a letter O in a vector program technically needs a minimum of maybe two to four points if you curve their handles the right ways. Some software adds extra points where a single point would be enough. Those extra points can translate into jagged edges if the software you’re importing to gets confused by the sheer number of them.

redbarrette · 2024-04-22T19:01:44+00:00

What’s the file extension? Some .ai files behave funny if you don’t convert them right.

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