#so thrifting rambles it is

[rosemaries-shroom]

Rosemarie Rambles 🍄 (thrifting)

Okay with everything becoming fucking expensive, I wanna ramble about thrifting

Cause fuck the influencers and assholes going there just to resell after. Thrift stores are the places we go if we're looking for clothes to actually wear. Find a dress or vest in our aesthetic that's a bit too big, bring it home, fit it to us and *boom*

Now we have something we can wear and it didn't cost a paycheck. Plus, you have a good chance of finding good quality shit almost every time. Got a gorgeous winter coat that cost us $25, perfect insulation while being exactly our goto style. Lady who had it before never wore it so it's still in almost perfect condition! Even after this cold as fuck winter, it held up! The only other coat that worked this good was a $50 one we got on sale plus a gift card so like.. look for the sturdy coats

I will try to emphasize that if you don't think you're going to wear something you see and like, leave it be. It won't help anyone if it winds up just sitting in your closet never being worn. Take what you'll actively use, nothing more.

You're allowed to have clothes you enjoy, even as shit burns down. If I'm gonna die, it's gonna be looking like some dark academia forager as I fucking intend 😌

[foldingfittedsheets]

My beloved is going to a Bar Mitzvah on the east coast without me because I’m stuck working stupid retail and it’s a big mattress holiday so we’re not allowed to leave.

Their dad and step mom both asked repeatedly if my beloved had “a nice dress.”

And they do. They have the nice dress they married me in but they were also stubbornly annoyed at the insistence that they must wear a dress so today we’re clothes shopping for them.

I’m very tired but for whatever reason I have a super power that is just seeing a rack of clothes and picking out something that works, often something my beloved didn’t see themself.

First stop was shapewear and I floated amongst the racks looking half awake. I drifted past them prompting my beloved to call me a little ghost. I retaliated by pulling something off the rack that fit them perfectly and was 40% off.

I made little ghost oOoOoh sounds as they tried it on and then was rewarded for finding it by getting to leave.

[frogshipping]

Reblog Game!!

Status: CLOSED

Reblog with a pic of 1 (one) F/O and/or the self insert they're paired with, and I'll assign them a Webkinz plushie based on vibes!

I'll be responding to as many people as I can until I get bored!!

Example:

Proshippers+ Variants DNI

[starredhowell]

new frame unlocked

[edwinisms]

i get such a sense of primal envy when looking at edwin’s clothes up close because god you can just tell his coat is real wool and made to last and not cheap flimsy mass produced garbage and auggagghhhh that was just STANDARD in his time. by no means am i saying i was #borninthewronggeneration because i like having vaccines and household appliances but. man. to have a personally-tailored coat like that that’d last for years and years……. and fabrics of fine thread-dense quality………. if only

[catboythanatos]

oh i just realized i never posted my stobotnik collages here ???

they took over my brain and my journal

created by me ♡ with scissors and a glue stick in my two hands and yaoi on my brain. using various magazines, ft some stickers from the dollar store, & the black n white images r printed from a thermal label printer !

the last one isnt technically stobotnik but the vibes are related i think so it gets to be included in the spread

[cjgladback]

I went to my first fiber festival this past weekend! Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival; if I'm still in this state come June next year, I'll probably be back and would love to meet anybody else there. Socializing/hanging out/talking to people without feeling like I was obstructing Real Customers was the one thing I missed, though I didn't really get to any of the free lectures so maybe that's where I could've met some people. Since it was an unknown situation with a lot of people and nearly an hour drive each way, I strategized to make sure I'd go:

First day, I signed up for a couple volunteer shifts. Absolutely a recommended strategy.

Got to be helpful!

They happened to have goodie bags, to help me justify the gas and time (I now have a nice tape measure to replace the one that's been vacationing with a missing sewing kit for a couple years and a lasercut wood two-inch gauge window that might help me with consistency versus my suboptimal practice of just trying to knit perfect squares when swatching in pattern)

I got to learn things about the layout and schedule I wouldn't know to ask when answering questions and acting as a gofer -- especially true working two different locations

And of course, some people were pretty much guaranteed to be happy to see me!

Second day, I signed up for a workshop in the morning so I'd be there and able to shop for anything I needed at the end. Ombre yarn dyeing was the class! It's acid dyes, something I'm several years off from wanting to get into enough to commit to dedicated cookware, full pots of dye powder, etc. The room with the workshop was a barn that had plenty of outlets--but they did not represent plenty of breakers. So there weren't quite enough functional heating elements for the class to have sufficiently cooked our yarn before leaving, and I did need to risk a giant stock pot at home for three batches of four jars, almost-simmering in a water bath for thirty minutes each, of the yarn that hadn't proven it was done (all but the two palest greens). I was a little worried the delay/drawn out heat situation would affect the results but if it did it wasn't much; I got pretty much exactly what I was hoping for with my two color gradient and the single is great too!

The single dye gradient is the color Moss, which did some interesting things with the red portion separating out once they were heated. Every skein has redder blotches, so I'm not bothered about any inconsistency -- if anything it'll help my finished product camouflage stains. Though it was definitely a surprise for me and the other Moss user in the class when our first yarn to have exhausted the dye was the complementary color to what it went in as.

The two color gradient used Rhodamine Red on one end, which was one end of one of our instructor's samples where she chose a cool-green for the other end to show how multi-component dyes mix less predictably than most paint. (It was kinda like shading with markers where you can still see washes of the pink and green in what you squint at and call a grey-brown.) The other end was Cantaloupe, which was one of the maybe three colors she didn't have a sample cut of yarn for. But she described it as the flesh of a perfect ripe cantaloupe and obviously I had to see that, and it sounded like it would be fairly guaranteed to combine nicely with the magenta while being just enough around a bend in the color wheel to be interesting--warm orange versus cool pink. As I said, it turned out pretty much exactly as I was picturing. Not anticipated was how much the jars looked like they were full of some delicious dragonfruit-mango beverage. Were I still a barista I'd be trying to recreate this for my shift drink.

Image descriptions under the cut.

[ID: Five images following fourteen small skeins of sock yarn dyed in individual glass jars, in two gradients. One gradient is six skeins from a medium forest green through a pale creamy pink, the other is eight skeins from a vibrant yellow orange through an even more vibrant magenta. The first photo is inside under fluorescent lights, showing the 32oz glass canning jars with metal lids and rings, full of dye and yarn on a table at the end of the class in which they were filled and heated for a short time.

The next two images are animated gifs. The first gif is two frames showing the finished dye jars sitting in grass, with their yarn and with it removed. The green gradient left only transparent blue color in its jars, and most of the pink to orange gradient's water looks more orange without its yarn, aside from the third and fourth jars from the orange end, which shade toward a neon lilac with the peachy pink yarn removed. The second gif is a view of the inside of the bright green wash bucket, with just the pink-orange yarn in it, then all of them mixed up, all as they were after a soak with the rust-brown water, in the first rinse, and that rinse water alone showing its transparent but still brown tint.

The last two photos show the gradients lined up along a weathered wooden bench on the side of a deck. The first photo has the wet piles of yarn bundled in front of each of their respective jars with remaining dye. The final photo has the clean, dry yarn wound into center-pull balls and still vibrant in the direct sunlight. End ID]

[jat-a-fan-of-stuff]

Cant stop thinking about my kremy cosplay

[crabsnpersimmons]

Who has the other pair of his shoes. I don’t believe you can buy a red and black pair

good question! i hadn't thought about it until you asked so here's the answer i came up with:

he got them at a discount at the thrift store

the cashier just saw his excitement and couldn't bear to charge him the full price

they aren't even the same style of slides, this silly guy just marches to the beat of his own drum

[evilrobertsmith]

IDK WHAT TO WEAR

[aster-daydream404]

Doing some warmups because I HAVE THE UNFATHOMABLE URGE TO DRAW AND I HAVENT DONE THAT IN A WHILE AAAAAAAAAA

Featuring Sonic the hedgehog bc i was trying out Tyson Hesse’s tutorial bhwkwhsjshjwbd (ITS BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE IVE DONE IT i will be able to draw you and the others in my style one day . . .)

[skyrim-forever]

I love How for most of human history we’ve obviously made clothes out of natural fibres but now most clothes are synthetic and finding anything natural is so difficult

I just want a cotton dress in a size US14 why does it feel like I’m looking for a unicorn 😭

[stars-on-my-bedroom-ceiling]

it's me and my five rotating outfits against the world

[thatfriendlyanon]

sat down to start answering the napo asks when my brother walked into my room and went “hey you wanna go thrifting” so asks are postponed alsksjsjd

[supernatural-bias]

I HEART CONTRIBUTING TO THE PURCHASE OF PHYSICAL MEDIA !!!

[desultory-suggestions]

I’m trying to find tips on how to decorate a basement (no windows, no natural light, exposed black ceiling/pipes) and all of these articles are about hyper finished suburban mansion basements 😭 please your honor I’m a renter! In a city!!! What do you MEAN install shelving units and a 12 ft mirror!