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Cherry tomato peenor....

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

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btw if u were a stuffed animal i would gently brush ur fur out of ur eyes so that u can see :)

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it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

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Oh I love spring. All the beautiful colors and all the violets. 🌱🪻🍀

I could have picked ten quarts of them. I settled for two however

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morning at home

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learning about plants in ur area is wild. like you also learn about the histories of the plants. Like oh! Thats garlic mustard! That was brought over from europe as a crop! it smells just like garlic and you can cook with it!  And thats yarrow!  Its been used for tons of stuff and pollinators love it! Oh hey! Thats hemlock! They killed Socrates with that! 

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the sun warming my cheeks and a puppy at my feet

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Some posters and spot illos I did for my office awhile ago around the topic of sustainability and reuse. I really like the way posters turned out still!

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Collage #10

Spread I made for the start of spring. I've been obsessed with blue lately.

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Crafty Ways to Feel Like You're Doing Something

So it is no secret most of us are feeling despair about the state of the world. And while the things I am about to list aren't exactly craftivism, it might make you feel better to make something with your hands and know it might help someone out. So if you're crafty in any way, this is for you!

A great place to start would be this website, Create to Donate. Honestly most of the things I've listed here come from this. This website has just about every craft you can possibly do and a place to send your things. The rest of this list will mostly be for crocheters.

Soap Sacks is a great way to give back to your community. Crochet, knit, or loom soap sacks with cotton yarn, then donate them with soap to homeless shelters or food pantries. The sacks not only hold the soap and keep it safe but double as washcloths!

The Peyton Heart Project is a project where you crochet, sew, knit, or sometimes make paper hearts for suicide awareness and prevention. Make the hearts, put one of their pre-made labels on it, then either mail it to them or distribute them yourself around town! My school once did this for Suicide Awareness Month and it was nice seeing all of the students walking around with their hearts.

The Flutters of Light Project is in a similar vein to the project above, only this one aims to being comfort to those who are dealing with pregnancy and infant loss. The butterflies can be scattered around, sent to hospitals (check with the hospital first to see if they accept these kinds of donations), or you can fill out a request to be a butterfly maker and send the butterflies to the person running the project for her to distribute.

Octopus for Preemies here is an article as well as a facebook page, you can do it solo or check out the groups on facebook (I believe there is one for the US and for the UK). You have to do a bit of research with this one, since these crochet octopi will be used to comfort NICU babies and many groups and hospitals have very specific requirements for what they can accept.

And just get creative!

I have the good luck of not only having a therapist for a cousin, but a husband who works in the counselor's office. I have made both of them fidget toys that their clients can take and fidget with when talking about hard things. And y'all, there are so many different types of fidgets to be made! Some fidgets are even recommended to be donated to dementia patients, so you could go that route as well!

And if you don't have connections to therapists or counselors, you're just going to have to be a little brave and cold call, see who would want fidgets or blankets or anything else you can make!

I've also donated many of these crochet crowns to children's mercy along with some fabric glue for the kids to decorate on their own. The only limit as long as you have craft supplies is imagination.

You'd be amazed at what people say yes to, even if it sounds a little weird. I have made rose walls for four different nursing homes, and while I don't recommend everyone do this since this is an idea I have had a lot of practice with, if there is a skill you have or if you just really love decorating or cleaning, you may as well see how far a phone call can take you.