#buy second hand

[vibing-vegan]

A cross-stitch I made in collaboration with Value Village & Savers. IG: thrifty.stitchery

[toadstoolillustrations]

The shipwrights are out shopping!! You just know Franky was the most annoying little brother to do chores with <3

[Image description: A digital drawing of a young Franky and teenage Iceburg from One Piece on a yellow background.

Franky is sitting on Iceburg's shoulders, pointing urgently out of frame, with the other hand resting on Iceburg's head. A large speech bubble is next to his head and shows a bottle of cola, followed by two exclamation marks.

Iceburg has one hand steadying Franky's knee, the other holding up a shopping bag half-filled with oranges. Beside him is a speech bubble with an x-mark, to show his response to Franky's cola demands. His expression is disgruntled and he sweats in reluctance.

They each wear their canon outfits, Franky barefoot in goggles, a patterned shirt and shorts. Iceburg has a bandanna tied on his head, and wears a striped sleeveless purple t-shirt. There are small nicks and scars on both their arms. /End description]

[arthursfuckinghat]

I just realised I completely forgot to show my finished Arthur cosplay so here!!

You can find the process of me making the hat here! Everything including the hat and the materials was purchased second hand and using things I already had (the rope, jeans, journal, neckerchief, etc) so it's a very budget cosplay but I think it turned out well! The total came to about £45, there's receipts here if you're interested <3

[balkanradfem]

No ethics involved in this poll, just trying to get a real-life perspective on this.

[ketersilly]

are you in the UK? do you like fun skirts, especially ones from @mayakern? well... hi, i'm selling a bunch of old maya kern skirts! (on vinted)

these are a mixture of old and new sizing + fabric, mostly midis but there's a couple of minis too! (a couple were grade Bs / defective, those are discounted) honestly i'm just not really into skirts anymore, so i figured i'd list them so anyone in the UK who'd like to grab some could ^-^

photos don't show some of the colours the best because the lighting in my room is awful this time of year, so i do recommend looking at original photos on maya's blog to double check them! i hope some people can give them all a lovely new home, they are really nice skirts and i'd hate for them to just sit in my wardrobe unused lol. sorry that i'm not trading them, since i'm not into skirts anymore (and honestly i got all the maya kern shirts i want a while back lol) i can't really do that :P

[mallardducksaysquack]

So I was looking at some artbook page I found online and

I have never seen these before lmao

[whumpbby]

Just had a thought that TGCF is actually MXTX's first book where she tried to be actually, eh, romantic about the romance? XD

Like, between the cringe-worthy confession of "I really regret we didn't fuck that one time!" in MDZS and the horrific mess that was the "first time" in SVSSS - the more traditional route Hualian follow is a bit of a relief at this point.

...a cave full of statues notwithstanding>>

[starry-bi-sky]

'Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings' doodles, because Pathetic Wet Cat Danny is the best Danny to practice drawing young faces with (and expressions).

[dizziiedaikon]

After the 2nd sketch i had entirely forgotten how to draw him (unseen many mirage references)

[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]

[iztea]

topic so niche that not only i cant find the book scan online, i can't even buy the book with honest money even if i wanted to this is next level gatekeeping. hater behaviour, really

[the-lark-ascending69]

Watching ST1 and surprised by just how much Nancy lies. She lies even when she has no reason to, like when she's hanging out with Steve and his friends and wants to leave, she could have easily said something like "I need to do something" or "I'm tired" but she made up some excuse about her mom. When asking Barb's mom about Barb, she could have easily told her she was worried but she didn't. Girl just lies like it's second nature to her.

[chicafinal]

bought the 90s star trek barbie & ken set. I don't even like 90s barbies but their tiny star trek clothes and accesories compeled me. doll collecting is a downward spiral that gay men warned me against but i didn't listen

[blackbackedjackal]

For the first time in prolly a year or so I went looking for coyote skulls the market has really changed.

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Honestly with his death being his like defining angst moment- i'm not suprised he did it again.

[corvid-language-library]

Just retrieved my sketch book and reminded myself there was a time where I did draw every day and I kinda enjoyed it even though I was just copying stuff from Youtube tutorials and then I think I got overwhelmed with too much "if you want to get BETTER you HAVE to do ALL THESE THINGS you HAVE to DRAW EVERY DAY and you have to PRACTICE DRAWING BASIC SHAPES and you HAVE TO THINK ABOUT SHADING" and EVERYTHING YOU DO LOOKS BAD BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FOLLOWING THESE EXACT SPECIFIC TIPS" and idk I feel like those kind of tips also ruined writing for me and idk maybe if I'd just kept up doing silly little Youtube tutorials I'd be able to draw a cartoon cat without having to look at a reference by now which isn't exactly what I want to do but it would be something?