#single mom traveling

[kikotravel]

[irhabiya]

alhamdulillah

[novelconcepts]

I do like to imagine someone stumbling upon my AO3 for the first time, because. This ain’t the most unhinged set of fandoms possible, but it’s not. Not unhinged.

[br1ghtestlight]

does anyone want to hear my long analysis of the finanical situation/class dynamics of various bob's burgers side characters. like do you even CARE

[fishflake]

today my mom asked me if i know who the traveling wilburys are because "they have all your favorite guys"

[lexa-griffins]

In honor of mother's day, how do Alex, Delilah, and Clarke celebrate Mother's Day with Lexa? Does Clarke have anything special planned for her favorite milf when the kids aren't around?

There will actually be, somewhere, a mother's day chapter!

The first Mother's Day with Clarke in the picture, they aren't living together yet. Non the less, she has a nice dinner planned for Lexa and the kids at a fancier restaurant that Lexa always wanted to go but never really had the disposable money to go to, much less with the kids.

The day starts with Alex knocking on Clarke's door. He has Lexa's favorite mug in hand and is there to ask Clarke if he can use her coffee machine to make Lexa's caramel latte, something she rarely indulges on as her morning coffee is usually instant. Clarke has actually gone down to the bakery already to get some croissants for Lexa and the kids so she gives them to Alex to bring too which makes him so happy because he and Delilah were just going to trg their luck with pancakes they hoped they wouldn't burn. He very excitedly tells Clarke about the flowers he bought for his mom and how Delilah had spent an entire day working on making a bracelet with some nice beads aunt Anya secretly took her to get. He really wants to give his mom a good mother's day and Clarke loves hearing how excited he is because Lexa deserves to have her kids spoil her a little like this.

Lexa is woken up by Delilah climbing in bed with her and wishing her a happy mother's day, shyly because she might have gone to bed a little mad at her for some thing that really doesn't matter. Lexa doesnt care, she throws her arm around her little girl and thanks her with a kiss on her head. Alex shows up not long after with a tray with the coffee and the pasteries and the flowers hanging underneath his arm as he tries to walk carefully but still manages to spill a little bit of the coffee. Its too sweet for Lexa and what she assumed is a heart was actually supposed to be bear but its such a sweet gesture that she drinks it all.

The day is uneventful, they get dressed and go for a walk, not before knocking on Clarke's door to thank her for the pasteries and for Clarke to wish Lexa a happy mother's day and making sure they are still on for tonight. Lexa also shows off the bracelet Lilah made for her, with all the pride only a mother can. There is an awkward call to Jenny for the kids to wish her a happy mother's day too, one that leaves Delilah teary eyed because they wont get to see her until next month so she wont get to give her her present until then while Alex just nods and listens to his mom tell him she has a super fun day planned for them, knowing damn well all Jenny will do is be on her phone as she spends time with them. Lexa tells the kids to wish Jenny a happy mother's day for her. Jenny doesnt wish it back despite Lexa being the reason she is a mom. Lexa has long since stopped taking it personally.

Dinner is amazing. The kids behave their best and Lexa has never felt this fancy going on. Clarke gives her a massive bouquet of flowers that makes her tear up and a beautiful necklace with the kids initials on it. Other than her very first mother's day, her ex never once made an effort to give Lexa anything for the day, despite Lexa doing something for her.

Later on at the restaurant is Clarke's time to tear up when Delilah and Alex give her a little card, wishing their bonus mom a happy first mother's day too. God she loves these kids so much and Lexa and the little family she has become part of :')))))

Clarke does prepare a little romantic night. Its a very sweet and soft one, after the kids are in bed and asleep she brings Lexa across the hall to her apartment so they can have some alone time. They make love and Clarke reminds Lexa of how amazing she is, how she loves every curve and every corner of her body that carried those two amazing kids. Before they tune in for the night tho, Clarke disappears in the kitchen, telling her she has a last gift for her. When she comes back with a flat box and throws it in bed Lexa eyes it suspiciously.

When she opens it she burns out laughing at the cheesiest shirt with the most wine mom lettering on it saying "this is what a milf looks like". Its so stupid and Lexa wears it any chance she gets to sleep.

Once again the kids fucking hate it here 🤣

[unreadpoppy]

not to be sympathetic towards that asshole but you do gotta cherish the people in your life before you realize you pushed everyone away and the only person who cared about you is dead.

[imblocking-you]

Watching Death's Game because I like suffering 👍

[youjustwaitsunshine]

just had an unreasonably bitchy reaction, see yall in 20 minutes when im crying because i was unreasonably bitchy

[whatimdoing-here]

I like that I think if I had to date again I could make a move

And I can't even manage to ask the other mom I really got along with at baseball for her phone number

[bmpmp3]

i do wonder if one reason i tend to go for the method of "kidnap a vague story idea and make expies of all the characters i think are relevant and make up something new and barely recognizable" instead of the much less complicated method of just "writing a fanfiction" is that i play fast and loose with lore details if i think they suck or are boring or just irrelevant and i have this very intense possibly irrational but maybe rational fear that if i write a i dunno. zelda fanfic and i dont get everything 100% right based off the official nintendo timelines that ive been ignoring since they came out that the fanbase is going to take me out back and put me down.

[longlivetv]

I know we would all figure it out in like negative two seconds but I think it would be absolutely hilarious if Taylor published a novel under as pseudonym and then just sat back and enjoyed the reviews and adoration waiting for the day we realized

[caravanlurker]

being able to be dragged to Universal Studios is a good and privileged problem to have. But. my evil plans…. 🙂‍↕️(😡😡😡😡😡😡)

[lookingforcactus]

Because I'm feeling whimsical,

What the fuck do you mean that's a quilt??? Round 2

All quilts are contest winners from the quilt show Road to California, 2022. You can see these quilts and the other winners from that year here.

Best of Show Quilt

Title: Harlequinade Maker: Rebecca Prior Quilter: Jackie Brown Design Basis: Maker's Original Design "Harlequinade" is a theatrical quilt filled with visual clues guiding viewers to discover a hidden story. Inspired by Venetian Carnival masks and commedia del'arte characters, the quilt features the antics of Harlequin, the trickster, who has his own ideas about freedom and fun!

Director's Choice

Title: Welcome Home Maker: David Taylor Quilter: David Taylor Design Basis: Original image by Margo Clabo, used with permission I first saw this image from friend Margo Clabo more than a decade ago. It took years to convince her to let me adapt her photo into a quilt. The image it depicts is especially sentimental for her. The challenge for myself was to create a pieced pictorial background and recreate a traditionally pieced quilt by using my hand appliqué technique. The project size was overwhelming, but I'm thrilled with the finished quilt. So is Margo. Time to exhale.

Note: To be clear, that is not a photo with a quilt in it, that WHOLE THING is a quilt.

Best Machine Stationary Quilting

Title: Emerald labyrinth Maker: Kumiko Frydl Quilter: Kumiko Frydl Design Basis: Maker's Original Design As a starting point I used an image from the entrance to the EL Barkookeyeh Mosque in Cairo. Thinking of an elegant and intricate garden I added bursts of natural color and filled the area between the large elements of the design with finer ornament inspired by butterflies and plants. I set the circular image in a rectangular frame with a subdued complimentary design of rippled reflective pools.

1st Place: Animal

Title: Woodland Wilds Maker: Ann Horton Quilter: Ann Horton Design Basis: Maker's Original Design My morning hikes in the woodland hills of our northern California home inspired this quilt. The rabbits are always alert for danger. This machine appliqued, thread painted and embroidered view through a window is surrounded by wild flowers on hand dyed silk and again surrounded by other wild birds and animals. I love my wilds things in the woods!

1st Place: Human Image

Title: The Memories That Remain Maker: Lynn Czaban Quilter: Lynn Czaban Design Basis: Library of Congress Photos - LC-USF33-006183MI and LC-USF33-0061 I am fascinated by the human face and our ability to communicate without uttering a single word. The Portuguese word 'saudade' meaning a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.

1st Place: Naturescape

Title: Desert In Spring Maker: Andrea Brokenshire Quilter: Andrea Brokenshire Design Basis: Maker's Original Design My Mom and I embarked on an epic travel trip we named our "Thelma and Louise Adventure" In Palm Springs, CA we visited the Living Desert Botanical Garden. This quilt is inspired by one of the photographs I took that spring day of a Prickly Pear Cactus in full bloom. I loved the leathery texture of the cactus leaves (paddles) and the almost translucent citron yellow blossoms.

2nd Place: Animal

itle: Not Today Maker: Kestrel Michaud Quilter: Kestrel Michaud Design Basis: Maker's Original Design The chase is on! The Roadrunner is after his next meal, chasing a Common Collared Lizard through a steampunk junkyard. The desert is a favored dumping ground for the detritus of progress, even in a fantasy world. A steam-powered industrial revolution creates iron refuse and pieces of broken machinery have been left to decay in dry desert air. That doesn’t bother these critters. To them, this is home. Will that lizard wind up as dinner? Not today!

2nd Place: Human Image

Title: Declaration of Independence - Voices of Freedom Maker: Nancy Prince Quilter: Terri Taylor Design Basis: Reproduction of John Trumbull's Painting The quilt is a reproduction of John Trumbull's painting which depicts the moment in history when the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was presented to the Second Continental Congress on June 28, 1776. The quilt front and back were created in Photoshop and custom printed on fabric. Four thousand hours over 4 years was necessary to create the quilt. The back captures the story of the Declaration and its signers.

Note: I'm not at all patriotic. But credit where credit is due. That's a fucking quilt.

3rd Place: Animal

Title: Midnight Flight Maker: Joanne Baeth Quilter: Joanne Baeth Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Several years ago we had an injured Great Horned Owl roosting in our willow tree during the day. I took several pictures and was inspired to create him in fabric. The background features a painted sky, old buildings, melting snow and a rabbit on the run The foreground is the swooping owl which was constructed by painting and inking each feather and thread painting over fabrics and needle punched wool rovings

3rd Place: Naturescape

Title: Day Into Night Maker: Deb Deaton Quilter: Deb Deaton Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Inspired from photo by Robert Murray with his permission. When the Arizona sun begins to set, the sky comes alive. I saw this photo and knew the splendor of this landscape needed to be captured with fiber! Sky is hand painted. Raw edge applique. Mixed media used: oil pastels, color pencils, inks to enhance the fabrics and create more dimension. Cheesecloth: painted to create spikes of cactus. Tulle used to capture the sunrays. Machine quilted.

[marsspirit]

Who am I?

My name is Devin. Come join me on a journey through my dreams and life adventures. Together, we'll explore the stories and experiences that shape who I am. Let's walk through the landscapes of my imagination and share in the wonders we discover along the way. Your company on this adventure means the world to me. Welcome aboard!

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You'll find stories about exciting adventures, thoughts on life, lessons I've learned, and maybe even some fun surprises. This is a place where being real and open is super important, and we celebrate sharing our true selves.

So, dear reader, consider this your official invitation to become my partner in this journey called life. Let's embark on this adventure together, sharing our stories, our hopes and our dreams. Welcome to my world – I'm thrilled to have you here.

[kikotravel]