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my public library has a monthly fiber arts craft circle that i’ve gotten to host a few times and it’s always a great time, sometimes you mostly sit in comfortable silence and sometimes it’s pretty social but i love getting to see what other people are working on and get inspiration for my own craft projects.
Feb 15, 2025
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love to craft w my friends :)))) and make new ones!! i knit as a kid but ella re-taught me at the first club in november and it's been such a fun hobby to get into over the past few months
Jan 31, 2024
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Knitting and crochet, especially, are great ways to get crafty while being practical because you can make so many things for yourself and loved ones instead of buying them: clothes, beanies, bags, blankets, pet accessories, toys & stuffed animals, etc. I’ve crocheted a lot of things for myself and friends, but I need to learn to knit so I can make sweaters and socks.
Mar 5, 2025
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picking up a new craft hobby as an adult is so healing. a few months ago, my gateway craft was learning how to crochet, and now I'm making fridge magnets out of air dry clay and turning old tshirts into baskets for my new apartment and life feels so whimsical and wonderful
Jul 1, 2024
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libraries are genuinely so cool like can you imagine the government creating public libraries today?????? no! they fucking hate the idea of public goods and services that people can access for FREE
Feb 6, 2025
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it’s a struggle to try and stay positive (read: not fall into a deep pit of despair and general hopelessness) throughout all of this. i work in a public library in a purple state that has thankfully yet to see massive pushback from organizations trying to censor resources in public and school libraries, but that may change at any moment. i don’t know if the federal funding freeze will have any impact on public library funding and what that means for me going forward. more importantly, what that would mean for the people who rely on the library. it’s too easy to get sucked into just… general malaise about our current situation.
it certainly doesn’t help that i’ve been sick with the flu for the past three days either.
i recently read anxious people by fredrik backman for a book club i facilitate at my library and there’s a passage towards the end that i haven’t been able to stop thinking about since i finished the book:
“The truth. There isn't any. All we've managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn't got any, and all we know about God is that we don't know anything. So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best.
We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow.”
Feb 1, 2025
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bring back bedtime stories!!!!!!
Feb 4, 2025