Finished reading: Managed by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧

📚 In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman writes 19th century farmers wouldn’t let land lie fallow or rotate crops because it made the most sense to force land to yield the most profit. This led to soil exhaustion. I think the same thing happens when we try to extract maximum labor from people.

🔖 Read We Cannot Give Up on Each Other by Kelly Jensen.

I really needed this today.

The page isn’t turned, and the book isn’t closed. There are chapters still being written, chapters still to be written, and people who are eager to be brought into the story to help make it what we all deserve.

Finished reading: The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh 📚

So great.

I’m taking Brooks Ann Camper’s Skirt Skills Custom Sewing class. Yesterday I put together my notebook for the class.

My goal is to use stuff I already have as much as possible so long as my experience doesn’t suffer for it.

Here are some photos! Notebook cover, pencil box, sketch paper.

🔖🧵 Read Just Make it Already! How to Boost Your Sewing Confidence.

Brooks Ann Camper includes this as a bonus link in the orientation for Skirt Skills, which I’m taking right now. It’s exactly what recovering perfectionists need to heal & works for any creative endeavor.

It’s very Kimberly that I just had a nightmare in which the nightmarish occurrence was that the public library had pushed the YA bookshelves so close together that they were inaccessible. 📚

Finished reading: To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai 📚

Super cute and fun!

🧵 I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit + Co. My seams were so wobbly that I actually had to go back and hand sew a gap closed. I used a messy whip stitch to finish it but I’ve hidden the seam on the bottom here.

📚💬 “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal