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I’ve been thinking about going back to a hand-coded website for a while now. I don’t want to lose the functionality I have at my current site, so I’ve created a staging site where I will work on brushing up my coding knowledge. You can follow along at handcoded.kimberlyhirsh.com.

📚 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.

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.

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. 📚

🧵 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.