This Semester: Beauty & Brains 🎀🧠✏️

these are giving off very Harry potter-esk vibes if you ask me

Hey! I hope you're doing well. I’m reaching out because I really need help getting more eyes on my pinned post. It’s for a family in need, and a simple reblog could make a huge difference. Would you mind boosting it? Thank you so much! 💛

of course, just reblogged ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I’m just going to leave this here

locking in this semester ₊˚⊹♡

reprogramming ur subconscious mind with manifesting⋆.ೃ࿔*:･⭐️

write down everything that u wanna manifest (think big, absolutely nothing is off-limits for you)

write down all of ur limiting beliefs (especially the ones that you've held onto for a long time)

write out affirmations that are the inverse of ur limiting belief (example : if ur limiting belief was that money was hard to come by or money doesn't grow on trees -> the affirmation you'd write would be "money grows on trees")

affirm every single day at LEAST once. its recommended to repeat ur affirmations bcuz then ur affirming and persisting though. the more u affirm + persist the quicker it'll reprogram ur subconscious mind

I don’t take the men in my life seriously at all anymore. I have learned not to even engage with them about any serious topic. If they bring up something, I brush it off asap.

Their job sucks? “Yup” is my go-to response.

They are in pain? “Sucks bro.”

Their team lost? Blank stare.

I could walk them through the steps involved with improving their education, communication skills, and employment viability, but they won’t listen.

I could offer to obtain pain medication and suggest a doctor visit, but they will only become dependent on my nursing services and will never stir themselves to address the root problem.

I don’t watch male sports, most television, or engage with male-oriented content of any kind if I can help it. Best I can manage is a shrug when they ask me about pop culture.

Once I figured out that every interaction men initiated preceded an attempt to exploit me, I stopped playing their game and they scattered like cockroaches in search of another food source.

All that extra energy that used to go toward men is now invested in me. I have time to read, work out, make myself nutritious food, enjoy nature, do yoga, rest, and listen to music (female artists only).

My life is improving every day.

THISS!! You can't tell me they weren't like this 🤞

childhood friends

i miss them your honour

ladynoir, oh, ladynoir ↳ day 304

Things I wish I had read in "beginner" sewing tutorials/people had told me before I started getting into sewing

You have to hem *everything* eventually. Hemming isn't optional. (If you don't hem your cloth, it will start to fray. There are exceptions to this, like felt, but most cloth will.)

The type of cloth you choose for your project matters very much. Your clothing won't "fall right" if it's not the kind of stretchy/heavy/stiff as the one the tutorial assumes you will use.

Some types of cloth are very chill about fraying, some are very much not. Linen doesn't really give a fuck as long as you don't, like, throw it into the washing machine unhemmed (see below), whereas brocade yearns for entropy so, so much.

On that note: if you get new cloth: 1. hem its borders (or use a ripple stitch) 2. throw it in the washing machine on the setting that you plan to wash it going forward 3. iron it. You'll regret it, if you don't do it. If you don't hem, it'll thread. If you don't wash beforehand, the finished piece might warp in the first wash. If you don't iron it, it won't be nice and flat and all of your measuring and sewing will be off.

Sewing's first virtue is diligence, followed closely by patience. Measure three times before cutting. Check the symmetry every once in a while. If you can't concentrate anymore, stop. Yes, even if you're almost done.

The order in which you sew your garment's parts matters very much. Stick to the plan, but think ahead.

You'll probably be fine if you sew something on wrong - you can undo it with a seam ripper (get a seam ripper, they're cheap!)

You can use chalk to draw and write on the cloth.

Pick something made out of rectangles for your first project.

I recommend making something out of linen as a beginner project. It's nearly indestructible, barely threads and folds very neatly.

Collars are going to suck.

The sewing machine can't hurt you (probably). There is a guard for a reason and while the needle is very scary at first, if you do it right, your hands will be away from it at least 5 cm at any given time. Also the spoils of learning machine sewing are not to be underestimated. You will be SO fast.

I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.

I think I should stop polish this