Amy Colleen (sewistwrites)
@amycolleen.bsky.social
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Sewistwrites on Twitter. Christian, mom, seamstress, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Editor of The Pomegranate at http://the-pom.com and blogger at http://www.amy-colleen.com
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Also you guys don't know how much self-control I exert to NOT constantly plaster my kids' faces on social media. They are more than typically cute!!!!
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Original A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series by Betty Macdonald (we have had some conversations with our 5yo about some of the language used though)
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Had to cut my 2yo's head out of this photo to maintain privacy but I couldn't resist sharing how CUTE he was at our living history day yesterday. 🥺 Only 6 people assumed he was a girl 😂 He LOVED twirling and using his petticoats to chew on when he got overwhelmed! Bring back baby boys in dresses 🥺
A small child with chubby cheeks sitting on a canvas folding stool, wearing a maroon checked dress with a full skirt, holding a toy train and drinking from a tin cup
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YES and I think it was @laureneahmed.bsky.social who said no 4yo girl wants to be the dinglehopper while her mother is Ariel 🙄 I think group costumes can be cute but only when it's clear the kids are actually having fun and had some say in it
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But I finished my drawers and I wore this outfit for 7 hours of child-chasing through a museum encampment 🙏
Selfie of Amy looking up at the camera in a green 1860s dress and maroon apron Mirror selfie of Amy wearing a green dress and maroon apron
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He has been through a wash cycle and SMELLS CLEAN 🙌
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I didn't have my phone handy when I poured it out! 🙈
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I'm disturbed by the color of the water that I poured off after Elmo's 24-hour Oxi Clean soak but I'm gonna attempt to pull an RFKJr and blame the red dye
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It’s so embarassing when you accidentally type your password into the username field and see your password naked.
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Donald Trump “lost the Nobel Peace Prize” in the same way that I “lost” The Daytona 500
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Flora, Fauna and Merryweather coded
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People are clutching their pearls over the colorful language in The Life of a Showgirl as if Taylor Swift is new to this. Like I'm sorry did we or did we not have "I laugh because he's so damn funny" in Teardrops on My Guitar???? 😱
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Anne of Green Gables, October Sky, Back to the Future
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"What's it like doing reenacting events with little kids?"

Panicking because your clothes that you made for a pre-babies body are too small now, mostly
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"No one is talking about THIS experience," she mutters feverishly, measuring and cutting fabric for a new pair of 1850s split drawers two nights before a living history museum event, after realizing that the pair she made in 2017, 4 sizes ago, no longer fit and one *has* to have unmentionables
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I'm using an oxi clean solution now, will report back!
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Right???? Why doesn't every electronic toy do this??? There's even a ribbon inside Elmo that can be threaded and tied through a loop on the box so little hands can't easily open the velcro and pull it out.
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"YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHY ONE MOM WATERBOARDED ELMO"
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Today at the thrift store my 5yo and I purchased a working Tickle Me Elmo for $6 as a surprise for the 2yo. TME has seen better days and has presumably inhaled a good amount of secondhand smoke, but did you know the tickle box can be completely removed from TME's entrails? He is soaking now.
Elmo toy held in front of a basement washer and dryer Elmo toy staring heavenward while being covered in a tub of sudsy water
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I borrowed an audiobook of The Princess Bride from Libby and was enjoying Rob Reiner's narration but something didn't feel... quite right? Wait several parts were missing--

It was an abridged version.

No, no. Yes, I know. Not like that.

This was, literally, an ABRIDGED VERSION. 😤
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I would expand that to say any eldest daughter (though not eldest child) who's been parentified for the sake of younger siblings 💀