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Liz

@smithdrygoods.bsky.social

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GenX quilter, artist, crafter, caregiver. Married, childfree, sugar-free (keto). Masshole of a sort. Somehow both a complete downer AND a laff riot. http://SmithDryGoods.com

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · Dec 10

This tiny quilt (32” x 48”) is officially my favorite thing I ever made 😊 It incorporates my love of scraps & color theory in a way that feels very ME. It was a very challenging puzzle I enjoyed. I will pursue this technique further! #QuiltSky

A small quilt in the double four patch pattern which is constructed of smaller squares and larger squares arranged in patterns of dark and light so as to create diagonal stripes in small dark fabrics from top left to bottom right, and the same but in light fabrics from top right to bottom left. The light squares are various cream colored prints while the darker prints smoothly flow from teals and aquas at the top through browns, pinks, and purples toward the bottom

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15h

The Jungfrau peak catches the last rays of sun over the Lauterbrunnen valley. 🇨🇭 📷

A large snow covered peak on the left glows orange. To the right a glacier carved valley sits in shadow.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 18h

I’m just

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 18h

I literally can’t, they are lil love letters 🥹

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 19h

lol I still have some! Taped off the radio WFNX 📻 They were cute & cheap, I remember, but they weren’t very high quality

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 19h

I had the poster in college lol 😆

no real idea, but I think it’s for the actual cassette

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 19h

Right??

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 19h

Hello, I am from the late 1900s & I need someone to explain this eBay listing to me, thank you. #GenX

eBay listing for a single cassette tape going for $40.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Hieronymous Borscht @secretlentil.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes while I paint I listen to artists pontificating on the rewards and perils of the creative life. Then other times I listen to Behind The Bastards. So anyway, here's this.
secretlentil.com

A fuchsia pink and brown abstract painting on the left, and in a gray box on the right: DON'T BE HENRY KISSINGER and other new paintings
It's a screenshot from my website, secret lentil.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

If you won't listen to me about the need to boycott @cbsnews.com and Paramount+, maybe you'll listen to John Oliver.

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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WBZ NewsRadio @wbznewsradio.bsky.social · 1d

We're watching the impacts of the nor'easter here on WBZ NewsRadio. 📻

This hour there's more than 5,000 customers in Massachusetts without power per MEMA. ⚡

Here in Sharon, Washington Street right off Route 1 has wires down and Eversource is on scene. ⚠

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 2d

Went back to the Humber River waterfall near Old Mill again to watch the salmon run and had way more luck this time. So did ONE mighty salmon who finally made it up! 🙌 This fish about to get even more lucky. 😉
#HappyThanksgiving #FallingForFall 😍

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

Ohhh I believe it. Audiobooks are my only way through these. I quilt while I listen.

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NonFerragus @nonferragus.bsky.social · 3d

Went for a small walk yesterday and started this drawing on a park bench. Finished this afternoon at home. 90% Derwent Inktense pencils, which I quite like for this sort of kids book style, plus some watercolour and standard soft coloured pencils

A drawing of a pumpking with a spooky face carved into it, in a childrens picturebook sort of style.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

Oh! Also, if you’ve already read Hamilton, I recommend Angelica By Molly Beer about his dynamic sister-in-law.

I’m still in the middle of listening to The Pioneers by McCullough about settling Ohio & that territory & it’s great.

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

To appreciate Abigail better I recommend Abigail Adams by Woody Holton. I loved Nathaniel Philbrick’s trilogy & Hamilton by Chernow as well. & 1776 by McCullough of course. Hope there’s some things you haven’t read yet on this list!

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

I’m glad I listened to The Americanization of
Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood before I read John Adams by David McCullough because JA will make you sneer at BF & JA will redeem himself in McCullough’s book after being disdained by Ben.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

But it will also make you fall in love with Josiah Quincy Jr only to break your heart 😢. To find out more about the mysterious Sam Adams I picked The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff which I thought was excellent.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, I dove in clueless, read things out of order & followed up on people I was interested in learning more about or authors I liked. In no particular order; American Rebels by Nina Sankovitch really stuck with me. It will give you more respect for John Hancock who gets treated like a diva elsewhere

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

And it’s really worth the effort, you’ll enjoy it for years!

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

So much work, but you’re doing it!

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Liz S @lizzielizzie.bsky.social · 3d

Went to one of my favorite local spots to take autumn photos. Have some crunchy leaves ASMR. #autumn

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, I will though because it’s fun!

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 3d

Ok I’ll keep an eye out!!