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Jacquelyn Arends

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Designer + Illustrator Fleurdelia founder Designing everyday magic 🗝️✨🌸🍃 Minneapolis | she/her 👩🏻‍💻 👚 buy a wearable philosophy apparatus here: fleurdelia.com

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · Nov 15

✨Intro post:
I’m a designer + illustrator. Sometimes my holiday product designs are in mass market stores. (I also have my own shop but don’t usually promote on my personal account.) Interests are children’s lit, reading, and medical science (for sake of one of my kids).
Hi! 👋

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 52m

straight to jail to the drivers on the interstate who slow down significantly before the exit when weather doesn’t merit it at all

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4h

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

I should probably make some stew with our bountiful carrot harvest. 🥕

A picture of a single, hilariously pathetic start to a carrot that’s more greens than root, set against black dirt. It’s a cute almost-carrot.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I might try this. I sometimes have wondered whether one pediatric tilt table test is enough to know one way or the other on this (but alas, I’m just the mom who asks too many questions).

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

First we used and like the Ziploc 16 oz. Twist ‘n Loc containers to store frozen soup. Then when those became impossible to find and kept breaking, we tried some larger, snap-lid ones from IKEA. Now we’re trying some 16 oz. from Bentgo. Bring on soup season.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really weird thinking about how someday aspiring historians are probably going to do dissertations on the evolution of frog iconography in the first quarter of the century.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 2d

I had to replace that one with a better one I bought at an independent art store, one where the employees would unquestionably know what I was talking about, so a lesson in ‘saving time’ not actually saving time.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 2d

I once asked a craft store employee where the bone folders were located. She looked at me like I’d emerged from a true crime podcast before she told me she didn’t think they carried those, so I asked if they carried paper crease folders. Wouldn’t ya know it, they do. Always makes me laugh.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

Happened upon reviews of a picture book we’ve checked out from the library. Being upset over autumn being reduced to one color & then saying “kids are smart” as a reason why poetic imagery shouldn’t be used…is interesting. I guess only Robert Frost is allowed to reduce nature to one color then, huh?

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 3d

This is Trump’s “Let them eat cake” moment.

Dems should be doing nothing but talking about how he has used the presidency to enrich himself to a repulsive degree, is demanding more taxpayer money, and building himself a golden ballroom while letting millions of Americans go without.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

I admit I’m less familiar with the solo stuff and decreasingly familiar with the albums before, but that’s a lot to unpack. Godspeed on your trip.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

The radioactive aspect of certain things is so true. In the short term, people prefer to misunderstand, blame, ‘Pollyanna,’ and never consider that so many things need to fundamentally change to make the world work for everyone (including changing working hours).

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

Me, discussing child’s temporarily captive caterpillar: Number of times reading an Eric Carle book aside, based on the mess inside this bug house I still feel like I underestimated how much a caterpillar eats.

Spouse: You and I of ALL PEOPLE should know how much a caterpillar eats. 📕🐛

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

So adorable!!! 🐢 🎀

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 6d

I hope the ghost of Dolley Madison is cooking up something big.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I read the heist headlines, Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” plays in my head.

(I know, I know. It was a different museum.)

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 7d

I made these Apple Butter Cookies. They are probably going in our permanent rotation. Very soft cookie. (I confess I added extra vanilla & cinnamon though.) www.bigbearswife.com/apple-butter...

Soft-looking, light brown cookie with cracks on the top as well as some cinnamon and sugar from rolling the tops in that before baking.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 7d

I need to go back to using cookbooks to find cookie recipes since Pinterest has gotten so saturated with recipes that seem like they’ve never been photographed or even tested by the people who originally post them. That said, it’s nice finding a recipe that turns out exactly how the picture shows.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so very sorry, Amy. That’s so young and so unfair. Praying for your whole family. 💔

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 10d

It’s also been disappointing watching some who are so hopeful for research funding into things like Lyme and Long Covid play the silver-lining card with him. It’s sleight of hand, not a silver lining. He’s no advocate for anything but his own interests.

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Augie Ray @augieray.bsky.social · 10d

US media highlight Long #COVID19 as a serious issue. It describes what Long COVID is like for kids: "a slow-moving spiral: first their health, then their grades, then their future."

For Rolling Stone subscribers: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Free version: archive.ph/xJgda#select...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

www.rollingstone.com

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 10d

It’s right up there with all the early-ish Instagram handles with only lowercase, no spaces for every profession under the sun, but ESPECIALLY ones like jamietherapist that looked more like headlines than professions

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes desperate times call for photoshop

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11d

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 11d

It’s the same dichotomy schools have when there’s not enough money to keep the EAs & nurses in the district, there’s absolutely no money for viral mitigation, but LOOK at the shiny, new extracurricular dept.!

It’s sure too bad about those sick kids…

Good thing it’s only those other people’s kids.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11d

Also what is this interesting dichotomy among the Bluesky Libs of “I DONT HAVE TO MASK BECAUSE NO ONE MASKS” and “LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE MASKING AND WEIRD ABOUT IT”

please folks, a lot of us have brain fog. Can you pick an excuse for ignoring social responsibility and stick to it?