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all is on, TINSELLLLL!
@carbonated.bsky.social
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sewing projects, thrift hauls, flowers & sunsets & pretty stof, holiday decorating like an Olympian *especially* for xmas 🎄❄️☠️
On a kitteh hiatus since the passing of my 17 year old dynamic duo, Spooner-Woon and the Juiceman.
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all is on, TINSELLLLL! @carbonated.bsky.social · Jul 6
what's up? what's up is that i am SAD. I don't have my boys anymore. My little fuzzball dynamic duo who moved me to Chicago and got me thru a bigass breakup and semi-crosscountry move and a late 30s career change and two whole apartments and. Like I'm so sad and kinda lost without them.
cpp of my two most perfectest kitteh boys, Juice and Spooner, all pretzel curled up together on an ergonomic office chair cushion. cpp from the p.o.v. of a white lady on the couch with legs straight in front covered by a fleece blanket and an all white cat laying on his back in between the legs, and getting a big scratchy belly rub with all four paws gently up in the air because he is very happy and content cpp of my juiceman, a petite orange tabby and white cat, sitting on the corner of a green velvet tufted cocktail ottoman. He is wide-eyed and in mid meow so you can see his little perfect kitten fangs, and Spooner, an all white cat who is his perfect bonded friend, is visible in the background resting with a little curled tail on a curvy cardboard scratcher. Older pic of juice, an orange tabby kitten, and Spooner, a white slightly older kitten with a dark grey streak on his forehead, both stepping off a large windowsill onto the arm of an overstuffed club chair so that they lkinda look like a kitten version of starsky & hutch
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I got ya gift wrapped salami right here pal
cpp of a scene from the 1951 movie The Lemon Drop Kid with a period painted storefront reading "x shopping days till x-mas, salami gift wrapped"
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Ursula says, hey happy xmas eve you raucous buncha animals
Pic of my vintage countertop mannequin whom I've named Ursula wearing some xmas fabrics draped on her quarter-sized person with a lush red and green tinsel draping the lamplight
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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happy solstice from a cold lake michigan 🖤♥️❄️🌊
Cpp of lovely lake michigan in Chicago with a funky icy shoreline and a rosy horizon just about sunset on the winter solstice
December 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Wednesday #thrifthaul y'all! It's never too 'anything' for xmas stof because I always look out for good things, including a pretty old collection of mini glass baubles. Plus weird clowns, vintage handkerchiefs, more fabric, and a stand for Ursula, my countertop mannequin
Pic of a pretty great thrift haul: vintage xmas ornaments and a plastic topper; a bio of bette davis called mother goddamn; more fabric and a little girl's dress pattern; a couple doll stands; decorative edge scissors, like a prism making kit or something? and a mini crystal growing kit; a wooden cup & ball toy; vintage handkerchiefs for my friend mr k; some weird clown cake toppers; reusable cable ties; and another cool UL vintage lamp Pic of a two sided head clown figure, like to put on a cake i guess? It's a creepy looking clown from when they were supposed to be harmless & safe for kids And the other side of the two headed clown, in original packaging, where he has a duplicate face on the back of his head
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It was above freezing today so the lake ice was a little crunchy on top but still solid enough to walk on a bit. Winter lake is just so funky looking 🖤♥️ #dailylakeglass
Pic of my white lady left hand holding about a dozen pieces of weathered glass from lake michigan in Chicago. The background shows a small lake wave rolling in and lumpy kooky ice shapes are a few feet in front, with a lightly pink horizon behind East facing view of lake michigan with an icy accumulation at the shoreline and a gentle pink tinged horizon
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Oops! Forgot to share today's #dailylakeglass-- prolly because an hour walk in these coldass temps froze my brain a little.
Only a few bits, but the lakeshore is like, ice-buffering which looks super neat
Pic of my gloved left hand holding a few pieces of weathered glass from lake michigan in northern Chicago: three clear, one pale aqua, and one small little green guy. I'm standing on a pier of which you can see the guard cables just behind, the lake in the background has a breaking wave but there are chunks of ice in there too. The sky is mostly overcast but there's a rosy pink swath at the horizon. Buildup of ice right at the shoreline of lake michigan in Chicago. Temp at this time was about 12F so well below freezing
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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okay I am done with xmas postcards and I gotta get my sewing machine back in place because I have to get back on my #sewingbullshit
Pic of my petite desk, which i also use for my sewing machine, covered in finished xmas postcards and little jars of embossing powders and rubber stamps
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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It's been a couple weeks since I got a good #thrifthaul but today really showed up: polka dotted fabric! vintage tray & purse & alarm clock! xmas decor!
Pic of a pretty dang good thrift haul: a double lp of Tommy Dorsey, a black patent leather vintage purse, a couple of stickers and unmounted rubber stamps and xmas ornaments and some cotton god jul ribbon, a couple cuts of fabric, a vintage electric alarm clock, and a very good metal and reverse painted glass cocktail tray
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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perfectest xmas kitten boys from a couple years ago.
Pic from a couple years ago of my two perfect departed cats, orange tabby Juicer and all white Spooner, both lounging on a cardboard scratcher in my living room that was very decorated for xmas. Fuck I miss them so much.
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Finally getting around to my xmas postcard crafting- glitter ahoy!
cpp of my desk covered with rubber stamps, embossing powders, my heat tool, different colors of postcard stock, a few other rando things like containers of scissors and pens and my vintage countertop mannequin Ursula and, of course, a cuppa coffee
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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it was very thoroughly cloudy today although warmer, just a hair above freezing, with exceptionally calm waters #dailylakeglass
Pic of my gloved left hand holding about a dozen pieces of mostly clear and green weathered glass from lake michigan in northern Chicago
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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you will be visited by three spirits etc etc
Internet screenshot of a trading card of the puppet band from PeeWee's Playhouse: dirty dog, cool cat, and chicky baby
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Got a big haul today and saw some weird lake ice and a nice pink fluffy clouds #dailylakeglass
Pic of my gloved left hand holding a couple dozen good sized pieces of clear & green weathered glass, plus a couple red bits of plastic i grabbed too, from lake michigan in Chicago. The blurry background shows a wave rolling in and some weird ice at the shoreline and a cloudy sky that's breaking at the horizon to show a rosy glow about 20 minutes before sunset Some weird shaped sandy ice at the lakeshore East facing view at the lake just a few minutes before sunset. There is snow on the beach and pink fluffy clouds at the horizon
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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It was windy and wavy and wonderful and cold at the lake today, and even through icy weird sculpt on the shore i managed to spy a nice green bit of #dailylakeglass
Pic of a cold lakeshore with snow and ice and heavy waves and a nice rosy glow along the horizon of a thick grey cloudy sky. There are lots of pebbles and lake rocks and certainly some weathered glass in there but... it'll have to wait for a warmer day Well I got a bit of green glass after all! Pic of my gloved left hand holding a good sized piece of weathered green glass from lake michigan in Chicago. Behind there is a snowy beach and thick cresting waves and a rosy, cloudy horizon and the pier at Tobey Prinze beach and a black wetsuited surfer with board
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I love the aesthetics of outside snow plus [my] indoor xmas decorations
Dimly lit cpp from my third floor living room of two paper stars hanging in my window with a snow covered linden tree outside. It is nighttime and fully dark except for the streetlight outside
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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winter zen pizza yard ♥️🖤🍕🎄#nekoatsume2 hp.sakuraweb.com/games/neko2/...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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@miatadork.bsky.social oh hai I decided I should follow you because of your avatar ♥️🖤
cpp of my white lady left hand holding a random bit of reverse-painted plastic from the Elton John pinball game
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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there is a pizza slingin' kitten in #nekoatsume2
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December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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The last three days I've found little bits of blue on white ceramic or tile so I've picked them up. They'll look great with the few tiny pieces of bright cobalt #dailylakeglass
Pic of my white lady left hand holding a couple dozen pieces of weathered glass from lake michigan in Chicago. The lake and the sky are almost the same shade of slaty snowy grey and there is a gentle wave rolling in behind
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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It was finally cold enough for my bigass poofy coat at the lake today, a smidgen under 20F but almost all my little bits of #dailylakeglass were frozen on the sand
A dimly lit pic of my gloved left hand holding about a dozen pieces of weathered glass from lake michigan in Chicago. The foreground is blurry so the waterline behind is in focus with a very small slow wave rolling in, and the cloudy sky of last light has broken just a bit to show a waxing moon
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I decided to clear off the car after my lakewalk this evening so I won't have to do it tomorrow and looky what I found hiding under there! #chicagosnowbunny
Pic of my little car Hoju, parked on the street under about 10 inches of snow, with a little snow bunny i made on the top of the trunk
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Got a nice selection of big pieces today, with some funky sand ice visuals #dailylakeglass
cpp of a winter lakefront with a chunk of rock on the shore with cascading wavy lines of frozen sandy water. There is a bright green wedge of lake glass in the sand My white lady left hand holding a hearty handful of clear, green, and brown weathered glass from lake michigan in northern Chicago. The sandy beach in the background is lightly covered in snow
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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It wasn't super cold today and the lake was xlnt and wavy but I only found two little bits of #dailylakeglass. The sunset was fabulous facing east with a nice ambery light upon a rich cloudy sky
Pic of my blurry left hand holding two lone pieces of weathered glass from lake michigan with the background in focus of a cresting wave, tapering off clouds at the horizon, and the downtown Chicago skyline about nine miles away A slightly fisheye pic of the east-facing view of lake michigan about 15 minutes before sunset. The sky is cloudy toward the horizon with bluish purple clouds at the bottom and peachy grey just above, which is reflected in the very shallow water in the rippled sand as a wave had just receded
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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hey rogers park, was that a... tornado siren??
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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squirrel in the snow!
cpp of an eastern flying squirrel eating a peanut from my window mounted bird feeder with xmas lights and tinsel festooning my interior. It's night and fully dark outside (flying squirrels are nocturnal) and there is snow on the peaked top of the feeder which adds to the seasonal wintry charm of the image
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM