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Nettie Jo 👩🏻‍🏫
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#Boston ☘️ #memoirist ✍🏼 #history buff🪦#bookish 📚 #fiberartist and 🧶 #paint splatterer 🎨🫟

#chronicpain #PTSD #LongCOVID #achalasia ♿️

#ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏼

#indivisible #resist #MeidasMighty #BlueCrew #Mass50501

"I create art while the world comes apart." ~ Nettie Jo
History of Trees #shawl - Week Two

First section of the #pattern is finished! 🎉

I'm now on the 3-D trees part. You can see the top of the first one.

(I frogged that first treetop 5x!)

That's front-post double-treble #crochet, y'all.

My brain. 🤯

Time to tackle the next one. 🌲🧶

#ravelry
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I chose painting. 🖼️

Clearly, my #stenciling game is a little off

and a lot messy. 🫟

(It's only been 20 years since I stenciled anything.)

I think more #paint ended up on my pants than on the canvas.

I'm 56 going on preschool. 👩🏼‍🎨

How fun! 🎨
December 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The postman delivereth!

What to do? Read or paint?

(Or... write? Gods forbid! 🙄)

Tough decision. Will consider after another ☕️

Have an inspiring and peaceful day, friends. 🫶🏼
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sneaux!!! 🌨️❄️

Just the tiniest dusting, but still... 💙

#NewEngland is so beautiful during the winter.

In Dec, many homes place a single candle in each window facing the road. At night, in a gentle snowfall (like last night's), the image is one of welcome.

"Come in and warm up." ☕️⛄️

#Boston #snow
December 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In case y'all thought I was kidding

(my partner is currently running around in his new "Griswold Family Xmas" pajama pants, spiking eggnog in the kitchen) 🥂

The joys of an empty nest. 🪹🐧🐤

#midlife #holidays #JustUs
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Taking a break from #crocheting. 🧶

Today I'm #painting background colors on a dozen 8x10 #canvases.

And listening to this:

youtu.be/8HgpUuItyZE?...

#GaryMoore #StillGotTheBlues
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The tiniest things can hold my attention for a very long time.

This little guy has doubled in size since he and his four siblings arrived, but he's still less than 1/2 inch long.

My #betta is unfazed by them

But I am completely fascinated.

#amanoshrimp #aquarium
December 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How cute is #Ancestry with the annual stats?

It's very easy to just tap a leaf (hint) and add those ppl w/ out even looking at the hint itself.

I don't do that.

I consider. I #research and #verify.

I try to catch my errors quickly cuz this info isn't for me.

It's for those for who follow later.
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
History of Trees #shawl - Day 4

Row 90-ish. Another 20 rows of this pattern to go.

One #skein (of four) used so far. 🧶

This pattern's repetitive nature is meditative, soothing. I watch Netflix and #crochet mindlessly, muscle memory guiding my fingers.

I create #art while the world comes apart.
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It really sucks to wake up EVERY morning

knowing that the world itself is less safe today 🫨

than it was yesterday.

🌎🌍🌏

It's heavy, okay?

So fucking heavy.

Posting a pic I took of a late-summer Newport sunset to remind myself (and you) that there is still beauty and peace in this world. ⬇️
December 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
About 50 rows in (History of Trees shawl - #Ravelry).

Only... let's see... about 200 more to go. 👍🏼

I may finish this before the weekend.

🧶

#crochet #fiberarts #creativity #yarn
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
13 rows in, and looking good! 👍🏼

Changed to a larger hook (an H) cuz I #crochet relatively tightly and this shawl's pattern is so pretty that I don't want it to "get lost" in a mat of tight stitches.

Workin this pattern up with #CaronSimplySoft #yarn.

🧶

I love it. 🥰

Carrying on.
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My rest-of-the-day (and longer) #project:

This lovely thing, but I want to honor my PNW upbringing, where it rains a lot and the trees never change colors.

My version will have dark green trees on a grey background.

(This is not a beginner's pattern. You can find it on #ravelry.)

#shawl #crochet
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Pharmacist sent homework.

Yay. 🎉

(Srsly tho - I'm grateful to be in #Boston, where my healthcare team really does look out for me) 💙
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Still in a #mood

(I'll let myself out now...)
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#Holiday shopping tip:

Do *not* waste your hard earned $45 (!) on this brightly colored disappointment.

There are no mini #books. Only folded cardboard trivia questions.

Cheaply made and overly hyped. 😠

I give it only one star, for the pretty colors.

One weak-assed fading star.

This one. ➡️ 🌠
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Note to self:

No wet #acrylic paint on #stencils.

They bleed.

Like, a lot. 😳

Hoping I can touch this up a bit and "save" it.

#creativity #canvas #stonerart #420art
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Stopping for now.

Liking the colors. 👍🏼

More later.

#acrylics #art #ombre #mentalhealth #creativity
December 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I've always considered myself a #writer but not a person who drew or painted.

Not since childhood.

At menopause, all I want to do is create art... in any and all forms that interest me.

Today, I want to #paint. 🎨

And sing. 🎙️

#recovery #mentalhealth

🧵1/2

You can join me. Plenty to share. ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I bought this right before the inauguration in Jan 📖

As a reminder. ⬇️

While #disability, #poverty and my #gender are disadvantages, I had the #privilege of being born white. ⚪️

I'm becoming a "good" relative and, I hope, a better #ally.

#colonialism #racism

greenwriterspress.com/book/becomin...
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don't care what anybody else says.

I STILL get excited for the first #snowfall of the season.

Look at all that snow headed for #Boston!

Whee! 🌨️⛄️⛷️🗻

(You can take a girl outta the #PNW, and then outta #Colorado, but...)

#winter #joy #littlethings
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bought six of these little guys three weeks ago to help with an #algae bloom my #betta #aquarium.

Thought they were dead. 💀

Apparently, they're just really good hiders. 👀

Judging by its full digestive tract, it's eating well, too. 🥬🌱

Carry on, my little #crustacean friends. 🫶🏼

#amanoshrimp
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM