Yeah it’s bats right now. I wish I didn’t have a barometer for a head but here we are.

I do take it off when I knead dough and make pie crust though 😂

But yeah I can’t even keep up with the banana cakes stuff re: that

Sometimes methinks certain partakers of creative work don’t realize that it was made using labor just like potatoes and eggs…

I can only answer for myself, but secondhand shops often fill a community niche for literature and reading joy and I’m totally cool having only made my money once on the books they resell.

And library copies (physical or digital) are paid so authors get some money from those!

YEP. “Why are you no longer making the thing I enjoy what do you mean you burned out trying to earn enough for rent and groceries?”

The library rocks and many regions have some fantastic used bookstores!

Abide by the principle What Would Jessica Fletcher Do? (Not use ChatGPT that’s what.)

It ended up cheaper than Joanne’s but it does come at the cost of storage space 😂

It’s frustrating! I started buying basics (elastic in various sizes, hooks and eyes, snaps, invisible zippers in black and white, thread in my most used colors, etc) in bulk during the height of the pandemic years and I’m glad I stumbled into that strategy.

Seriously! I don’t need “help” like that!

Nobody asked for this! Why?!?

Yeah, “paid” in ARCs and thank-you’s only lol!