HeyJaredSorry I'm Good At Everything
Writing about my 1,000 crafts and hobbies as an elegant tasteful 30-something year old professional knitter, musician, and jeweler who is balding in Chicago.
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I’m Never Cooking Again (opens the original)
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This summer friends and I spent a week in a cabin on a lake in the Wisconsin hometown of Jessie Mae Martinson. While we spent our days swimming, beading, and playing Catan, we had the luxury of Jessie’s mom coming over to cook us feasts. Cooking is her love language, she is an amazing cook, and she wants nothing more than to hang out feeding us. Anytime Jessie goes home, her mom always sends her back with frozen leftovers which I then gladly help her eat when we hang out at her apartment. Imagin
Shit Talking Your "Every Day Carry" (opens the original)
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Recently I’m kind of addicted to YouTube videos where creators break down their Everyday Carry, now (for at least two years to my horror) being abbreviated “EDC” which I thought referred to Electric Daisy Carnival, someplace I’d rather die than go to. Pretty much they talk about every item they carry around every day.. supposedly.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UcT_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
A Handknit Lace Summer Tee, New Crafts, Jewelry, and a Recorder Acquisition (opens the original)
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Excuse Me New York I Wasn't Familiar With Your Game (opens the original)
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I have just returned home from a glorious week staying with my friends Hannah and Eli in Andover, a small village in rural New York. I visited them in February after Hannah suggested I act as one Alfred University’s guest artists last semester. That trip was also gorgeous, but blanketed in snow and busy with artist talks, spinning demonstrations, and violin + recorder performances. We discussed in February that I needed to return in the summer in a non-work only-friendship context. Prior to this
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