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badassindistress · 3 days

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So apparently I never shared the shortcut to happiness that is making a lacy parasol. Let me rectify that:

I found this plastic parasol in a thrift shop, I think it was a prop for a restaurant or something. Pretty, but not actually functional as a parasol (it got to 40c when i made this, i had ample opportunity to test it out).

I had lacy parasols on the brain and before I could convince myself to try and tat one, I realised I had lace too sturdy for dresses, and also this doily:

This worked so well. I zigzagged over the lace and then cut the back (an old tablecloth with a permanent stain) away carefully. I cleaned the parasol of the old glue and glued the new fabric on with fabric glue, handstitching down the edge.

It had to dry overnight, but it was done in time for me to parade around with. Instant happiness.

#i will say i used the plastic version a few times in the swimming pool it was that hot #also walking around a castle in a white dress and with parasol is a great experience #they let me go through the pretty gates and everything #a talia original #talia's adventures in dressmaking #excerpts from my life #parasol #lace parasol #crafting #image id in alt text

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threewordusername · 3 days

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i wrap my arms around your chest,

leaning over you, resting my chin

atop your head. i lay a kiss on that

same spot, and watch you diligently.

you scribble away at your desk,

drowning out the room

with the distinct sound of

pencil meeting paper.

subtle rays of light streak

through the window;

motes of dust dance gently.

i long to go back to those days,

waking up to you at first sight.

now,

we don't even know each other.

"the study."

d.b.a

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blooming-anna-rose · 3 months

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“I watch him, and I think, he could be my soulmate.

But I hold myself back, I hold myself steady and let myself wonder if one day we will look back and laugh at our story. If one day we will be drinking coffee in the morning and talk about when we were young and dumb. He will tell me how much harder I made it for us, and I will shrug my shoulders and apologize for my stubbornness. And we will laugh and we will be together in the end.

And then I look down, and look back up to see him staring at me.”

- n.c. // and I hold myself back

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tansdiary · 8 months

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oh to lie on the gentle green grass and gaze at the sky full of stars, guarded by the moon in the darkest hues of blues.

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ninichii-xcix · 2 years

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I want to know everything about you. What makes you happy? What keeps you up at night? What kind of meals do you make for yourself? Do you have any comfort shows or films or songs? How do you cope with stress? What makes someone a suitable partner for you? Can I be a suitable partner for you?

I want to learn every nook, every crevice, every inch, every single part of you that you’re willing to share. I want to count the freckles on your cheeks — be the only one who knows the exact number. I want to memorize the scars on your skin, know their history and carry them with me for a long time. I want to know you. I want to love you.

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lost-in-time-marie · 6 days

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God Lives With The Ants

When I was younger, I would lay under a maple tree in the backyard. I’d stare up at the leaves and watch them wither from a bright green into orange and red and fall all around my head. I’d talk with the wind that danced and sang as it rushed through the trees and played with my hair. I’d observe the ants as they went about their business in the dirt next to me. So small, and yet we occupied the same space, but our perspectives couldn’t be more different. Our futures intimately linked and yet I found myself wondering if this crawling little insect could sense my gaze. I wondered what great giant’s ribcage laid beside my whole infinite universe, small enough to be held on the tip of their finger. And suddenly, for the first time, I believed that colossus did gaze at my universe, occupying its same space, but somehow so small and impossibly different, and it would get misty eyed pondering the complexity and beauty of our entangled existences, and it would hope things for all us and then mourn those hopes as they changed and evolved over the years, entirely beyond anyone’s reach at this point.

~K.

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darichonne · 1 month

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insta: @darichonne

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naaneal-writing · 8 months

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“If your mom wouldn’t have given me a chance, you wouldn’t exist”, my dad says. “I wish she wouldn’t have”, I say. “I would’ve been happier staying a star on the night sky”

But he doesn’t get that. He’s a man.

#excerpt from a book i'll never write #spilled thoughts #i am so tired #excerpt of a story i'll never write #spilled emotions #excerpts from my life #spilled ink #spilled feelings

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a-dreamersjournal · 1 month

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How do I walk away from you?

The words engraved on the insides of my heart,

And thoughts that swirl in my head like a vortex,

They threaten to consume everything in their path to reach you.

How do I exorcise them from my heart?

Should I bleed out more,

Hoping they'll gush out along with crimson teardrops of longing,

When veins of my patience are severed enough to let you go,

To let all of your remaining memories seep out from the wound,

Slowly, painfully, as the void left behind is consumed by agony.

Agony I say, burning from inside out is what I mean.

The fire you ignited inside of me rages hotter than ever before,

Consuming my very being as I try to douse it off.

Flames of your love engulfing me, blurring the lines again

Where do I begin, and where do you cease to exist?

Now my every scorched cell is screaming and crying,

Pleading with you to show me a way,

A way to survive without you.

It'll kill me if it's you and I,

It'll kill me if it's you or I,

And If it's neither you nor I, then what's the point?

Tell me, How do I walk away from you,

Without tearing myself apart in two?

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oceanskiees · 1 year

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“I’ll never be loved the same way again”

“You can say you were loved like that once and that’s beautiful”

#poetry #love #excerpt from a book i'll never write #quotes #i miss you #excerpt from a story i'll never write #heartbreak #i miss him #poem #poets on tumblr #excerpts from my life #grief/mourning #griefandloss #oceanskieesap

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sparkandashes · 7 months

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Something about my birthday month is inherently sad. It feels miserable to even exist, to breathe, to see myself alive. If each month were a high and a low, I’d call September the lowest of the lows.

Yesterday, it was radiant and golden, everything shining in the brilliance of the sun. Today, it’s cloudy and murky, nothing shines, it’s all saturnine.

With friends around, all I put on is a mirthless smile, fearing what if they all see my never-fading dour look, and ask me if I am fine, but then I doubt anyone would.

My presence is no light, it’s no music, it’s nothing sweet to be noticed or perhaps to be missed.

If I go missing, or never wake up the next morning- I wonder, would you look around or mourn a little?

@sparkandashes

#sparkandashes #poetryportal #writers on tumblr #writeblr #love #wordgasm #excerpts from my life #poetry #poems #birthday #september blues #relationships #life quotes #writerscreed

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badassindistress · 6 months

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Astarion, or; the Easiest Shirtsleeves - Done!

It is a fantastic vampire shirt and took about a day to make, 10/10 can recommend!

See the process here

#i started at 3 yesterday and finished about 5 today #but rudely i did have to work today #and i did kinda lose my quick and easy vision to handhem everything #so I'm gonna say this can be a four hour project if you topstitch and zigzag #astarion or the easiest shirtsleeves #a talia original #talia's adventures in dressmaking #excerpts from my life #sewing progress #historybounding #astarion #floofy shirt sewalong addendum #i've got posts for the last steps half written but i'll post them later #costume dramatics

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threewordusername · 2 days

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what is a dream,

if only to wake up

living the same hell?

an endless loop of

coming and going,

living and dying; for

we all surrender to

our fate, one day.

like a scale,

our existence hangs

in the balance. we

take for granted

the gift of life.

"precarious."

d.b.a

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blooming-anna-rose · 3 months

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I know my love and it’s worth. I know who I am, and I know I am good and a privilege to know. I will not make the same mistakes of trusting blindly after being hurt one too many times. I will never be convinced that I am poison again, and I never thought you would be the one to try and convince me of that. I know when it’s time to go and I know when I go, I will leave my absence and that will never fade.

- n.c. // i would have loved you forever and i hope you know what you have given up in your choice to hurt me.

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tansdiary · 10 months

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the moon's with me the moon bid me a goodbye she hid behind the clouds she’s telling me to sleep— to not wait for her to not miss her because wherever i go she’ll be with me forever i must bid her a goodbye i must hide in my sheets i must sleep now— until tomorrow until i see her again because wherever i am she’ll be with me forever

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ninichii-xcix · 1 year

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The kind of heartbreak time could never mend isn’t the person who left you after years of being together. It isn’t the person you fell in love with the second your eyes met. The kind of heartbreak time could never mend is the person that could have been. It’s the person you almost had — the person who was once at an arm’s length — but pulled away when you finally decided to take the leap. It’s the person who keeps you up at night with all the possibilities, all the what ifs, all the should’ve beens.

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