I had no good place to store my necklaces so I made a necklace holder.

I found this nifty long octagonal frame at the thrift store sometime last year, and having acquired a hand saw and a big piece of 7mm plywood at two recent estate sales I was able to trace the very ugly inner part of the frame and cut a replacement. I glued a piece of black cotton velveteen to it (the same fabric I used for my beading tray, also from the thrift store) and left it overnight to dry.

I worked out the spacing of the hooks by arranging skewers on it - I didn't want any chains overlapping with lower hooks. I marked it on a sheet of paper and evened it out to make it symmetrical, drilled pilot holes, and screwed all the hooks in. I had to borrow my father's drill because I still don't have one, and I really should get one.

I would like to eventually strip and stain the frame a darker brown, but it's -11 and snowy out so that'll have to wait till Spring. Thankfully the plywood is held on by little spring steel arm thingies attached to the back of the frame, so it's very easy to take out.

Being hung up with picture wire isn't ideal, as the whole thing wobbles a bit when touched, but it's not in any danger of falling down. If necessary I could put several necklaces on one hook, but at present the hooks slightly outnumber the necklaces. (Most of the necklaces are also from the thrift store, except for a couple of inherited ones.)

Edit: I have made a blog post about the process!

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being followed by a fae copy of yourself that never experienced the trauma you did

remember to completely fumble every single beautiful woman you meet

A visual example of antiblackness- really of white European cultural dominance and racism as a whole- applied and hidden in plain sight:

The entirety of the blue section is all of the International section on Europe (interestingly it's got Turkey at the end.)

That yellow box? ALL of Africa.

Just size comparison and context, that orange section is Japan. One singular country vs an entire continent. Every time we say "African" versus having specific European countries and cultures to reference... That's not coincidental!

The damn sink's knocking at the door, gone head and let that in 😐

The way my classes this semester look in my calendar is endlessly funny to me. Fuck man I'm sorry, I can't hang out on September 22nd, I'm so busy.

the other thing that annoys me about the whole “oh but there’s so much misogyny in rap music!” type schtick is that like okay, if you actually gave a shit about that topic, you’d be looking at what Black women have to say about it. because they’re the ones who are equipped to make incisive, meaningful criticism on the matter and they absolutely do all the fucking time. but you don’t actually gaf about misogynoir you’re just making noise to justify your racism so ofc you aren’t even aware that this is absolutely a topic that people much more knowledgeable and involved than you are talking about. so just shut up man just shut up

i would go on pinterest more but i feel like its no good for me. in the same way eating an entire pecan pie every day might be fucking awesome but for my spiritual and psychological health should not consume so much images i like so quickly and readily. oh waiterrrrrrrr another perfectly curated image please , 10 million of them in fact....... its just not right. you understand