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Now that’s one way to loose those walking blues…
Athens, GA
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Bessa.
@bessame
Bessa.
@bessame
Now that’s one way to loose those walking blues…
Athens, GA
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Giving your kid a CD player
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We gave our then-6yo a CD player for Christmas last year, and it has been such a JOY! We find ourselves pooping into our local record shop more often (CD’s are usually half the cost of vinyl, so it’s an easier yes for our budget). There’s also a particular joy in watching your kid embark on the lifelong adventure of honing their musical taste. About six months after CD’s came back into our lives like the old friends they are, we recieved an old DVD player from family friends, and y’all. The two-fold analog JOY! We pulled our remaining collection down from the attic and began treating the extensive DVD section of our local library (long live libraries!!) like a Blockbuster Video. No more wasting an hour trying to choose our next watch from, in all honestly, just too many on-demand choices. Turns out, we’ve all been duped into subscribing to the media we love instead of owning it/borrowing it and therefore, curating/refining our individual tastes.
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Bodied
Hobonichi Techo 2027 A6 Cover (Red)
$88
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On my quest to analog my life’s time management needs, I got myself an Erin Condren planner for 2026. It’s honestly a great planner and has given me ample room for anything that’s come up. The drawback: the size is cumbersome. By September of this year I realized that I wanted to go smaller while still giving myself all the space and tools needed to keep track of three busy schedules, as well as the myriad of mom-duties filling my plate. Enter Hobonichi Techo. A friend of mine at book club pulled out her Weeks Techo when we all inevitably turned to our calendars to suss out the date of our next meeting. The Weeks Techo was so beautiful and small I heard myself immediately say, “WHO MAKES THAT?!” Just like that, I was Alice tumbling down the neat and ordered rabbit hole of Hobonichi. And while I long to have the aesthetically small handwriting that makes a planner like the Weeks Techo a no-brainer, I’ve decided I’ll be putting the Planner Techo through the paces in 2027, and it was this case/holder that sold me. The Planner is slightly larger making it far more complimentary to my chunky handwriting than Weeks and this case could honestly function as a wallet on top of keeping my color-coordinated pens and a lip balm always at my fingertips. Planners and pens and stationary can’t buy you happiness, but that doesn’t discount the happiness they help me cultivate in the quiet mundane moments. And that’s no small potatoes.
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amy hagedorn
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
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A staple for one’s resource library.
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Artsy Fartsy
DIY Pottery Barn Ghost Wreath
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I love the light up ghost wreath from pottery barn, but I don’t believe in dropping $90 on a door decoration. Michael’s has entered the chat (RIP JoAnn’s)
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Joy Fowlkes
Weekly Two-hour Block
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Moving our family’s scheduled “board meetings” to a second location is pretty brilliant and would force my partner and I to get down to brass tax without the myriad interruptions from our darling 7yo when we’ve attempted these meetings at our dining room table.
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Charley
Hack for printing and framing big art
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ReRec’ing for future me and my freshly painted living room wall just begging for that statement piece!
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