left-handed hobbyholic

@sgerald.bsky.social

2031 Followers 7291 Following

Blue dot in small town Mississippi. Into books, poetry, pets, arts, crafts, plants, etc. Gen-X Swiftie. Surviving alongside rheumatoid arthritis and its various pals. Recovering academic, adjunct retiree.

Iconic poster image for the movie Jaws. An open mouthed shark with lots of sharp teeth is pointed upward in the ocean water toward a swimmer. The word “Jaws” appears in red block letters at the top.
Book cover image for The Barn by Wright Thompson. It has a light brown background with black lettering and a grayscale image of a barn surrounded by oak trees.
Fourteen individually wrapped books in a box that is also wrapped. All of the books are wrapped in different patterns of Christmas paper.
Screen shot of results from NYT Strands game #285, “One for the Swifties.” The results show a perfect score with the spangram found on the third attempt. There are two blue circles followed by one yellow and then three more blue.
Screen shot of a package tracker that shows Christmas wrapping paper arriving on December 26.
Side-by-side view of two sewing machines, the Brother Strong and Tough and the Babylock Zeal.
Two rows of crochet in a chunky pink yarn sitting on top of a book about how to crochet.
Tortoise shell cat, six months old, looking out of a cat carrier with big yellow eyes.
Hello Kitty crochet kit from The Woobles. Red package with image of a white, yellow, and blue crocheted Hello Kitty.
Black cat on a table with various plants, mostly succulents.
Styrofoam go plate with fried okra, potato salad, cole slaw, and macaroni and cheese.
Book cover image for To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Red background, yellow lettering, stylized outline of a dragon’s head.
Screenshot of an Elon Musk Blue Sky page that is probably not actually Elon Musk.
Book cover for Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin with a portrait of Franklin.
Partially completed cross stitch of multi-colored cat. Blue, green, pink, red, yellow, and white with some flowers on the cat.
Tortoiseshell Kitty about half grown sitting in a plant pot.