My Favourite Articles and Links This Week
This essay was wonderful- a woman who was fat shamed tracked down her trolls and confronted them: “By just blocking and deleting when someone makes an abusive comment or when someone sends an unsolicited portrait of their genitals, we’re tacitly saying that’s acceptable. No one sits around the dinner table, and when their loved ones ask them what they did that day calmly replies “well today I told someone to kill themselves on the internet. Pass the peas please.”
Conversation starters, no matter what the scenario.
Self worth isn’t the same as self esteem. Here are some ways to help bolster your sense of self worth.
My Favourite Pins This Week
These sweet potato and zucchini tots are a healthy take on tater tots, and they are magnificent. With all that veg, you can basically eat just these for dinner guilt free. If you are not vegan and gluten free, I recommend adding one egg and substituting the almond meal for 1 cup of flour. Just makes them a little closer to the original, I think. Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe post is here.
This pin was love at first site. I love dessert squares, and who doesn’t love the Samoa cookies that inspired these? Don’t make them unless people are coming over- you don’t want to be left alone with a full pan of these. Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe post is here.
These socks are so wonderful, how have I not seen the knitting pattern until this week? I can imagine all sorts of fun combinations with self striping yarn, bright or muted. And a great way to destash partial and single fingering weight skeins, too! Pinterest link is here, and the original pattern post on Ravelry is here.
I’m utterly besotted with the wonderful artwork of Anne Ten Donkelaar, who carefully cuts out photos and magazine prints of flowers and reconstructs these dreamy floral arrangements. I would love to see these in person! Pinterest link is here, and the original post is here.
I absolutely adore big, high-impact wall paper, especially florals and botanicals. Clearly I’m excited for spring, with all this floral craving! Our current place is a bit small for something this big and bold, but I think our next home, I’m going to do something like this. It’s worth clicking over to see all the inspirational ideas. Pinterest link is here, and the original post is here.
This weekend is pretty low key- Guy is studying in earnest for his Canadian citizenship test, which is coming up early next week. I thought it would be a breeze, but on the sample test we were looking at I struggled to answer most of the questions. I thought it would be a breeze, asking things like Who is the Prime Minister, but it is actually asking detailed and precise questions about Canadian confederacy and our many layered existing governance structure. Sadly I don’t think I’ve thought much about it since grade 6.
And of course, I need to go and get myself some pretty flowers to help curb my flower craving, it seems! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
