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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Spotted at an estate sale.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

301a in a folding table, at estate sale. #vintagesewingmachine

Vintage sewing machine in a folding table.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yesh, it's me: Big Mesh Laundry Pouch for Washing Bras

Meme: Your rap name is "Big" + the last thing you bought

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Digitally waterboarding" a Flock camera: youtube.com/shorts/E31V6...

Screenshot of Youtube page, with comment highlighted noting: "He created his own 'Flockwork Orange!"

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm on the autumnsm-spectrum. Crunching leaves under rain boot stimming. Comforting layers of clothes or blankets. Making eye contact only with labradors in sweaters. Nesting books to prepare for long winter TBR list.

Many-colored leaves against a wooden framework.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not entirely positive nor negative, neither

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Check if your number is 6 digits or 7 after the letter, they are from different years. Mine is from May, 1920.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To find the manufacturer date, look at the number in the spot circled in red in the photo, then go to this site to find when it was released (alloted, is the term used in their chart). ismacs.net/singer_sewin...

Closeup of the sewing machine photographed above, with a circle around the location of the machine's model number

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In-between project, turning an unwanted shirt into bias tape. #garmentsewing

Cut apart shirt, with folded fabric awaiting strip cutting

Pile of bias-cut strips of fabric, being lined up to seam at 90° angles into a single strip

Roll of 2" bias tape, rolled on a card.

I might double-fold and iron if a project requires, or just use it like this

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fall garment sewing plans. Estate sale table cloths in cotton and linen, I'll make pants, jumper dress and maybe a chorecoat-type jacket, then bags with the scraps.

Hangers tightly packed on a rack, draped with collection of random fabrics.

2 sewing patterns for elastic-waist, straight pants, and a pattern for a simple jumper dress.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Creeeepy photo in estate sale ad #thriftsky

Photo of lower-half of a glass-front cabinet, with what looks like a skinny alien pink-skinned arm reaching down inside from the back, holding a phone at a downward angle.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reposting the meme from above, with alt text

"Maria Bartiromo joins an endless list of people who were reasonably well respected in their professions or businesses, and then they joined the Trump cult and unraveled in a steady downward spiral until their careers and reputations were in complete tatters. Never go full MAGA "
BRIAN TYLER COHEN

@RONFILIPKOWSKI

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

US #garmentsewing folks‐ Not a thrift, but thrift price. Kohls has these waffle weave cotton 50x60" blankets on clearance. Right now all clearance is -50% sticker price, plus -15% for the member thing. ~$7.50 I got two, hope I have enough for a pair of drawstring pants and hoodie - winter jammies.

Photo shows tag of waffle-weave blanket, with discount sticker priced at $17.99, from orig price $39.99

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These are the best cat treats, my cats go crazy for these. It's good to know that they are bonito flakes, and the brand packaged as cat treats are almost $13 an ounce, while the exact same thing in an Asian food store or grocery aisle is less than $3/ounce.

Bonito flakes in 3.5oz bag, packaged for human food, $10

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And not only was it $300 in today's money, the relative cost of movie tickets, comic books and candy have increased a lot in comparison to other items. My dad was a kid then, he'd said movies cost $0.05 for a matinee, or $0.10 for a later show, and they were double features. That's under $2, now.

$0.05 in 1947 is worth $0.75 today
Amount
$0.05
Start year
End year
1947
2026

Movie Ticket Price in 1947
Movie Ticket cost $0.18 per ticket in 1947. That's equivalent to $2.65 in today's money.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Charging my dremel etching tool...

Meidas touch post showing an image of the dumbf 1$ coin. Jamal writes: "Drifting much?"

Headline below the image says "trump $1 coins have entered circulation and are available for purchase, US Mint says.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I found the full color version of the manual online, printed it and punched the edge. I don't have any of the plastic combs that work with the hole punch tool, and don't buy plastic when I can avoid it, so I bound it with an old shoelace. #vintagesewingmachine

"My Bernina Guide," early 60s edition for Bernina 707 Minimatic, front of booklet showing shoe-lace bound left edge.

Open spread to inner pages of "My Bernina Guide," showing pages for buttonhole methods.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am a bobbin glutton, have been buying them at thrifts and rummage sales, so I own a crazy amount. I fill them with ends of spools to use when it doesn't matter if the bobbin thread isn't an exact match. (You have to know your bobbin size and type, though, having the wrong bobbin will mess you up.)

Ring bobbin holders stuffed with filled bobbins with lots of thread colors. Not shown is a bobbin box with white, black, and ivory colors.
Bobbin holders are hanging on 2 hooks, with cones of thread behind them.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The weird little faces on the pink flies are sort of funny and ominous, and the faded and uneven print quality on the tablecloth looks very summery.

Closeup of fly print fabric. The flies have long pink wings folded down, blue sort-of sunglass eyes, and a kind of Eddie Munster widow's peak on the tops their heads. There is a fly every 1/2" inch or so, repeated diagonally on the yellow ground.

Tablecloth border in yellow and white with brown outline sketch drawings of flowers, leaves and dot border.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I love this combination of fabrics from 4 separate rummage or estate sales this week. Im thinking maybe a skirt or overalls with contrasting pockets? #garmentsewing #sewing

A floral handkerchief,
Striped new cotton dish towel,
Round 6' yellow/floral print tablecloth w/border,
3 yds pink fly print yardage cotton

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Doge cuts stopped funding to a glacier monitoring program in Nepal, SERVIR, "that produced detailed and advanced flood forecasting with 'days lead time' that 'allows people to plan and prepare for [floods].' The program also specifically monitored the 'potentially dangerous glacial lakes of Nepal.'"

Spearheaded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, DOGE oversaw around $60 billion in cuts to U.S. foreign aid under the Trump administration, leaving “few surviving” USAID projects in its wake. Among the USAID programs Konyndyk said was affected was SERVIR, a program that produced detailed and advanced flood forecasting with “days lead time” that “allows people to plan and prepare for [floods].” The program also specifically monitored the “potentially dangerous glacial lakes of Nepal.”

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Vintage celebrity sighting in an estate sale thrifted box of old slides ‐

Old slide that has degraded to red and pink tones. A group of people are seated around a table on a patio or balcony. Handwriting on the slide frame reads "Eva Gabor, French Riviera, Eden Roe."
Impressed into the side of the slideframe is the date JUL 60-C

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There was a chunk out of this wool blanket about the size of a dime. I found a similar blue and brown in a bag of old wool tapestry yarn, and darned a hidden little patch. #sewing #mending #stitches

Hole hidden with darned mending, on thick plaid wool blanket.

Bag and pallette of random colors of yarn scrap.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sometimes mocking is the best way to wake people up, so they see how crazy other people think their lives are.

Screenshot of portion of earlier text image, with the following circled and underlined: "...not uncommon in a lot of far right households where young women are brought up to worship their husbands and dads."

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ooops - I spelled that wrong, it is Necchi - two Cs, not two Es. Straight stitch and zigzag; mine doesn't have the "magic wheel" and cams for fancier stitches (I have a modern machine I don't use as much that can do those).

Necchi sewing machine on wooden table, with original old paper manual set on the machine bed.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

He's not lying to this question, though, because if Blanche himself *feels* that no ethical or legal line exists for Dumbf, then whatever the president asks of him is okey-dokey.

WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it?

BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jimothy's mother is known to neighbors, but his deadbeat father has not been identified. Some are wondering... (Many beings who have different than standard body types are beautiful. Shitty humans who are shitty, & align themselves with other shitty humans, deserve hate.)

Jimothy the sweet raccoon, in a photo walking, compared to an earlier photo posted of Stephen Cheung. Cheung is a Dumpf-regime whitehouse advisor who has an odd body, but is worthy of mocking - not because of his body, but because he is an awful and complicit POS.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mine likes sake bowls. We have 2 out that get filled twice a day. But I usually see him drinking out of the dog water dish.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These make great sandwiches.

Cast iron "pudgie pie" makers held over a fire.
These are folding metal double-sided pans that you put bread or pizza dough into the pans, fill one with cheese, butter, veggies, cooked meat and fold on the hinge to seal the layers together, then hold over a fire until the inside is cooked, melted, yummy.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Get out there, Milwaukee. Vote. It's not raining too much...

I Voted
You Voté
Sticker on jacket pocket

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When you put your gold-labeled name on everything, eventually your name is attached to lots and lots of garbage: Donald J Trump Signature Collection

Garbage laying on the floor of donation center. Grimy rumpled shirt with label: Donald J Trump Signature Collection

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Also the "armpit" part of her pinky is weirdly high compared to her other fingers.

Elaine Chao weird ai hand and watch from og photo

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

CarShield advertising to the base, trotting out the crusty maga

Dr Phil, seen with mouth crevice gaping mid-therapyspeak cliché in front of auto shop. Squinty-eyed, dented-head, giant shoulderpads and tie clenched tight around his deep, dusty neck-gina.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I find the backs amazing & beautiful.

Closeup of stitches on back of mola. Tiny hand stitches in many colors, in rows around a triangular shape.

Back of mola showing stitches outlining an alligator type creature.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

There are some vintage plates by Russell Wright, Harkerware, that have the ideal taller edge to scoop your fork or spoon against, while compiling the perfect bite. I scan every thrift shop for them.

Photo of a plate, wide and flat, but with a taller, white rim.

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SkyBoo @bethlasky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

But they need to read them like this

Still image from movie Clockwork Orange, actor Malcolm McDowell with eyes held open with wires, while wearing a cap with lots of wires and sciencey-looking stuff

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