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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here’s a photo of Finn after we got home from the vet on Wednesday as a break in your feed from all the ::gestures vaguely at everything::

Finn, an off-white and tan dog, dozing on some throw pillows on a blanket-covered couch.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Unexpected vehicle bills are not a great time. Might revive working on my Etsy shop to help out. (Currently only 3 things in it because I haven’t worked on anything in a while.)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Abundance of tomatoes means today I am attempting to roast a tray of them. Somehow I have never tried this before.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Got to see Weird Al last night! (My first time but my husband’s third.) I think the last live show I went to was in 2018. 😅 Crowd felt a bit overwhelming when we were leaving so we didn’t even look at the merch table.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I finished reading Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree last night. I enjoyed it, but I’d also read T. Kingfisher’s Swortheart and her four Saint of Steel books since reading Bookshops & Bonedust, so there were a few random moments I forgot which universe I was in. 😅

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Fridge died on Saturday. New fridge arrived this afternoon. So nice to not have 5 coolers in my kitchen anymore.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Husband got his bonus deposited this week. Thursday night, the freezer portion of the fridge stopped freezing. (Soupy ice cream ☹️) Yesterday we did the math—fridge is 10.5 years old! Decided it’d be more effective to just buy a new one. Delivery is Wednesday. Here’s hoping the fridge lasts til then.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So, on the plus side, the groundhog Finn caught and killed on Monday was not positive for rabies.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Last year, I bought a bunch of these stretched cross stitch fabric things because I‘d stumbled across them in a clearance bin. I drew this pattern out on graph paper on May 20th. Stitched it Saturday night through this morning. I haven’t even seen the episode the quote is from. 😅

Gold words cross stitched on black fabric saying “Don’t speak Latin in front of the books” and there are some small books stitched on either side of the word “books.”

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So, I don’t know how many people might be from around Smithfield, RI, but a little community boost for our libraries would be much appreciated. It has been a couple years without a budget increase from the town, and Greenville lost its Sunday hours when that happened the first time.

Joint flyer for the Greenville Public Library and the East Smithfield Public Library.

Show Up for Our Libraries

The East Smithfield and Greenville Public Libraries are requesting a 3% budget increase in the 2027 town budget.
Costs for utilities, supplies, building maintenance, snow removal, and other expenses have increased.

Without additional funding, the libraries may need to reduce programs, services, or hours.

Please support continued funding so residents can keep enjoying the library services they value.

Smithfield Town Council Budget Workshop: Tuesday, June 9
@ 6PM at the Smithfield Senior Center

HOW YOU CAN HELP. Attend the budget workshop at the Senior Center on June 9 in support of the libraries. Contact members of the Smithfield Town Council and tell them you support giving the libraries a 3% budget increase for fiscal year 2027.

Smithfield Town Council Contact Information
Mailing address: Smithfield Town Hall
64 Farnum Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917

John J. Tassoni Jr., Town Council President
401-451-1305
jtassoni@smithfieldri.gov

Michael P. lannotti, Town Council Member
401-862-6315 miannotti@smithfieldri.gov

Angelica L. Bovis
Town Council Vice President
401-612-7800
abovis@smithfieldri.gov

Rachel S. Toppi, Town Council Member
401-575-0285
rtoppi@smithfieldri.gov

Thomas Winfield, Town Council Member
401-949-3356
twinfield@smithfieldri.gov

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Heeeey. 👋🏻 I finally framed a cross stitch piece last night! It’s fairly simple, but it makes me happy. After stitching it, I also painted the frame (metallic “rich espresso”) because the only round frame I could find that’d be large enough was greige. Greige does not belong near a hobbit hole.

Green stitched text of The Hobbit’s opening line, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” inside a green stitched circle on cream fabric, all in a brown frame. It’s on a wood tabletop and there’s a tall metal and glass lantern behind the frame.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Decided to reactivate my etsy shop. Only three items ready at the moment though.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Given entertainment news today, I have half a mind to rewatch The Movies That Made Us, specifically the Home Alone and Nightmare Before Christmas eps.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Oops, I’ve been lurking again. 😅 A couple weeks ago, I decided to pivot from the sweater I’ve been knitting to crocheting scarves. You roll them up and they look like mugs of coffee. Or chai or matcha, because I’m de-stashing. Offered to sell them as a library fundraiser. I’m working on #5 now!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We got a fuzzy blanket in a Yankee swap, and Penny is loving it.

A reddish brown dog sleeping on a fuzzy white and grey blanket on a couch. Another blanket with pine trees and dotted stripes is behind her.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I forgot to post Wednesday that Penny is now 11!

Penny, a brown dog, being spoiled in a blanket on top of a bed.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Connecticut Renaissance Faire tomorrow~ I just which it wasn’t going to be in the 80s. Gimme that little ice age weather!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Got really sidetracked from reading and have been knitting a whole bunch. Which also means I haven’t been sewing either. 🤦🏻‍♀️ But I finished knitting a vest using yarn I’ve had stashed for over a decade (and it’s been discontinued for about that long too)!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Got annoyed at the news on tv this morning. I turned it off and switched to my library book. Just realized I had switched from murder news to a murder mystery. At least Jesse Sutanto made me laugh?

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I have finished reading five T. Kingfisher novels this year. Except I’m pretty sure she came out with 3 more since the start of 2025, so trying to catch up feels a bit like going up a down escalator. (Swordheart and the four Saint of Steel books, if you wanted to know which.)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’m kind of meh over Etsy at this point, but I did list a Maleficent dragon scarf over the weekend, if anyone’s been waiting for one. Sorry, I haven’t really been sewing this summer.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

About half an hour ago? Finn got sprayed by a skunk. Not a full blast but still 🤢

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Oh good, I needed some trauma today. Dog with the super prey drive just caught a groundhog in my backyard. Hunting turns off all his listening to humans. And then he wanted to make it an indoor toy. Nope nope nope. (Small blessing: saw no blood or guts this time.)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Went to my parents’ house because it’s Dad’s birthday. Brought our refrigerated meats and dairy to stash in their fridge. Still no power. Might not be back until Sunday. 😓

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Started today (around 9:20) hearing a giant boom and the power going out immediately, so that’s… something.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I should be reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab because there’s a waitlist and I know it won’t renew, but instead, I started Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher last night, and I’m somehow 172 pages in already.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

After a few days of “what tf am I doing,” I handstitched the quilting bits and machine stitched the edge. I got to use my grommet press for the first time! 😀 And this morning I hung it up in the front window. Not bad for a stash project! Just annoyed at my lateness.

Pride flag quilt in the window from behind! The backing fabric is the Pride Stitch fabric from a few years ago, where Stitch is rainbow-colored and is circled by “OHANA MEANS FAMILY Family means nobody gets left behind of forgotten”

Pride flag quilt from the front/outside! (Sorry about the glare!) Since I was only using stashed fabrics, the pink is a print with Matilda, and the main blue stripe has dragons!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Earlier this year, I requested from the library Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher and Swordheart, also by T. Kingfisher. I finished Paladin’s Grace in April, and Swortheart finally came in for me last month. I finished it last week, and now I just want to read all the books in that world!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you guessed the blanket was going to be a Stardew Valley strawberry, I’d be impressed! Finally got it spread out to take a photo, but it still has a lot of tails to take care of!

Crochet blanket made to look like a pixelated strawberry from the Stardew Valley game, spread out on queen size bed.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I nearly finished the blanket last week! I finished the squares and got them all assembled, but I still have all the tails to deal with. But now I’ve stumbled across Modern Domestic’s pride flag quilt pattern and decided to do some stash sewing. Fun fact: I haven’t actually made a quilt before.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Not gonna lie, I’m sad the last Joann stores are closing this week. Been going to them since I was little, when the stores were still So-Fro Fabrics/House of Fabrics. (Was also sad when Hancock Fabrics went out of business. And A.C. Moore. And Windsor Buttons.)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Spent the day at Robin Hood’s Medieval Faire in CT with husband and friends. A little chilly, but a good time. Meanwhile, less than ten squares left for the blanket!

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I haven’t made a motif blanket in over a decade and clearly forgot just how much time it takes. I am determined to finish assembling this month, though! 37 squares left to crochet! (Out of 158)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So this is my in-progress blanket. The back is still a mess. Anyone want to guess what it is? Clue-ish: each square is a pixel.

An unfinished blanket made of crocheted squares in brown, dark red, bright red, coral/orange, and light peach.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So I started to sew after that last craft update, but, when paired with me working on my crochet blanket, it made my wrist angry. Decided to switch and finish a project I was asked to do months ago, and now I’m making totes to donate to the library because they’re having a booksale next weekend. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

All the protest photos from yesterday made Newsies pop in my head. “Nothing can break us / No one can make us / give our rights away”

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Haven’t sewn in over a week due to running out of this specific shade of yellow, and not finding out until Joann’s stock of it had, of course, completely sold out. Finally made it to Lorraine Fabrics today, and they had it! ❤️ So I’m going to start that up again this week.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Liam made a frame for me out of pallet wood on Sunday, and today I finally got to weave the threads! Hoping to grow peas with it.

A wooden A-frame with white twine to create a trellis for the 4’ by 4’ garden plot. (Ignore my blue lawn furniture behind it)

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I had plans to use this day off of work for sewing, but I wound up going to Warwick and donating blood instead. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just realized I’d never set a banner photo, so I chose one I liked from a few years ago of my scarves. I’ll have to take a new “family portrait” when I actually restock.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Finally got to go on a decent walk around town! 2.94 miles. I used to average around 3.75 miles multiple times a week, but it’s been a while since I’ve gotten to go even a mile.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Shirt of the day. No longer available on outofprint.com, but they have other designs with the same words.

Black t-shirt with the words Fight Evil Read Books around the image of a witch stirring a cauldron while reading a book, and many other books and scrolls are floating around her.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I suppose this is becoming a craft diary of sorts. It’s reducing anxiety a fraction. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Didn’t finish anything since the last post. Started to cut out fleece for scarves. Worked on crochet motifs for a geek blanket. Got impatient and crocheted too much Saturday, and my hand/wrist is still annoyed.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Oh! Went to have my husband and my taxes done yesterday, and there was a woman working in the office who recognized me from the library once I was talking with the tax preparer. Told me we had the nicest people and she always comes to my library even though she lives closer to another. Super sweet.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

No craft photos, but I did a bunch of little things this week. Finally did the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt I had otherwise finished in September. (Liam did the buttons.) finally hemmed a chemise I didn’t have time to finish for Halloween. Knitted some of a vest but it’s far from done.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So whimsy project is a sandwich cookie or ice cream sandwich depending on the mood (I mean, I did actually start it in the summer). I haven’t decided if I’m tufting the cookie sides yet.

19-ish inch diameter cookie pillow made of brown and white fleece.

55-ish pound Penny beneath the pillow for a coincidental scale.

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Emily Carey @emame.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Still working on the whimsy project. It’s passed the stage of machine sewing and into a lot of hand sewing, so much slower going. Hopefully, I’ll finish in the next few days (unless I think of some other detail it needs 😅).

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