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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've been hoarding old worn out denim jeans for... well, years. And last month, my mom gave me a bin of old worn out denim that was in my grandma's basement. (Most of which were my grandpa's old jeans). So in the spirit of grandma, I am using the denim to make my first #quilt. I think I get it.

A quilt block made of recycled denim with a windowpane design.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It's tree blood season! When I discovered that you could tap OTHER maple trees, not just sugar maples, it blew my mind. Red maple (acer rubrum) syrup is MUCH tastier than sugar maple. More vanilla undertones. And tapping the trees in the yard is fairly easy, even if we have a short window.

A pot filled with bubbling brown liquid on top of an electric stove. A candy thermometer rests on one side of the pot.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Finished my first cross stitch of 2026. It was supposed to be a gift, but I messed up the size and ended up framing it bigger than it should be. So I'm keeping this one, and stitching it again to gift. #MariLwyd #crossstitch

A framed cross stitch on black cloth. It features two mari lwyd skulls decorated with ribbons and gold letters spelling out "have yourself a mari little christmas"

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Snow is beautiful on a Sunday when I have no where to be. Tomorrow, though, I'll be cursing it. #snow #nature #winter

A photo of a clearing surrounded by woods. The sky is gray and everything is covered in a thick blanket of fluffy white snow. That perfect snow that settles on the branches of every tree and makes it look like a winter wonderland.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Every year the town of #phoenixville #pennsylvania builds a giant #phoenix out of wood. There is a giant festival every December in which the whole town comes to witness the burning of the Phoenix while there is music and dancing. One of the better #wintersolstice traditions. #witchsky #solstice

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I have been extremely stressed and overwhelmed lately. Unable to sleep, panic attacks. So when this pair of jeans cane out of the dryer so ripped, I knew I needed the meditation of #mending clothes. This is probably my best (least visable) mend yet. #sewing #clothesmending #visiablemendig

A pair of jeans with a large rip at the crotch

A ripped pair of jeans with a hand behind the hole, showcasing how substantial it is

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A meditation on death: I can only hope that when I die I shall become an ecosystem #poetry #witchsky #circleoflife

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Opened up the apps, didn't see this anywhere. Didn't even hear it on npr on my drive home. Grazie mille, giornale italiano. But the death of Charlie Kirk is everywhere.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Here's my dress in the wild! Ignore my sunburn. I am not cut out for tropical islands. But I think the dress says "70s beachy vibes" #sewingsky #garmentsewing

A photo of a woman in a green dress with gold accents on a beach in front of the ocean.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I went to California to visit the redwoods. I'd never seen #poisonoak till then. It's so pretty. Of course now I have real pressed #poison oak in my office and I'm not sure what to do with them. But the non itchy print is available at ecobota.com #witchsky #pressedplants #poisonplants

A brown clipboard holds a printed image of Western Poison Oak. It is printed on a white background with the Latin name labeled across the bottom.

The clipboard sits on a background of gray wood floor planks.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Grandma's quilting stash and fabric shop close out. But I actually MADE something with my hoarded fabric. Here is my all quilting cotton dress. It's giving me #70s #gunnesax vibes. My husband thinks it's more #gameofthrones. We have different cultural touchstones. #sewing #garmentmaking #diy

A green dress with mustard yellow details around the waist and neck hangs on a black hanger against a green wall.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Everything might be going to hell but at least the Erie sunsets are still pretty. #eriepa #lakeerie #sunsets #naturesky #naturephotography

A photograph of the setting sun along the shores of Lake Erie. The sky is a hazy blue at the top with some whispy white clouds. As it gets towards the horizon it becomes a pink, then orange, and orange red against the water. The sun is almost touching the horizon and is a bright yellow ball.

The water is steel blue and streaked with waves. There is a ripple of orange highlights on the water in a line radiating from where the sun is positioned.

In the foreground is a rocky beach highlighted by the orange sunlight.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

She's finished! This lovely #vintage dress was far too small for me so I altered it for my frame. I loved the boat neck but I couldn't get the bust line to work with it, so I had to pivot to straps. Not my best dress sewing work (there's a reason I'm only showing the front) but I'm happy.

A white vintage dress with pink and blue accents on a dress form.

The altered dress with a square neckline, pink straps on the same dress form.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I bought this beautiful #vintage dress for 10 dollars even though it's a 24 inch waist and had no real bust to speak of. The skirt is full, so I can make it work. The trick is sewing a bodice that actually fits my frame but still let's me incorporate this stunning embroidered material.

A bodice laid out on white fabric. In the background is a dress making form with the matching skirt attached and a messy room corner covered in draped fabric

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I moved this friend off the road today... Remember to watch for #turtles! #herpsky #boxturtle

An eastern box turtle on the pavement of a road. The turtle is completely inside it's shell. The green grass of the roads edge can be seen on the left.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I haven't done a craft fair in AGES. But this one is in my town and completely fits my #witchyvibes #SciArt heart. It's a beautiful day to be outside celebrating art! #magicmoonmarket #witchsky #ecobota #pressedplants

A black banner with a crescent moon on the left. The sign says "magic moon" in white and "market" in purple.

A green display with 8 different botanical prints. All all #poisonplants. The display is labeled "poison plants" and "baneful herbs"

A table with two open art books open to pages of pressed plants. The table is covered in burlap. A white business card holder filled with ecobota business cards sits between them.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My most favorite bit of nerdom is trying to guess what song @npr.org is going to use for the outro/transition music between pieces. Report on corvids that can do complex math? @countingcrows.bsky.social obviously. The Tour of Lemons car race? "Cars" by Gary Numan

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Help? Is this Trillium grandiflourum, just older? Because all my others are pure white with yellow centers. #plantID #trillium #nativeplants

A trillium plant. The 3 petaled flower is white, edged in pink, and the reproductive parts are khaki fading to pink. The flower is held above the leaves.

A trillium grandiflorum. 3 white petals opening to show a yellow center. The flower sits, slightly curved, on top of 3 leaves

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I dreamt last night that it was my rollerskating prom birthday celebration but only @zchwanengesang.bsky.social and a coworker came. We still had lots of fun. But after the 2 hour rental we went downstairs to the *other* rink where there was a children's party happening... but also we could join?

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

First fire of the year. I made sure to clean out the fire ring so we didn't burn out a slumbering toad like last year. It's also a great reason to clean up all the sticks in the grass. #outdoorliving

A stone fire pit with a few small flames on sticks sits in a platform of loose gravel and leaves. Behind it are two sky blue Adirondack chairs on the gravel.

Behind the gravel is a grass lawn that is a mix of green and yellow and Behind that is a woodland with hardwood and evergreen trees.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Growing up we used to get a pizza every Friday night from Little Ceasars. It ALWAYS had the same, distinct, smell in the building when we would pick it up. Not...bad. But also not pizza. Today I was harvesting nettles (which I like to do bare handed) and I realize the nettle sap is the same smell

A basket filled with wild foods foraged from my backyard woods: fiddle heads, ramps, and stinging nettle.

#foraging #wildfood #ramps #fiddleheadfern #foresttotable #foragedfood

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This weekend I'll make my first two wild food dishes of the year: magnolia cookies and stinging nettle soup. I'm finally writing down my #foraged recipes in a journal so I don't need to look up the recipes each year. What are your go to #wildfood #recipes? #foraging #foragedfoods

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Mental health day in New York City. It only took 15 years to get the #Broadway show. #SmashonBroadway

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My schedule is all over the place and I haven't had two days off in a row which has me feeling overwhelmed. I wanted to get more done today but this is all I managed to do: two new #BotanicalArt #prints listed in my etsy shop. #jimsonweed and a the oriental #poppy. #witchsky #sciart #botany

A clipboard holding a Botanical Art print of Jimsonweed.

A clipboard holding a Botanical Art print of the oriental poppy

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Although Justice Department lawyers acknowledge the mistake in Abrego Garcia's case, they say there is nothing federal officials can do because he is now in custody of another country." So, um... maybe don't send people to another country?

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

House finches cleaning up the winter bugs on my porch. I know they are there because my dog is losing her damn mind. I've never seen a dog want to fight birds so much. Sparrows? Hawks? Vultures? She stands on her hind legs and tries to bite the sky. #PapayaThePit #backyardnature

A male and female house finch on the ledge of a porch roof. The chain of a porch swing is in the foreground with a gray shed in the distance past the roof.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We'll be there, teaching about microplastics with Dr. Felker of PennState Berks!

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm working on my taxes and the whole thing is infuriating- but even more so now. So I'm reminding myself that creating art and buying art is important self care. Look at things that make you feel good. My #botanicalart is on sale at ecobota.etsy.com til tax day if plants make you feel good.

A pink background with cherry Blossoms on the left hand side. On the right are the words "tax season botanical sale" and a cartoon tax form being overtaken by watercolor wildflowers.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I spent today embroidering pants and watching the original #RainbowBrite series because I was feeling quite nostalgic. BUT THEN I FOUND THE ITALIAN DUBS. Fun fact: she's called Iridella in Italian and this shall be how I practice language from now on.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Working on some scent work with Papaya in the yard and i heard the raspy and familiar call of the Eastern Phoebe! Had to check #merlin just to be sure. I've been tracking my backyard #phenology for 4 years now. They always arrive in this 72 hours of the year. Happy Spring! #ostara #witchsky

A screenshot from the Merlin phone app using sound ID to identify which bird is singing. It's showing the "best suggestion" is the Eastern Phoebe

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Extremely important update: the #Ramps i harvested during the solar #eclipse last April in Erie have awakened... under the lunar eclipse sky! I'll just note that my other patches of ramps have not yet shown a sign of emerging. #wildfood #witchsky #alliumtricoccum

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Lazy Sunday of #botany. Making #herbarium #specimens and watching the West Wing. At least until the power goes out with this storm. Gotta get ready for spring craft fair season. And I need to get these all listed on my #etsy but I don't wanna... #pressedplants #sciart

A table worth a stack of pressed plants waiting to be mounted. In the foreground are two mounts: Mertensia virginica and Polypodium formosanum.

In the background sits a copy of the Plants of Pennsylvania as a weight on a stack of cardboard spacers.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Behold! My porch spider has risen from winter's slumber. Look at that cute little face. #wolfspider #spider #spring

A wolf spider on a concrete background. Two eyes reflect the flash of the camera.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Stitchy friends, I need ideas. I have a pair of khaki pants that are stained. I want to embroider a design all down the leg seam to disguise it/make it less obvious. But I can't commit to a design. I was thinking dogwoods but also maybe geometric? Please help! #embroidery #designhelp

A pair of khaki pants on a gray bedspread.

A closeup of a stain on khaki pants. The smudge is small and close to the side seam of the leg. (I also recognize that the stain isn't that big of a deal, but i do feel a tiny bit self conscious when I wear these pants because of it)

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Meanwhile in Mexico... www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsP...

Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on international woman's day 2025. She is wearing a purple dress holding a staff, surrounded by women holding incense goblets wearing traditional Mexican folk dresses. There are plumes of smoke all over the crowd.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I am reposting this so I can find it again. This is WOOL. Not paint.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I rarely feel so seen on this end of the state. But true believers know that #hiddenValleyRanch is the one and only fried potato dipping sauce... THEN Heinz ketchup.

The frozen tater tot and French fry section of a grocery store freezer section. In the middle of the freezer door there is a shelf with 3 bottles of squeezable Hidden Valley Ranch dressing on sale for $4.99.

The ranch is there to be an upsale product when someone buys the frozen potatoes.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Working on my #italian comprehension through headlines. The US makes it hard though, each headline is more ridiculous than the last and I'm certain I'm mistranslation. But NOPE. Today's italian word of the day is fucilazione, which i gather is "firing squad" WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I gave in and bought a ton of #sewing thread and #embroidery floss from the local #joanns before everything was picked over. I also worked out for the first time in 3 weeks (boo flu!) You know spring is coming because I want to do things that are good for my mental health.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

So i just used 5calls.org to let my reps know how absolutely embarrassing it was to watch that spectacle in the oval office yesterday. I feel like that's a pretty worthless gesture (like MCcormick does not give an f what I think) but i literally don't know what else we can even do.

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Putting this here to keep it safe. It's important to know where to buy #fabric!

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

TIL @eve6.bsky.social covered Steal My Sunshine. So I listened to it (it's great, btw). Then the algorithm decided I must want Beck, and the Gin Blossoms, and Wheatus. And God did nostalgia hit me right in the feels. But here's the thing... #90skid #millennial

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Sarah @sarahsexyplants.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This friend just caused such a ruckus in my yard that my dog had to go investigate. Turns out he was scolding a barred owl. #nature #yellowbelliedsapsucker #natureinmybackyard

A yellow bellied sapsucker perches on the side of a Norway spruce tree. The ground is covered with a light dusting of snow and you can see orangy sunlight reflecting on the snow behind.

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