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Broom class last Friday! I now want to make more 😂 Idk yet where I’ll hang my black and flowered one, but potential there. The cord snapped right at the end for the purple one (it’s all about tension!) so I wasn’t able to make a loop on that one.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some photos from my weekend shenanigans with @cosplay eriori.bsky.social

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got out for some nature today 💖

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now the group photos from Filoli! D and I stayed later so we have a lot more duo photos I have to flip through. We wore Victorian gowns we originally made in 2017, we both wanted to make new tops for this and both ran out of time 😬 But I’m inspired by M & C’s outfits for something simpler 😂

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some more of the display from Filoli! I’m really behind on Gilded Age but it made me want to watch again. And also get some sewing in eventually 😬

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trying to remember to post! Gilded Age displays at Filoli right now, all these dresses are made from flowers. It was really neat!

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Please appreciate this bee working hard at my community garden plot. Also Eomer giving a good yawn.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Unintentionally aesthetic picture of my produce last night. I was just trying to layer in the least squished way and then thought oh this looks nice 😂 Ended up picking several more tomatoes after this as well.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I could never do more complicated quilting because even the simple ones like this are 90% pressing. I’ve logged so many pressing hours augh

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A week late, but swapped out my kitchen spring art for summerish art. I thought I had a before picture but could only find this random one. Anyway, spring was Casey Robin purchased at WonderCon and summer is @untroubledheart.bsky.social purchased on Etsy! Still looking for a winter set 🤔

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Send help. Size 10 slide for size reference 😂 Also y’all, I already grated 7 cups of zucchini before I even took this.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Summer Totoro noren! Not only did I change it timely, but I didn’t put spring away dirty. I put it aside to hand wash so uh, we’ll see how long before it’s put away 😂

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I can only do about two hours of intense looking before I start to go cross eyed, but spotted this black and white Dorid (I think?) on my way back to the shore yesterday and aaaugh it’s just so cute. Possibly one of my favorite nudibranch 💕

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Some of the nudibranch I saw today. I often poke a finger in for a size reference or to hold the seaweed steady oooor recently discovered my fingers act like a reflection and help the camera light not blow out the slug 😂

Branched dendronotid, small brownish sea slug

Baba’s festive Aeolid, purple with yellow Sea slug

Fisher’s Aeolid? Used to be Three Lined, small white slug with red

Laguna beach Aeolid, small white slug with black and orange

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Feeling like a forager but it’s just my parents’ house 😂

Basket of blackberries in front of blackberry plant

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Couple of weeks ago went tide pooling three days in a row, which. I need to do more squats y’all. I think these are all from 05/22 in Pescadero, Hopkin’s Rose, Spotted Triopha, Laguna Beach Aeolid, and Festive Aeolid (new to me!). I saw some other new to me, but these are my fave pics I think.

White Sea slug with brown and orange cerata

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The babies are nine today 😱 Eomer and Eowyn are on a diet but I’ll still give them a birthday treat when I get home 😂

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Season change! Didn’t realize I put Spring away a but dirty 😬 It’s also someone faded because I had it up for over a year after I forgot to change them 🤦‍♂️

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Spent the morning at Filoli gardens today 🌸

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Brain is not functioning today so here’s some more pictures from my Monterey outing. There’s a crab in the kelp picture, I promise.

Small orange sea slug nudibranch on a finger tip

Large yellow nudibranch next to small orange nudibranch

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A smattering of Hopkins Rose nudibranch from Pacific Grove on Sunday. My underwater camera light washes them out a bit, they were all much brighter than they seem here!

Two Hopkins Rose nudibranch next to each other in a crevice

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I forgot about Bluesky for a minute, here are some pictures from the coast last month.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Please let me paint your furniture, is is so much fun.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Snapshots from my San Diego weekend! Only second time going to SD outside of Comic Con… so of course I went to the Comic Con museum! While there discovered that there was a da Vinci exhibit at the Air & Space museum, and when we returned for that we caught a free PotO concert on the outdoor organ 🎭

Fliers for a free concert featuring Phantom of the Opera music on an outdoor pipe organ

Model of one of Leonardo da Vince’s flying machines

Person standing in front of display of the first 8.5 Doctors’ costumes from Doctor Who

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

There were a lot of really beautiful, really insightful, and rightfully angry signs yesterday but I really enjoyed and saw a few variations of this sign. Kind of a two-for-one with promoting the endangered Monarch.

No Kings Protest sign reading “The only monarch is the butterfly”

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Posting fun things feels weird given the state of the world, but given the state of the world fun things help. D and I went to a 1920s fundraiser for Ainsley House in Campbell, the blue fabric of my dress and my shoes were thrift finds, and the grey came from our combined leftover stashes.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Just some hydrangea because flowers 🌸

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Some close ups of two #hopkinsrose #nudibranch that I saw in Monterey recently at The Great Tidepool. There won’t be any good tides that I can get to for awhile so I’m really happy I made myself get out there.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Went #nudibranch searching yesterday at #pleasurepoint in #santacruz and it’s fuuuull of #opalescentnudibranch right now! Some others I found in my replies, if I can get it to work this time.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

First tomato. And I saw the cutest and biggest jumping spider so, little spots of joy.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Some close ups of the #stubbydendronotid #nudibranch I saw on Saturday, it’s so cool looking!!

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I went to #Filoli for Dapper Days on Sunday, it was lovely! There was a live band and dancers, it made me want to find a place for swing dancing again. Outfit is 100% second hand, it’s a bit hard to tell but these shoes are a deep blue, they were a great find.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Went cherry picking today, soooo many cherries. So delicious.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Saw my first #threelinedaeolid in Santa Cruz on Sunday, the kiddo with his eyes spotted it and I finally managed to get a decent shot with my waterproof camera! #nudibranch

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Some pictures from Filoli yesterday!

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

More Filoli because the news is. The news.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Some flowers from filoli from last Friday to brighten your feed.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I missed the mantis hatching, had a couple of nights when I got home after dark so didn’t look. But! I’ve been looking for babies the last couple of days and yesterday was successful! This little mantis is on top of an undeveloped apricot that’s about 3-4cm. I’d say she came in at 0.25-0.5 cm.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Some #nudibranch from 04/05! The new to me ones were the Stubby Dendronotid (first one) and the Hammerhead Doto, which I haven’t included here because this little dude is the size of a grain of rice and my camera just isn’t that good. Other three are Hopkins Rose, San Diego Dorid, and Opalescent.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Some tidepooling today! Sea slugs soon, I need to review my photos, but it was a good day for nudibranch! 8 different species spotted, two of which were new to me.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Update on my praying mantis eggsac: no change 😂 I don’t think it’s been warm for enough days in a row yet. But I check it almost every day!

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Bought these washi stickers at the Mitaka Ghibli museum and they were spendy so I only got the one set but having just put them up I wish I had like a million more 😍 I love these little guys sooooo much. #susuwatari #makurokurosuke #sootsprites

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Literally made a trip out of going to London in 2023 to see this show, but now it’s touring so we drove down to LA last night to see it again 😂 #leasalonga #bernadettepeters #bonnielangford #sondheim

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Feeding my trees today because I’m generally very rubbish at remembering to and !! I was like that’s neat what is it? INaturalist says it’s gonna be a praying mantis and I am stupid excited, will be looking at it every day 😂

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Apricot is now going for it! But the peach is prettier ✨ Also went a little crazy and bought something like 100 daffodil bulbs a bit ago so as each comes up it’s a bit of a surprise, this guy doesn’t even look daffodil to me.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Okay I think these are the best yet from my waterproof camera. It’s really hard to see what you’re doing and focus when you’re just sticking your hand in a tidepool and trying to not fall in and you can’t actually see the screen 🤷🏼‍♂️ Tips appreciated 😂 #tidepool #nudibranch #hopkinsrose #spotteddorid

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My 1st Black & White Dorid at Pescadero Point yesterday. I’d seen a lot of sightings for it recently on iNaturalist so was determined but man it was so hard to spot! I only did because it was riding the surface tension. I used some sea grass to flip it over so I could see it. #nudibranch #pescadero

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