Have you figured out your holiday presents yet? Time is running out, and last posting dates are coming up. In order to be helpful and a bit alternative perhaps, I wanted to show you some suggestions I have for your family and friends. 🙂 – MUM Mum would absolutely love this dyed hemp macramé bracelet. […]
Ever since I was told “it’s probably fibromyalgia” I have noticed certain patterns in flare-ups and when I’m capable of doing things vs when I’m not. And while it’s only been about 2 years, I notice that around September-October time I have had massive flare-ups, which also affect my general mood and mental health. I […]
I had an interesting Pride Month (June), I have to admit. There were no Pride arrangements in my local vicinity during that month, but I did meander up to Norway, where the county I was born in had its first ever Pride celebration! I love that it’s come so far, that a rural county with […]
The importance of being Proud, as an outsider, as an oddball, and especially as part of an oppressed group like LGBTQ+ people, people of colour, and disabled people, is a topic that I’m sure many a thesis has been written about. As I’m doing this in one blog post, for now, I’m only going to […]
(Am I from outer space? We’re all made of stardust after all…) One of the things I want to do with my voice, as small as it may be or as big as it may grow, is to champion for the weirdos. The kind hearted oddballs, the outsiders of the “norms” of society. Whether what’s […]
I have run into a ton of little issues lately, everything from some services being registered under the wrong name, to wanting to connect that service to a different one and not being able because of the first issue, to completely unrelated stuff like things going wrong at that other job. So I’ve kind of […]
Have you ever met a crafter, artisan or artist who’s perfectly sane? I mean, sure, on the crafting side of the spectrum there might be a nice, well crafted(!) veneer of normal-ness, which slips the further into creativity you go. But I think there’s a reason why Van Gogh is the quintessential Western artist – […]
If you looked behind the scenes of Destai right now, you’d basically see a headless chicken running around, getting nothing done. But here’s a White Rabbit instead. Two weeks ago I wrote about the meaning behind my business name Destai, but at the moment I don’t feel awakened at all. I feel more like hiding […]
