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Mary Aileen
@patchworkmouse.bsky.social
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Retired librarian, crafter, glass-wearing reading geek.
She/her, mostly ace.
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Big tree isn't up yet, because of my fall the other day. But I now have a little two-footer in the kitchen window.
tiny Christmas tree decorated with cute little stuffed animal ornaments, in front of a window showing a snowy scene outside. there is an even smaller plush tree next to it. and little Grinch and Max stuffies on the other side.
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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...and here's the actual cookies.
blobby gingerbread cookies, with icing on the central body and a little way up the neck, but not the face or the limbs. they each have oe or two red or green sprinkles.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Archway has brought back their Iced Gingerbread cookies for the season. They're good, but not the same as their discontinued Iced Spice cookies as I had hoped.

The packaging is rather deceptive, however.

Here's the photo on the package...
close-up of blobby gingerbread cookies, with icing covering most of the tops, including face and limbs. they have lots of red and green sprinkles on the icing.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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the giant Muppet Bird in my yard is freezing its little tushy off
brightly colored 30 inch tall metal bird with big googly eyes, with snow hiding its feet and mounding its head, back, and tailfeathers.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Snow!
view of a snow-covered neighborhood street
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Holiday lights
bay window in five segments, with uneven swags of colored lights across each pane, down the sides, and across the bottom
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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You've just died. The sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

This cat is much too friendly to kill me.
dark gray cat rolling on the front walk
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I thought at first that this dark gray cat that visits my yard occasionally was a feral. Then I saw the collar. And today it came up and *rubbed my legs*.
cat, so dark a gray that it's almost black, standing on a slate walkway next to a blacktop driveway, rubbing against a sidewalk solar light. it is wearing a green collar. car, so dark a gray that it's almost black, sitting on a slate walkway. its eyes are leaf green. close-up of the dark gray cat's face, showing its beautiful green eyes. dark gray cat sitting on a slate walkway near a solar light.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from
scene from Driving Miss Daisy, with Morgan Freeman driving Jessica Tandy
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I made myself a tiara!
dark-haired white woman with glasses and a pink mask modeling a filigree tiara with a dark green central "stone" and little aqua ones around it
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The pattern has evolved further! This puffball is a Round Kitty.
front view of a round plush cat made of Very Fluffy fur, white with dark gray tips. it's face looks like an owl's, with big yellow-orange eyes. it has tufty ears, little front paws, and a tail just visible in back. side view of a round plush cat, showing that it's head and body are a single sphere. it's fur is white with dark gray tips, and Very Fluffy. one yellow-orange eye is visible, also tufty ears, little paws, and a short tail.
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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My childhood cat Motley, and my sister's cat Shadow. Motley was the smart one. Shadow was the doofus.
fuzzy photo of a tortie with white throat and paws sitting in front of an ugly plaid couch in the same colors fuzzy photo of a tortoiseshell* sleeping on a bed. *technically a calico; white throat and paws not visible. fuzzy black and white photo of a tuxedo cat lounging on grass. adult tuxedo cat with flattened ears confronting a calico/tortie kitten with bushed out tail
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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These two paws are the same size.
two light gray stuffed animal paws. the one on the left is so fluffy that it looks round. the one on the right hasn't been turned right-side out yet, so that the fluff is still hidden on the inside; that one looks a bit shorter and much narrower, and is clearly longer than it is wide.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Quote post with your favorite thing you’ve made lately!
cross stitch of stylized versions of the first three Doctors Who
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The pattern started out as a "Mayhaps"; here are a few examples.
spherical plush with yellow and orange fur, small black eyes, and blobby feet side view of the previous critter showing that it has felt spines down its back and tail, alternating orange and yellow. spherical plush critter with a triangular tail, felt spines down its back, blobby front feet, and little beady eyes. the fur is bright fuchsia with black tiger stripes. the spines are alternating black and fuchsia. spherical plush critter in red fur with black cow spots. it has little beady eyes and blobby front feet. red and black felt spines are barely visible down its back.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The pattern is evolving! Meet Dino-Kitty, first of a new species.
Front view of a spherical cat-like plush critter, with light gray fur, green cat eyes, two cat ears, and little feet. Also white whiskers. Side view of a cat-like plush critter with a spherical head/body and a short triangular tail with felt spines down its back and tail. it has whiskers below its eyes, cat ears, and two front feet.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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more Halloween decorations
small ceramic jack-o-lantern in a window, lit by an electric tea light. the lid is missing, because it fell and broke a few weeks ago. gray metal jack-o-lantern in front of a brick wall between two garage doors. it is lit my an actual pillar candle, that hopefully won't blow out in tonight's high winds.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Easiest craft ever: bottle stoppers with little resin animals
three metal wine-bottle stoppers with colored crystals on top, and little resin animals on top of the crystals. left to right: yellow crystal with brown capybara, clear uncolored crystal with frosted white spider with pinkish stripes, pink crystal with a pink unicorn somewhat fuzzy closeup of the spider on top of the clear crystal. it has googley eyes and pale red stripes around its head and body.
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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monster keychain
bright green key ring with a monster hanging from it. the monster is made of light green, fuzzy beads with a solid red bead for a mouth. it has large orange googley eyes and a red felt tongue.
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Halloween decorations
garage door with a black silhouette of a raven on a witch's hat. also pumpkins and other seasonal window clings (hard to see) garage door with an orange silhouette of a jack o' lantern on it. also pumpkins and gnomes and other seasonal window clings (hard to see)
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
Count von Count from Sesame Street
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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For my latest stuffed animal project, the first in over a year, I defragged a zebra.

(This is an age test. Anyone much younger than I am probably won't get it.)
stuffed animal in the shape of a zebra. instead of being striped, the colors have been sorted, white in the front (head, neck, ears, mane, front legs, torso) and black in the back (hindquarters, back legs, tail).
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Muppets Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Sharkspeare* cleaning up the beach a few years ago
person in an inflatable shark costume standing on a white sand beach with a gripper claw and a trash bag
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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groan
You've heard of Elf [on] the Shelf, but get ready for (image of a small plastic skeleton lying on top of a cup of gelatin)
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM