Silver Seams

Stay the h*ck home

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

For the last few days Iā€™ve contemplated how to address the current world situation. Some of the blogs I follow have just carried on without mentioning it. Embroidery folks are all-in on hand sanitizer holders. One sewing site did a roundup of DIY mask tutorials even while saying they donā€™t really work~~, which is awful but gotta get them clicks, I guess.~~ (edit: they are not a substitute for the real deal but when I wrote this I didnā€™t expect the shortage, and felt like it was encouraging people to use poorer-quality masks because they were ā€œcuterā€ or something. Used carefully theyā€™re better than nothing!)

We were an early adopter; I had been buying extra non-perishables every grocery trip and stocking the freezer. We went to see Onward on opening weekend and thenā€¦ went home and didnā€™t leave the house. Itā€™s not a big change for us, so weā€™re three fewer potential vectors running around out there. My husband is wfh, the kid is not in college this semester, and I have a home-based business.

On which note: today I decided mailing little plush dragons around the country wasnā€™t a good use of shipping resources, so I put the shops on hiatus. Etsy is in full vacation mode; the site shop is still up but not shipping. Iā€™ll put digital items in it soon, I hope.

Take this thing seriously, folks.

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