i’d like to offer my friends in kind of UTOPIAN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY
[skills that I have more than 10 years of experience in green] [skills i have used in a professional setting in italic]
<aside> ✂️ ***SEWING ~***making clothes from sewing patterns ~making basic sewing patterns for clothes from scratch ~altering sewing patterns (different styles, fitting) ~copying ready-to-wear clothes ~jazzing up ready-to-wear clothes with alterations and decoration
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🏁 **QUILTING**
~improvisational patchwork
~applique, machine and hand
~making quilts for the bed
~making banners!
~or quilts for artwork for album covers, book covers, anyplace where artwork is needed!!
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🐑 **KNITTING
~**following knitting patterns
~creating original knitting patterns
~using brother knitting machine
~basic japanese knitting machine troubleshooting and maintenance
~planning your knitting project (choosing what kind and how much yarn you need, what size needles, etc)
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🌱 **western herbal medicine**
~folk style herbalism from a mish mash of different teachers
~creating tinctures, salves, infusions, teas, creams, poultices, and vinegars. ~knowing when and why you would use these remedies
~plant ID & ethical harvest
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~~BASIC SEWING MACHINE MAINTENANCE~~
~~~~~weaving on a rigid heddle loom~~~~~~~~
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🏁 BASIC BIKE MAINTENANCE - change a tire, oil a chain
BASIC CAR MAINTENANCE - change an air filter, change a headlamp
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### **PAPIER MACHE** - big, wild, sloppy!
### SILKSCREENING - DIY-style silkscreening (like, I don’t know how to use one of those crazy octopus silkscreening machines, but i can wing it at home!)
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👁️🗨️ BIRD IDENTIFICATION PNW birds
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👁️🗨️ *TREE IDENTIFICATION* -PNW and urban horticultural varieties!
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👁️🗨️ PLANT IDENTIFICATION using a dichotomous key
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🍕 COOKING-i’m an okay cook. i’ve never done it professionally except making ice cream sundaes at friendly’s one summer when i was 17. i think in this context i’d excel at casseroles.
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**BUILDING A CAMPFIRE, or a fire in a woodstove**
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🌾 ***GARDENING*** - more brawn than brains
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🦋 WILDLIFE SURVEYS
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✒️ CALLIGRAPHY - novice! but i could letter a flyer or certificate of achievement
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🎶 **GUITAR** - acoustic and electric. reading tabs and fingerpicking.
**PIANO** - i can read music. i can sight read simple music, and read and play intermediate pieces with practice.
DRUM MACHINE- i’ve programmed one or two
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💾 PHOTOSHOP - i am very good at photoshop in my own special way
NOTION - (it’s how i made this page, but it was a struggle, TBH)
EXCEL - i am actually pretty damn good at excel. try me.
POWERPOINT - i’ve got some skills here
ARCgis - you should probably hire a professional, but i know enough to make some dangerous maps.
FINAL CUT & i MOVIE - also very good in my own special way
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🤑 PERSONAL FINANCE
~budgeting (i’ve created entire spreadsheets, but i also can give tips about using an app!)
~saving - i was heavily influenced by “your money or your life” by vicki robin in my thoughts about personal finance. i also really enjoyed the book “overcoming underearning” by barbara stanney.
[i really like just talking about money in general like a fish talking about water i guess.]
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🤑 GOAL-SETTING: i go bananas over goal-setting and tracking my progress toward goals. i can give you tips, but i’d also be a pretty good accountability buddy, i bet, if you had a project or goals you were dedicated to that you wanted to check in with someone about on a regular basis
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🤷♂️ i can help you write a resume
or practice for a job interview
also i’ve had my identity stolen, so i could maybe help if that happens to you
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💫 ASTROLOGY - i could give a very broad interpretation of your birth chart.
TAROT -i could give you a very broad tarot reading about a question
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🚶♀️ WALKING: i love going on long walks. hiking is okay, too, but it doesn’t need to get that fancy.
BIKING: i like going on medium length bike rides
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need help with medical appointments? i’m not a doctor! but i am patient and can bring you ice cream or a magazine. abortion, women’s health, dental appointments. let’s be healthy!
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🖊️ DRAWING: i have loved drawing for a long time. maybe i’m good, maybe i’m bad. i try not to think about it, but i’d draw a picture for you! or draw with you! or maybe you’ve never drawn before, i’d give you some pointers. but i bet you’re a great drawer just naturally.
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### COLOR: i love color. if you need color for something, i can bring the color.
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💃 middleaged untrained back up dancer
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