Hollie Beg

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Professional editor nerd. #PokemonEmployee, opinions my own, repost ≠ brand approval. Queer, fat, vaxed. She/her. @hvbeg everywhere I have a social, but this is my primary. Header by @hexsharpe.

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Hollie Beg@hvbeg· 13d

Carving out some space. #CrossStitch

Dance of the Autumnal Equinox, a cross stitch design by Mari McDonald. A brunette woman holds a silver crescent moon and a staff topped with a golden sun. She wears a cream-colored dress decorated with falling leaves, and her cloak is dark orange and green. We are advancing steadily toward the band of variegated colors and metallic braid that decorates the lower hem.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· 18d

Life has been real dang unpredictable lately, and I’ve been spending a lot of time away from home, but pretty much anytime I can carve out some space for #CrossStitch, it’s good for my soul.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· 29d

Charger, Mr. Floof Incarnate, will do what he can.

An absurdly floofy grey tabby with a white chin lies on his side on a bed with purple sheets. Please to note the excellent pink nose and side-toebean.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Jun 27

This casual miracle of engineering that I never properly appreciate, hello from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel 😄

Photo out a car window of a bridge railing over the bay under cloudy skies. Up ahead, the bridge curves to the right, and you can see open water between the two buildings that mark each end of the tunnel.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Jun 24

heat breaks tomorrow, bring it onnnnn

Phone weather forecast showing sunny and high 85 F today and then cloudy and rainy with highs in the 60s after that.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Jun 14

Another row of autumn leaves taking shape, and the left edge of the hem getting closer. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Jun 14

Definitely better than last time, but there is no such thing as too much supply! Every pint is needed—consider helping out if you can. 💖 (And if you can do platelets and plasma at the same time, as I did today, they will LOVE YOU. 😄)

Inventory snapshot at Bloodworks Northwest, showing supplies of platelets in the red; A+, O-, B-, and AB- at orange; O+ and A- at yellow; and B+ and AB+ at green.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· May 27

That little swoosh of lavender down in the lower-right corner? That’s the trailing hem of the dress. We’re getting there, y’all. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· May 26

Whoops, I’m early. (And at home.)

A few pieces of grocery store garlic bread on a baking tray (boosted after baking with some packaged garlic-herb butter when it turned out the loaf was kinda skimpy on that)

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· May 24

Sometimes a stitching session looks like half an hour of just filling in leaf stems. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· May 22

I actually ran all the way out of that Sea of Ivory color at a library crafting hangout last night and had to hit up the LNS today to restock. 😅 #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· May 10

Saving some lives at Bloodworks Northwest on this Mothers’ Day, and the local supplies could definitely use a boost. Every pint is needed—please consider helping out if you can! 💖

Bloodworks Daily Inventory Snapshot from 5/8, showing A+ at yellow, O+ and A- at orange, and O-, B-, AB-, and platelets in the red.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Apr 28

Got home from traveling yesterday. My own bed, my own shower, my usual routine. And today: back in the stitching chair. Ahhh. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Apr 12

#TenMinMerlin today while doing a park walk in Tacoma. Thanks to @skwinnicki.bsky.social for the idea! 😄

A listing from the Merlin birdsong ID app of things it heard on my walk: marsh wren, red-winged blackbird, American coot, American robin, yellow-rumped warbler, and Anna’s hummingbird.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Apr 6

The silver pattern in the cloak has been waiting so patiently for me to fill in the green underneath it, and today it finally gets to be finished. 😄 #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Apr 2

I was thinking about this one the other day for unfathomable reasons

A tweet from Vaping Dragon in June 2019:

rpg writers: (cautiously) church bad?

audience: (approving chuckle)

rpg writers: (gauging reaction) dragons... good?

audience: (one guy yells)

one writer grabbing the mic: church sucks because they won’t let you fuck dragons

audience: (raucous, terrifying applause)

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 22

Stitching on a sunny Sunday after taking myself out for pancakes. 😄 #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 17

Probably the only day this week I get to do this—choir stuff going on every other weekday. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 15

Bummer followup to this. It fell in a way that didn’t damage anything, the fire department cut it up since it was in the road, and a lot of the tree is still standing, but there’s a gaping wound in the trunk and the tree people who stopped by yesterday think it’s unlikely to survive. :(

A very large snow-covered portion of the ornamental plum tree, broken off and lying across the driveway behind two cars.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 13

My ornamental plum tree: It must be nearly time for spring, I think I’ll burst into full bloom! Winter, not giving up yet: THE DEVIL YOU SAY Bon Hiver and what the heck! (I’m pretty sure it’s Bon Hiver anyway, I don’t think we’ve had a single flake at my house all season.)

The snowy street outside my bedroom window, snow on the nearby roofs, and the snow-covered branches of a blooming plum tree bent down to drape across the roof of my car.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 10

Welcome back, post-work daylight, I missed you a LOT. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 7

Four! Complete! Leaves! (And a detail shot of the first one I finished. 😄) #CrossStitch

A close-up of the first completed leaf, showing the three different colors, all made with just a few stitches of variegated thread: orange for the tips of the leaves, a diagonal line of three brown stitches for the stem, filled in with dark red. Also visible are some nearby beads and sparkly bits.

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 6

#GW2 Going for the legendary ring first so the legendary aquabreather is gonna have to wait since they share resources, but thanks to the Dungeon Rush I did manage to acquire Agaleus (the precursor) last night. 😄

A screenshot from Guild Wars 2 showing my main character, the norn druid Rialka, swimming off the coast of with her shark pet (whose name is Nado, don’t judge me). Her armor is silver and green, she’s wielding a harpoon gun with a purple glow at the tip (courtesy of legendary gloves), and she now has a shark fin on her back, visible through her flowery backpiece (it’s the Wayfarer’s Henge, if you’re familiar with the game).

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 5

Everything is awful but at least I will soon be eating chili

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 3

Snuck a few more red leaves while dinner was in the oven. 😄 (And soon I’ll have a reasonable stretch of daylight after work again!) #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Mar 1

Here is one (1) leaf with the red bit filled in to give you a better idea.(Boy this is gonna be a whole lot of stopping and starting. 😅) The three empty squares in that top leaf will be brown for the stem. #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Feb 27

Filling in some of the fancier bits, just like I promised! You probably have to zoom in to see them, but the leaves have begun to fall. 😄 #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Feb 23

Progress from Crafternoon today. Got all the way to the right edge and back around to the left again. And I really will go back soon and fill in some of the fancier bits…mostly to get a break from the Sea of Ivory. 😅 #CrossStitch

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Feb 10

And then I snuck a few minutes of stitching while I actually have decent light in the front room! CARPE LUCEM!

Hollie Beg@hvbeg· Feb 9

You cannot tell me Erica Ortegas doesn’t ship it. #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek