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Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jun 14

New board is Keychron J3 SE. I want to find a cool set of mallard or mint caps that will go well with this minty color. They have another model with a white body, but I went with this because when do you see a mint board? Switches are silent and it's nice coming from clicky & tactile.

a Keychron J3 SE mechanical keyboard. The body is a mint color, balanced between a light green and a light blue, and the keycaps are white with pink legends and pink with white legends.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· May 26

😫

Children’s tv show character Thomas the Tank Engine has an angry scowl on his face. There’s a caption that says, “Thomas has never seen such bullshit.”

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· May 18

If this ain't some FFFFFF mess.

A Black man is standing in a house, living room, in a grey sweat suit with hands on hips. he's bent at the waist and looking into the camera with a "are you kidding me?" look on his face.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· May 6

I cackled at someone's take on Philly drivers on Threads. "...a horse named Benjamin" laid me out this morning🤣

A threads post about Philly drivers.

"I'll never understand honking your horn at a SEPTA bus like you've identified a lack of urgency in the situation. No one wants to make that light more than a SEPTA bus driver. They're operating a 40-ft rectangle through these Philly colonial streets that were designed for a horse named Benjamin.

A yellow light to them is not a warning, it's a closing window of destiny so your little beep from the 4th row back is not providing any new information.

If the driver could legally phase through the Altima in front of them, they absolutely would have."

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Apr 25

These are pics of just my acrylic gouache (and one tube of Liquitex soft body acrylic). I've used my watercolor paints since the move, but not these. I want to do something with all of these so I can use them up and not have these cups taking up space in my art drawer chest.

Mini cups with attached lids that contain mixes of acrylic gouache paints. There is a range covering mauves and light taupes to deep greys. There's also a bottle of Liquitex slow-dry fluid additive.

A chest drawer opened partially to show a variety of Turner Acryl Gouache tubes and Liqiutex acrylic gouache bottles.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Apr 16

I know I’m gonna be tired in the morning but I can’t sleep and I want to paint blobs and squiggles.

A photo of a watercolor palette, poured pans from tubes all ranging from buff titanium to neutral tint

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Apr 3

He said

Luther Vandross wearing an ultramarine blue blazer on top of a black shirt. His hair is perfect and his whole mood says, "don't play with me", in the most nonchalant way.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Mar 31

I had a good no-cracks-in-my-TWSBI run (12+ years?). I had a smoke Vac 700 and various 580s (mini and full size); most were traded except for the aquamarine 580AL. This was the one TWSBI that I kept in the fountain pen rotation and inked.

A TWSBI vac 700r, a vacuum-fill fountain pen. It has a cracked band where the cap screws onto the body to close.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Mar 15

Working on knitting one of the resized samples for one of my patterns. Also need to figure out how I want to set up my new planner. I know I don't want to use anything bigger than an 0.38 pen (anything Uni holds me down).

a hand knit sweater in a sky-colored heather yarn, fingering weight, in a ribbed stitch. both the front and back are on circular knitting needles.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout and the right side holds a dot-grid space for notes and a "to do this month" section.

Laurel Denise Anne planner, a weekly vertical layout planner spread with the left side holding a full month layout and a section for tracking trackable in the middle.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 27

...ok

a screenshot of Craig and Kit from Craig of the Creek (an animated kids' show) standing next to each other, squinting their eyes suspiciously at someone/something offscreen.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 18

I love this. Stardew Valley for the win!

a Threads post saying:
I kid you not, I learned business systems from playing Stardew Valley lmaooo
1. Start with small processes.
2. Focus on the primary task first.
3. Upgrade your tools whenever possible.
4. Focus on the tasks that provide the highest return.
5. Build systems out of simple processes.
6. Multiple small revenue streams > one big one.
7. Automate the most labor intensive processes.
8. Don't overwork yourself.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 16

Any mechanical keyboard fans looking for an Alice layout? It came with brown switches, and I can include the creamy cyans, too. $100 for everything with free shipping.

The box for a Keychron Q10 75% mechanical keyboard.

The Keychron Q10 75% mechanical keyboard. It has a silver frame with grey (dark and light) keys and yellow accent keycaps.

The Keychron Q10's tools. include a keycap puller, switch puller, and screwdrivers. There are also power cords and extra modifier keycaps for windows layouts.

Akko Creamy Cyan switches in their packaging

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 16

About to put this up for sale. It came with brown switches, but I’ll add these (Akko creamy cyan) in there as one package. Realizing I need a low-profile board.

A mechanical keyboard without the key as on the switches. The layout is Alice and the switches are Akko creamy cyan.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 13

A God of War Greek trilogy remake (with Sons of Sparta out now), a John Wick game, and Ghost of Yotei DLC.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 11

Thinking about @daiyoukaigeisha.bsky.social lmao

a screenshot of a threads post that says:
Will learning about Linux turn me into a person that tells everyone to switch to Linux no matter if it fits their usecase?

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 8

Going through stuff and found 7 skins of this marigold and 4 skeins of the koi, so I guess I’m gonna crochet a quick something and put it up in the site? Gotta cover some of these moving costs somehow. burkehousecrafts.com

Two skeins of Ella Rae merino superwash, one in a bright koi orange and the other in a marigold heather.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Feb 3

Get 15% off patterns (and small pouches!) in the shop for new customers! burke-house-crafts.mybigcommerce.com

picture of hand knit socks in a heathery purple color, with some knit/purl texture

picture of hand knit socks in a bright variegated Koigu color from years ago. there's blue, yellow, pink, green, purple, and the pattern is a twisted rib panel

picture of hand knit socks in a bright coral orange color with eyelets and garter stitch blocks.

picture of hand knit socks in a variegated pale mint color with multicolor speckles in a knit/purl rib pattern

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 26

I ignored the internet for a good chunk of time today and made 4 pouches. I can't get good pics since it's snowy and icy as hell outside, but I might be able to find my lightbox somewhere.

4 hand sewn bags: one with a fruit sticker print, one with granny square print, another with neon cat food cans, and another with various animal family members.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 26

This is on you, @notalegalrecord.net. New pouch going up on Etsy later. 9.5”x5.75ish”, and with a lil loop on the side.

A handsewn bag with bright neon colors of cat food cans. There are plastic clips in the background and a not-yet-sewn bag with crochet design off to the side.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 19

I’m going through my fabric stash and finding bags that just need cutting out and assembly! SMH 😩

Fabric on interfacing, ready to be sewn into pouches. One has high-top sneakers in pink, lilac, goldenrod, and turquoise colors and the other fabric has pencils running parallel to each other on an aqua background.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 18

I finally decided to sew the sleeves into this jacket and sew the side seams. I haven’t started back up making bags or coasters (letting Printify do some of that with stuff I design), but I do miss sewing.

A multicolor, almost eye-searing, printed fabric with monkeys, toucans, and plants and flora and fauna all over.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 14

I found the missing sock! I can get the pattern up and published (hopefully) sometime this weekend.

a hand knit pair of socks in a lilac fingering weight yarn, Perennial from Kelbourne Woolens. There's a good about of ribbing on the cuff and there's a diamond-like design that has garter and eyelets.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 11

THIS heifer, Pythona. She gave me nightmares for the longest.

Pythona, an animated GI Joe movie villain. She has al almost bald head except for a ponytail, snake-like eyes, a pink/magenta bodysuit or skin made to look like scales, and a deep indigo cape.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Jan 10

I love ripping out a whole half of a sock because I knit the foot AND the gusset as if it were 64 stitches instead of the actual number. 🙃🫠

a handknit sock in the making, on the left. there's a knit/purl pattern that looks like brickwork of garter stitch a little. on the right is the pile of unraveled yarn that the knitter took out in order to fix a mistake in construction.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 31

I think I'm the most excited about playing around with this watercolor card, the reddish browns, sienna shades, and rusts. I can LIVE in the aqua, blue, purple, pink, and cool shades, but there's some room to see which of these will catch my eye.

A watercolor sample dot card from Daniel Smith. It's one of 5 cards and features reddish brown shades, earthy rusts and browns, and a few lighter coral and gold shades.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 29

This was a fun one to make. www.etsy.com/listing/4431...

A ceramic mug with pink on the inside and pink-iced donuts on the outside in an allover pattern

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 12

Thanks to TNT's schedule back in the day, I can't watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas earlier than the 10th or later than the 15th. Kid picked today, and here we are, watching him just hope and wish them people would've kept the noise low without him calling the HOA.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 9

I'm so wanting to knit this in a worsted weight that I have left over from a sweater project. Just a big, grey, warm thing to drape around myself.

A woman is standing outside, somewhere with open plain, looking at mountains. She's modeling a shawl knit with a handpainted yarn in a variegated color way of red, gold, green, and maybe purple. The shawl has chevron chunks with a different stitch pattern in each, and picot edging. There's a green version hanging on a fence in front of the woman.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 7

LMAO we're all going to be the traumatized therapy fox.

An image of a taxidermied fox sitting on a chair. Its legs are crossed and it has a very traumatized, thousand-yard stare in its beady little eyes.

Don't Play In My Face@burkehousecrafts· Dec 5

This chump doesn't offer to help with anything. Not ONE email replied to, no pivot table input, nothing.