Abby Elvidge

@asleepinthethicket.bsky.social

Asleep In The Thicket slow fashion, recluse, bicyclist, sewist, lover of forests and wildflower prairies, married, childless, vegan cat lady

☼⃝ ☼⃝ ◉ ☼⃝ ❍⃝ ҉⃝ ◎ ҉⃝ ❍⃝ ◉⃝ ⦿⃝ ⊙⃝ ◉⃝ ⦿⃝ ◉⃝ ◎⃝ ❍⃝ Φ⃝ ◉⃝ ∞⃝ ◉⃝ Φ⃝ ❍⃝ ◎⃝ ◉⃝ ⊙⃝ ◎⃝ ⊙⃝ ◉⃝ ❍⃝ ҉⃝ ◉⃝ ҉⃝ ❍⃝ ☼⃝ ◎ ☼⃝ ◉⃝ 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚜. #Philosophos

We had an amazing time yesterday at Kewa and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center—where we even got a tutorial from Rita, the top baker at IPCC on making fry bread. Rita has been baking since she was a kid and sharing her gift with our community ever since. Thank you for hosting and everything you do!

One of the coolest things in my new office is this amazing spinning wheel I got from my step dad. It dates to the mid-1800s, and is so wonderfully made—the metal pieces are all hand forged. A reminder of the real work that goes into making clothing, and human ingenuity. It still works, too.

A spinning wheel on a wooden floor before green floral wallpaper

Day 12 of my Mudlarking-themed Advent calendar featuring artefacts from the Thames Foreshore found across many years 🎄 14th to 18thC copper alloy pins, hand made, tied together with a pin tie. A common foreshore find because everyone’s clothing was held together by pins as buttons were expensive 1/

A bunch of brass pins held together with a pin-tie. 14th to 18th century, these were hand made, the ball at the end soldered on after.