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lil emily

sadness is just old joy

About Me

DREAM OF STARS on Buy Olympia! Buy my tshirts (click image below)!!! Yay!

I have found great friends again in cincinnati :)

My Interests

gardening and gathering, learning about the history of agriculture, baking and cooking, vegan baking and cooking, feeding people, sewing/ making clothes, drawing, dreaming, thinking, reading, nostalgia, interesting patterns, fabric, vintage fabric and bed sheets from the 60s and 70s, big buttons, making things...

I'd like to meet:

Inspired/Inspiring people. Gardeners. Resourceful people. Someone who can build me a cabin in the woods. A mountain man. Someone who can help me get healthy. Someone who can give me a really good backrub because my back hurts!

Music:

T Rex, Love, Neutral Milk Hotel, TV on the Radio, Mogwai, Devandra Banhart, Spiritualized, Neal Young, Pavement, Elliott Smith, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Dead Meadow, Pelican, Animal Collective... etc etc blah blah blah

Movies:

the lost boys, the princess bride, the dark crystal, the hobbit, the neverending story, labyrinth, virgin suicides, fight club, amelie, LOTR, Harry Potter, rushmore, royal tennenbaums, Lost in Translation, The City of Lost Children, Dead Man, The River's Edge... anything with Crispin Glover or Johnny Depp...

Television:

naw...

Books:

recently: Ishmael, Neanderthin (It has a lot of history of agriculture!), Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, A Language Older than Words...

Heroes:

hunters and gatherers. people that don't have cell phones, drive cars, have debt or bills, or work for the man.

My Blog

HomeGrown Gardens & Nursery!

Hello all! Just sending a reminder about Homegrown Gardens & Nursery starting up this year in Northside (Cincinnati, OH). Here's a little about what we are planning:Homegrown Bazaar is a combination o...
Posted by lil emily on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:12:00 PST

Dream of Stars t-shirts available NOW!

Buy my t-shirts now, on Buy Olympia and Zazzle! This is so exciting! I have been waiting a while for the hand screen-printed tshirts from Buy Olympia, and they turned out great. I get royalties from e...
Posted by lil emily on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:07:00 PST

gardening, foraging, permaculture (not agriculture!)

I have been interested in the history of "agriculture" for some time now (mainly because I LOVE gardening and growing plants), wich goes hand in hand with the history of civilization... I think that's...
Posted by lil emily on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:44:00 PST

Boring Halloween, Gardening, Foraging, Primitive Living!

So I just spent a really boring halloween at my parents' in Bethel, OH because they are out of town and I volunteered to hand out sugar to the neighborhood kids. well, I guess there aren't many neighb...
Posted by lil emily on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:16:00 PST

Cincinnati Handmade/Craft show!

So I have been discussing with my friend Chris about a craft organization and shows here in Cincinnati. I don't think anything like it exists already here and I think I can make it happen with the he...
Posted by lil emily on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:54:00 PST

Poems from High School! 95/96

We had to write journal entries everyday for AP English, and I think these were two entries... unfortunately my others did not survive!DARKNESSSitting in SilenceAwakening tonightDaylight has long sinc...
Posted by lil emily on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:41:00 PST

BOOTS!!!

I am in love with these boots! Should I spend the money to buy one of these pairs?!Palladium QuebecTerra Plana ComptonI love them!...
Posted by lil emily on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:33:00 PST

Getting busy! (creative goals for this fall/winter)

So I really want to busy myself with creative projects these 6 months while I am home in Ohio. Here's some ideas I have:-House Boots, Shoes & leg warmers! Fabric, wool, etc. boots and shoes (slippers)...
Posted by lil emily on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:47:00 PST

mood swings!

yup, I got 'em! Thanks Thyroid! I appreciate it! ugh... I gotta stop posting these things!
Posted by lil emily on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:23:00 PST

I love you ladies!

And you know who you are! Thank you so much for helping me through these hard times (yes, it has been a really hard time in my life, and you gals helped me a great deal!). I never really have relied o...
Posted by lil emily on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:18:00 PST