I’ve had tics for as long as I can remember. When I was a child it was hard blinking, and sometimes it would move to other parts of my face, but I pretty much always had them. It was worse in private, but very mild to non-existent in public because I always knew there would be judgement if people saw me. But of course if it happened, it was because I couldn’t help it. It’s not like I can control it, but I guess a part of me could.
I always thought the tics were caused by the stress of the abuse from my step father and my sister, and maybe that is true, but I’m 54 now and I still have this issue and I haven’t really been in their lives for the last 20 years or so.
The last 8 years have been really bad, and I’m guessing the next 4 will be not different. I am not in complete control of when I do it or how bad it can get. During the pandemic I somehow decided it was ok, I didn’t have to worry about it because when I was wearing a face mask, my tics were mouth and nose related and the mask covered it up, although you could still see the movement of my mask when I wasn’t in a conversation with someone which would cause the mask to move based on the movement from my mouth from talking.
I’ve learned over the last 54 years that this is 100% stress related, and boy howdy, I have been super stressed lately. My main tic now is my neck and whole head. I’ll tilt and twist my head to the left side. It causes actual pain. The hard eye blinking as a child was kind of painful for my eyes, but this neck thing has caused more pain. A literal pain in my neck.
Today I discovered while watching some music videos that the entire time I was watching, there was not 1 single tic. I actually have noticed if I’m listening to music I’m not focused on negativity and my tics seemed to have disappeared while listening to the music.
The music I’m listening to is the music i listened to as a teenager in the 80’s. I think the music is soothing to my brain which causes my brain to relax and not think about negativity.
During most of my teenage years I had my walkman with me and my headphones were always on my ears and I was listening to music all the time. I had to shut the world out for my sanity and I think I need to start doing that again now that I know it’s keeping my tics at bay. The only difference is I’m using my phone and I don’t need to constantly change the batteries, I just have to plug my phone in, which is nice considering how expensive batteries are these days.
Do you have this issue and have you tried listening to music as therapy?
Well, another year has passed. I can’t believe time seems to be moving a bit faster every year for me. It seems like 2024 would still have another 6 months left, but no, it’s almost finished. 1 more day.
What have I accomplished in a year? Well, my Etsy shop was very busy this year, busier every month this year since I started. Mainly due to a single item though. A simple friendship bracelet.
I added a listing for lesbian friendship bracelets with the same designs I have for my rainbow friendship bracelets, but I used the lesbian pride flag colors. I also did the bear flag colors and that wasn’t as popular as the lesbian. So this is the bracelet that someone wanted. They sent me a message asking me if I could make this bracelet and they took a screenshot from the Disney+ show Agatha All Along. I said let me see if I can do it and I opened up my friendship bracelet designer program on my computer and figured it out. Of course I did have to Google the design and I found it right away. I just had to change the colors to these specific colors which are the lesbian pride flag colors.
After I sent this bracelet off to this person, I decided to add it to my lesbian pride flag friendship bracelet listing and wouldn’t you know it? Some other people did a search for Agatha all along friendship bracelet and they found it and they bought it and so many people wanted this bracelet. I added three sizes so that it could accommodate small, medium and large.
Two people from Germany bought one (each) and someone in Norway bought one and someone in Ireland wanted to buy it, but they couldn’t afford the shipping from the United States. I got sales on this bracelet in many states and after making it so many times, sometimes everyday, I had to remove the item from my listing because I was in agony. These bracelets take time to make and they take a toll on my hands and my back.
I will eventually make up a whole bunch of bracelets for that listing and I’ll make a whole bunch of the Agatha bracelet as well because I know people will want it again. And I’ve already bought the string for it and have cut it and it’s all ready to go, I just have to start working on them. But I need a break because I’ve been working my fingers to the bone on crafts this whole year, and my hands are about ready to fall off. Not really, but you know, jokingly.
So other things that I’ve been working on are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas box cards as well as a Christmas Advent calendar and also I’ve been knitting Christmas stockings.
The Advent calendar went to my cousin for his son and of course the whole family could enjoy it because I filled it with so much candy LOL. The Advent calendar is from SVGcuts and the fireplace box card that you see on the left side is actually from simply crafty svgs. And then there are two Christmas friendship bracelets in the front that come from an Etsy shop called The One Eyed Artist.
The Norwegian Christmas stockings are from Arne and Carlos. I posted about the stockings a couple of months ago when I made them. I’m making more because I bought so much yarn that I don’t know what else I’m going to do with it other than make a ton more stockings LOL. I’ll probably be working on these until it gets too hot to work with wool yarn.
I’ve also been reading a lot more. I made it a mission to read everyday no matter what. Even if I just read one or two chapters a day, at least I’m reading. I did the Goodreads challenge this year and challenged myself to read 30 books and I exceeded that by reading 48 books. I’m still reading a book and was hoping to finish it to make my Goodreads challenge 49 books, but I don’t think I’m going to make it.
There is one book that I have that I would like to read. That is the entire Wizard of Oz story, but it’s all one book which means there are 15 books that will count as one book unless I decide to add the books individually on Goodreads as I read them. It will most likely take me forever to read it because this one collection in one book is over 2,000 pages and I think I’m going to need to read it in stages lol. So I will add each individual book to Goodreads as I read them.
I have a lot of other books in my Kindle library to read, so I have no shortage of books to keep myself busy with. I also have a lot of books in my Nook that I can read as well.
I’m not doing the New Year’s resolution thing because I think that’s stupid. Especially when a lot of times people never follow through with it. They always say I’m going to start losing weight and I’m going to go to the gym and then they never do and they end up gaining weight. I’d rather just do it if I’m going to do it. I did lose 75 lb in 2023 with ozempic, and then it stopped on Thanksgiving Day and 15lbs have come back on gradually, but I’m still doing ozempic and I’m still trying and I’m doing my best despite the constant junk food being put in my face and constantly being asked if I want to go to fast food places. I have the ability to say no, but I don’t seem to be doing that very well. So that’s something I have to work on.
I am having heart issues because apparently my pulse is too slow. It was 41 the other day at the doctor’s office and they’re sending me to a cardiologist. I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about. I checked my Fitbit watch and my pulse seems to be around 100, but then I checked my pulse on my blood pressure machine and it’s around 40 something to 50 something. So, I guess my fitbit is not really telling me my true pulse rate. I’ll see what happens.
Well, Happy New Year and let’s hope that this year is a good year.
I’ve had a Cricut Explore Air 2 for almost 6 years, and over the last few years it has been slowly wearing down from use. I don’t use it every day, but when it’s time to start making box cards for certain holidays, it’s turned on daily and for at least 4 hours straight.
The first problem I had was the doors stopped opening when I pressed the button, I’d have to press the button and then help the doors open, and then when I cut my cardstock, the lower door would lift which caused the cutting mat to lift up while cutting. I don’t think that affected its cutting function, but it was rather annoying. Then it started making a grinding sound. The final thing it started doing is cutting the paper all wrong. This is 1 leaf cut 4 times for 4 cards of the same design. You’ll notice the 2 on the top are thinner, which caused them to break when removing them from the cutting mat, and they wouldn’t be very stable if I had to use them in my box card. I wasted 3 sheets of paper trying to correct this, and it wasn’t just this leaf, it was other leaves and all the twigs.
So we went to Michaels to buy a new Cricut Explore 3, but they were out and the salesperson brought out a Cricut Maker 3. I decided a long time ago if I were to need to buy a replacement Cricut that I would buy the Maker, but I didn’t feel like I should because I couldn’t justify the extra cost. Well, I decided you know what, screw it, I’m getting the Cricut Maker 3.
I used to use chipboard to make the box cards sturdier because the 65lb cardstock is a little flimsy and can cause the cards to sag over time. I think that put a lot of strain on my Cricut and eventually it wouldn’t even cut the chipboard anymore. I discovered Michaels sold 110lb cardstock, and so I’ve been using that for the pieces that need to be harder like the actual box part of the card and the layers inside that need to stand up straight that hold all the elements. and I’ve been using the 65lb cardstock for the elements that will stack on each other to create the different things, like leaves and flowers.
I discovered the Cricut Maker 3 needs a special tool for cutting thicker material like leather, wood and chipboard. I went to Amazon and bought a Cricut Maker 3 knife blade and housing for such things, and now I know they have wood and I’m going to see what I can make with wood. I knew it could cut leather, and now that option is on the table.
The score tool on my Cricut Explore Air 2 stopped scoring cardstock years ago, and now I can use the Cricut score wheel tip and housing. Because the score tool stopped working, I’ve been cutting the score lines for everything that I buy from SVG Cuts and Simply Crafty SVG’s. They come with score lines that actually cut the lines into your projects, so it’ll be nice to see how well the score wheel works.
I haven’t really cut many things that are vinyl or iron on, and my Cricut Explore Air 2 was able to cut those, and I only cut them when I needed to, but not very often. Now they sell vinyl and iron on that will cut without the need for a cutting mat, which will be nice if I ever make those things. I would love to make my own T-shirt designs, but I haven’t had very much luck with the iron lol. I’ve burned 3 shirts. I need to buy the Cricut heat press because it has a timer and will fit on most or the entire iron on, but I can’t justify the cost.
Oh I bought the foil thing when it first came out and I didn’t have very much luck with that. But I think it’ll work better with the Cricut Maker 3. I’ll find out eventually.
I did use the new Cricut Maker 3 to finish making all the leaves and twigs for the card I was going to make for Christmas, and they cut them out normally, which was a huge relief. I have many more box card designs for Christmas to make and I think I’ll have an easier time making them. I’m going to use the new score tool. It’ll make it go so much faster.
House and Julefugler Christmas stockings from Arne and Carlos.
I have made another Norwegian Christmas stocking from Arne and Carlos. I don’t know why the second one with the birds is bigger because I used the same exact knitting needles and the same yarn and I did the toe the exact same way and both of the stockings have the same number of stitches, so I don’t know why that one is bigger than the other, but I guess it doesn’t really matter.
In my previous post about the house stocking, I was saying that I did not like the toe nor did I like the heel, but it is growing on me. I wasn’t sure if I was going to do the same toe but it is in the instructions and I don’t want to veer away from that. So I just did the same thing with the birds and I’m working on their latest stocking which is a mystery stocking that they’re doing every day for November, from November 1st until November 25th, 2024. They’re giving you six rows a day, and when the stocking is finished, they will add the full pattern to their blog for free, and then in December it will go into their shop and you will have to pay for it. Most of their stocking patterns are $7, so I assume it will also be $7.
I did buy a bunch of stockings on their website when they were on sale for $2.80, so I bought pretty much every stocking pattern that they have. There was one stocking that I did not buy because it had cars on it and I just don’t see myself making that for anyone.
There is enough yarn from one skein of each color to make these two stockings, and there’s still enough that I’m working on making a third stocking. So these stockings are actually a lot cheaper than I thought they would be to make. I like the green color that I’ve chosen as opposed to a darker green because I just feel like this lighter green gives it more of a vintage look.
The yarn was $5 each skein, and so far I have enough for three stockings, so that’s about $5 a stocking. The first stocking took me I believe 3 days to make and the second stocking took me a little longer because I had other things that I had to take care of. The stocking that I’m making now is going to take longer because they’re only releasing six rows at a time every day this month, but otherwise I’m sure it would have only taken me a couple days to make.
Because of this project that I’ve chosen to do at this very moment in time, I decided that I was going to also resume knitting my socks. I started making this pair of socks, I don’t even know how many years ago, and I didn’t finish it because the other two pairs of socks that I had made had holes in the bottoms and I started thinking what a waste of time that was making socks for them just to get holes in them. I told my aunt that and she said you know you can fix those and they are really easy to fix, so I thought well if I can fix them then I guess it’s not a waste of time. So I decided to continue making the socks. And since I finished making this pair, I started making the next design which I’ve already started and you can see in the left side of the image.
The sock yarn is called Premier sock yarn. It is really thin and they have so many different designs and I bought 8 different designs, and so far have made 3 pairs of socks. The top left, middle left and bottom middle are the ones I’ve made. Now I am making the top middle.
I decided that I will make the socks, but I won’t wear them unless it is a special occasion. This sock yarn cost me $8 a pair to make. They are $3.99 for just 1 skein which only makes 1 sock. That is a very good reason to only wear them on special occasions, because they are so expensive.
I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with the stockings, but I’m sure I will figure it out. I think it would be nice to just hang them by the fireplace this Christmas just as decoration.
I learned how to knit when I turned 18 years old and it didn’t really go that far because I just couldn’t get the hang of it, but I never gave up on it. Several years ago I started watching knitting YouTube tutorials and I found these guys named Arne and Carlos and they are in Norway. They had a video tutorial to make a Christmas stocking and at the time the stocking pattern was free on their website and I downloaded the image which is a graph and I watched the video instructions for the toe and the heel and how to do everything else. I loved the pattern so much and the next year I decided I wanted to make another stocking and they put them on their website for sale. I ended up buying the one that they had which is a 2019 stocking.
NISSE Christmas StockingTOMTE Christmas Stocking
That first stocking, their instructions for the toe were different and I don’t think that I was able to understand it. So for some reason I did that one and that one was clearly the wrong choice because it looks terrible LOL. I also used knitting needles that were too big and the stocking was humongous. A newborn baby could have probably fit inside there. The second stocking was the 2019 stocking and I made the correct toe on this one.
So I was thinking I wanted to make another stocking and I went to their website and they had a bunch more stockings, and so I bought the one that I posted the image of above and it only took me a couple of days to make. I had a little trouble with the heel because it was an afterthought heel and I apparently did not know about lifelines using floss and I completely messed up trying to put the knitting needles in there, but now I know for the next time.
I paid $7 for this pattern a few days ago and then I went to get some yarn and that was another $15. After I finished this stocking tonight, I went back to their website to see if I wanted any of their other patterns because I finished this one so fast. I thought I might as well make another one and they’re on sale for $2.80 right now. So I bought all of the rest of the patterns that they have except for the one that has pictures of cars on it. I now have 10 stocking patterns from them.
Anyway, I just wanted to share that they have some really good patterns that you can buy and they’re really not that hard to make. And like I said, I made this stocking in like 2 or 3 days. I barely used any of the green and I still have enough yarn to make maybe two or three more stockings. I think this is a really good buy. I’m going to start making another stocking using the same colors since I still have so much yarn left over.
I’ve been playing The Sims since the beginning when I was in my late 20’s. I’ve never actually allowed my Sims to die because I wanted to work hard on getting them at the top of their career and make millions of simoleons without using any cheats, and be able to afford a nice house big enough to be comfortable. I also didn’t want to have to start over every time with either the same character, or a new character.
I have every expansion for the original Sims game for Windows XP. I skipped over The Sims 2 because I was hooked on MMORPG games, but I did play The Sims 2 Pets on PSP. Then I bought The Sims 3 for PC and have quite a bit of expansions and other packs. I actually bought that just before The Sims 4 came out, so I didn’t buy The Sims 4 until it was available for the PS4. I have every expansion except for Lovestruck. I have every game pack and every stuff pack and I have maybe 6 or 7 kits.
I couldn’t play The Sims 4 on my PS4 for too long because I don’t know if it was because I had bought too many expansions and packs, but my PS4 was having trouble with overheating. That’s actually the reason I didn’t want it for my PC because I knew it would cause my computer to become slow and I also knew if I bought a new computer, I would forget to save everything and have to start all over again. I’m not having any trouble playing the game on my PS5, so I’ve been playing every day.
The concept of death was still not something I was wanting to go through, but I think I’m ready with this new expansion coming because of the whole rebirth feature. I will get to go on a soul journey and create a bucket list and have unfinished business and have powers as a ghost and finally be able to either move on, or be reborn.
My Sims have adopted a child, so I think what I would like to do is turn aging on and let their lives play out so the child can grow to be an adult and then have children of her own and then eventually have my adult Sims be reborn as her children or grandchildren, depending on when my Sims die and finish their soul journey. Then I can see my Sims grow up from a baby back to adult and then continue for generations.
If it’s taking too long to achieve certain goals, I can always turn aging off until I can successfully reach my goals. It’s sometimes difficult to get things done because the whole day lasts for 24 minutes, but actually less because I fast forward until they wake up.
PlayStation trophies for The Sims 4
Generations is a PlayStation trophy I never thought I would ever get because I was so stubborn about not wanting to give up my Sims family who are based on my life partner and myself. So now I can see how the generations will play out and hopefully eventually have all of the Sims PlayStation trophies. I look forward to the day when I can finally finish that. Maybe that’s my soul journey.
This is actually the first time I’m buying a new expansion pack when it first comes out. I’ve been buying all of the expansions, game and stuff packs only when they were on sale because I can’t really afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a game. But I’m really excited about this particular one, so I pre-ordered it for the PlayStation. This will be available on October 31st, so that’ll be a nice Halloween gift for myself.
Are you playing The Sims 4? Let me know if you are buying this new expansion pack and how you like the game.
I have another book recommendation for anyone who likes to read, and is into the supernatural. This is a recommendation, not a review.
The Librarian book series by Brian Yansky is actually called The Strangely Scary Funny book series.
I actually found this series when I was in the Kindle store looking for books to read and I liked the image of the first book because I thought the look of the house was kind of cool and all the colors. All of the covers for each of these books are pretty much the same, except they have one thing different in the bottom Left of the image which shows basically the person or thing that is the focus of the story. They always say don’t judge a book by its cover, but I actually thought it was a cool cover and that’s why I clicked onto it and read the description and decided that I wanted to read it.
After I read the first book, I knew that I loved the series and wanted to buy all of the rest of the books. Actually, I read maybe two or three chapters and decided immediately that I loved the story and then bought the rest of the books. There are nine books total, but the ninth one comes out in October 2024.
So this story is about this guy who has some Supernatural abilities and gets lost after being thrown out of a car by a clown and finds himself in a haunted forest and then finds himself in a town called Eden which just so happens to be the original Garden of Eden. He somehow ends up becoming the librarian who somehow is also the cop or the sheriff in the town and has to solve crimes.
I don’t want to give too much of it away, but it is a fun story. The books are not that expensive and are totally worth every penny. If you prefer paperback, then get a paperback, but I prefer ebooks because of my eyes. It’s just easier for me to see when I can change the text size and I can make this screen dark.
So check out the first book if you want to read the story and find out if you like it or not. I believe the first Kindle book is only a dollar, which is not that much money.
I started playing The Original Sims when it first came out. I was in my late 20’s back then. I didn’t play around with kids because I wanted to focus on playing with regular adult Sims because it was just easier. I always focus on what’s easier, and believe me it was difficult enough just to take care of one Sim let alone two Sims and a baby.
From what I understand, the infants is a brand new thing for The Sims 4. Apparently it came in a game update. Here is what I found on Game Rant.
Since The Sims 4 was first released, a common complaint was that babies were essentially objects. They are restricted to their bassinets and have limited options for interacting with other Sims and the world around them. However, the Sims teams freed the babies with a life stage called Infants that came in a base game update on March 14, 2023.
So I am more than a year late to this, but I didn’t want to mess with infants or children in general because it’s a huge timesuck away from my other Sims. The reason I decided that I wanted to try children this time was because I’m pretty bored with my Sims. One of them is at the top of his career and has been for quite some time and he keeps getting raises even though he’s already at level 10 of his career. And he only works 2 days a week. The other one is still working on career because I wasn’t focused on him as much as I was the original Sim. But I decided to get him started on his career.
I didn’t actually get any Sims pregnant considering they’re both men and I didn’t want to have to go through a pregnancy. It’s possible, because I know that men in this game can have babies, I just didn’t want to do that. I was tempted to have a science baby on the computer, but saw there was an option to adopt and I chose that option. There were lots of children who were teenagers or just children in general, but I saw there were a couple of infants and I thought I’ll just do one of the infants because I wanted to start with a baby because of the milestones.
So apparently infants have these milestones that you have to go through. I don’t want to age the baby up to toddler until I’ve gone through all of these milestones. I’ve completed most of these, but I still need to learn to crawl, stand and dance. I’m having a lot of trouble with the crawling part, but I know she’ll get there eventually.
The main reason I decided to start this whole new Quest is because I bought the high school years expansion pack and I wanted to see a Sim child grow up from infant to teenager in high school and then go to university. I’ve had the university one for a long time, but I’ve never actually sent a sim to University, so now that I have the high school, I’ll be able to do all of the stages of childhood, and all of the schools.
Another reason is because of the trophies. I don’t think that I’ll ever be able to get all of the trophies available for this game in the PlayStation trophy section, but I won’t ever get them if I don’t ever play certain characters or certain scenarios.
I have never played more than one generation, I don’t know why. So this baby will give me the option or the chance to start doing that. I don’t want to age my current Sims that have adopted this baby, but I will age this baby to adult and then have that adult get married and have children and then eventually their children will have children and so on and so forth. I will have all of these generations live and die, but my original two Sims are going to still live. I don’t know if that makes sense, but these Sims are based on my life partner and I, and I don’t want to lose them. Other Sims of different generations are one thing, but I don’t want my two Sims to age and die.
This is my Sims 4 game along with the trophies that I have. I haven’t been focusing on completing trophy goals because I’ve just been playing my Sims. I started playing The Sims 4 on my PlayStation 4, but the more expansion, game and stuff packs I bought, the slower the PlayStation became. Oh and it was overheating too. That was originally the reason I got it on my PlayStation instead of my computer because I knew it would slow down my computer too much.
I stopped playing anything on my PlayStation 4 because of the overheating issue. I eventually got the PlayStation 5 and decided to take a chance of installing the Sims 4 on it and everything that I bought just to see if it would be too slow or too much on the PlayStation, but it seems to be fine. I haven’t really had any issues of it being too slow or hearing the fan blowing so hard that it might take off into outer space. I also have my PlayStation sitting on top of a thing that has a fan that blows the hot air out the back.
I have all but the last two expansions, all of the stuff packs and all of the game packs. I have maybe six or eight of the kits, but I haven’t gotten them all because those are never on sale. All of the expansions, game and stuff packs that I’ve bought, I only bought them when they were on sale. I’ll only get a kit if it interests me or if it has something to do with something that I’m currently working on. Eventually I’ll get those last two expansions, but for now I don’t want to spend the money. I think Black Friday or Christmas sales will be when I buy them.
Anyway, I’m working on this infant character and I look forward to seeing how it all works out with the generations and trophies.
I’ve been reading ebooks using a Barnes & Noble Nook since they introduced their first Nook ebook reader. This is my current Nook device. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7 inch Nook. I don’t know what happened, but suddenly the book covers went missing. I searched Google for the help and it brought me to the Barnes & Noble help page that said to reboot. Well, obviously that was the first thing I did, and I had probably rebooted 6 times with no change.
Then I noticed they have a list of retired Nook devices. I was like yikes! Is my Nook retired? Thankfully, not yet, but it is no longer receiving updates because it is from 2018 I believe. They currently have a new one that’s a Lenovo 9 inch tablet.
So one of the options was to reset to factory settings, and I was thinking if I did that, I would have the old 2018 operating system, because remember, no updates. So I can reset it, but I won’t benefit from whatever updates they’ve introduced to the Nook app.
That’s not a huge issue because all I’m doing with my Nook is reading ebooks. I don’t highlight anything or do annotations or whatever. So all I want to do is read my ebooks, and the 2018 version still has that ability. No problem.
My Samsung Galaxy Tab A Nook after the factory reset
So my Samsung Galaxy Tab A Nook is back to the way it was 6 years ago, and that’s perfectly fine with me. I need to be able to see what the book cover looks like for me to be able to choose the next ebook I want to read. I don’t need anything fancy, after all, if you open an actual book, you have what you have and that’s ok. Books don’t offer updates.
Resetting the Nook back to the factory settings will actually help make the device faster anyway. It was starting to get slow, so I’d open an ebook and it didn’t open as fast as it should. And whenever I have to reboot it, it will reboot faster.
Yes, I will eventually buy the new Lenovo tablet because I do have a Lenovo laptop and a Lenovo desktop computer, so might as well make it a Lenovo 3 way, right? Eventually. Right now things are difficult for me ever since someone hacked into my Spectrum Mobile account and bought an iPhone which caused Spectrum to charge me the full price for my current cell phone, which was $888 which put my checking account $350 in the negative. I had to transfer money from my credit card to my checking account and now I have debt that will take me a while to pay off.
If this Samsung Galaxy Nook stops working, or becomes discontinued and they block me from reading my ebooks, then I’ll buy a new one. Until then… it is what it is.
I am still using my i-loom, because I still feel like the i-loom is the best tool for making friendship bracelets. The makers of the app discontinued the app a couple or few years ago, and I somehow knew this would happen, so before that happened, I copied all of the patterns I had bought and transferred them to a friendship bracelet designer program on my computer. And it was lucky that I did because they did in fact discontinue the app.
I don’t know what made me think about it, but today, literally just now, I went to Google and searched for the term “i-loom app” just because I was hoping to find an app that was similar to the i-loom app. I was hoping someone decided to create a new app. I found the actual i-loom app and downloaded it to my phone and went to sign in and it actually signed me in to my old account with all my patterns still there. It even allowed me to create a new pattern with letters, which is something that it wouldn’t let me do before because I had too many patterns in my account. When I say too many, I think it’s because they are repeats because I accidentally clicked the restore purchase button a few times because I didn’t know what I was doing.
So the app works again and now I can buy new patterns and heck, I can buy the packs on Amazon and use the code to unlock the packs that I wanted to buy.
I hope for anyone who has lost all their patterns that they will see this and go check it out and use the app again to make bracelets.
One thing I wished the app would do was to create new patterns from the patterns I have that aren’t in the app. Patterns I have bought from people on Etsy. That would be awesome because then I could use the app with a tablet instead of having to look at a printout or the pattern on the screen of my tablet or phone. It would be so much easier to use the i-loom app.
I am working on this pattern for someone and believe me, it would be great if I could import this pattern to the i-loom app. That would be so awesome. Please make that option available
So the app doesn’t have great reviews, but I just gave them a 5 star and said what I just said here lol. Here are some screenshots. Apparently it came back last year in October.
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