We headed into the mountains last weekend to catch a couple of events at Whistler. The town of Whistler is designated a "resort municipality", which means it's a resort first and foremost. The centre of town is the Whistler Village, which is also where you catch the gondolas up the twin ski mountains of...
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Kids, my city is a giant party.
We went Downtown yesterday afternoon to see what Vancouver's like during the Olympics. (We live in the city of Vancouver, but about a half-hour from Downtown by bus or about a fifteen-minute drive. I wrote more about my neighbourhood for the Raincoast Books blog series 5 Things Vancouver.)
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UPDATE 18th February: A winner has won! Please continue to leave your thoughts about the Olympics in the comments, but note that the contest has ended. Thank you so much for participating!
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I'm driving my own self nuts today with my giddy Olympics enthusiasm. So when the delightful Scout tweeted that she's dyeing a limited...
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Where Vanoc (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) has done an utterly terrible job of engaging the people of Vancouver leading up to the Olympics, there is one thing that's made people feel included and excited: the torch relay.
Last night the torch went through the University of British Columbia (some hockey events will be held...
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Never content to sit back when a stupendous conversation gets going, we're doing a live live blog event over at Make & Meaning. It'll be all about Free, and we hope you'll join us!
It's next Tuesday evening – 16th February at 5pm Pacific time/8pm Eastern. To participate, just go to this page.
If this is the...
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I'm very excited to have been invited to speak at Fibres West next month in Abbotsford, BC. If you're in the greater Vancouver area or you're looking for an excuse to take a day off work for a road trip, I hope you'll come by. Here's the gist of what I'll be presenting, from...
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How much do I love this? So much that I'm going to try to swing by to see it this afternoon, at the Davie Community Garden at Davie St. and Burrard St. downtown.
More about Howie Woo's awesome on the Crochet Me blog.
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Speaking of Free, I just love buying patterns from friends I've made in the online creative community. Mary-Heather Cogar came out with this one last fall, and I bought a copy right away.
It's about the simplest triangle shawl pattern in the world, but the reason I love simple knitting so much is because I...
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Diane Gilleland has been writing and podcasting (with Paul over at Dudecraft) about "free" this week, and as always I've been reading and listening with giddy excitement because she tackles such big ideas so simply and eloquently.
In her post today over at Make & Meaning, she ends with a point that's made all the time...
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It's grey and rainy in Vancouver, but spring's pretty much already started so I'm not too worried about any unpleasant prognostications today. BING!
Regardless, instead of passing out from exhaustion at 7:30 last night, I parked myself on the couch in front of the television and finished off my groundhog (huge thanks to June Gilbank...
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