Archive for March, 2010

On Thursday I'm going where few people who don't live in New York City get the chance to go. Dude. I'm going to Etsy! Kari Chapin, author of the fantastic crafts business book The Handmade Marketplace, has organized a wee panel discussion for the Etsy Speaker Series. I'll be joining her, Jennifer Judd-McGee, Betsy Cross...
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When Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, it was a revelation. For one thing, it was my first experience of true, out-and-out geekery. I kept a journal with quotes from the show. I talked about it with my very few friends at school. I was a weird kid and it was a weird show...
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We had our first home-study session for adoption yesterday. Contrary to what we've all seen on television — a social worker shows up to a home unannounced on the day the vacuum broke and the neighbour's kids trashed the place and the dog's vomiting and there's Fruit Loops everywhere and one of said neighbour's kids...
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Check out what Teresa Sullivan does with beads. I met Teresa when I went to Portland last spring for the epic craftgasm. She gave me a ride in her Dodge Dart and she let me watch over her shoulder while she worked on a bead piece. We've been in touch ever since,...
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I've been invited to speak alongside Rob of Lotus Events and Got Craft?, and Erin of Collage Collage when the Museum of Vancouver screens Handmade Nation next week. I'm so excited! If you're unfamiliar with the film, it's a documentary by Faythe Levine about the resurgence of craft. The people she interviewed are in the...
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I'm reblogging myself from over at Tumblr because I'm fairly desperate to discuss this. Please, oh please, chime in: The relationship between Dale Cooper and Harry S Truman in Twin Peaks is the best example of true male friendship ever portrayed on television. Go.
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Over at Make and Meaning today, Diane posted a video of Jamie Oliver talking about the mission he's on to use his creativity as a chef (and the visibility he's gained) to educate people about food so they can live more healthfully. It's an outstanding talk, well worth twenty minutes of your time. Diane asks, What...
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Okay, okay, the Olympics are over.* To prove to you I did stuff other than walk around town talking to strangers and screaming my head off about sports, behold: I made some stuff, too. And only some most of it is Games-related. First up, I embroidered. Yes I did. A friend of ours is due...
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I've spent much of this afternoon trying to write about the Olympics – not in the I-was-there way I've been doing, but to sum up my emotional experience of the Games. I can't do it. It's too much. But I can sort of cobble some thoughts together. Vancouver is my home. It's the home I chose...
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