Archive for July, 2010

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on February 13th, 2010. Kids, there is a pervasive opinion out there that in order to appeal to a massive audience, you have to be bland. Not that anyone actually says “bland” but that’s totally the gist of it. Folks...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 30th, 2010. It's not very topical now,  five months after the Olympics, but I wanted to save this post in a public forum. (Also, heh, look how jaded I was before the Games! Look how I totally...
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As you may know from my vague and sporadic tweets and all my allusions to stress, last week was a tough one. See, the day before we left town for Greg's grandfather's funeral, we got a call from my parents after one of my dad's routine pancreas screenings. He gets those about four times a...
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This weekend was all about digging in at home for some quiet time as we try to exorcise the stress of the last few weeks. I slept in, finished a book I've been reading for ages, started a crochet project, and spent the entirety of Saturday afternoon making earrings. We had a clock we couldn't...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 16th, 2010. So I've been getting these press releases from the Craft and Hobby Association. They've been arriving with increasing frequency and a directly proportional increase in my feeling of annoyance. Why, oh why, are the...
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We didn't have our act together to participate in our block-wide yard sale today, but we had a lovely morning walking around catching up with our neighbours. I honestly can't think of a more delightful way to start the weekend. Especially a weekend devoted to moving passed the stress and angst of the last...
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I've become the keeper of my partner's grandmother's sewing box. Mimi died several years ago, and I never really knew her. I feel like I can kind of get to know her now, though. A little bit, through the stuff in her sewing box. In it are a few pairs of scissors, countless sewing needles...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on December 11th, 2009. Paul recently wrote about his desire to drop-kick commenters who say “Great tutorial! I could never do that.” The same kind of self-deprecating denial often follows phrases like, “Great photo!” “Great project!” and “Great...
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing author Shannon Okey on Twitter* as part of her blog tour to promote her new book, The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design. We had so much fun, and such a productive conversation, that I forgot to do the giveaway we'd planned. D'oh.
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I was reading this article about EduPunk in The Tyee yesterday, and it got me thinking. (Ironically, something else I thought was that I wanted more thoughtful meat, and more concrete history and policy in that article.) For every formal job I've ever had, I've been either over- or inappropriately credentialed. I have a bachelor's...
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