Archive for August, 2010

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on May 21st, 2010. I can't think of any crafty projects I've taken on in the last few years that I didn't document online in some way. I realized the other day that I have a pretty solid toolkit...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on May 7th, 2010. So, I'm not at a conference right now. Actually, I'm visiting my parents in advance of my dad's surgery. I'm at the Northern Voice personal blogging conference today and tomorrow, and tomorrow I'm going to sit...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on April 13th, 2010. Many weeks ago I promised to write about opportunities. I specifically promised Alice, who also writes for Make and Meaning. I'd written a post on my blog in response to Diane's M&M post about Free,...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on April 23rd, 2010. Sometimes I get possessed. Not all demony, or anything. I just lose control of my hands. They take control of me and make stuff. And when they have their way I actually finish my projects,...
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A few weeks ago I bought a chair from my neighbour for $1 at a yard sale. I'd been waiting a year to find the right chair to complete my vision for a corner of our living room, and though I'd had something else in mind, the price tag on this chair couldn't be...
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Last week I spent quite a lot of time wondering what on earth I was thinking telling my mother-in-law we should screen print 75 bags for hotel guests coming to my brother-in-law's wedding. It wasn't so much the 75 bags as it was designing the image. I can do words. Yes, words I can...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on March 27th, 2010. For years, I've made friends online. You probably make friends online, too. In the beginning, there were jokes (and sometimes sincere concern) about axe murderers and crazy stalkers and old men pretending to be...
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A few months ago on a slow work day I bought a bunch of screen printing supplies off Craigslist. I'd never actually screen printed anything, but I was seized by the crafts monster that lives in my occipital lobe, constantly searching for good crafty bargains. In June at the Summit of Awesome I took Christy...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on March 13th, 2010. On Twitter a few days ago, Kirsty Hall (who's written some great guests posts here on Make and Meaning) shared a link to a blog post by a woman named Patty K who recently wore pajamas...
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This  post was originally  published on the now-retired Make & Meaning  blog on February 26th, 2010. It's not very topical now,  five months after the Olympics, but I wanted to save this post in a public forum.) It's hard for me to believe it's been nearly a month since I wrote about the Olympics coming...
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