This was the year I slowly backed out of my book club, wanting to read what I want when I want. Which is good, because I seem to have entered a stage of extraordinary impatience when it comes to the books I read. I don't recall ever putting down as many books as I've...
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One of the sad publishing-industry events in Vancouver in 2010 was the shuttering of Duthie Books, one of the last great non-used indie bookstores in town.
I admit I had mixed feelings about its closing. I loved the idea of Duthie's, but I'd often felt kind of intimidated going in there. And the rhetoric coming...
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2010 was the year I ventured far from my yarn-crafting comfort zone, which is not to imply I was uncomfortable doing it.
Inspired by my cousin's jewelry making, I learned how to make earrings. Armed with a bag of implements I bought off Craigslist and knowledge gained from a workshop at the Summit of Awesome,...
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This was an odd year for me. I started out with a job, left that job in February to go back to freelancing, and am ending the year doing the majority of my work in crochet-related projects, which was never my goal but which makes me happy all the same, despite my desire to...
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His name is Braxon and we're adopting him. Because of our plans for the holidays we won't be able to welcome him home till the new year. January 7th, to be exact. That's when Best Friends Animal Sanctuary will fly him up. I wish we didn't have to wait so long, but it's the...
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I stumbled on a new service this morning. Pummelvision takes your Flickr, Tumblr or Facebook photos and creates a video of them. I thought it would be dumb, but it isn't. It is, as they assert, sort of like watching your life flash by. In a good way, really. I loved seeing how much...
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