Kim

There’s so much I want to say about Vancouver’s first Maker Faire that I’ve put off writing this post for nearly three weeks. In the interest of getting over this block, I’ve decided to write a series of posts about it. To sum up, Maker Faire blew my mind. It was the most fun...
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We finally scrapped* our ratty shag rug in the living room and replaced it with a wool rug that looks (but isn’t really) knitted. Oh man, I love this rug. Of course, we live with someone who’s absolutely desperate to crawl, and otherwise rolls around everywhere, and rubs his saliva-wet hands on the wool,...
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Last week Canadian television journalist Kai Nagata quit his job and blogged about why. It’s a long read, and worth it. I enjoyed his post a lot, both as someone prone to quitting jobs, and as someone keen to see principled people speak up about how their chosen industry could do better. This morning,...
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Happy Canada Day! And happy almost-Fourth of July! (Perhaps more importantly, from my perspective at least, happy My-Birthday-Is-the-9th!) While we collectively enjoy our barbecues this weekend, let’s think about our own independence, shall we? Two years ago Tara Swiger left her day job to go all-in on her creative business, and I’ve loved watching...
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I’ve been going to the Friday-night stitch ‘n bitch at Urban Yarns fairly regularly, which has resulted in my first fully peer-pressure-fueled knitting adventure. Someone decided we should have a knit-along for any Jared Flood pattern. I’ll skip the details and sum up by saying the madness of the crowd led me to agree...
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The riots here in Vancouver after the Canucks lost Game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday pretty much broke my heart. When I woke up Thursday morning, I found a Twitter message from Amy Swenson asking me if I’d like to write about it for a sports site run by women writers....
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A few weeks ago I started an email newsletter. Did I forget to mention that here? Shame on me. I call it a curated cornucopia of creativity crafts and cleverness. See, I got into a fun little habit after the baby arrived and I started doing most of my perusing of the internet on my iPhone...
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Have I mentioned that I’m getting back into Mighty Ugly? Since I’m back to, you know, fairly full cognitive functioning now that Owen’s almost six months old, I’m back to thinking a lot more about my favourite project. Something that excites me very much is that Mighty Ugly will be at one of Portland’s...
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So you heard about that whole kerfuffle last week, when Urban Outfitters was accused of ripping off an indie crafter’s jewelry design? If this is news to you, read the crafter’s post, the tweeter’s post about it all going viral, Regretsy’s follow-up, and Urban Outfitter’s eventual response. In sum, what happened was that a...
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You know Project Spectrum, yes? Organized by Lolly for several rounds over the last few years, it’s a colour-based creativity project. Though I’ve known about it for a long time, I haven’t participated in the project until the round that started this month (it runs through November). The focus is on the colour wheel...
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