Knit City This Weekend in Vancouver!
Just a note that I’ll be speaking at the kick-off party for Knit City this Friday night! If you’re in the Vancouver area or want to be, I hope you’ll come say hello. And stick around for the weekend for an amazing marketplace and workshops! FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponJust a note that I’ll be speaking at the kick-off party for Knit City this Friday night! If you’re in the Vancouver area or want to be, I hope...
Read MoreDo Good Thursday: Christie the Cat
Update (16th August): Lisa tells me Christie has been adopted. Yay! I mentioned last week that I live with a not-so-cat person, but the truth is I’m not really a cat person either. Which I further understood when Lisa sent me info about a couple of cats this week and I was immediately drawn to the one who will thrive in a home without dogs or small, energetic children. (I live in a home with a dog and a very energetic small child.) Of course, I’m doing this series of posts about homeless cats because I think maybe one of you cat people might have the perfect home for...
Read MoreBringing Mighty Ugly to Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2012
By which I mean, like, TODAY. Or, well, we’re setting up today. The event is tomorrow and Sunday from 10am-6pm at the PNE Forum, at Hastings and Renfrew here in Vancouver. (And it is going to rock.) See the state of my hatchback: Which contains, amongst many other things, these things: So come by booth E4 and make an ugly creature on purpose! FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponBy which I mean, like, TODAY. Or, well, we’re setting up today. The event is tomorrow and Sunday from 10am-6pm at the PNE Forum, at Hastings and Renfrew here...
Read MorePleasantly Surprised: The New IKEA in Richmond, BC
Because I don’t write a traditional crafts blog with projects and tutorials and I don’t write a traditional lifestyleorwhatever blog with photos of my house and projects and tutorials and I don’t write a traditional business blog, it’s not often that I receive press releases that are actually related to what it is that I do write about. Oddly, there was a time when I was approached far too often about promoting winter car mats to my readers. Anyway, I have a point. Which is that a few weeks ago I was quite surprised to be invited to the media preview of the spanking...
Read MoreRut Race, Day 4: Release the Imagination
I’ve been in a rut and this post is part of a series I’m writing to chronicle my efforts to get out of it. Are you in a rut, too? Or maybe you just want to spiff things up a little for yourself? Join in. I’m calling it the Rut Race. When I’m feeling my best, I’m an idea machine. If I managed to carry a notebook with me at all times and had the patience to stop whatever I’m doing when ideas strike, I’d have a room full of scribbled-in notebooks1. Still. Every so often an idea hits and I remember it. And it’s not just that I remember it,...
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