Crafts

When I got my iPad over the summer, I also got the case Apple makes for it. It's a handy design. Kind of like a book, but also like a stand – there's a slot on the back that you can fold the cover back into so it's propped up. Handy! The only thing...
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Remember back when I launched a podcast? You know, the podcast that only ever had one episode? Yeah. Would you believe that I've wanted to play around with web video for years? I bet you would believe that, yes. And I bet you'd also understand why, given my one-episode podcast, I may have shied...
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I usually don't have my good camera with me when I visit my parents, so I took a few minutes this morning to photograph this mainstay of my childhood. I wrote a little more about it over on the Crochet Me blog.
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As you well know because I won't shut up about it this summer, pancreatic cancer runs in my family on my dad's side. Because of this, my father has both participated as a subject in research into familial pancreatic cancer, and for the last several years has received regular screenings of his pancreas. There's...
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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 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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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 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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