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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 young women. It’s amazing...
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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...
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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 to a...
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As you may know from my vague and sporadic tweets and all my allusions to stress, last week was a tough one. See, the day before we left town for Greg’s grandfather’s funeral, we got a call from my parents after one of my dad’s routine pancreas screenings. He gets those about four times...
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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...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 16th, 2010. So I’ve been getting these press releases from the Craft and Hobby Association. They’ve been arriving with increasing frequency and a directly proportional increase in my feeling of annoyance. Why, oh why, are the events these press releases...
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We didn’t have our act together to participate in our block-wide yard sale today, but we had a lovely morning walking around catching up with our neighbours. I honestly can’t think of a more delightful way to start the weekend. Especially a weekend devoted to moving passed the stress and angst of the last...
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I’ve become the keeper of my partner’s grandmother’s sewing box. Mimi died several years ago, and I never really knew her. I feel like I can kind of get to know her now, though. A little bit, through the stuff in her sewing box. In it are a few pairs of scissors, countless sewing...
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