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 some
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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 some
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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 Me
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on February 13th, 2010.
Kids, there is a pervasive opinion out there that in order to appeal to a massive aud
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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 delightfu
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on December 11th, 2009.
Paul recently wrote about his desire to drop-kick commenters who say “Great tutorial! I co
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I was reading this article about EduPunk in The Tyee yesterday, and it got me thinking. (Ironically, something else I thought was that I wanted more thoughtful meat, and more concrete history and poli
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Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what's now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I've enjoye
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A couple of weeks ago an idea pounced on me while I was riding the bus home at night. The kind of idea that led me to run home from the bus stop and have a domain registered and half a website bui
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Over at Make and Meaning today, Diane posted a video of Jamie Oliver talking about the mission he's on to use his creativity as a chef (and the visibility he's gained) to educate people about food
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I thought a couple weeks into 2010 I'd do a little wrap-up of 2009. It was, after all, a fairly unusual year for me. Also, I've neglected my pal the bulleted list and I feel I owe him a big one.
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