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I don't much like designing craft patterns. My passion for craft manifests more as a desire to curate, to pontificate, to advocate. I usually either follow other people's patterns or just wing it. I decide a couple of weeks ago to do an experiment, though. The weather was getting colder, and I realized Owen's going...
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Work-parenting balance is unbalanced! Babysitter's on holiday this week! So today, blogging = short storytelling in pictures. The End
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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 I've...
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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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Last November my friend Lisa and I spent a few days volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southwest Utah. I'd volunteered at animal shelters before, and I've supported the SPCA for many years, but this place blew my mind. Founded a couple of decades ago by friends – best friends – with a...
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I finally made Owen some clothing. It was killing me not to have made him clothing. So now I won't keel over! I blogged about the project over at CrochetMe.com, so I'll just nudge you on over there.
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Last week I spent a lovely afternoon with Claudia Kwan, a journalist who was working on a story for the Vancouver Sun about people reconsidering how they use their basement. And today the story came out! We (where by "we" I mean Greg and some volunteer and professional friends) have been feverishly working on the...
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Owen's 30th day is this coming week, and there's a chance the paperwork will be a bit delayed. No cause for panic, but we're going to continue to lay low. While we do that, and I master the art of blogging one-handed and praise the Kobo app on my iPhone that provides effortless one-handed reading,...
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I have only a few minutes to write this, so I'll dispense with my inclination to properly introduce the topic and jump right to the point. Last Thursday afternoon we learned we'd been chosen to adopt a baby the next day. I'm sure you can imagine the frenzy of the following twenty hours. I'll tell...
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His name is Braxon and we're adopting him. Because of our plans for the holidays we won't be able to welcome him home till the new year. January 7th, to be exact. That's when Best Friends Animal Sanctuary will fly him up. I wish we didn't have to wait so long, but it's the...
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