Last year, my kid’s school district decided to shift their two-week winter break by a week. Instead of it starting the third week of December and ending just after New Year’s, it now starts as […]
Happy New Year! I started off the last new year intending to again document my daily making by posting a photo every day. I… didn’t really follow through with that. But. But! 2018 was my […]
I’m still finding my way around Periscope, and one of the things I love most about it is that people can comment as you record, so you can respond to what they say or ask. […]
You know I’ve been fixated on having fun making stuff, yeah? I’m totally fixated on it. On not feeling stressed about making stuff, on not feeling defeated if a project goes south, on getting back […]
A few months ago, my mother-in-law told me she’d been dreaming of taking a ceramics class. A wheel class for beginners is proving difficult to find here in Vancouver, but I did eventually come across […]
I’ve talked about it all year, my #yearofmaking. About how surprisingly amazing and transformative it’s been to make something, anything, every day. Earlier this month, I talked with Miriam Felton, the person who started #yearofmaking back […]
Today, for the 52nd day in a row, I took a photo of something I was in the process of making and I posted it on Instagram and all the other usual places. (Today it […]
Over the last year, Miriam Felton chronicled making something every day. She posted photos on Facebook and Instagram and tagged them #yearofmaking, and I loved following along. She didn’t seem to focus on anything major – […]
