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Downstairs from my new apartment theres a farmers market once a week. Its a very small one, which I would expect since its downtown and across from a bus station, but its nice that its there. I love ...
A while back I chatted with Caitlin Mociun, and this past week I finally got an article done for my school newspaper. Caitlin blogged about it here! It was really interesting and definitely eye-openi...
It was my friends birthday yesterday, and I made her a spiced chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting and a cherry-berry compote. While it turned out pretty nicely (Ive had some very bad cake disas...
So I disappeared off the face of the earth, locked into the studio at school for two crazy intense weeks of midterms. And then after my weaving critique, I promptly got sick and spent the next two da...
A friend of mine "commissioned" me to make this piece for her friend, who had lost her favourite silver ring. Ive been entrenched in textiles-related work for the past few months, so it was k...
A few weeks back I saw this recipe feature on Design Sponge, was intrigued, and planned to eventually make it. It wasnt until tonight, though, that while scouring some of my favourite food blogs for ...
[ 1. Marcy Robinson 2. unknown photographer 3. Brett Weston 4. Akris 5. Melanie Schiff 6. unknown photographer]A few days ago I went to the library, perused the photography section, and made scans to...
Im taking a machine knitting studio class right now for school, and our first larger assignment was to design and make a striped fabric inspired by a landscape. Since Im working with the theme of the...
This little knitting hobby that I picked up nearly a year and a half ago blossomed into a full-blown obsession this past fall and winter. It was the first year that I was dedicated (and fast) enough ...
Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways. Thus opens Haruki Murakamis sto...
Ive been told by fellow college kids that I eat ridiculously fancy food. I guess if you compare the types of things that I cook for weekday dinners with say, a cup of instant ramen or Easy Mac or sli...
So yeah, its been ages since Ive said a word here and dont know if anyones actually gonna read this, but if you are reading, please take a look at the Fluevog Creative Competition and if you like my ...
Just a heads up, posting may be even spottier than usual for the next two weeks, because THEY ARE THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR! Yesss finalsss.Since my lovely size 13 circular needles have f...
THIS IS NOT MY PHOTObut I wish it wasOh, the ironies of life. I had a terrible stomachache yesterday, so what do I do to assuage the disgusting pain (after passing out in bed after class for like fou...
So youre probably sick of the weekly wood jewelry dumpage, right? Haha, well heres the latest two pairs. The set above is a different kind of wood than what Ive mostly been using lately-- its Purple ...
Made these earlier in the week, thought Id share...Padauk wood with brass rivets and surgical steel earring hooks. Dunno how I feel about the mixing of brass and silver metal colours-- didnt have any...
I always seem to miss the annual Record Store Day-- I intend to go and then miss the date. This year I finally made it out. I saw a poster for it earlier this week and actually remembered today! I we...
Basically all my posting right now has been schoolwork. Which is okay, I guess. I'm not posting essays, at least.I'd been craving making more jewelry ever since my class ended in February, and I fina...
Project for class. Didn't really turned out the way I'd originally envisioned, but pretty fun nonetheless. Thought it matched the flag nicely.cotton fabric + tulle + handknitted back panel + flexible...
That is all. Not expecting it to compare to the comics (movie adaptations in general should always be taken with an open mind, independent of book/play/whatever preconceptions, I think... ahem Alice ...
The weather's been from snow to gorgeous this past week and thusly I've taken to drawing outside on the grass... I love spring. New semester's going well, I like my profs and schedule, barring the ea...
I actually finished the body chain shortly after I posted the preview a few weeks back, but never got a chance to photograph it. I still haven't gotten around to finding someone to model it for photo...
Just some random odds and ends that I'm enjoying right now. A hodgepodge. A mishmash. A potpourri. Pretty great how many synonyms you can get there.The summer The Con was released, I listened to it o...
The first real fruit of the labour, so to speak, of my jewelry class this semester. The ring's modeled here by my friend-- my hands are far less photogenic, heh. It's sterling silver with some brass ...
...which are She & Him tickets for the Bowery show on March 30th.I tried to get them online at the presale on Wednesday AND the real sale today, and both times they sold out literally a minute a...
Been a little more low-key on the knitting front as of late... have got much yarn that's inspiring me at the moment. There is this one project on the go, that I'm actually just a tad tired of at the ...
One of the strangest contradictions of myself in my life is that I'm supremely lazy, yet I seem to enjoy sticking myself in positions that require myself to actually be working. For example, I decide...
Back in the USA after a lovely, food-filled Christmas break with (relatively) minimal computer usage. Obviously, it was a fun fun long trip back to cold and snow, especially with tightened security a...
Got these a few weeks ago, but they deserve a post...From my delightful hometown of Vancouver comes the designer John Fluevog. I have long admired his crazy-yet-quality shoes (even his dressier pairs...
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