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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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How a creative community attracts savvy shoppers and diners
A creative community bands together to offer uniqu...
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Vietnamese Iced Coffee
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The Great Gatsby style inspiration
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
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Craft
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It’s called Idiot Cord for a reason
Well, I did it. The Grey Ghost (better known as the Neck-Down Wrap Cardigan) is finally done. I wove in the last of the ends on the train home from knit night last week, and this sweater is a beaut. It hugs in all the right places and camouflages any sins (hello, muffin top caused [...]
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How do you get out of a crafting rut?
Confession: Right now the last thing I feel like doing is crafting. (I feel like I should whisper that, but hey – times of crafty un-spiration happen to craft editors, too! It’s just a fact of life.) Maybe it’s that the sweater I’m knitting looks (and feels) like nothing more than a pile of beige [...]
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Summer fun – summer posting schedule
We’re not about to hang up a “Gone Fishing” sign over here, but now that June is officially here and the weather is increasingly warm and sunny, we’re going to do what so many people do: switch into summer mode. Through June, July and August, we’ll be posting here three days a week: I’ll pop [...]
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Brighten someone’s day with an origami note
This morning’s commute was a total bear. Two hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic is just not how I like to start the day. Photo, Helen K, Flickr The dark cloud over my head only blackened when I found my desk in the same state of disarray in which I left it last night. Remember the fairy [...]
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Custom-made softies from children’s drawings
In my travels around the internet the other day, I came across one of the coolest craft ideas I’ve seen in a while. Wendy Tsao in Vancouver runs Child’s Own Studio, a custom shop that creates soft toys from children’s drawings. Parents send in a drawing like this (notice that “Mom” is the name emblazoned on [...]
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5 crafts for flooring and tile scraps
My intrepid husband and I are half-finished laying down new Pergo in our living room. Yay, right? Ugh. We hate it. And so does Artie – it’s so slippery under his old paws. Plus, he hates all kinds of renovations. Or change of any kind. Don’t get me wrong – Pergo is lovely stuff. And [...]
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Spring is here! And so are fun craft events
We had a rainy weekend in Toronto, but it seems as though the rain was exactly what the world needed. Suddenly everything seems to be in bloom. It’s beautiful! When I got home from my walk last night I looked at these crewel wools and thought that they are just about the perfect colours for [...]
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How to frog a half-done sweater in 3 minutes
I was so excited when Austen asked me to join the Classic Raglan KAL last week. But one thought kept nagging me as I pondered what colour and what type of yarn to pick for my new sweater. What about my Old Port? This poor old girl was consigned to the Island of Misfit Knits about [...]
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February Quick Knit: Mad Hatter’s Tea Cosy
February is just the right time for a huge pot of tea and, oh, about a million episodes of your favourite TV show, isn’t it? (Nerd alert: I’m working through the seventh of nine seasons of “The X-Files.”) I drink a lot of tea, often when I’m knitting. So for Christmas, I asked for and [...]
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Eye-catching Valentine’s Day crafts to start now
I go back and forth on Valentine’s Day. Sometimes it gets me down, but other times I’m just happy to have an excuse to inject a bit of colour and fun into the dreariest part of the year. It’s been grey and soggy here all week, so to cheer myself up I’ve been eating Hershey’s [...]
