We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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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
If you’re anything like me, no blissful, hot...
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Guest post: Chic and easy DIY nail art
Sarah Feldman is a recent graduate of McGill Unive...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
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Crafty organization: Cute washi tape ideas
Early January is one of my favourite times of year. No, seriously. I compulsively organize throughout the year (then change my mind and go back to chaos for a while), but New Year’s Day is a special treat. It’s when the whole year stretches out ahead of me, full of promise, with nothing marring all [...]
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Stash buster: 5 tiny hat ornaments for your Christmas tree
You know when you have a really good idea for a craft? I mean, a really, really good idea? Something you think is so brilliant you don’t tell anyone because you know that, someday, someone will want you to reveal it to the world? I have those all the time. Then I Google them and realize that approximately [...]
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Fall knitting: 5 toasty blankets to make
Fall is in full force around here. We raked up six bags of leaves last weekend (we don’t even have a tree in our yard!) and are heading to and from work in the dark now. Looks like it’s time to settle in for quiet nights and plenty of cosy knitting. Remember the scene in [...]
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Weekend reading
Welcome back, the hour we lost last spring! There’s something magical about receiving a free extra hour in the day. I know most people sleep in when the clocks turn back, but I’m planning to spend my extra hour tomorrow in the craft room. A couple of these projects might even make the To-Craft List. [...]
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Weekend links
I hope you’re all having a lovely Saturday so far. It’s been raining here all day, and is threatening to rain for at least the next five days. Perfect weather for working on some of these projects I discovered around the Internet this week. I’ve been avoiding Pinterest lately – for me, sometimes too much [...]
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Summer stitch-along: Week 12 (+ weekend reading)
Welcome to week twelve of the Easy-Breezy Summer Stitch-Along. A simple craft project can be the perfect accompaniment to a summer road trip, an afternoon in the bleachers at a soccer game, or a relaxing few hours under your favourite tree. This is a low-key stitch-along with a focus on fun, not stressful deadlines! The [...]
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Tuesday inspiration pack: crafty links
It’s been a while since I shared some links, so here are a few things that have caught my eye lately. A quick and easy tutorial for a stylish necklace…made out of an old T-shirt! Cute idea for reusing security envelopes once you’ve paid your bills – security envelope “sparklers”. I tend to do most [...]
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Craft room cleanout commences
I swear my craft supplies have a secret breeding program. They’re a lot like laundry – you turn your back for a second and there’s suddenly twice as much as there was before. Of course, there’s really no one to blame but me. I’m the one who bought all that irresistible yarn, those pretty fat [...]
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Cut-and-paste crafty manicures
Although it’s not my favourite decade fashion-wise, the 1980s certainly had one thing going for it: colour. In those days, because I was a teenager (and I had a best friend whose mom sold Avon), I was obsessed with makeup – and no lipstick was mauve enough, no eyeshadow blue enough, no nail polish neon [...]
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Friday links
The middle bit of a stockinette sweater is undemanding, but it doesn’t exactly lead to opportunities for great photo ops or deep thoughts. Around my place these days there’s a lot of mindless knitting-in-the-round and watching Quite Interesting (QI), which is a terrific, totally silly British TV show that I’m thoroughly enjoying. And sometimes, there’s [...]
