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We went to the 3D/2D Craft Fair today. Having recently visited survived the Crafts For Scotland/Hobbycrafts, I was wary of visiting today’s fair but came away quite impressed. Not only does this craft fair have superior quality control, they are also far more diverse whilst remaining local. Unlike Hobbycrafts you don’t have navigate around [...]

Posted 08 November 2008 † Karie § Blogging § Personal § Popular Culture § Purls ‡ Comments (2)

Matryoshka Buttons

Made by greenjelly. Man, I love Etsy

Posted 03 October 2008 † Karie § Craft ‡ Comments (0)

Oh. Em. Gee.

This t-shirt WILL be mine.
In August 2000 I spent an entire day in Te Awamutu - I even have a picture of myself posing with a sign saying Te Awamutu - and it’s a small, small North island town in New Zealand. It only has two things going for it: its rose gardens and some [...]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Karie § Finn § Personal ‡ Comments (2)

What Do You Mean By “It’s Only July”?

The first family request for a Christmas wish list usually pops up about a month after my birthday. I’m a February child. Lately I’ve found myself asking my Other Half what he wants for his birthday. His birthday is in November. I suppose we all try to be different from our parents and none of [...]

Posted 10 July 2008 † Karie § Craft § Personal ‡ Comments (0)

Webs We Weave

How badly do I want this uppercase scarf? Pretty badly, I tell you. The scarf led me on a typographic journey of the net which yielded new interesting sites: the & Blog, Bembo’s Zoo which is seriously cool, FontStruct which lets you design your own (very basic) typefaces, and, er, The Swedish Furniture Name Generator.
Hey, [...]

Posted 28 June 2008 † Karie § Art § Craft § Literature ‡ Comments (2)

Just Call Me Ariadne

Friday afternoon I went through my yarn stash and decided to give some of it to charity. Okay, so it was some not-really-funky cheap acrylic novelty yarn that I picked up at the beginning of my knitting career (i.e. February), but it doesn’t matter if the destashed yarn was cheap and nasty - I destashed [...]

Posted 08 June 2008 † Karie § Craft § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (0)

Snapshot

Shop assistant at the bookshop (precisely, slowly): “You .. want discount .. on books, don’t you? I can .. sign you up for .. discount on .. books. Give me your .. email address.”
Later I met my partner by the door to the book shop. He too had been cajoled into signing up for their [...]

Posted 19 February 2008 † Karie § Literature § Personal § Scotland ‡ Comments (7)