Driving the kids home this afternoon, Rachel was spoiling for a fight. She had a doll along so she looked Hannah in the eye and said, “MY baby,” hugging the doll to her possessively.
Hannah looked back at her and played along. “MY blankie!” she said, though with better humour than Rachel. And so it began, [...]

I ordered some undyed silk charmeuse two weeks ago so I could dye it and sew my own wedding dress. I had been hoping it would get here last week so that I could spend this week sewing it (since I’ve had some time off this week), but it didn’t arrive until today.

No matter. The silk is now dyed and laid out across some chairs in front of the fire drying. It’s goooooorgeous.

Was it last January that I made that new year’s resolution to be more at peace with the creative clutter in my life? I think it worked. Dudes, I am seriously content. Well, for me, anyhow.

So every summer, my fellow (and more senior) belly dancer troupe put on 3 big summer performances. There are always littler performances throughout the year - Canada day, community associations’ park festivals, fireworks festivals, etc. But these 3 big summer performances orbit the local Shakespearean troupe’s performances, we get to make use of their big [...]

I seriously have been so busy. Just so you know.
My lack of updates isn’t due to laziness or slackitude or anything.
Anyhow, I’m seriously like, “ack, how did it get to be Jan 22nd already?” Because last I remember, I had every intention of getting some of my Christmas photos online. But that sure never happened.
Then, [...]

I was so bloody creative this weekend. Yay.
I finished my sari-silk wrist-warmers this weekend. And spent Sunday wearing them because it was a freakin’ -40° C outside Sunday morning.

And then I wore them at work today. And one of the PMs admired them, calling them ‘hardcore’.

It’s a modification of Cheryl Niamath’s ‘Fetching’ pattern, published in [...]