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Fiber Goals 2024
Since 2016 I’ve set “fiber goals” as a fun way to direct my crafting for the year. I’ve come to feel like setting goals around chasing joy and doing things I want to do is important, and these resonate differently than many traditional new years resolutions that are kind of guilt-based. Links to previous years…
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Fiber Goals 2023: How did I do?
It’s December so it’s time to revisit my 2023 fiber goals and see how I did! You can see part 1 in my mid-year checkin post. Toys My kid has become really interested in Among Us so I made him a thing! Games have really helped him practice a lot of emotional maturity things like,…
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Double Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe
These are what my kid considers “normal cookies” because we make them the most! They’re also almost always what people are asking for when I get a message that goes like “remember those cookies you brought months ago… could I get the recipe?” Since I’m sending them to school for his teachers and typed up…
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Gingerbread Cookies
I typed up this recipe to accompany some cookies I’m sending to my kid’s school, so I figured it was a good time to share it here! This can make a slightly chewy gingerbread if you roll the cookies thick enough. I got this recipe from some old copy of Chateleine my mom had, probably…
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Maker Objectives and Key Results
Work made me do a training on “Objectives and Key Results” which is just a business-y version of the goal setting techniques I learned in grade school: choose something big you want to do, even if you’re not sure all the steps to get you there or it’s not a thing that ever finishes, then…
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Pikmin hat
I know the yarniverse is all abuzz with a very pink movie coming out this weekend, but my kid and I are more excited about Pikmin 4, so I made some fanart at my kid’s request.
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Incarceration history for kids
This essay made me cry: https://lithub.com/japanese-american-incarceration-for-children-brandon-shimoda-on-reading-with-his-daughter/ I own a lot of those books. They’re mostly too long and serious for my kid still. He prefers books about dogs and animals and science and silliness. And that’s ok. The books will wait. So many of the books about people we get from in the library “mystery…
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Two tiny two at a time nested socks knitted one inside the other
I wrote this up last year/summer of 2022, never quite finished it, and never published it as a result. I don’t know if I remember enough here to finish writing this up properly without knitting the socks again. I don’t want it languishing in my drafts and I’m not sure when I’ll feel inclined to…
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Fiber Goals 2023: Mid-year check-in
It’s the middle of the year, so it’s time for a mid-year look at how my 2023 fiber goals are going! This year’s goals were: Most of these are going pretty well. Toys I’ve done a lot of these! I already talked about a few in April, and last week I finished this summer’s mystery…
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Embroidered Floral Necklaces
Still catching up on finished projects! These three necklaces were from a kit that had been in my stash for a while, and I wanted something tiny and colourful after finishing up last year’s year-long constellation embroidery project. I probably won’t wear them as necklaces. They’re small enough but a bit heavy and long, and…
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Constellation Embroidery
Last year, I decided to do this constellation embroidery sampler from Kiriki press as a year-long project, doing each zodiac constellation as it came up in the year and occasionally doing the other non-zodiac ones. (It took me a bit more than a year because I didn’t see any point in rushing during December when…
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What ever happened with those book reviews?
Last summer, I had a moment where I put my book reviews on here. The first book post explains why: I’ve been taking pictures of my library returns pile and doing little reviews in the captions of my Instagram, which is fun for sharing what I’m reading right now with my mom and friends but…
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