Mom’s Notebook
Filed in creations, April 7, 2008, 8:59 pmThis morning my mom asked if I had an little journal that she could use. I seem to collect journals of sorts, but jumped on the opportunity to make her one. I picked another Metremade pattern that I quite like, and thought she would like as well, and made a mini journal with graph paper [...]
Virgo
Filed in discoveries, April 6, 2008, 11:02 pmI like reading the newspaper in the morning during breakfast. Usually my breakfast is rushed, and I still take the time to read the headlines. Most days I’ll also flip to the horoscope section, though recently I’ve gotten away from it. I started worrying that by reading them I was allowing someone’s interpretation of the [...]
Czech Book Covers
Filed in discoveries, April 5, 2008, 4:39 pmWhen my dad and uncle were younger and living in the Czech Republic they collected a series of small educational books. After moving to Canada they had them shipped out. My dad was saying that both boys really loved them when they were in the 10-14 age range, and they used to read the books [...]
Simple Sewing
Filed in creations,discoveries, April 4, 2008, 5:16 pmI received my tax refund cheque in the mail yesterday. As I’m a student it’s a significant amount, and while most of it has already been pushed into the ‘save for travel’ fund, I felt a desire to buy myself a small gift. I’ve been oogling the books at Uppercase and decided that it would [...]
Brevia Ad
Filed in university, April 1, 2008, 11:45 pmMy marketing class today was on advertising. I don’t watch very much TV due to an already tight schedule between school, work, swing, and life, and therefore tend to find advertisements really amusing. I mean, when you only see them once they’re pretty hilarious – either because they’re so cheesy or actually just well done. [...]
