This year, I set myself 22 little goals to pursue throughout the year. I call them the 22 in 22. Once a week (or there abouts), I take a few minutes to check my progress on a few of my goals. #15 1€ or less CPW for each individual item, less than 0.20€ per itemContinue reading “Week 47: Mise en Place saved my life this week”
Tag Archives: Crafting
The Little Prince’s Wool: Extremely Slow Fashion
Over the next few months, you can expect to be hearing about some of our wooliest exploits, considering I currently have 50 kilos of raw wool out on my balcony begging me to do something with it. Fifty kilos of wool. I have no idea how many sheep that actually represents, but yesterday, I pulledContinue reading “The Little Prince’s Wool: Extremely Slow Fashion”
The start of a thing: the Little Prince’s wool
So when I finally got up the courage last year to finally ask what would become of the wool from the Little Prince’s sheep, I had a vague idea of what I could imagine happening: I would have wool to play with. That’s it? That is, indeed, it. I had worked through the bag ofContinue reading “The start of a thing: the Little Prince’s wool”
Refashion: The Amazing Yellow T-shirt
This refashion was not supposed to happen when and how it did. I had great plans for this oversized yellow t-shirt, yet another find from the 1€ rack. It happened when it did because when I was going to take my boys out to the park on Saturday morning, my youngest had a crisis andContinue reading “Refashion: The Amazing Yellow T-shirt”
Refashion: The Amazing Green T-shirt
I may have mentioned this before, but my philosopher husband (who you met in last week’s podcast!) has a very exciting take on creativity, one that I have taken as a license to invest in my creative endeavors with renewed enthusiasm. His philosopher’s hot take might sound a little bit strange, coming as it doesContinue reading “Refashion: The Amazing Green T-shirt”
Ideal Life Progress: Commitment
It was September 22 when the idea struck me. That is, September 22, five days before my birthday, that I somehow got bitten by a little bug that would, mid-November, be occupying my every minute. Our children attend a bi-lingual French/English elementary school. If you are anglophone and reading this, it may seem perfectly logicalContinue reading “Ideal Life Progress: Commitment”
Furoshiki and me
In my attempts to do something a little bit differently and a little bit more sustainably this year, I have decided to try my hand at furoshiki, that is, the Japanese art of wrapping gifts in reusable or recycled textile wrappings. My interest in the subject was sparked by Marie Kondo, who last year hadContinue reading “Furoshiki and me”
A wooly inheritance
I learned to knit as an adult, maybe around 2003. My mother taught me to do it, although I know my Gigi used to knit, so maybe there is a little genetic piece to it. I made my first non-scarf garment in 2004. I still have it. The yarn I used for my first garmentContinue reading “A wooly inheritance”
Peacock Bliss
I was given a very thoughtful gift a few weeks ago from a very dear friend who caught wind of my Buy-No-Clothes-in-2021 challenge. My friend, who I don’t get to see very often, knows how much I love clothes (one of my very first refashioning projects ever was with some of her daughter’s discarded blouses!)Continue reading “Peacock Bliss”
The Sublimation of Red Leggings
Yesterday, I went on a theoretical tangent about the Freudian concept of Sublimation: the act of redirecting socially unacceptable impulses into activities that those that are acceptable. I also discussed research on the creative process, by which adrenaline constantly raises the bar for the artist, causing him to seek out newer, more dangerous novel experiencesContinue reading “The Sublimation of Red Leggings”
Sing With Your Feet 