Tutorial: Ribbon Pinecone Ornament (tags: tutorial christmas ornament craft)
Slow Cooker Beef Stew I – Allrecipes (tags: stew slowcooker recipe) Cooking more with yonder crockpot. | Ask MetaFilter Slow cooker recipes from Ask Metafilter (tags: slowcooker recipes) I want a man with a slow… cooker. | Ask MetaFilter More awesome slow cooker recipes from Ask Mefi (tags: slowcooker recipes) butternut squash macaroni and cheese [...]
Some friends and I took a trip out to Coquitlam today to take advantage of the Superstore’s tax-free sale. We weren’t looking for groceries or housewares, though, we were looking for clothes! I am a huge fan of the Superstore’s Joe line and couldn’t resist the though of picking up some trendy fall/winter wardrobe items [...]
YouTube – Playskool Tonka trucks commercial (2007) Wow. Way to reinforce patriarchal gender roles, Tonka! If I ever have kids you’re not getting a penny of my money. (tags: antifeminist video tonka) Grab A Theme – The Bluebird Sings Pretty wordpress theme. (tags: wordpress theme)
I agree with Airdrie; Blogging every day is hard! I stayed up until the wee hours last night (5am this morning, really) working on a draft of my thesis proposal, which meant I only got 3 hours of sleep. So rather than blog anything interesting I’m going to go to bed early tonight. *yawn*
Wallet-Sized Fold-Up Re-Usable Shopping Bag A tutorial for sewing a fold-up cloth shopping bag. (tags: sewing giftidea bag) Thumbtack tutorial Fabric covered thumbtacks (tags: craft tutorial thumbtacks) Cocoa in a jar Various flavours of chocolate in a jar – a neat gift idea. (tags: chocolate giftidea drink food inajar) East Side Culture Crawl I plan [...]
This comic speaks to me: I am definitely a shopping geek. Luckily most of my friends are not. Although I have gotten into some very infinite-loop like shopping situations myself when shopping online.
TripIt | Organize your travel A handy web-based travel planner that automatically parses airplane and hotel reservations to help you plan your trip. (tags: travel webapp lifehacks) Recycled Mini Dry Erase Board Instructables guide to making a nifty little whiteboard out of some paper and an old CD jewel case (tags: craft whiteboard)
I reinstalled Windows XP on our home PC today after several aborted attempts yesterday. In the end, the successful solution involved creating a Win98 boot disk from an old floppy (shockingly, Dan had one in his backpack!), and retrieving an old PS/2 keyboard from the deep recesses of our storage locker the basement of our [...]
Dan’s dad is visiting next weekend and he’s a big football fan so we’ve bought tickets to the BC Lions playoff game on Sunday. I haven’t been to a CFL game since I was a kid. Growing up in Hamilton I saw my fair share of Tiger Cats games, and when I was just 8 [...]