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#happy #sad
#happy #sad This represents a whole load of different things to me right now. For example…… last week I quit my job. This was in itself a happy thing, happy because it is part of the bigger picture and I now have one month off before I go back to school this fall, and also […]
You there. You get a Gold Star!
This past couple weeks have been a bit of a blur. Hectic and busy, so much going on, but soon, very soon this will change. Work-wise I have been training another member of staff who has stepped into the breach to save us when we were in a bit of a bind. There was a […]
The Summer Quest: Giardia lamblia
One of my favourite fellow Bay Area Sewists, the lovely Rebecca, challenged me to a microbe-making summer quest, inspired by this post. You can buy those patterns from Etsy, but I wanted to explore making some more in the same vein as my beautiful E. coli. For my first one, I decided to pick a […]
Wedding Camper Stitch
This was a labour of love. One of my best friends from the UK was getting married, and I wanted to make them something as a wedding gift. I had a little something in mind, but it was a project that I knew was going to take a long time, so I was initially kinda […]
A gentle reminder for forgetful people.
You know how it is. You think to yourself “yep, I must do that later” and then the thought completely vanishes from your mind. Yup. I got a new car (first and probably only time I will ever have a brand new car in my life!) at the end of last year, and since then […]
Caffeine – His Favourite Drug
Hello. I am a teetotal drug-free Vegetarian. Mr M is teetotal, mostly vegetarian (due to lack of any meat in our apartment), and mostly drug-free. His only drug is caffeine, and he indulges in a caffeinated cup of coffee once a day in the mornings, but has now switched to decaffeinated coffee for the most […]
You can’t have a party without Party Rings.
This afternoon I had a little baking session. This little baking and decorating session was inspired by a quick little cross stitch project I completed this week. This was from the June 2013 issue of CrossStitcher Magazine, bookmarked (literally) for (2) years and not yet tackled! On our recent trip home for a wedding we […]
National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
We are just coming to the end of my first Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! There is a National Pathology Week in the UK, but it is never really done anything about, at least not in any of the labs that I had worked in, so it was nice to embrace my (not so) inner nerd […]
Starfish Earrings
Or…… just how big is too big? We have had a visitor from England with us the last week or so, and this past weekend took a trip to Yosemite…. Yep. It was quite glorious. I bought a cute pair of turquoise earrings from the Ansel Adams Gallery, which kind of made me want to […]
Comox Trunks…
…or where I finally start making Mr M the Comox Trunks intended as a Christmas Present. Yup. I bought him the Comox Trunks kit for Christmas, but it is now April and I had yet to make him them! These were the first try, not made with the supplies in the kit, but with some […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 