All posts by: Brenda

25 Jun 2011

It was nearly a near death experience.

A few weeks ago Tonia was browsing the intranet at work, which has a section that’s a sort of Craig’s List for Council employees. You can find all sorts there. One listing in particular caught her eye; a bunch of teak mid-century dining room furniture, listed for FREE. Seems a guy was clearing out his…

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18 Jun 2011

I don’t know where I’m going until I get there.

I did not set out to take a long hiatus from the podcast, or the blog for that matter. It just sort of happened. The way you sort of forget to call your parents, and life gets busy, and then one day you realize it’s been three months since you talked. And it’s June. I’m…

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21 Mar 2011

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

Two years ago, or maybe a little more, I was shopping in London with my friend, Katie, and we spotted a small project bag with matching needle case at Socktopus. The bag was big enough to carry a sock project, and was hand made from fabric with tiny sheep all over it, and I thought…

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03 Mar 2011

It’s a brown world, mostly.

First, if you’ve been having trouble downloading some episodes of the podcast, you will be pleased to know that the issues have now been resolved. The problem only affected episodes from a year or so, and earlier, so if you’re up to date with your listening, you probably won’t have noticed anything. My apologies for…

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15 Feb 2011

Episode 98: The Phantom Menace

In this episode I celebrate a new member of the tribe, weep for tools and projects that were never intended as dog snacks, catch up on a month’s worth of knitting, air the stash, and dive into knitting bags.

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