Did I scare ya?

1 in 7 people in the world don’t have enough food. (That’s about 925 million people). 22,000 children die every single day due to poverty. Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of global income. [...]

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Kakariki

I think this is a really cool election poster. The wordplay on “richer”, the cute (Maori?) kid in the green shirt, the idyllic but not tourist-y natural green setting. Well played.

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Stop! Unconsume it!

Today I read about quite a cool new initiative called Unconsumption. As Chappell noted on Etsy: these days “we are overly branded” – we live in a branded world! So Rob Walker, author of Buying In: The Secret Diary Between What We Buy and Who We Are, has been looking at our addiction to brands [...]

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A 3 Generational Miracle

I admit that I haven’t been watching too much of the TV coverage of the earthquake diaster in Turkey. Having experienced it here, it’s so distressing to see others on the other side of the world going through the same thing (on a much larger scale). However I was really happy to hear about the rescue [...]

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fleurs de printemps

Yesterday was a great day: it was a public holiday, the All Blacks had won the World Cup, it was warm, sunny and I went for a walk.  Blossoms. They are spring. On a sunny day, they just look so delightful and fun, like they’re giggling. And they’re so ridiculously frilly. I feel like they [...]

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Source Code (2011)

 Time travel! It’s the stuff of movies! One of those movies is Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmiga. To be honest, I’m not much one for science-y, nerdy time machine movies. However Source Code isn’t a nerdy time machine movie. It’s less about time travel and more about people and relationships and identity. [...]

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Kleeberger for Christchurch

Remember how I said that trying to imagine Adam Kleeberger without his beard was sad? Well, it is sad no longer! A few days ago Kleeberger shaved his 30cm long beard (which he’d been growing for about 8 months) off to raise money for charity. I was so touched to hear that the Canadian rugby [...]

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Please build more shelves!

I love words, I love language. So how could I not love books? And like lots of other people who love books, I love the idea of devoting part of my home to them in a beautiful and functional way. Beautiful-Libraries.com is a collection of images of lots of different kinds of libraries. From “Modest Home [...]

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Flies my Falcon

So we we’ve been watching the original Star Wars films over the last few weeks. And I love them, they’re the films I grew up watching and they’re so fun to come back to. But watching the films again recently has made me notice something I never appreciated as a kid: Han solo is a [...]

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BLFB Part One: Planning and Making Letter Templates

Woohoo! Guess who’s started making her Block Letters For Baby quilt? That’s right, me! Using Elizabeth Hartman’s Billboard Quilt-Along as a guide, I got out my coloured pencils and started planning the top of my quilt. Because it’s a baby quilt I don’t want to have too many letters and I’d like them to be [...]

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