CraftyGrrrl.ca

With the New Year upon us, it”s time for that age old habit of making resolutions and this year I’m going to make some. Possibly the most important one is to make more crafting time. This plan includes setting aside time every day to spin, knit, embroider, sew, screen print or whatever and taking the [...]

As of this afternoon I’m the owner of this bike! I bought it at Duke’s Cycle , the whole staff were great, super friendly and totally cool about Abi wanting to ring every single bell on display! The guy (who’s name I forgot to get) was great at helping me get the right size bike [...]

This year I don’t have that Holiday induced hangover (not from drinking but from the whirlwind of activity), things were quiet here and it was both nice and unsettling. I’m used to rushing around to get places, coordinating rides as neither Chris nor I drive (yet again, one of my New Years resolutions is to [...]

During boxing day lunch I talked bikes with my Dad, we had a huge gripe session about how crummy bike culture is in North America compared to UK and Europe and how it could be fixed here (auto and gas taxes like they have in UK and Europe as well as big changes to urban [...]

Hope yours is fun and wonderful with a side of extra stuffing! This is our first ever Christmas in our house (we have traditionally gone to The Farm) so it’s going to be a quiet one which is a huge change for me. It feels odd to not have all the chaos of parents, siblings, [...]

The hunt for a bike has begun. My budget is 600$ for the bike with an additional 200$ for accessories. Since I haven’t ridden a bike since moving to the city I’m a wee bit overwhelmed as to the options. My needs are simple (i think), I want a bike to use for : Hauling [...]

So you can more or less disregard the previous post…I’m more than likely not going to be adding another tattoo this year, instead my hard saved cash is going to become a bicycle…specifically this one. Why the sudden change of mind? Well in 2009 Chris and I will be celebrating our 10th anniversary and we [...]

I’m going to get some new tattoos this year. I got my upper arm done after Abi was born and am now looking for something to mark Liams birth, I also plan to have two blue birds of happiness (one on each shoulder) to represent my kids as part of a redesign of my chest [...]

So there is t-5 days till the man in the big red suit arrives as Casa Del Gauhaus and I’m making my To Do and Honey Do lists and checking them twice. Between now and Monday I need to: Sew on Elijah’s eyes Sew up Abi’s super hero cape Get one or two last minute [...]

Christ almighty! The dryer has broken and the earliest we can get a repair guy is Thursday the 27th of December. Normally such a thing would roll off my back but it’s the holiday season which puts me into a foul mood to begin with so now my mood is that much more foul. My [...]