Lady’s Work Inspired by Ladies
J’ai maintenant un site en français! I spent years trying to preserve and regain mobility by doing embroidery. I favor decorating felt hearts and then making them into ornaments. They are simple...
View Article2012: the Year of the UFC
The year of The UFC has been 10 years in the making. When Dana White and his long-time friends Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta acquired the crumbling business in 2001 for a mere 2 million dollars, they set...
View ArticleA WordPress plugin inspired by my favorite article of 2012
One of the more interesting articles I read in 2012 was Jessamyn Smith’s What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way! @ GeekFeminism.org. I really connected with this article because, for...
View ArticleWho will be the next Etsy now that it is overrun by resellers?
Before I found Etsy, I used to enjoy selling vintage items on eBay. It was so much fun that I even made my own CRM platform that would keep a database of my loot and post items automatically to eBay …...
View ArticleBlack Mirror Series 2 Part 1 Review: An Open Letter To Charlie Brooker
WARNING: This open letter to Charlie Brooker, writer of Black Mirror, contains spoilers! Dear Charlie Brooker, It was obviously because of a glitch in the Linux vs. Apache time zone configurations (you...
View ArticleMedia Game Changer Vine Gathers Momentum
A bit over a month ago, Twitter protégé Vine went global with its (still very buggy) iOS app. I was glad to discover beta tester Kevin (Rose) had been uploading videos for 6 months. Vine is quite...
View ArticleBlack Mirror Series 2 Part 2 Review: Artificial Stupidity, It’s More Powerful...
“The idea to make make everything disappear so that you can just be in things and you can be in the interface” - Paola Antonelli, Senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the...
View ArticleFood by Evernote Lets You Log Your Meals as You Prepare Them
My Food! Gratin parmentier Québécois Bouillon de boeuf 12 heures Burger Hardcore/Softcore Pompano en croute Souper Gumbo/Aligator/Beignets Soupe à l’oignon gratinée I am quite fortunate to live with a...
View ArticleObject Oriented Embroidery
Whenever I travel I always bring with me something to occupy myself. Twenty four hours of train rides? No biggie, I’ve got an antique book about Victor Hugo, an old throwaway Acer Aspire, a regular and...
View ArticleAir Canada Suspension Letter Found in Old Aircraft Mechanic’s Toolbox
We acquired a big red toolbox that once belonged to an aircraft mechanic. This box keeps spitting out odd and interesting things, which have fallen into nooks and crannies, like this letter of...
View ArticleBurger & UFC
For over two and a half years we could never spend Saturday night together, now, every two weeks we do have a ‘no kids’ Saturday night so we can enjoy burgers (photos) while watching the UFC. It’s date...
View Article#Ladieslearningcode Comes to Montreal!
I learned about #ladieslearningcode a few years ago through Systers and I finally got an opportunity to participate this weekend at the first #ladieslearningcode event in Montreal. Since re-branding...
View ArticleMontreal All-Girl Hack Night June 26, 2013 @ Google Montreal
We learned how to build a Chrome extension! http://mtlallgirlhacknight.ca/
View ArticleMultilingual Site: The Great Debate That Will Settle it ALL!! (Yeah Right!)
Managing multiple languages has always been the hardest part of building Content Management Systems. When I switched from building my own to using WordPress I became a matchmaker of supposedly...
View ArticleI discover an Easter Egg as I ask Matt: “In your opinion, what is the most...
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg answers my question at WordCamp.
View ArticleFacial recognition comes full circle: Facebook now asks you to tag your...
Today Facebook asked me to tag a friend in a post (UFC #3 lightweight fighter Gray Maynard) so I wrote about it… Then it asked me to tag Gray again!! Here’s what happened. If you are not too sure about...
View ArticleYoutube Turns my Hackbright Application Into a ‘That 70′s Show’ Joke
I think I was born at such a specifically ideal time in history that if I had to live my life again I would HAVE to do everything again the same way as there is no way I could be … Continue reading →
View ArticleWIP Wings of Quath
A few years ago I bought a wedding dress. Perhaps I should mention that I collect such vintage things and turn them into non wedding related crafts (I hate weddings.) So far I have made so many things...
View ArticleThe Red Badge of Courage!
Here’s a new badge for my Moonrise Kingdom inspired Camp Bag! It is simply created with a remnant of red felt that is back stitched without guides and improvised. In order to be able to blanket stitch...
View ArticleDragonfly Libellule 3D Insect Embroidery
Inspired by the beautiful insects on the clothing of residents of Quath in Game of Thrones… Done on a perpetually re-purposed wedding dress I use for EVERYTHING!! Improvised Dragonfly with wedding...
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