craft + activism = craftivism.

So excited to be going to Portland in just a few days for the Handmade Nation Portland premiere! Yay! Also excited to be on the CraftPerspectives panel* moderated by Museum of Contemporary Craft curator Namita WIggers.at 2pm on Saturday with old friends and new: Susan Beal (West Coast Crafty, Susanstars), Jill Bliss (Blissen), Kate Bingaman-Burt [...]

Today’s post is a re-post of something I wrote in November 2005. If you’ve read Handmade Nation, you’ll see that I have an essay in the book with the same name. This original post was what led to the essay a few years later. I’m reposting it here because sometimes it’s good to be reminded [...]

Here’s a photo of the view from my window as I was leaving the beach on Sunday. It was a sunrise that was quick and fast and steady despite the wind whipping at the trees. We said our goodbyes and headed back north, thick in the rain that was our constant companion for over 400 [...]

So it’s almost Thanksgiving here in the U.S., my most favorite of holidays for reasons like snuggliness and hugs and warm sweaters. Tomorrow I head to the Georgia coast, which means a few extra special things like late night talks with my grandfather when everyone’s asleep, knitting with my grandmother, long solo walks on the [...]

It’s beginning to get cold in my little part of the world. There are so many exciting things to get excited about this time of year! Frost signals things like big boots, fluffy duvets, cups of tea just to warm your hands, snuggling, warm toasty fireplaces, holidays, crazily darned old wool sweaters, scarves, lip gloss, [...]