Category: Life
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From my intro: I have been working with resin for 6 years, and in that time I’ve made some beautiful things, but also had some tragic failures. I’ve been inspired by the beautiful things to keep going, and learned from the failures until I got to a point where I could get predictable results. Over…
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It’s been 2 years since we closed on the condo, and it’s taken all this time to realize that it’s actually ours and we can do whatever we like with it :) So we’re starting the expensive and exciting reno-phase! This was the bedroom when we first moved in. It was really nice, but given…
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Every Mother’s and Father’s Day I have the honour of celebrating 2 sets of parents – my actual parents and my parents best friends, who predate my existence by quite a bit. They are a fixture of every family event, where after a few drinks they’ll tell the same stories time and time again. Great…
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…Entering my home. Apparently killing everything in it’s path, or at least rendering it blissfully unconscious.
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My mom and I are both 5 foot 2. She may actually be 5 foot nothin’, but the fact remains that we are both small. One day she was chatting with Tito and I, and she dropped this gem: ‘Because short things come in important packages’. To get the full effect, imagine it being said…
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The Blue Brick has 500 followers! Watching the stats on this blog grow has been a very neat experience, we also just passed the 300,000 hit mark. I’ve been wondering about whether it was due for a refresher. When I post about crafts sometimes I worry that the content isn’t interesting to photographers, and vice…
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Heading home in the morning and very reluctant to say goodbye to El Salvador! Expect lots of photography when I’ve had a chance to settle in and process :) Until then though, I leave you with this lovely discovery. This is a Michelada. Our lovely friends, Quique and Bertha-Alicia introduced us to this treat tonight.…
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It’s funny how attached you can get to an inanimate object – our ancient beleaguered Corolla died on the weekend and we’re pretty damn sad about it. We got that car with 114,000 clicks or so, and over the next three years we added 200,000 clicks of our own. It’s taken us all over southern…
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So I haven’t blogged in super long time. Into that vacuum has come an incredible amount of blog spam for some reason… those telltale comments in obsequious tones and terrible grammar have been clogging my inbox. So to keep the blog alive and keep the spammers at bay here is a short post. I’ve been…
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