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  • Costco is the 7th Ring of Hell

    The best thing to come out of the pandemic was curbside pickup. S’true. This is the only civilized way to visit places like, say, an Ikea. Ikea is perhaps the 6th ring of hell, with its confuzzling labyrinth, angry, seemingly unattended children and dictatorial shopping experience. But I digress. When it comes to Costco, generally,…

  • The Art of the Image

    I’m not just a photographer as a hobbyist, I’m a legit, professional, award-winning, certified BIG DEAL. S’true. I had a job job before I left it all to chase string. I love my camera. I’ve photographed people, landscapes, aerials, potraits, weddings, and lots of yarn. I built The Blue Brick, in a way, to give…

  • A little advice. A big reason to celebrate :)

    Tito and I have been married for 10 years! Years ago, long before we were married, we were watching the movie Paranormal Activity. In the horror movie trope, there’s always that one person that doesn’t believe the place is haunted. Tito turned to me and jokingly said “babe, if you ever tell me the place…

  • How to cope with stress like a BOSS.

    If you’ve been following, well, anyone Canadian, you know that the tariffs have been a royal pain. A hamfisted implementation. A logistics nightmare. And thus, we have been under stress. Follow along, dear reader, as I explain my extremely responsible, adult, and valid coping mechanism with all the elegance and grace of which I’m capable.…

  • Today’s Post Sucks.

    I’ve been labouring under the impression, the apparently misguided impression, that CUSMA was a real and useful thing. However, it turns out, in the absence of a De Minimus shipping amount (and in the presence of de-maximus insanity), I’m not sure anymore. The information around this has been very, very confusing. If you’ve somehow managed…

  • Pivot! Pivot! Pivot!

    I am looking to tweak some things about how the Blue Brick operates, to adjust for some really big, relatively recent challenges. Tito and I are mom’s main caregivers. This wasn’t a surprise, we planned for this time when we all moved in together last year, but her health has taken a downturn since the…

  • Kim’s Barn, a retrospective

    If you’ve followed us for a long time, you know that Kim is a pretty special person to us. She owns a Highland cattle farm out in Niagara on the Lake. The cows are her pets, along (at that time) with the pig (Wilbur), the goat (Diesel), two miniature horses, a dog, a cat, and…

  • Tariff Update

    UPDATE Here’s hoping the above update is correct ;) — And the hits keep rolling! In addition to the impact on our material costs and supply chains, the $800 USD minimum for tariffs is no longer valid. Well over half our business goes to the United States. We’ve spent years building a great community of…

  • Guyana

    Above are all us cousins. I’m in a white shirt with a colourful design, back row, looking right at the camera and ROCKING those bangs ;) Fun fact, I’m half Guyanese, and spent a chunk of my childhood in Guyana, which is in the Amazon :) They think differently there. For example, the houses in…

  • The Return of the Ibis

    Ibis was released in April 2019, along with a pattern to go with it. I had asked Kyle Vey, a super talented local designer, to design wings for me. The entire yarn collection, of which Ibis was only part, was called The Aviary, and it seemed fitting. When he was finally ready to show it…