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Creativity

Together at last

January 27, 2013
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Watercolours en plein air

October 2, 2012

We brought our watercolours with us today, to the ballet studio and then to the park afterwards. There’s been a lot of painting and drawing and glitter glue and highlighter colouring going on at home, but today was the first day we actually brought our art supplies out of the house to make art while [...]

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Gluten Free Banana Nut Pancakes

September 4, 2012

Before we went away on our long road trip this summer, I was making pancakes at least 3-4 times a week.  I’d gotten into the habit of it, most mornings we weren’t rushing out the door to get somewhere on time, and I was hooked on experimenting with recipes. I discovered that making pancakes is [...]

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Making Things is Messy Work

May 23, 2012

The creative process certainly isn’t a tidy one.  Paper mache is one example, but any kind of creativity takes a willingness to get your hands dirty, take risks, make mistakes and clean up your mess as you go along. Discarded first drafts, blurry photos, rewritten code, heartfelt apologies, soil-covered hands, dirty diapers, milk-stained shirts. The [...]

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::weekending::

May 19, 2012

It’s a crafty kind of weekend here, even though the sun is shining. What are you working on this weekend?

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Hard at Work

May 1, 2012

Today. I wake up at the same time as I did yesterday, make the same thing for breakfast and mediate the same disagreements between the hungry children waiting for their pancakes. I clean the same kitchen, sweep the same floor, read the same websites. I know time is passing because the cherry blossoms bud, blossom [...]

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Spring Book List – Writing and Literature

April 19, 2012

I call my blog The Parent Vortex, but I work on and think about more than just my parenting skills.  I’ve been reading about the craft of writing, and reading well-written literature lately.  Because writers don’t just write, they also read, read and read some more. The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.  I can’t [...]

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Spring Book List – Parenting and Feminism

April 17, 2012

When my creative energies ebb and flow, the ways I spend my time change too.  When the drive to write wanes, the pleasure of reading increases.  And so I’ve been reading a lot these days.  Want to peek onto my bookshelf?  Here’s some of the  books I’ve been immersed in. Last Child in the Woods [...]

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Dreaming Organically

March 14, 2012

I used to believe that the path to success began with a big dream, followed by whatever work was required in order to make that dream happen. You may have been sold this particular script too. Child decides that she wants to be a nurse when she grows up, she gets good grades as a [...]

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Tiny Tea Leaves

March 12, 2012

I finished another little-girl sized cardigan recently. A silvery grey Tiny Tea Leaves Cardigan for Miss Beatrice, who is growing at a truly astonishing rate these days. Wiggly teeth. A passion for dance. The emergence of an analytical mind. Too-small rainboots and too-short trousers. Welcome to five and a half, my dear. The cardigan is [...]

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Clothing the Mama

February 24, 2012

Shopping. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s a fact of life. Right? I used to like shopping. In my early 20s I finally graduated from University and got a job that paid me enough to have some disposable income. And on my lunch breaks or on my way home from work I’d pop [...]

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February Baby

February 20, 2012

Over the past few weeks, in the middle of this creative lull of mine, I started thinking a lot about the passage of time. As in, the one-way-ticket nature of time. It’s a train that goes one way, and that train travels at the same speed for everyone. Nobody knows how long their ride will [...]

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