musings from michelle

I saw this tutorial (via Craftzine ), and made a few of these wreaths this evening. They're cute and very easy. I'm glad I had some ...

A few crafty updates: I bought a sewing machine about a month ago. A nice one. I got a good deal on it, but it was still quite pricey. I wil...

My sister and her family came down for Thanksgiving. I finally got to meet my newest niece, Sophie. She's a cutie. Here are a couple pho...

We had a couple days off for Chinese National Day and Cheung Yeung Festival this past week, which made for a happy 4-day weekend. I took a t...

It's been a while since I blogged. The main reason for that is that I moved to a new apartment and spent about a month and a half witho...

Well, it happened again... at Back-to-school night, no less. Here 's an earlier post about another time this happened to us... I have a...

... but surprise! It's not around a coffee cup! Or even a tea pot. Instead, it's around... a gas station. Pretty weird. And am...

Please check out this blog that I found today, via this post on the Craftzine blog. It's called Cake Wrecks, and is absolutely hilari...

I've posted a bunch of photos on Facebook, but would like to share them with others who are not [yet] on Facebook. I've noticed tha...

I'll admit that this is an odd first post to be writing after getting back from my trip. I have lots of stories and photos to share, bu...

Sorry for my silence!  I've been busy seeing things and a bit under the weather.  I caught a cold in Edinburgh -- fancy that!  I think I...

I've made it to Edinburgh! I flew in to London early this morning, dropped my pack off at King's Cross and spent the whole day walk...

I 'll be leaving in a couple hours for the airport, so am feeling extra giddy at the moment. So what to do with all this nervous energ...

While in Scotland, I'll get to visit my friend Jon who, in addition to working on a theology degree, plays lead guitar in the band Goodb...

I think this will be my last cozy post for a while. I decided to try to get the sewing bug out of my system since I most likely won't b...

I turned 28 today, which feels a lot younger than I thought it would. My birthday falls on Father's day this year, just like it did the...

I had a record-breaking day today -- 5 cozies. I've decided to make multiples of designs that I like, since it saves time cutting and p...

Crafting update: I'm in the middle of making a few new cozies (surprise, surprise!). One of them is a very special Father's Day coz...

I will now be able to appliqué to my heart's content for quite some time... and in rainbow colors... and each spool only cost me HK$2 (l...

Two interesting things noticed on the walk home from the train station: 1. A sparrow taking a dust bath in a dried up mud puddle (yay, the ...