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I'm excited about the Eat Real Festival this weekend happening at Jack London Square. I'll be hanging around from 10am to 1pm doing something unspecified ...

Yesterday or maybe the day before there was like 20 minutes of quiet in this house. I could hear some vague rustling coming from the ...

I can't wait to make this fabric into pillow cases. I need some ruffly white lacy shit to put on there too. I imagine that when ...

I'm off to Seattle tomorrow at 7am (gah!). I absolutely HAVE to pack light for this trip since my suitcase has to be stuffed with ...

News flash! This place is huge. And awesome. And really big. Liz wrote up yesterday pretty well here so I won't rehash it. Except maybe ...

omgomgomgom. I'm so excited to be in NY. I swear I never really thought about NY at all as an exciting place I would want ...

I'm still crying about what happened in jack's class today. I feel like a TOTAL ASS for not stepping in in some way or other. ...

Sheesh. I Jack and I just had a very crappy experience. i'm so mad at myself and at the teacher. We went to circus class and ...

I hate parenting magazines. Every single woman depicted in a parenting magazine is over 5'8" and weighs about 120 lbs. As all 5'1" of me ...

I recently wrote an article for Blogher about Crafting and Feminism, you can read it here! Blogher also syndicated my DIY swimwear post. I did clean ...

I'ma freak. I was going to be somewhat in the neighborhood anyway so why not go the extra... mile (or so) to get my ...

I stopped by Blue Bottle Coffee last week to get a coffee before a playdate. I ordered a latte as usual but then asked instead ...

I always forget how LONG the days at Maker Faire seem when you are a vendor. VERY LONG. Ones eyes and nose start to hurt ...

I went swimsuit shopping this year and there just was nothing good out there. There was one super cute looking Betsy Johnson suit I saw ...

Why do I torment myself? I have like 400 projects and yet I am insisting on making myself a swimsuit too. I swore this year ...

I just made some kale chips with some slightly wilted kale from my fridge. It was okay. I washed it, dried it, cut out the ...

3T really snuck up on me. All Jack's 2T pants are too tight in the waist so this weekend I went out and bought him ...

Every time I go to the new California Academy of Science I get grumpy. I miss the old one. A lot. I think the new ...

Here is a picture of me and Moomin in the pool in SoCal. Here is a picture of Moomin making rabbit ears on Jack. I have ...

My theory is that if an old cat is fat and lazy then it is happy. Never mind that people put their old cats on ...

I used this tutorial from Crafty Stylish to create a custom sleeve pattern. It took a while and when I was done I matched it ...

My kid has a lot of toys. Not, like, totally outrageously too many or anything but too many for our smallish house and too many ...

I love house porn. This is my newest favorite site: HOUZZ.com. You can search by location or by room or by style. I'm dying for a ...

I flipped some jerkhole off this morning. They were honking at me to make a left turn on red on a one way street, which ...

Was anyone else ever annoyed by the three little bears story when you get to the porridge part? If the big bowl has not cooled ...