Monday September 21, 2009

brooklyn skillshare: a day of learning, making, sharing, doing

I just love learning new skills. How ’bout you?

In the last year I’ve taken classes on block-printing, jewelry making, and sewing, and taught myself crochet. I’m also learning about permaculture, and I’ve signed up for a

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Wednesday August 26, 2009

skills to pay the bills (or at least save a little dough)

Got a hankerin’ to make stuff, but don’t know how? In a time when people are pinching pennies out of necessity or just to consume less for the good of the planet, it helps to know

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Monday July 6, 2009

blueberries are in!

I don’t usually think of summer as a time to bake. In fact, if you can’t take the heat of the oven and end up offsetting it with air conditioning, summer baking can be a pretty

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