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Just popping in briefly. I have found it tricky to have the energy for super regular updates here when I'm working because my job takes up so much of my screen time energy that by the time I have free time I usually want to spend it on other things. However, I recently checked my guestbook and realized it's full of new comments with all kinds of lovely messages. It really makes me happy to see…
Did this remodel for my child's room recently and was proud of it so thought I'd share the final result below!
This inspired by this post by Ava on lost connections because it resonates. I made a ton of "friends" online when I was younger. There were also a lot of people who I followed as a fan but who probably never knew who I was. Some are dead. Heather Armstrong being the one that comes to mind; a huge shock to me at the time, although I had not followed her in years, and she never even knew who I was…
I have never touched a cigarette. I don’t do drugs. And two years ago I also stopped drinking alchohol. The first two were pretty straightforward. The combined influence of my parents, government scare-labels on cigarette packs, and the school system’s “Just Say No” was effective in scaring the crap out of me about the bad health effects of smoking and drugs, so that's a path I never went down.…
A few years ago when I was on maternity leave with my second child, I decided to do a bit of a deep dive into the world of CSS art, which is a strange and magical niche filled with some very talented people. At the time, I blogged about it and shared some of my creations on dev.to ; you can see my old posts if you want. Playing with CSS animation in 30 minute increments CSS Variables,…
Gooey Button # So fun and satisfying to play with! I'm endlessly impressed by the creative ideas people come up with on Codepen. I wish I had some need for gooey buttons on my website, but it doesn’t really fit with the rest of my site 🤷♀️ 😁 cssdrawings.com # ....how can gradients accomplish so much 🤯 Hand-embroidered Fjäll Räven bags # I recently learned there’s a whole Etsy marketplace genre…
I expect to never receive a dime… but if you don’t have it there then you definitely won’t receive a dime. So my odds of making money off my site have increased from 0 to 0.0000001%. Why a tip option? Well, don’t we all dream of becoming rich from random passive income? Hey maybe one day this site will have enough content and visitors that people do want to say “thanks for the great content” and…
I own a house. It’s a great house and I feel very lucky to have it. However, there is this one thing about the house that we discovered shortly after moving in three years ago, and it is driving me bonkers. Every once in a while, usually on a hot summer evening, when the rest of the family is in bed, I’ll creep around the house, find a likely spot, crouch down, squash my face up against a wall,…