the red room

An intense month with my PhD means that I have resorted to craft therapy. Some days I need to make tea and craft away questions such as whether a long narrative poem is actually a lyric poem that employs narrative or a narrative that uses lyric technique, or whether I can answer a thesis question [...]

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One of my goals this year is to make most of the presents I give my friends and family.  This is a way to learn some new sewing skills, save money, and not add to consumer waste by up-cycling materials and avoiding packaging. I also think hand-made gifts are the best. My friend Meg gave [...]

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My foray into the craft world is going well after only a week of my live and kicking Felt shop, RobotLove. As well as purchases I have had a few enquiries about what other designs I am going to make. Tonight my partner suggested a cartoon bomb (he also suggested he might become a craft widower!) and [...]

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After a successful poetry reading and then a 5.30am start to fly to my godfather’s funeral in Christchurch on Saturday, I have finally succumb to the cold that is going around Wellington. I’ve been on the couch for a few days (I went for a walk this morning and after half an hour was very [...]

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For the last year I have been making cushions from an incredibly simple pattern which I will eventually post to this blog once I draw it up. If you can sew a straight line and measure correctly (measure twice, cut once!) then you can make this cushion. I have been taking different fabrics (such as [...]

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I don’t know how long I’ve had this website but it must be nearly ten years. For most of that time it’s been a place for me to put my writing and links to poetry I have published in online journals  (or, when I was younger, vent). Last year I started to really get into [...]

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