Me, myself, and Kathleen Kelly

Posted on August 20, 2014 by

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Every year in late August, I start channeling Kathleen Kelly from You’ve Got Mail, and waxing poetically about bouquets of freshly-sharpened pencils. Glossy duotangs! Packages of crisp white looseleaf! Brand-new boxes of crayons with perfectly-pointed wax tips! 

I can’t believe I’ll be taking one of the photos again soon. TIME! HOURGLASS! SOBBBBBB!

I’ve always said that if I wasn’t a journalist, there’s a good chance I would have been a teacher. Not because I would particularly enjoy the “teaching” aspect, but because I’m addicted to school supplies, and I’d love to decorate and organize a classroom. That’s mostly what being a teacher is all about, right? (I totally feel all of my teacher friends frowning at me right now.)

At this stage of my life, however, I don’t really get to buy school supplies — and I certainly don’t get the fun of stapling pretty cardboard borders around a classroom bulletin board …

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Category: Milestones, The Mom Scene

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I’m Heather Laura Clarke. I’m journalist and blogger in beautiful Nova Scotia, I have an 9-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter, I married my high school sweetheart, and this is the story of my handmade life.

I have depression and anxiety, and I fight like hell every day to keep it from taking over my life. Making things isn’t just a hobby — it’s part of what keeps me alive.

Whether I’m decorating a room, busting out my power tools to build furniture, getting muddy in the pottery studio, sewing clothes for my kids, or cross-stitching a swear word, I’m all about using my creativity to craft a life I love.

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I can finally show you the gorgggg King-sized HARRY POTTER quilt I sewed for our son for Christmas! His bed is only a twin now but I wanted to make sure this would grow with him. Plus, nothing better than a huge cozy quilt! Hit up the blog today because I’m sharing the full tutorial, including all of the fabric sources and the SUPER simple block layout. #quilting #quilt #quilts #handmade #handquilted #harrypotter #harrypotterquilt #harrypotterfans #harrypotterbedroom My son has long hair. It’s thick and silky and gorgeous and it flips out naturally at the ends. He loves his hair. I love his hair. But some other people? Well, they call him a girl. There’s a NEW POST on the blog today, if you’d like to read more about hair (his and also mine) and gender and annoying people and also why none of it matters. 💙💙💙 #parenting #boyswithlonghair #boyswithlonghairrock #boyswithlonghairdontcare 🎶 I always feel like 🎶 🎶 Somebody’s in my tea 🎶 Kitty-cat mug I made in pottery! 🐱 The mama cat is the handle and I sculpted a wee kitten and stuck it to the bottom of the mug as a “fun surprise” for unsuspecting tea-drinkers who suddenly spot something in their mug. 😉 #pottery #handmade #handmademug #potterymug #potterymugs #catmug #handthrownpottery The way this girl loves slime, it’s no wonder she loves Magic Mud (or “Oobleck” as the kids today apparently call it). Perfect indoor snow day activity. Mix three cups cornstarch with 1 1/2 cups water (approx.) and a few drops of food colouring to get a gloppy goop that you can pick up like a solid and then it then instantly to a liquid. My mom used to make it for me and my sister and it’s still really fun. Way better than slime because of the way it changes. Just don’t ask me to explain the science behind it lol. #snowday #again #snowdayfun #indooractivities #handmade #oobleck #magicmud #messy #butnottoomessy When you walk into a project area in your dining room that looks like a @craftsmanca photo shoot except you actually staged nothing! 😂 Can’t wait to show you guys how this BIGGGGGG project is turning out! #DIY #woodworking #furniture #DIYfurniture #buildingfurniture #design #custom #customfurniture #craftsman If you scroll through my posts, you’ll see right away that I make things. I sew. I build. I paint. I craft. I design. I decorate. Oh, and I also write and edit newspaper, magazine, and web copy for a living. Always making stuff, I am. What you don’t see — at least not unless you dive deep into my Insta stories and blog posts — is that there’s something different I’m trying to create. A novel. Finding the time, the headspace, the permission to work on this novel is harder than all the sewing and building and painting and crafting and designing and decorating and “writing for a living” in the world. But I’m trying. I try to work on it every single day, even if I only come out ahead by a couple hundred words. It’s still a couple hundred words more than I had the day before. Baby steps. And there are also stolen moments, like this photo I just snapped, when I take five minutes — in between the family dinner and the family game and then the bedtime routine — to read a few pages of novel-writing wisdom (#savethecatwritesanovel) and scribble down notes to myself. It all counts, however small. It’s all getting me closer. It’s all going to be worth it. I know it. #novelwriting #novel #aspiringnovelist #futurenovelist #onedayatatime #writerlife #writing #amwriting
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