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Five photography tips for amateurs

Posted on April 18, 2017 by

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I take a lot of photos. My iPhone recently hit the 10,000 mark and then decided it was time for me to make some room for more. But just because I take photos constantly — for the blog, for my parenting column, and especially…

Category: Career, Fujifilm

Happy Hysterectoversary

Posted on March 23, 2016 by

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March 11 marked a year since I went into the hospital for a quickie day procedure (this, if you’re really curious). A year since I fell asleep chatting with a friendly nurse and woke up, hours later, in horrible pain and mumbling “I didn’t…

Category: Hysterectomy, It's all about me, Life lessons

DIY pincushions from repurposed items

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

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You guys know I’m all about the big projects. We do a big project every single week, in fact. (Insert shameless plug for my weekly DIY column in the Chronicle Herald.)  But sometimes? Sometimes I get exhausted by the big ones and need to…

Category: Craftiness, DIY, Sewing

I’m Heather Laura Clarke. I’m journalist and blogger in beautiful Nova Scotia, I have an 8-year-old son and a 6-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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Not a very humane zoo, but it’s certainly effective 🐶🐱🐻🐼 . . . Full tutorial for our stuffed animal zoo is on the blog today! . . . #handmade #DIY #woodworking #organization #kidsrooms #toys #toystorage #ecmmedia 🔅 H A P P Y E A S T E R 🔅 . . . #easter #feltbanner #handmade #pennantbanner #feltcrafts Our kids LOVED the hanging bars at their elementary school playground, so we added two of our own — at exactly the same heights as the school ones — to the monkey bars we’d built the summer before 🐵 . . . For the full tutorial — and breakdown of how it only cost 70 bucks for these two hanging bars — pop over to HeathersHandmadeLife.com and search “bars.” . . . #DIY #woodworking #backyard #backyard_dreams #playground #diyplayground #kids #summerfun #getthemoutdoors Busy Thursday vibes ☝️ . . . Cross-stitch pattern @stephxstitch . Frame @walmartcanada . Travel mug turned pencil cup @shopbando . . . Let’s DO THIS! . . . #selfemployedlife #freelancelife #homeoffice #bosslife Cutting a big piece of wood and your mitre saw blade can’t quite get it all in one go? No biggie. Just flip ‘er around and line up the blade with the first cut. 👌 . . . Working on a fun new @craftsmanca project for you guys. It’s super functional and I’ve been using the first couple of versions all over the house. . . . #woodworking #DIY #handmade #sneakpeek #womenwithpowertools #ecmmedia I exploded one day to my husband, annoyed by yet another attempt to keep our daughter's bedroom reasonable. “She needs a bunch of bins where she can shove all her random crap, and I don’t even care what’s in there as long as it’s off her floor!” . . . Our six-year-old daughter really struggles to keep her room reasonable, and while I subscribe to the notion of "A place for everything, and everything in its place," sometimes there just ISN'T a place for everything. . . . Junky Happy Meal toys she insists on keeping. A million sheets of paper with "important" notes or drawings. Random bits from board games that she uses as toys. Small toys she can never be bothered to put away properly. "Special" erasers. Play money. . . . Now she has a place to SHOVE IT ALL, QUICKLY and get it OFF THE FLOOR! 🙌 Full tutorial over on the blog today! #linkinbio . . . #parenting #organization #DIY #kids #woodworking #kidsroomdecor #kidsroom #toystorage #isntthatdarling #girlsroom #girlsroomdecor
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