Post #1, or Why I Am Doing This

There are now millions of blogs in the world, and I don't expect to be more than a drop in that metaphorical ocean, but at the request of a dear friend, with encouragement from another, I've decided to just do it. It's a good way to share updates on craft projects, recipes, and neat finds in Montreal, and maybe a couple of extra people will enjoy it.

Last year my friend Linden shared her copy of Julie and Julia with me, a book adapted from one woman's blog about cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. As enjoyable as it was, I wouldn't recommend reading it in one sitting. Too repetitive. But! it was quite an idea. Why not start a big project like that?! Well, the answer became clear pretty quickly: Because you *will* become insane.

So this is kind of the opposite. Instead of following a complex cookbook through a year, I'm going to do what I've always done and wing it, only now it's public. And it's not just kitchen experiments, it's knitting and crochet blunders and triumphs and my constant personal quest for junk food and a Master's degree in translation studies. Oh, yes. This is going to be a mess, isn't it?