kristarella.blog
Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more
My current team at work is named Patronus and we have just spent a week in Shirahama, Japan. Shirahama is a coastal town in the Wakayama Prefecture, South of Osaka. For the first few days it was pretty quiet, it felt like we had the place to ourselves. It got a little busier over the […]
I spent some of my holiday time preparing my bullet journal for 2018 and thought I would make a final spread in my 2017 journal looking back on the year. My depression and anxiety were a bit worse overall this year compared to last, but in spite of that it was a good year. This […]
These holidays I took advantage of my husband’s new woodworking hobby to make a better yarn swift! My previous one was cobbled together from pieces found at Bunnings (hardware store) and it worked okay, but seemed to get worse with each use. The wing nut on the top would keep tightening down and locking the […]
On Thursday, 28 September 2017, we saw Postmodern Jukebox perform at the Sydney Opera House. The full cast included: Adam Kubota: musical director & bass Chloe Feoranzo: woodwind & lead vocal Dave Tedeschi: drums Hannah Gill: lead & backup vocals LaVance Colley: MC, lead & backup vocals Logan Evan Thomas: keys Nick Finzer: brass Sara […]
After WCEU, I took the opportunity to visit my cousin who is living in Switzerland for the summer. Not far from where she lives is a town called Grindelwald and up the mountain from there, Pfingstegg. As it happens, our grandparents visited there about 40 years ago, so we decided to try to find all […]
I have finally finished processing all the photos from my trip to Paris & Switzerland! Here are some from WordCamp Europe. See the full album on Flickr.
