AinseLife

If you enjoy purchasing handmade items, I’m sure you would love shopping on Etsy or iCraft or Mintd or DaWanda. However, what you may find baffling is the huge range in prices. What is handmade worth to you? Strangely enough, to many sellers on these sites, not much; which is certainly the opposite of what [...]

Last Monday, after my husband had packed our son his lunch for camp, I finally paid attention to the news report about the Maple Leaf meat recall and it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t checked what kind of lunch meat we were using. Rushing to the fridge, I realized that package was no [...]

When I grow up
I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star
I wanna be in movies
When I grow up
I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have boobies
Wait. Did they REALLY say boobies? Thank God I don’t have a daughter listening to that kind of crap.
But hold on. So while I really am disturbed by the [...]

You think you’re pretty smart and then you take one of these stupid tests. Apparently, this is how many countries I can name in 5 minutes:
57

Which might not sound too bad, if you didn’t know there were still another 200+ out there.

“Mom, what’s for dinner?”
“Steak sandwiches.”
“I don’t like those.”
“Yes, you do; we’ve had them before; they’re on buns with melted cheese.”
Yes, my little guy does like steak sandwiches, be he always seems to forget what the hell he likes and dislikes. Every time I cook, he takes a look into the pan and declares it yucky. [...]

It all started with this book:

I was browsing in Chapters when I came across it. Flipping through it, I grew excited thinking about taking a new direction in my jewellery-making hobby (I’d love to say it’s more than a hobby, but if most of my sales are from my mother in law, then that’s all [...]

I was really hating my old blog. This template is a little more interesting. Maybe it will inspire me to actually write.
Our new mattress arrived today. Did you know that for the delivery people to take your old mattress away, it MUST be bagged? What, do they think my 15-year-old mattress is somewhat unhygienic? At [...]

As you may or may not know, Etsy (“your place to buy & sell all things handmade”) is very community oriented. As such, members of the site often join together to form “street teams”. These teams are to help unite those with common interests or goals and provide a place for support and knowledge. The [...]

We have two Siamese cats (Jasper, a big, grumpy, but very needy chocolate point, and Zoey, the blue point runt of the litter, who plays like a kitten even though she’s 11) and a one year old Husky-Collie-maybe-Shepherd-cross dog named Shylo. Growing up, I also had two cats and a dog, which is either a [...]

1. I don’t commute;
2. I’m in a calm, idiot-free zone;
3. I can watch “Bold & the Beautiful” at lunch (oh shoot, did I say that aloud?);
4. I have a whole fridge to myself;
5. No microwave line-up;
6. No fluorescent lighting;
7. My windows can open;
8. No one drops by my desk and gabs incessantly for 20 minutes;
9. [...]