- 2026
- The mushroom stencil in my kitchen must die
- On giving away your 400th hand-painted sign and feeling weird about it
- Freehand beats stencil: a hill I will die on
- Stencil-burning party recap (bring your own ferns)
- Marigolds, en masse, no stencil: a photo essay with too many photos
- Fine. This ONE stencil is okay.
- Community centre lettering workshop, winter session notes
- 2025
- The wooden pumpkin aisle, October 2025: a field report
- Repainting the mailbox (neighbour verdict: 6–3 in favour)
- How to letter on wet paint and immediately regret it
- Zine distro #14: what sold, what didn’t, what I’m still bitter about
- 2024
- Street art walk: Alberta St, and the stencil piece I grudgingly loved
- A beginner’s guide to wobbles (celebrate them)
- The great garage reorganization, or: where old craft supplies go to be forgiven
- 2023
- Manifesto v3: adding the exception clause, under protest
- Brass alphabet stencil: a yard sale love story
- Comparing six black paints, scientifically* (*not scientifically)
- 2022
- Pandemic crafting retrospective: we all bought a mandala stencil, let’s talk about it
- Freehand vs. projector vs. grid: three ways to ruin a wall
- 2021
- The lemon price sign saga, part one
- First mural commission and why I undercharged by $300
- 2020
- Painting the same kitchen three times in one year (a lockdown diary)
- Mail is still nice, paint some envelopes
- 2019
- Craft fair booth lessons: bring a chair, bring a friend, bring snacks
- Why every stencil kit has that one floppy mylar sheet
- Meeting my first stencil-defender in the wild (she was lovely, it was awful)
- 2018
- One year of this website: stats, feelings, mushrooms
- The infamous bee dresser, revisited with kinder eyes
- First post: I bought a stencil kit and I have some thoughts
Italic-free archive note: titles link to full posts where they still exist; some early ones got eaten in a 2021 CMS migration that I am still not over. Comments were on back then. Now you just write to me like it’s 1997, which frankly suits everyone.