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(working) mom. wife. knitter. crafter.
not necessarily in that order.

katie (at) craftygreenmom (dot) com

2010 – Trying not to look like a bag of a$$

I have no sense of style.

Really, I don’t. I didn’t really have a LOT of style when I was skinny (back in the olden days I thought a size 8 was FAT … I’d now give a limb to be a size 8). I REALLY don’t have a sense of style now. I should be [...]

Don’t Buy Kenmore & Don’t Buy Sears Extended Warranties

UPDATED – At end of call #5. See below.

UPDATED – See below.

Sears Customer Service & Kemore Elite Stainless Steel Dishwasher Saga – Part 2

I’m not exactly sure when we made the first request for service this time around – but I know that the service call took place like Dec. 18th – I’m pretty sure [...]

Today’s iPod Genius Playlist

I’m not sure my Tivo thinks I’m gay, but probably vampire obsessed.  I’m currently watching (or waiting to watch) True Blood, Buffy & Angel. Given I think electronics are smarter than we give them credit for … my Tivo probably also knows I’m reading The Sookie Stackhouse Books (one can’t quite get enough of Vampire [...]

I’m making a list, and checking it twice.

I used to be what I would describe as “highly organized”. Most would probably have called it anal retentive, obsessive …something along those lines. As early as I can remember I wanted or had a desk. Hanging file folders, all labeled and orderly held all my important documents. Whether they were my stickers for trade [...]

A little humor from The Office this Wednesday afternoon.

I’m “in Marketing”. I know people know talk like this.

Convergence. Viral marketing. We’re going guerrilla. We’re takin’ it to the streets while keeping an eye on the street. Wall Street. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel here. In other words, it is what it is. Buyin’ paper just became fun.     – Ryan Howard, The [...]

Introducing, a Going Green Series

I think I’m going to name it: Get Real Green – an intentional play on words that I find funny, or appropriate … and hope at least one other person besides my mother does, as well.

Why Get Real Green? Because, well – being green doesn’t have to be about epic undertakings, moving “off the grid” [...]

Dude: What’s is “Craftig”?

It’s all about social media people – what is social media? Well, I’d be better suited to send you here. “Here” is a link to Wikipedia regarding social media. There. Now there are two links to Wikipedia’s page on social media.

In short – “social media” is media shared through online social interaction.

In this case “media” [...]

When bad things happen to good kitchens.

My kitchen regularly looks like it’s been carpet bombed.

You’d think, that after six months without my beloved kitchen that I we would manage to clean up after myself ourselves. But, The Man and I  … we’re not so good about that. We weren’t before in kitchen v1, we weren’t in (rental) kitchen v1.5 [...]

Proof I Should Live Somewhere Other than the Surface of the Sun (aka Houston)

Like, say … the Pacific Northwest. Portland is supposed to be knitterly Nirvana. I think I could really get into Portland.

Meanwhile, it’s still 8 million (read; 97+) here in Houston. As it will be well into September. We’ll get our first “cold” front sometime in …probably October, so that it’s hot (but not sweltering) for [...]

I am not a winner.

I actually don’t have a self-esteem problem, self-loathing, yes… how one is born w/ healthy self-esteem AND self-loathing…well, I don’t know. Ask my shrink. BUT – if I WERE a winner maybe I would win one of the many blog contests out there for this gem:

Assuming I don’t win – because we’ve established [...]