Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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An “ad whore”… That’s the latest sutileza from my dear husband. He’s called me that a few times over the last few days, and specially when I told him how much money I’ve earned in advertising revenue since I began the evil experiment. Well, he’s not interested in my explanations, but now that you all […]
The process of painting stripes was a lot easier than I expected. It involved a few decisions, a healthy dose of planning, a little algebra, and a bit of color tweaking, but the actual masking and painting of stripes in our baby’s room went a lot faster than all other steps in my very ambitious […]
Your belly has grown HUGE, and to make things worse, it grows all in one night. No previous warnings… No signals. One day, you wake up and: PUFH! You cannot longer see your feet, you don’t fit in your regular narrow passages, your spacious maternity clothes suddenly feel tight… You begin walking like a duck, […]
Tutorial posts may sound a little pretentious, like I’m some professor of life kind of “expert”, but they serve two purposes: One, I get to brag about something I just made. And two, it’s my way to give back to the Internet for all the times that I’ve searched for “how to” do this or […]
Somehow, sometime, somebody entrusted with precious personal information sold my name and address to who knows who, and yesterday, surprise–surprise… we started receiving baby/child product catalogs for the first time ever in this household’s history. Oh, yes! They found us…
A little outraged by the thought of either my doctor (doubtful), the hospital (maybe), or our […]
I guess the novelty (not the joy) of blogging has finally started to wind down, but after over a year of having started Mafe Maria, I’m finding myself caring less and less about how many feed subscriptions this site has.
For one, I am not sure that all 21 subscribers currently reported by FeedBurner are good […]
One reason why I called my latest playground entry “Signo Fijo” is because my Sun sign, confirmed by my actual personality, rules that I tend to not like or pursue change. Well, that is true and not… I have in fact pursued some huge life-altering changes, but I must say that normally, on smaller things, […]
With the baby bedding finally concluded yesterday around sunset, I took some quick photos of the room and started creating some Photoshop mockups to plan the nursery wall color and mural.
After much deliberation today (1 2 3), I think I have a plan I like a lot. Much thanks go to mom and Joey for […]
If you remember, I started the year with some nice productivity goals. My plan was to work with an eye on a very financially lucrative “Target”, but understanding that I’m only human, attempt to at least meet the “Lazy” level. In any case, under no circumstance whatsoever, should I go below “Minimum”.
So the weeks start […]
I’ve started gathering a list of things I want to do and eat as soon as the baby is out of my body: A cold beer, a sinfully bloody steak, my beloved runny eggs, sushi, cheesecake, a good sausage… All right, the list is heavier on “to eat” items than on “to do” items… Truth […]
A few months ago Petie, Chris and I were talking about poor blog writing, and I was telling them about Maggie Mason’s book “No one cares what you had for lunch”. It may surprise you then, that I’m about to tell you what I just had for dinner, but hear me out people… I know […]
Last Saturday we bought a crib for Bolliti, and the excitement of the event kicked off in high gear all kinds of ambitious decoration plans for the nursery.
Since baby bedding appears to cost almost as much as a crib, and because I love sewing and have big plans of a contemporary decor and specific color […]
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