Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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It’s so interesting to notice how interesting pregnancy photos appear to be. Since I started uploading photos tagged as “pregnancy” and “pregnant belly” to my flickr account, several strangers have added me to their pool of contacts, I’ve been asked to add my photos to different pregnancy groups, and the photos themselves are viewed a […]
This morning, over IM:
Me: Mom saw alfajores with expiration date nov 28 (the day she gets here). She asked me if she should get them?
Joey: So we have to eat them all when she arrives
Me: She reminds me that last Christmas, the chocolate house was kind of stale, and you ate it with passion…
Joey: True-true
Me: […]
Continuing the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll discuss a few more of the decisions that went into making the finished product beautiful, subtle, and exactly what I was looking for.
Previously, I talked about color. How I went far beyond my usual way of selecting paint colors only to […]
A long time ago, back in the time when Joey and I started dating, we attended a party at one of my coworkers’ home. One of my most memorable memories of that night is the visual of Joey trying to walk between a small table and a couch, of course not being able to fit, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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