Practice Makes Perfect

Learning how to use the Cricut is definitely progressing more and more each week! The first time I used a Cricut, I knew that I needed one of my own, and I’m so excited to say that my own Cricut has officially been ordered! The past week was reading week, so I felt like I

New Technology? Success!

This week I tried a new video editing tool called Animoto. Using this tool, you can take video clips and/or pictures and arrange them in almost a slideshow fashion. Animoto also lets you easily lengthen/shorten the time of each slide, add text in all sorts of colours and fonts, and add background music to your

Crafting, Crafting, and MORE Crafting

The Cricut journey continues, and I am officially in love! I am seriously looking into buying a Cricut of my own since I’ve just been using my Grandma’s to learn. This week I was finally able to create my first piece of clothing, and I’ve barely stopped wearing it since. I’ve also continued my journey

Tweet tweet!

So- Twitter. To be completely honest, I have never had a Twitter account until about a month ago. I remember being in high school and looking at my friend’s Twitter on her phone and saying “this just looks like a comment section”. I guess I just didn’t like how there wasn’t a whole lot of

Where Has this Machine Been all of my Life?

Exciting news! I finally used the Cricut, and I honestly couldn’t be more amazed. I decided to start out with using markers in the Cricut and have it draw something that I created on the Design Space software that Cricut requires. I don’t think that I can even put into words how pumped I was

You Truly are Never “finished” Learning

I was recently introduced to an online resource that I’ve never heard of before, Feedly. I am very new to this setup but from what I can tell so far when you get your new account, you type in the type of content you would be interested in and then once everything starts to pop

“Cricut” like…the bug?

So, when I heard about this learning project, I had a few good ideas come to mind. First, it was yoga, then watercolour painting, then embroidery. Although I really liked the thought of all of these ideas, I knew that I would never really be looking forward to doing them, so I started thinking of

Nice to Meet You!

Hello, my name is Emily Patchin. I was born and raised in a very small town in rural Saskatchewan called Porcupine Plain. Going through high school, there was never any other career that seriously considered pursuing other than becoming a teacher. My mom teaches the third grade, and my Auntie taught me Home Economics for