Unknown Mami™

Bottle Cap Wisdom

January 23, 2012

Finally, it’s raining in San Francisco, CA. I showed you mine, now show me yours. Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their [...]

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Baking Broken Bits of Crayons

January 19, 2012

There are broken bits of crayons littering every corner of my home. Until they make unbreakable crayons or my kids get beyond the age of coloring, I’m sure there will continue to be an abundance of broken bits of crayons. Fortunately, those broken bits can be made whole again in a few easy steps. 1. [...]

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Post Blackout Blues

January 18, 2012

From 8am to 8pm on 1/18/12, the plan was for this site to go dark in protest to SOPA and PIPA and dark it went. And then 8pm rolled around and it stayed dark. WTH? I used the Simple Stop Sopa Plugin and it was supposed to do everything for me. Simple, right? It was [...]

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Blackout on 1/18/2012

January 17, 2012

Tomorrow UnknownMami.com will be joining websites such as MoveOn.org, Wikipedia, and Reddit by going dark as a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the Senate. I’m all for sopa like my nana used to make, but SOPA makes me [...]

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The Big Reveal

January 16, 2012

For almost 3 years I’ve been blogging with a paper bag over my head. I have revealed myself and bits and pieces of my family through my writing, but I’ve never given you a good look at our faces. Until today! This is what we look like in knit. Pictures were “knit” with Knitted Cam [...]

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Sundays In My City

January 14, 2012

I live in a 3-story building with a wooden staircase in the back. If I step out of my back door and go up one landing, this is what I see. San Francisco, CA. I showed you mine, now show me yours. Share your city/town/suburb/you name it!If you [...]

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Room for Interpretation

January 11, 2012

I signed Put Pie, my three-year-old, up for a dance class. Being a lover of footwear, the very first thing she asked was what kind of shoes would she be wearing. I told her that she would be taking the class in her bare feet. Excitedly she ran to her room and came back wearing [...]