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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more

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  1. Welcome!

Welcome!

My name is Kristen, aka Kristarella. I’m a wife, a mum, and a follower of Christ. I have many interests and hobbies (🥋 📷 🧶 🎨 🎸 🎮), some of which you can read about in my blog posts below.

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  • Bring on 2024

    Bring on 2024

    2 January 2024

    Read about my Bullet Journals and how I’m using the 2024 trifecta for a happier year!

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  • The Voice Referendum

    The Voice Referendum

    13 October 2023

    tl;dr vote yes I have been umming and ahhing over the referendum since before the date was set. When I first started looking into it there was very little information about it (that was easy to find). All I could find initially was the text of the constitution change, i.e., Chapter IX-Recognition of Aboriginal and…

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  • Sistaco Nail Powder Review

    Sistaco Nail Powder Review

    25 November 2022

    Yep! I succumbed to the ads on Facebook and bought some Sistaco mineral bond nail powders. I wanted to see if it was as magic as it seems…

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  • 2020: the year that wasn’t

    2020: the year that wasn’t

    31 March 2020

    I have been reflecting on 2019 and how it set me up for this year. 2019 was wonderful, and at times really difficult. Before 2019 I was not a goal-setter; I had this sense that setting goals was an exercise in futility because there is so much we can’t control that can derail those goals.…

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Photoblog

  • Gossips
  • In the wood

Craft

  • Finished a pair of socks!
  • Sockhead beanies

Karate

  • 100 Kata Challenge
  • 10 point kata practice

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