Back from Bytown

Hey Blogsters! I've been away in nippy Ottawa for a conference for work. Check out this great wallet-sized ice scraper from CBC North (thanks Marita!). Stayed in a hotel during the conference and after that stayed in the hostel, which is in a building that used to be a jail. The beds are in cells! I went on a tour of Death Row and saw the gallows, it was pretty dang cool!
Like sleeping in a museum or a film by Wes Anderson.


Also visited the big, friendly spider at the National Gallery and the Norval Morrisseau exhibit, so lively! And made some good scores at a zine fair called Ravenswing, met the rockin' zinester who organizes it and he's doing a custom zine reader's advisory for me, I told him he should go to library school, of course! Lots of snow in Ottawa, unlike tropical Toronto.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

Gauge, cast on, GO!

Team Tit Bit

I joined Team Tit Bit for the Knitting Olympics, too. So I'm going to make a sassy, soft pair of Tit bits from the pattern in Take Back the Knit, issue 2. The pattern is also free online at Knitty. Tit bits are prosthesis for women who've had a mastectomy, but they're hand knit with loving care. Beryl comes up with some fantastic designs! My faves are Watermelon and Apres Toboggan.

thank goodness for little things

Like hitting a zine fair with a wallet full of loonies:
















The cutest pink embroidery scissors and fun patterns from Sublime Stitching:


















The giant thimble at Spadina + Richmond:




















And sassy posters on Queen St:

Olympics fever

7 days left...


I joined the Knitting Olympics! I'm going to make this dress from a Debbie Bliss pattern, for my cousin's baby. And here are two cool cats mustering up some Torino Olympics fever, bellies full of Brio, pizza and bruschetta.

Happy Lunar New Year!

It's Year of the Dog! I embroidered a fortune cookie on a tea towel, the lovely friend I gave it to is apparently wearing it as a scarf today, how sweet! And I bought these gorgeous fortune cookie earrings from Amyville. She makes the cutest tiny little things, go buy something from her!

discarded (not by me) at Spadina station

magic mirror - election 2006

I can see Peggy, I can see Olivia and Jack, I can see Charlie and Paul..... (remember Romper Room?) Great showing NDPers! 29 seats and 17% of the vote!

I voted!

post beside Liberal office

  

election week orange

wassat on yer shoulder??

tee hee! Terrible quality of photo I took of tv, it's Mike Wise on the CBC news last night. There was a part in the story about a reptile called 5 lined skink and someone put a graphic of a skink on his shoulder! tee hee, I love it!

pink graffitti in public toilet

squirrels are artists too

glue gun = the best kind of gun

Went to a magnet making party and made these: a school bus, a toilet and a cherry on shiny ribbon.

Live with books!

ta-da!

Well well, I've set up a blogspot, everybody's doing it!

Nothing much to report except that I'm excited to be going to see "Pulling Out the Stops" tonight. It's a short film about one of my favourite bands, The Hidden Cameras. It's part of the Inside Out Film Festival, and it's sold out!!