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by Carol Browne on May 15, 2012 · 3 comments

in Family and Buddies, Festivities, Photos, Vancouver

Thanks to the internets AND the Canucks, Sarah Harris found me while searching for some Canucks blogs (I think). The thing is, she lives in the UK and loves the hockey! I’ve never met Sarah in person, but she’s sent me cool stuff from Jolly Old England – like this awesome Will and Kate totebag – and we’re buddies online. One day I will meet her in person – I’m sure of it – but today, I got to see her sketchbook in The Sketchbook Project. It’s a tour of hundreds? Thousands? So many art books created by people all over the world.

I made the most of my half hour visit – they have a tight schedule and have to close up at 7 pm. I didn’t leave until 7:20, actually, so they gave me a break/I kept holding up the show. Would you like to see the books I got to see? Here you go!
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Snoozing in the sunbeam

by Carol Browne on May 12, 2012 · 1 comment

in Family and Buddies, Photos

It feels like SUMMER!

Today I opened up the balcony door in the kitchen, slid the screen door over, put the dishwasher and the laundry basket in front of the screen door so that I wouldn’t have any escapees to tend with and we all enjoyed the warm air and the sunbeams. Oscar found his favourite one and just laid there, only opening his eyes up when he thought I may be getting close to the treat drawer.

Ahhh…another leisurely weekend….

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Double exposures

by Carol Browne on May 5, 2012 · 2 comments

in Family and Buddies, General, Photos

I’ve been no a real streak of fun, lovely, and happy adventures lately. I attended Vivienne‘s demo today where she shared her Polaroids and showed us how she tricked the cameras into making double exposures. All that means is that you take two photos in one frame. The results are dreamy, overexposed and a bit ghostly. This is my favourite double exposure I made today.

That’s the Woodwards Condo building mixed with some graffiti from a nearby alley.

Vivienne also let us use a Polaroid with some black and white film. I’ve never used that before. I gave it a whirl. I liked the results, but I somehow made the photos underexposed, so all my photos came out very dark.
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Circadian Rhythms

by Carol Browne on May 2, 2012 · 0 comments

in Family and Buddies, General, Photos

In a surprise move at the job today, I was asked if I’d consider working from 10 am to 6:30 pm. YES PLEASE! Woohoo! I start my new schedule tomorrow morning, so I celebrated tonight by going out for sushi with my buddy Iris, had some birthday cake with another pal, and then toodled off to pick up Mike for his 10:30 pick up and now I’m up way past my usual bedtime. It’s okay! I don’t have to be on the bus until 9:10 tomorrow morning. Hooray!

As my friend, Iris, put it, “That job really suits your circadian rhythm.” Boy howdy, does it ever.

Speaking of circadian rhythms, we solved the mystery of the thumping at 5:30 in the morning. One morning it was so loud, Mike thought someone was trying to break into the garage. He got up to check, but everything was safe and sound. It happened a few days in a row…and then, Mike sent me the link to this video and I put it all together.
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A girl with a rake

April 29, 2012

Earlier this month, when we were in Calgary, my mom said, “You don’t mind if I give these dishes to Allison, do you?” Now. Keep in mind, Allison is very, very cute. Not to mention, very, very clever, and if she had asked me if she could have them, I think I may have been [...]

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Is it dinner time yet?

April 22, 2012

This is Donner, sitting on the washing machine in the kitchen, clearly worried I’ll forget to feed him at precisely 5:00 pm. I like how his little vampire toof is pointing out on his left hand side there. Not to worry, Donner and Oscar were fed. Oscar just walks around my feet the closer it [...]

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$2 Treasures

April 15, 2012

Yesterday, I met my buddies, Lysa and fabric designer, Cynthia at the Daiso. Just in case you’re not familiar with the Daiso, a) you need to get to Aberdeen Centre immediately and b) nearly everything in the store is two dollars. They have cute-sy little items in there – erasers shaped like fruit, teensy rolls [...]

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The Beautiful People of Banff

April 13, 2012

First of all, thanks to you guys for all the congratz on my new job. I’m excited! I will update you on my first day – officially April 23rd. WEWT! The funny thing is, my new job is right around the corner from my current job, so I will be in the exact same ‘hood [...]

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Faces at the zoo

April 11, 2012

Now that the “guess what?” game is over with, I think it’s only fair to show you the faces at the zoo. The elephant above has caps on his tusks because: a) They’re bionic b) It’s his internet connection. What? Elephants are smart! c) It helps with his painting technique. What? Elephants can paint! d) [...]

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…aaaaand we’re back!

April 9, 2012

Hooray! The plane trip was quick, and our drive home was even quicker. We’re home with the kitties, who were NOT waiting for us at the steps as we predicted. They didn’t come out to see us until they hear the pop! of the wet cat food lid. We left all kinds of bowls of [...]

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