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Gray Skies

March 22, 2012

It doesn’t look much right now, but it took me a couple of hours to sew this kite into the fabric for the mug rug swap on Saturday with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild. I was going to use another square for this project, but scrapped the whole thing after seeing this dreamy quilt on [...]

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Fuzzy things

March 20, 2012

There was a good sale on bathmats today at The Bay. Good thing! Ours were disintegrating and leaving trails of plasti-y powder-y stuff on the bathroom floor. I picked out a mat that was called, “extra soft”. That will be lovely coming out of the shower. However, before it made it to the bathroom, Donner [...]

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The Sophisticate

March 15, 2012

All the fancy people hang out on Granville Street – it’s en route to Holt Renfrew. If you’ve not been there, it’s a high end, expensive shop where the Average Joe can pick up a smart hand bag for a mere $2,500 (Canadian) and you can buy T-shirts on sale for $99. This refined store [...]

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It was a good photo edit day

March 13, 2012

I spent a good chunk of my day editing the photos I took yesterday at work. And can I just say I hardly made any changes to Ada’s photos at all. I just adjusted the exposure a bit and voila! She is so photogenic. I love taking her photo. And she’s more than happy to [...]

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Infinity scarf

March 11, 2012

I spent a restful day knitting in a circle and making this cool scarf for our upcoming trip to Calgary. I’ve spent hours knitting it, careful not to twist any of the stitches, only to find I’m pretty sure that I have a twist in it. *Sigh*. I’m not sure if I REALLY need to [...]

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Drinking our greens

March 5, 2012

Mike’s started working the early shift – he STARTS work at 7 am. Oof. Since I’m not getting up at 5:30 to make juice (what am I? A hippy? NO!) I decided to make evening juice. This means mostly green juice because all the alkaline properties found in green fruits and veggies are supposed to [...]

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An assortment of mistakes

March 4, 2012

This square represents many hours of errors and mistakes, including an entire quilt top I made that I didn’t really end up liking after I had completed it. Somehow, when I put it all together, I love the end result! The centre square was the last of my botched 10X10 squares, that actually measured about [...]

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“Please befriend us.”

March 3, 2012

Today I went to what can best be described as a tradeshow of sorts, despite Mike’s warning of scams and snake oil commonly associated with such gatherings. Happily, I didn’t find any snake oil, but I did see a couple of snakes at the Reptile Rescue table. I also saw some hedgehogs and some cat [...]

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Some people…

February 28, 2012

…really take the snowfall warnings seriously around these parts. A parka? In Vancouver? I think it’s calling for snow & rain tomorrow, so that really means we’ll have slush at the very, very, worst. None of it will stick, but it will be chilly and wet-cold. If Bennett still lived in the downstairs suite, his [...]

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<=== Over There

February 27, 2012

This is the very scary “Ghost Sign” that had been accidentally preserved between two old buildings back in 1922. This is pretty old in the scheme of Vancouver’s history as it’s only been a city since 1862.

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