Fawned Fridays

This is the last day of work for me!  Off on 1 week of vacation, followed by a year-long maternity leave (if things continue to go accordingly!).  Feels a little weird to be packing up this part of my work life.  Still have my own creative side projects to look after so it will be an exciting challenge to learn to balance family and creative contracts before going back to the office for full-time technical work again.

Madeline corset from Starkers! Corsetry

1. Love this corset from Starkers! Corsetry. I bought my wedding corset from her as well and it was absolutely gorgeous and amazingly comfortable!
2. Funky shoes
3. Toms wrap boots make me think of a props for a mummy movies
4. I keep meaning to check out this optical store in Peterborough.
5. This is very close to my house.  What a beautiful photo by Mark Muschett
6. I spent a lot of time playing in this park as a little girl.  Another beautiful photo by Lydia Dotto.
7. I’m a sucker for menswear inspired looks. And more cute
8. Projects like this make me want to develop my crochet skills further
9. This knitting project makes me want to learn more about colour working in knits
10. Love Googling tree murals for nursery

Fawned Fridays

Friday again and I have really been slacking!  Still do not have any of my art up here.  Still have not gotten all the dragon sketches onto canvas for the baby room, or finished the porthole trim there either, or put any proof of these things up on this blog for your viewing pleasure.  Sheesh, what a slacker!  Will have to remedy that soon.  For now here is another Fawned Friday edition:

Butterfly Pendant

1. Beautiful
2. This was my work day happiness
3. Cool way to organize collections of rocks, shells, buttons, bones or whatever!  A great site for organizing ideas.
4. Interactive music and art!
5. Kaz Oshiro
6. Peterborough 2004 my city under water
7. Fun green DIY fashion projects
8. Green furniture
9. Where were these adorable fun capes when I was a child?  Looks like some great projects to do with young ones, and the young at heart.
10. Daily Canadian art auction

Fawned Fridays

Another week, another Fawned Friday edition.

Eagerly counting down the minutes until my weekend begins.  So much to do!  So much I want to do!  But most importantly, relax and enjoy the little things when you can.  Speaking of which, approximately six or so more weeks until I can consume scotch again… can’t wait!

World Construction Kit, by artist Julien Pacaud

1. Loving Julien Pacaud’s work
2. Cute tiny planting project.
3. Tree houses
4. Some wonderful pictures of Syria, before the devastating current events
5. I wonder if this is good with almond butter sandwich…
6. How to braid your challah in various ways.  I know I need a lesson in bread braiding!
7. I love reading about other peoples travels.
8. Vintage knits are yummy.  The title of that piece makes me wonder what it was people went out and did on Sunday nights way back then….
9. Love this dress, and this dress, and I love 60′s mod looks, this dress is classy, and this dress is just fun.
10. Some monkeys are at home in the snow

Fawned Fridays

Back again after a short hiatus!  Aw life, you are far to chaotic and busy these days, but I can’t truly complain, it’s been great to me as of late.

Limited Edition Cold Water book locket Rose And Anchor

1. This is so pretty
2. There really aught to be more oddly shaped pies in the world.
3. Giant Bunnies!  Or Google image search for “giant rabbits”
4. Cool Straw Bale cottage
5. Trees as important functional spaces.  I seem to have architecture on the brain these days…
6. Grassy roofs
7. The title of this book. More proof that anything with the word “intergalactic” in it sounds cool.
8. Gorillas paint.

Fawned Fridays

Hurrah Friday! I am again this week joining So Fawned and her weekly Fawned Fridays and you can join in too.

By Heidi Taillefer

1. Painting love. Wonderful Surrealist anatomical paintings
2. I’ve been fascinated by dome homes ever since childhood.  This one rotates 
3. Yum, I want to try this gluten-free challah recipe
4. If you are not already on Ravelry and you knit or crochet, get on it! There are tons of resources and free patterns there!  I have found it useful for years and the site keeps on growing, the two-millionth Ravelry signed up on Wednesday, February 29 2012.
5. Can’t wait to get started on this in red
6. An art exhibit where content is completely reliant on the viewers
7. Wow, that’s a lot of bananas!
8. Cool cave homes
9. Earl Grey Tea love

Fawned Fridays

Hmm Friday again so soon?  My how the week has flown by!  Remember So Fawned and her weekly Fawned Fridays and join in.

Belly Art

1. I love this Belly Art  
2. Learn about one of the oldest German cities.
3. Europe has changed a lot since I was in elementary school, time for some re-education!
4. There is a lot of baby room and kid design awesome here
5. Proof that Ira’s idea for an orange nursery (which I pooh-poohed thinking orange would be way too much) really could have worked.
6. Parts of this site amuse me.
7. Serving this with my Grama’s Salmon loaf tonight
8. My Mom used to make Scalloped Potatoes, now I want to find a recipe to make them.
9. Check out my sister over at Big White Barbie Tries Borscht for her amusing reflections on her oversea work and travel.
10. In the mood for a puzzle?

Fawned Fridays

Yes, yes I know, this isn’t Friday, well boo-hoo I am pretending it is for the purposes of this little post.  I have no better excuse for missing Friday other than enjoying a rare couple days of relaxation away from the computer.  Remember So Fawned and her weekly Fawned Fridays and join in!

Becker Galleries

1. My cousin, Michele Becker, opened Becker Galleries in Vancouver which I would love to visit, were I not trapped on the other end of Canada. 
2. My how the time has flown at knitty.com, and their online magazine full of patterns and techniques is still going strong! 
3. Tomorrow morning I will finish off my present knitting project, Stephen West’s Boneyard Shawl using Elizabeth Zimmerman’s sewn bind off.  Looks easy.
4. This site looks like it has lots of easy, around the house projects for people learning to sew. 
5. I have been drooling over these red boots
6. Cartoon Hebrew? Well, not a pretty site, but it helped me relearn a few letters I had forgotten by using some visual memory tips.
7. Yum, Food pornography.
8. In the mood for the Museum of Weird Art?
9. Piglets and Puppy love.

Fawned Fridays

Today I am trying something a little different to get back into the spirit of keeping a blog, and as a way to creatively reflect a little on my week.  Check out So Fawned and her weekly Fawned Fridays and join in!

Hai Ling Peak Alberta

1. This is a great picture, you really do feel like that once you are up there! 
2. I always loved Eiko and Koma’s still shots like this one.  One of my first oil paintings was based on one of their photos.
3. Yum, I really want to make this Challah!
4. But tonight I will be making this Challah instead, because it is faster, and gluten-free.
5. Dresses from the 1940′s were so adorable and dramatic
6. For this new blog I need some banner inspiration!
7. This is ridiculous and super adorable.
8. Best dog barking song ever… in case you somehow missed it!
9. Currently my favourite place to eat in Peterborough Ontario.