one of the most exciting things for me about making fabrics with arounna for repeat was getting to see what people make with them. Lois took the snap purse class at the workroom, and made this lovely pleated coin purse with the royal blue jars fabric. thanks so much for sending us a photo.

my parents were awesome

i don't remember how i found this site, but i think it is just wonderful. i love old photos, and i can remember the first time i realized my parents were 'people', and not just mom and dad [these are not my parents, by the way]. visit my parents were awesome

ted found these tonight - so clever.

by Italian designers zo-loft.

mittens

another of my favorite things are church bazaars - for the rummage or white elephant, crafts table and the lunches. my mom and i attend them every saturday that we can, mostly in my old neighbourhood which has lots of churches. ted joined my this past weekend, and after going to the farmer's market, we went to a church on Elmwood that I chose because their ad in the paper mentioned the knitting table [and pickles, and preserves!].

i needed new mittens - i lose several pairs a year - but unfortunately most were made of acrylic yarn in the strangest colour combos. ted found this tiny pair made of gorgeous wool in great colours, so we bought them for a little girl we miss very much, and I'll post them to her tomorrow.

woke up this morning to a wonderfully thick bank of fog over the house [and i'm sure everywhere else, i just didn't venture out]. fog is one of my favorite things, and one of the things i miss the most about living on the coast. above is looking west, with the huge walnut tree in our yard on the right.

this is directly into our yard - fire pit in the distance and our newly-fixed laundry line cutting across the middle. it was down last week due to a large walnut branch falling on it in all that wind the night before halloween. the forked, dead tree at the back on the right is home to woodpeckers and bats - at dusk in the summer you can see them swooping all over the yard and hear their sonar clicks.

penguin

we went to chapters the other day, on our way to chatham. i had just bought a moleskine planner, and ted wanted one too. close to the entrance was the most beautiful selection of books i've ever seen - a set of cloth bound classics re-issued by penguin, and featuring gorgeous, gorgeous repeat patterns foil stamped onto the cloth. i can't find them on the canadian site, but here they are on the UK site. i was trying to find the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland cover to show you [white with pink flamingoes, above] but i couldn't find a good large image. look at this edition of Cranford, instead:

i just love the patterns on these, and may have to request them for christmas. as i went searching for images, i found this feature from design*sponge last week, with the designer, Coralie Bickford-Smith, and also a mention over on the Skinny laMinx blog, too. they are such a steal, at $15 each.

hotel canzine

city of craft is putting on an installation that coincides with the canzine indie media fair. today at the gladstone hotel on Queen West you can visit us at the city of craft general store, a one day, old fashioned pop-up shop featuring all kinds of wonderful craft. we'll be up on the second floor from 1pm - 7pm, with a slew of other artist's rooms.