my mom and i took the train to toronto on friday morning for a mini-vacation. i found a great deal on a room at the royal york hotel - wow, what a beautiful building.

we spent friday at the one of a kind show, visiting friends and trying to get through the huge amount of vendors there. it was nice to be a shopper and not an exhibitor for a change, and it was really wonderful to see all of my far-off friends like kyla [booth j-09] and rilla [t-21] who are in town for the show. my mom was thrilled to spend a little bit of time with arounna and john's kids, piper and lliam as her own grandchildren are so far away. above is arounna's field wallet [booth Q-11]- the contrast of the leather and linen is lovely.

we went to the st.lawrence market for breakfast [croissants! pastries!] this morning, that place is so busy and there is so much to look at.

distraction/procrastination

it's really not fair - they spend all day sleeping and eating. i find that in the lead-up to a show i'm just looking for anything at all to distract me. the chubby cat eating out of the Chunky Soup can was irresistible.

repeat wallet

it's wonderful to have new prints to work with - the wallets in all the stacks in the last few posts feature the power lines and jars prints from repeat. i'm having a hard time packing this one away in to a suitcase to take to Halifax next week...

he'd make such a good travel companion, what with being able to sleep and keep a paw on his suitcase.

and stacks!

at last, the wallet stack is done. these require so much pressing and ironing, it drives me crazy.

i'm trying to decide whether or not to put some up in the Etsy shop, this is all I have for the Halifax Crafters and City of Craft show.

they reminded me of a quilt, all laid out like this. i'm going to get a few baby blankets with quilt details done for the shows, too, inspired by laying these out.

and stacks

and stacks [of wallets, this time].

stacks

the studio is starting to lose it's neat and tidyness from the massive clean out and re-arrange i did in mid october [it took me a week. 12 hours a day for a week!]. it is slowly being overcome by stacks and stacks of things, in this case, burlesque tea towels that are being printed and sewn for the halifax crafters and city of craft shows.