30 seconds of shaking feels like forever: earthquake aftermath
So we endured an earthquake here in central Canada. Apparently North America is getting squeezed in on the edges so we rumbled and buckled here in the middle. Awesome. The quake epicenter was 60 km...
View Articleshort, sweet & sketchy
The summer has landed! The summer has landed! And, yo, am I lovin it. Less blogging and more gardening, cleaning and organizing it seems. Woo hoo! Never fear, there are a tonne of new projects in the...
View Articlelook! pretty flowers! a quick distracted update post
this is a distraction post. plain and simple. (bad capitalization to follow)new projects are like tiny new baby chicks in my world.I'm spending lots of time with my baby chicks. dets? fair enough i...
View Articleit's ♥ I Forgot This Friday ♥ Again.
You know, I have to be honest. This second of the I Forgot This Friday posts is not something I forgot at all. Neither was the first. In fact, they are quite the opposite. They are the most exciting...
View Article1 blog award received, 5 given & a lot about *me*
Check this shit out! Yup, it's true. Not only was I awarded with a very cool blogging badge of honour, I'm actually sitting down and writing a post about it. AND following the rules of acceptance. I...
View Articlea before & after post :: 2 chairs for julz ::
this is my life, right now. dining room office? why not.So this is a superfun post for me to write! It's the first in a before & after series centering around a 1 room apartment (shared bath &...
View Articlea quick After post. another set of chairs!
The next project I decided to tackle in my apartment make-over design challenge was the dining area chairs. Julz had two chairs from Ikea that simply needed covers made for them. These two chairs were...
View Articlepictures, pretty pictures.
welcome to a distraction post!i finished the apartment re-design last night round 8pm. i am photographing the results today. i will be blogging some individual projects as well as the before &...
View ArticleThe Big Re-Design Reveal
It's here! The big reveal. The word on the street is: She ♥ Loves ♥ It! I am so happy she approves and feels comfortable in this new space to call her own. If you haven't any idea of what I am talking...
View ArticleApartment Details: A Vintage Suitcase DIY
My *love of vintagesuitcase tables* envelope is sealed with a big fat sloppy kiss. It's official. It only made sense then that I would include one in the apartment I recently designed. I started off...
View Articleamazing music monday :: DO FUN STUFF ::
Who loves music? EVERYONE. Kids, adults, all of us. SO you HAVE to check this out: An amazing album of music written for adults AND kids! Something that won't make you wanna poke your ears! I KNOW!...
View Articlewe are muslim
Today Adam Avitable, an American blogger I follow/have grown to love like an imaginary sibling, has taken a sidestep from all his usual humourous rantings and sketches and given religion and peace...
View Articlethe situation.
i'm not really feeling the point, the desire, the drive to blog.i have nothing to say. nothing to share.so that's why i'm not here.i'm not elsewhere, i'm just not here.i'm over here. and there. and...
View Articlehiding
bear with me dear reader.it's been a while.and i'm sweating and shaking, something that started as i contemplated pressing Sign In.why do i do this?this here and gone pattern. that's what i've been...
View Articlethe: holiday, book challenge, hero meeting, update
Hey, it's December! I'm back! .Ok, not back-back. But pushing through this blogger anxiety for a moment to jump in and write a bit. I've been all over the map. not literally, but mentally for sure....
View Articlea quick, free, holiday *spruce up yur shack* project
I linger on the twitter. I am never without inspiration that way, you see. Enter: this post. The other day Rene (aka @ffantastica and blogger http://fruityfantastica.tumblr.com/ ) mentioned on the...
View Articlenothing ventured, nothing lost
i figured that since tomorrow would be the 4 month mark of not blogging that enough is enough, time to post. my absence doesn't stem from lack to tell, it stems from laziness and fear and all the bs...
View Articlea preview: ♥ pinkie ♥
here is a little tidbit of a preview for your eyes: pinkie. i've been experimenting on a vintage suitcase table with a new type of paint application that doesn't require ventilation. i still have mixed...
View Articlenot any nan.
when i say 'nan' i get quiet for a second. i usually smile. i don't quite know how to put my maternal grandmother into words. she was, as we all are, a true one of a kind. in my very biased opinion she...
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