So, today is Sunday, Sunday evening.

I should be at youth group right now. 

I was planning on going, but I got...a little bit lost in knitting...and 7:20 rolled past me. 

I feel like I should have lots of pictures for you. It was a week full of picture possibilities. Thrifting, Dan Mangan's beard,  lots of rain and fog.

This is my knitting. Good old scanner pictures.

I feel like there is a lot I could say to you. I'm not sure where to start, or if it's worth starting.
I'm just going to make up a list of words that are this week.
Maybe something will come out of that.

Words for the week of October  21st 2012

The Reuse Center.
Fog
Salvation Army
Value Village
Indigo
Coffee
Long traffic-filled Toronto drives
Dan Mangan
Dan Mangan's beard
Dan Mangan's man band
Dan Mangan's voice, his beautiful beautiful voice
Lisa.
Books about Stitches
Poems
Hamilton history
IKEA
Rain, rain, rain.
Dexter.
Bow ties, more coffee, crunchy pasta, even more coffee, The Master, Planet Earth and Trevor.
Trevor.

I put off all my homework for tomorrow. Smart right? Tomorrow I wake up bright and early and write an annotated bibliography, draw some paraline drawings on the good old bond paper, interpret sounds into colors and patterns, finish off my photo transfers, and pack my clothes for the week.

oh admiration, in falling asleep

It seems like it’s been a while since I’ve really written something. I can’t even remember how to phrase…and explain and expand on the things of my heart. I’ll have to start practicing again.
Soooo, i’m going to just throw it out there…
i miss essay writing
(Feel free to laugh hysterically)
I miss being forced to write. My minds running a bit slow. I think I’ll change reading week to…writing week, and start trying to phrase things rightly again, and maybe convince myself to start on my research paper…
(Feel free to laugh hysterically)
Try to clear my mind.
I’m sitting here listening to Sufjan, feeling pretty darn okay. I think it’s something about Sufjan, that makes it hard not to feel pretty darn okay. I spent the day in Toronto with Caroline and Trevor. We explored the art gallery, wandered and got a (little) bit lost. Caroline and I had deep life-exploring-train-ride-talks, about all the best things: love, youth, letting go, time and beautiful beautiful living.
I also taught her to knit. That was on the way there before our brains explode because of art gallery overload but she’s a stellar learner. Mastered casting on and knitting in a short hour.
Anyways. I’ve been keeping busy this week. Trying to. Seems like the best thing to do when the world seems to be spinning insanely. I’m trying to ignore due-dates and homework.  I feel like if I’m creative enough, such things will resolve themselves on their own…right?
It is only Tuesday.
My aunt asked me to throw something together for the John Calvin Bazaar, so I decided to re-face photo transferring. That includes dragging my lazy self out to Staples to make photo-copies and to Curry’s for canvases. It also involves cracking open my gel medium. Oh Gel Medium, dear, dear love of mine.

I tried one transfer on wood rather than canvas, and it’s looking stellar so far. Just need to sand it down a bit, and finish it off. I’m gonna try some more like this sometime soon.
here are some of the classic canvas ones:
I also un-buried my sewing machine this week. I’m supposed to be altering my Oma’s pants for her…but you know…bow-ties are just a little bit more interesting? (I’ll get your pants done, Oma… soon I promise)

I think I’m going to make these for the rest of my life. So easy, and so fun.
They took me about 25 minutes to make...and then a good three hours to learn how to tie. I understood suddenly why clip-on bow ties exist.

And lastly, because I’ve been neglecting my bangs, and they need to be tamed somehow… and I found these beautiful rayon ends… (yes, Lisa, rayon…like our pants and like…other things ) in the bargain bins at Fabricland, I made a headband, courtesy of Cotton and Curls. 

That’s it for now! Tomorrow morning I plan to stay inside in bed with tea and my current Thomas Hardy and curl up…sort of what I felt like doing today. Maybe make some chocolate chip cookies, and then tackle the ravaging of all Burlington thrift stores with Theo and Lis.
Should be good!
Sleep well my dearies.

when my turn came…

It’s reading week this week, and reading week means you take your first ride in an airplane.
right? that makes pretty clear obvious sense.
My father met Peter at a bed and breakfast. He happens to be a pilot.
& he took my brother, my father and me flying in this tiny little plane.
It was really, quite…wonderful.

so far

 

so far

this fall has been, lemon cake, apple pie and Locke street market sunflowers.

it’s been escarpment edge hikes, felt and embroidery, sweaters, and knit hats and new friends.

and it’s been good, pretty darn good.

can you expect less of fall? Fall is a love of mine.

(lemon cake beautiful disaster zone)

(apple pie, sunflowers and coffee)

(family fall hikes)

These are my school projects so far:

For my first project I made a scarf. It’s wet felted from fleece, with soft inlays. You wet felt by laying out thin layers of felt, and then wetting it through with a soap and water mixture. Then you rub and rub and rub and rub until it hooks together as a unified fabric. The project theme was home and we were supposed to be experimenting with motifs. I cut the motifs of my families faces out of pre-felt ( a very soft hardly felted sorta felt) and felted them into my scarf base. And voila, aha!

Our second project was mixing color and line with felt. Last Wednesday we had an embroidery workshop. Which excites me, terribly. Embroidery is dreamy, and fantastic. Friend Caroline put up fantastically with my love gushing towards my sample all class.

So project two, color and line, turned into… mittens!

I’m awfully proud of these babies.
Horribly. They just behaved so well.

I just have one last picture: (picture overload! sorry! and I have so many more I still want you to see, from camping, the summer, ottawa, sault ste. marie, and so on and on and on) BUT! I headed out to art-crawl last friday night with friends Trevor and Caroline. In Caroline’s mind there is no passing these things up:

Dear me.

(this, she set aside)

hi,

I think I'm back:
with a 
new blog layout,  & a new school year.

I still tweaking around with the colors and fonts in this layout. I'm not sure if it is clear or legible enough yet. I'll probably continue to fool around with it for the months to come.

:)
but yes.
hi.
it feels good to be back.

I want to catch you up in pictures,  but we recently got  a new computer and I don't know if any of my stuff has been transfered over yet. I'll harass Brother Jacob when he comes home from school.

I started school again this fall. It's lovely so far.
Sheridan folks are ridiculously friendly or maybe, I've become a bit braver. 
It's a Crafts and Design program, so I get to do a lot of fooling around with my hands, scribbling and drawing. We've been working with wet-felting fleece to make (tadaa!) felt, paper and next week we start embroidery which I am hugely excited for. I'll insert images for you, when I get my camera up and running again.
I'm living in Burlington during the week with my grandparents & my lovely, lovely Lisa drives me into school with her when she can, and other days I ride the rails. (Remind me to get her some gas money soon!). Right now, I only have school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which makes for wonderful four day weekends.

Things have been pretty normal and really nice.
I still bake like an insane person when I can on weekends.
I thrift too much.
I love shoes.
I love my bed.
I love books, paper, pens.
I fell in love with candles.
I started watching LOST.
& My family got a dog. Her name is Cleo, and she is snuggle-y and pretty cute, I guess. Quite a little yapper though.

Anyways, that is all for now. It's Sister Anna's birthday today, & I've got to run out to the store and pick up her requested dinner of chicken burgers. Nice choice, little one.

I will return, sooner than before.