The best thing that happened all day

Robin took me to Astroboy, which ROCKS! Love, love, LOVE it. Thank you to all the people who wished me a happy birthday, kisses all!

presents

As you can tell, I have been a very lucky girl this past week, new comics, fabric, earrings, and an apartment! I also bought myself a lovely new doll pattern (which I plan on making for Celeste) by this talented artist:
http://www.hopskipjump.typepad.com/
I adore the simplicity and playability of this pattern. It is very cute, and i look forward to making it. Three commissions and four more sets of curtains to go before I can get to work!

Happy birthday to me

I am 29 today. I plan to stay in my pajamas all or most of today, consume large amounts of coffee, chocolate and soup and make stuff. Yesterday I slacked off and went for a lovely long walk with Ruth during which we examined many interesting items for purchase (otherwise known as the activity called shopping). Ruth bought a mancala set and I bought some earrings because it is very hard for me to find earrings that fit my ears. I came home and was so tired that I fell asleep right away! Uff, 29 means I am becoming an old lady!
A grand birthday call out to all the other birthdays this week! Happy 26th, Dave! Happy 29th, Elisa!

Making things

This weekend I sewed several curtains, recovered some lamps with fabric and started making some placemats for the new place. I think that it will all look very nice once I am finished, but right now it seems like such a mammoth task to have undertaken it makes me want to cry. I hate moving.
I also went to Ikea and got a black sippy cup for Laura.

Newness part the second (more new than you)

For my birthday my man got me these comics which are very cute and funny and a little melancholy. Now as I'm sure you all know, I adore both vampires and melancholy, so these comics are perfect. I also got fabric! Whee! So pretty!





I can use it to make things for my new flat that I am moving to in ... eek! 20 days! But, oh look my lovelies! Isn't it nice?









Check out the view off of that balcony, sweetpeas! And best of all (even better than a balcony) is a clothesline!

Newness

Right, so this morning I left the house looking like this. My was hair the same blah tangle that it has been for the past several months. But I was wearing this lovely new necklace that Laura gave me



And this, my new birthday watch:



I went to see the Waterhouse exhibit - and the paintings were beautiful, but the lighting was terrible. The painting are oils, right? Some museum person positioned all of the lights glaring onto the paintings so that there was no where that you could stand, and no angle that you could stand at that they weren't gleaming. I wasn't the only person who noticed this, I heard several people comment on how distracting it was, and how poor the lighting was.
I also...cut my hair! Surprise. I know I said that I wouldn't. I know Robin likes it long (sorry honey), but honestly, it drives me absolutely mad when it is that long. So when I came home, I looked like this:

The Massey Lectures

Robin, Sarah, Matt and I went to the Massey lectures last night. This year it was a lecture by Wade Davis about ancient wisdom and how it is applicable to the modern world. It was very interesting to hear his perspective on how other cultures view the world around them and interact with the earth. I was a bit sorry that it was only one lecture that I could attend (the other ones are held in other cities). If you would like to hear the lectures you can tune in to the CBC program Ideas from November 2nd to the 6th.