Sunday Style

1. Springtime Swallow Hand Tag Set by Oak Hollow Primitives.




2. Heart Gift Tags by Makalewakan



3. Swedish Design Wooden Gift Tags by Makalewakan.



4. Little Red Riding Hood Gift Tags by Crow and Iris.



5. Bohemian Rhapsody Tags by Figure22.



I love Etsy.

This has been keeping me from doing homework all weekend...

Greg Rutter's Definitive List of the 99 Things you Should have Seen on the Internet Unless you are a Loser or Old or Something.

Eloquent.

Boom Goes the Dynamite changed my life. Seriously.

Eat your heart out Sierra!

This week in unconventional art:



And this is Sierra's best documented herding experience:



Honey, you just got taken to school...

ART.

Starved for some participation in ART up here in THE MOST ISOLATED PLACE IN THE WORLD, I joined the church choir. There are about 20ish members, who are all just lovely, and the director, Melinda, has a real sense of humour and reality about what the small group can reasonably accomplish, which, not to sound terribly elitist, is mostly very basic, 4 part block harmony. Sadly, this is a far cry from the 150 member community choir at UVic I used to have the priveledge of singing with. (And an intimidating priveledge at that!) There is something about singing in harmony in the midst of a massive, single-minded group that is nothing short of magical and staggeringly moving.

Melinda has chosen some beautiful charts for Easter and for other future choir exploits. That being said, I just really miss the sound that is produced from a MASSIVE GROUP OF UVic VOICE MAJORS!! *sigh*

A piece by the Oxford Choir, a group I should listen to more often while lying on my living room floor and directing with my fingers after a few glasses of good wine.

Enjoy.

video courtesy of treblechoir99

Llama Sunday

I had the fun opportunity on Sunday to visit my friend Elizabeth's farm. She has llamas!!

It was best therapy I've had in a long while, holding a lamb and kissing a llama.

The Dave...

Amber: When we have kids, what would you like to do as a family?

Dave: hiking.

Amber: What else?

Dave: swimming pool.

Amber: Give me something original.

Dave: Dumpster diving.

Sunday Style

I've been browsing Etsy shops quite often lately and I've been surprised and delighted every time to find so many beautiful items for sale. Of course, I've been sticking to my budget (curses!) but I still enjoy the 'window shopping' as it were. Here are some finds.

1. Clutch purse by Little Ellie called The Lily Clutch in Mist Floral.

2. Wallet by Little Ellie called The Almost Everything Wallet.

3. Chasing Elephants Wallflower reversible Pixie Bag.

4. Green bag with shell buttons by Creations by Eve.

5. Red Daisies Classic Tote by The Craft Pantry.

I'm quite sure we can all tell what season I'm looking forward to...

Unpredictable at best

This is what my street looked like at 10:00 Wednesday morning.

Feast your Eyes, Bitches

This is what I get to come home to.

The Trekkie

For about two months over Christmas, I put Dave through what at first seemed like his slow death by making him watch almost every episode of The Office with me. Once I had seen EVERY episode, he bought me season 3 for Christmas and we enjoyed one more round of reruns, deleted scenes and hilarious Dwight Bobble Head antics. Those were the days.

It seems that Dave decided to have his revenge on me when he downloaded several seasons of Star Trek: the Next Generation, which we have been watching almost every night. At first I protested, wondering what pull the seemingly dorky series could have on him. Now...well, it seems that I like Star Trek. Just like Dave now likes The Office.

I guess we are finally rubbing off on eachother.

Pam Beesly - Dave's favorite character of The Office.











Commander Data - my favorite character of Star Trek.