Month: March 2010

Clouds

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 30/03/2010

I know I haven’t been updating as regularly as I used to: I haven’t been in the right mood. I try to keep my blog positive (or lightly complainatory) and if I wrote what I’ve really been thinking about lately, your hair would fall out. Or you’d get that glazed, glassy eyed look so many of my friends have when I really get on a roll, listing my many grievances, usually starting with the fact that Shannon and I are not yet married. It goes downhill from there.

Here’s a picture of a great mural in Toronto on The Cameron House. I love how the door is inside the mouth.

Open wide and say “ahhh”

The fellow in the brown jacket actually went in the door seconds after I took this.

And the sky was lovely a couple weeks ago on Bloor St. For some reason I seem to only notice clouds when I am walking between my house and Lansdowne subway station.

Bloor sky

Work, work, work

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 26/03/2010

That’s all I do.

Well. Not really. But because I don’t technically work many hours, I try to keep busy doing other stuff during the day so I don’t feel like an entire waste of time. Knitting, cooking, baking, sewing, all that kind of good stuff. And once the weather is a tiny bit warmer, I plan on roller skating daily.

Yesterday, I made myself a new key ring. It might sound a little weird, but I sewed a little pouch to put pot pourri in, popped a grommet on and threw it onto a key ring. Of course, I was flat out of pot pourri, so I improvised a little: I used a teabag! HA! A Bengal Spice teabag to be precise, and it smells amazing, as does my purse.

Yum.

key-keys

Hung with love beside my Olympic schwag key ring.

I also saw The Runaways tonight. Made me wish I was 16 again and full of piss and vinegar. Fuck, man. I missed out on all the cool eras, I was too young for the original punk scene, too old to rave. Too young for glam rock, too old for…emo? Twilight? Maybe it’s not such a bad thing.

Still life with a 6 year old

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 25/03/2010

WHYYYYYY??!!?!!

Assuming it was Ari that set this Ken doll up before she left for vacation…He’s wearing Barbie’s pants, Happy Meal toy mask and one of his own boots on his arm. And I have NO IDEA what it means but I like it.

Grr.

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 24/03/2010

Angry because my computer crashed and I hadn’t saved my blog post about our trip to Vancouver. It wasn’t big, no, but still.

Anyway, it was a good trip, I loved the hotel we stayed at just because it was new and uber swanky. So swanky there were extremely fancy cars always parked outside-like the brand new Aston Martin the first day.  So new, in fact, that they were still ironing out a bunch of kinks, one of which meant that we had a pretty messy room for a couple days because we couldn’t get the maid signal to work. And the pool hadn’t even been built yet. But still, worth what we paid.

And very close to the Olympic torch, so that was cool too. Across the road:

Olympical

You could get close enough to feel the heat from the flames.

I’d blog more but the intense fight happening next door is so very distracting. I’m glad Ari isn’t home yet to listen to the ugliness…

Pillows I have been tempted by

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 16/03/2010

I actually stared at the first one for a long, long time and thought about a practical joke my parents played on wealthy friends of theirs a million years ago.

pillow 1

The next 2 aren’t as cool, but I can tell you that they are very soft. And tempting. And kind of gross. And not tempting at all.

pillow 2  pillow 3

I was extremely not tempted by this, the final item of today’s excursion. In fact. I stayed a minimum of 2 metres away at all times.

Ooh, la la, tres jolie!

‘Cause ‘hope I find crotchless panties’ is the first thing that pops into your head when you’re browsing at V.V.

Other than these exciting items (which I did not buy), the trip was good because someone had donated an upright piano which was being played by a pre-teen boy. Played? Massacred is more like. Better than screaming babies, which is the usual sound track. Also, if you were wondering, all but the girl with chicks paintings are gone. My blog sold them, I’m guessing. I also found the outer box of Tramacet (a pain killer for moderate to moderately severe pain) being used as a book mark in a book titled “Pain Free Living for Drug Free People”. Makes sense to me.

(And if you were wondering, yes, I did buy something: a couple yards of toile type fabric, cream with a blue print.)

Mail

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 11/03/2010

I got the ring I ordered from Midwest Alchemy in the mail today, it’s awesome. I’d always wanted a ring with emeralds-my birth stone-and now I have it.

Ring-a-ding-ding

And if anyone was wondering, my birthday is exactly 2 months from today. Get crackin’!

Wing ding

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 10/03/2010

I woke up from a very strange dream yesterday: that Rush Limbaugh had come out of the closet to a not terribly positive reception. I was somehow friends with him or maybe an aide or assistant and he was a total mess, his shirt stained, his hair sticking up and dirty. He was a sad, broken man and I felt quite sorry for him.

It was such a vivid dream that I had to ask Shannon if it were true when I got up. He wasn’t sure, haha, but I realised it was because I had fallen asleep with Howard Stern in my ear.  He was talking about the republican senator that had come out of the closet recently. Brain, stop filling in the gaps!

This wing belonged to a seagull that met a terrible fate, I guess. The wing was all I could see. After being told that coyotes are on the rise and that they’re hungry, that was my first guess, but I doubt they’re taking over Dufferin Mall yet.

Wingy.

Further adventures at V.V.

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 10/03/2010

You may well be wondering why I go to Value Village so often, and that’s very reasonable. I’m on the hunt for vintage percale sheets. That is ALL. Well, ok, you never know when you really will find a treasure, I also look at hand knit sweaters and for yarn/crafting supplies. I’ve never found anything worth while, because the store is full of this type of win:

Pretty, pretty dress for you.

For real. It’s full length and yours for ONLY $12.99. It’s size 15 and I bet that it’s still there right now if you run quickly NOW.

But wait. There’s this:

Nautical!

Cute, eh? It’s short and made of poly-cotton knit. And it’s a mere $24.99. Srsly. A bally worn out dress that someone probably wore to bed or over their swimsuit for $24.99. Dresses at Winners-NEW DRESSES-average out at the same price. New, pretty dresses that are current styles. Or you could get this:

Grand finale.

This dress not only has stains AND a pull in the fabric right on the front, not only has the seems literally coming apart with threads flapping in the wind, NOT only is 100% polyester, it’s also $24.99.

I actually flagged down an employee to ask her wtf is going on with these insane prices (and there were LOTS of dresses in this one size section with similar insane issues) and she waved me away, don’t bug me ask a manager. Which I did try to do but I was totally distracted by an incredible art collection. I was literally laughing my head off with a huge lineup of people right beside me, my phone out and taking pictures brazenly.

Sorry they’re blurry but I think you get the gist.

Girl with chicks.  La Piete  Rumble in the Jungle

All by the same artist. But here’s my favourite:

Satan! Satan! Satan!

Ho. Lee. Shit. Balls. Can you imagine that hanging in your house? Over your baby’s crib maybe? Oh. I love that painting so much. It belongs in the Museum of Bad Art.  Maybe they all do?

Oh, and in case you’re wondering-because you ARE-how much to bring to buy an original painting?

That’s right.

Don’t worry, they accept all major credit cards there.

Beautiful babies

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 08/03/2010

I’ve been super lucky to have spent the last 2 weekends hanging out with old friends and their gorgeous (and well behaved!) children. No favourites here, they’re all lovely and somewhat jealous making.

Here’s Molly Jane, the grand finale to Ryan and Corrie‘s family.  She’s got navy blue eyes, 2 teeth and no worries in the world. Her cheeks could win awards for extreme chubbiness.

Molly Jane, those cheeks drive me insane!

Oh my, what a stunner.  All their children are beauties, all carbon copies of each other.

This most recent weekend I headed up to Kincardine to see Ashley and Scott and their kids and their vast and varied  animal collection. Bob. Well. Bob’s too hilarious for words. He’s a busy boy who’s in love with the world and wants to know everything about everything. These are his glorious green feet.

marker, ok? it’s marker

We also stuck stickers all over them, because green feet need further fancying.

Proud of his efforts.

sunshine boy

Could you die?

Then there’s the infamous Meeps.  I didn’t get any really great pictures of her because she always seemed to be so close when I had my camera out. My…phone, sorry. She’s a snuggly little noodle that likes to show off her muscles. Oh, sigh.

blue

It was a girl’s night in. Ashley and I drank 2 tetra packs of wine and Meeps had boob. Delicious, wine-filled boob.

And the animals. Again, constant movement, no really usable pictures, but this one of GooGooEyes (and Ashley, correct me if I’m wrong on that name) made me die.

blergh.

Playing the cello.

Quilting

Posted by Caitlin Jane – 03/03/2010

I’m slowly but surely getting used to using Ubuntu. It’s been rather frustrating at times but at this point I have no desire to return to windows, and specifically Vista, at all. I just need to figure out how to get my Sirius to work.

Anyway, here are the 2 more interesting fabrics I got at Fabricland. The first is the deer print I found on the table of Xmas prints. It doesn’t look that festive to me, but what do I know?

trees and deer

I’m planning on using it (and other green prints) to make a souped up version of Denyse Schmidt’s Hills ‘n’ Hollers quilt. I want it to look more like trees. At least, that’s the plan for now.

This stuff, I don’t know. It just appealed to me and I don’t have any black based fabric and now I do.

uh. Ok.

It’s pretty silly looking, I know, but once it’s chopped into squares or strips, it will look totally different.