tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67428605036265380152012-02-07T07:51:20.770-05:00michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561925033159725458noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742860503626538015.post-39788548667309633082012-02-05T00:25:00.002-05:002012-02-05T01:10:51.764-05:00

about 2 weeks ago i decided to start a project i'd been meaning to for awhile. i'd bought a coat in the fall but the pockets in it were tiny, so i wanted to add another pocket. because it was near chinese new year, i thought i'd make it a red pocket, like the red envelopes with lucky money that are given out. they usually have some kind of greeting on it, wishing happy new year, progress in

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dear diary,i think i was harrassed at work today by a hand puppet. it was wearing a fireman's jacket, named cilantro, and kept insisting on me to make out with it. it was a first so i was a bit surprised.love,michelleit's been pretty much exactly a year since i've been in australia and new zealand and i realized i never wrote about it. the best parts were hanging out with sarah, meeting nice

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this video is so entertaining. bubble wrap! mickey mouse hands! visors!

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this past friday i saw hooded fang at horseshoe tavern. i'd heard a lot about them the past couple of years but didn't really pay attention to their music until owen played me some of their songs this summer and i really liked what i heard. the show was a sweaty and swoony great one. i was a bit sad to hear it'd be the last time they'd play songs from their previous album (actually entitled "

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i want to buy pretty much anything that has a cute face on it.Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.via melinda josie

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lately:a gocco print by one of my favourite artists, beci orpinsuper rad handknit mittens by kulli jacobson and sarah mcneili bought this book mostly because i love carson's illustrations (i've posted about her before), but i ending up thoroughly enjoying the story. it was pretty epic. did not know colin was the singer from the decemberists and that they are married to each other.design goods

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i saw two door cinema club at kool haus last night with rachel. what i liked the best was the music they played in between sets. they played daft punk, chemical brothers, darude, hall & oates and haddaway. when "what is love" started playing about ten people around me did that headbang thing.

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awhile ago i went to the pickering markets with darren and owen. there was a shop that sold dutch food and i picked this up. they also had baby blue and pink candy coated anise seeds that go with butter-slathered crunchy bread, eaten to celebrate the birth of a new baby. i'm not crazy about anise so i stuck with chocolate. it's called hagelslag and after looking at other pictures i apparently did

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this saturday joce and i are going to be vendors at a craft show here, with a portion of the proceeds supporting a charity called zimele. perhaps i'll see you there? i'm pretty excited and stressed but i'm glad it's got me making things again. i still have a ton of stuff to do including packing for a trip to calgary but here is a sneak peek of a few things i've made. at the karen walker shop in

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i've been watching a korean drama called heartstrings lately and it's really cute. the last 2 episodes air this week so i'm super stoked. the main song in the show has been stuck in my head but i don't mind cuz it's kind of catchy.

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i hardly dream lately, but a couple that i remember: -i was in a quiet sleepy town in japan at a tiny vegetable market but for some reason they had eels for sale there and i ended up buying one. the eel looked a lot like the scary ones in the little mermaid movie, not the smaller ones that look like snakes. it couldn't fit in my bag so i folded it up a few times and it had sharp creases on it,

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lil b - motivation. clams casino, who does a lot of beats for lil b, is pretty awesome too.

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National Geographic, March 1978 “Scenes from a microworld: The eye can’t see protons, electrons, and other subatomic particles, but a camera records their frothy wakes in a chamber of liquefied neon and hydrogen at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Technician Karen Carew points to a straight line, possibly the track of a pion dislodged from its spot in a neon atom’s

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i went to my cousin's wedding reception this past weekend in new york city. the long drive to and back was draining but the brief time i spent in the city was nice. my sister and i took my dad to times square and i think he really enjoyed the lights and the crowd there. on saturday morning and afternoon we had some free time to visit uniqlo, muji, my favourite bookstore kinokuniya and others. met

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a lady was leaving our workplace for another job this week and we had a farewell lunch for her at our favourite chinese restaurant. we ate an insane amount of good food but fortune cookies were still requested after our meal. the HR director said we had to play a game, which was reading the fortune out loud and adding the words "in bed" afterwards. lots of people were familiar with this game

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i found out about this cookie recipe with an amazing looking blueberry cream filling from jocelyn and wanted to make it so i did. so pretty. and yummy.went on a "behind the scenes" tour of my workplace last week. it was pretty awesome cuz there were all these secret tunnels and walkways. here is one of our green roofs.i liked this tunnel the best. it's hard to tell but it was quite long and

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may had told me about slide film before i went on my trip and the interesting effects created when processed the regular c-41 way. i'd taken a few rolls of it to camera stores that just ended up returning them to me. i took it to black's but they just turned them into slides and it costed an arm and a leg and a head printing just a handful of them out. they turned out pretty, but not what i was

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i totally flipped when i saw these photographs from dustin humphrey.via strange|beautiful

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i attended the toronto comic arts festival held at the toronto reference library this past weekend and it was fun as always. i've only gone on sundays in previous years and didn't think the crowds were that bad but was totally overwhelmed on saturday by the amount of people there. i picked up some really sweet books and zines by shannon gerard, ginette lapalme, adrienne kammerer, and jillian

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i thought this was another type of shop at first but no, it was indeed a liquor one.

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i've been collecting fabric for a few years, not really knowing what i wanted to do with it, just some sort of big project. i've been wanting to make a quilt for a looong time now. last summer i had printed off an image i really really loved from an illustrator/designer dude and wanted to make a quilt inspired by the colours and geometry. i was trying to remember his name a few days ago while

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some random cellphone pictures taken the past couple of years

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about a month ago i took the leather moccasins class at the workroom and it was really fun hand punching the holes and stitching it all together. i had been working on the fringed bootie pattern during the class and because the deerskin was so soft, when i tried them on they felt like soft floppy leathery socks. this past week i finished the scout moccasins using moosehide and was pleased with

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the japanese rockabilly dudes doing their thing always puts a smile on my face. i have seen them once, on a sunday afternoon in kyoto.

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sarah mcneil had mentioned pavlova on her twitter a couple of months ago and not knowing what it was, i looked it up on wiki and it looked pretty delicious. it's a meringue dessert named after the russian ballet dancer anna pavlova and it's usually eaten with whipped cream and fresh fruit. i was determined to try it and when visiting australia, my friend (also named sarah) helped me find it in a

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this song has been cheering me up lately. the video is fun as well.

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i bought this japanese magazine at kinokuniya, featuring kiko mizuhara, who plays the character of midori in the norwegian wood movie. she is so pretty.anyways, in the accessories part of the magazine, the crochet of jungjung and beadwork of maison des perles caught my eye.lotus root!amazeen. my favourite is this half smoked crushed cigarette broochhi how are you? good i hopehow am i? tired still

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my sister showed this video to me last night and it was freaking cool.

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last week i made potato pancakes and in the past i've always pan fried them but i tried deep frying them for the first time. they were delicious and super crunchy on the outside. i also got vegetable oil everywhere, in my hair, on the counter top and floors, and on my face (or maybe it was oily all by itself already). they are potato sweet potato onion green onion pancakes!life is good as i've

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i've posted about this guy before, when he had a song that sampled clips from the movie 'hook'. i dunno why i'm always amazed at his music. i liked a comment i saw on youtube that said "i think this song plays in the elevators in heaven."

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This is a pretty awesome kids' book and I'm in love with the illustrations.Dillweed’s parents go on adventures and leave him behind with Umblud the butler and Perfidia the maid, who treat him like their slave. Neither Umblud or Perfidia or the parents appreciate Dillweed’s cherished pet, a creature named Skorped. When they threaten Skorped’s life and well-being, Dillweed opens his black box and

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I had borrowed The Stop Community Food Centre's Good Food For All cookbook from the library and seen a recipe for fish tacos that looked really good. I tried my first fish taco in May when I was in Dallas and really liked it. I broiled some tilapia and added some lime zest to the sour cream. The book recommended their peach salsa recipe to go with the tacos and it was super yum. I also added

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saw this on tv today and thought it was cool. and it doesn't hurt that they're playing new order's "ceremony" in it.

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i visited the japan foundation yesterday to check out their current exhibition "winter garden: the exploration of the micropop imagination in contemporary japanese art". the thing that struck me the most was a video by lyota yagi. he had pressed a record of the songs “clair de lune” and “moon river” as well as a song by chopin and another classical dude (can't remember) in ice and played it on a

michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561925033159725458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742860503626538015.post-73590747494214626592010-10-15T12:29:00.007-04:002010-10-15T20:53:59.577-04:00

i'm not a very good knitter right now, but i'd like to be as awesome as ako castuera one day.her knittings are so awesome and that scarf is so rad.see more of her stuff here

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maybe about 5 years ago i started collecting brooches and pins. i am always on the lookout for awesome ones wherever i go and try to justify the purchase in that they're not as expensive as buying clothes or shoes. i think i dress plainly most of the time so a nice brooch usually livens up the outfit. here are some of my favourites that i've made, bought or had given to me.what do you collect?

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