Thrift shop Tuesday

So as it is Tuesday, Donna picked me up at 10.30 and we headed off to find lots of treasures. First stop was Finders' Keepers...a consignment shop in Crystal Beach. I really like the shop and have found a few special items there. Today I bought a bag of sewing ephemera...ie a needle book, an old tape measure and some other odds and sods to sell back in Oz. Then off to Sally Anne's..which is the Salvation Army shop on Moodie Drive. It is a big place and we go there every Tuesday - it is seniors' day and so Donna gets 20% off everything...I found a bag of crepe paper ribbons..funny cause I had just last week bought some brand new rolls from Walmart..this bag has completely different colours in it though...some old and faded which is even better. I picked up and put down a very pretty old water jug too. But I didn't bring it home as I am getting embarassed about the amount of china I have collected so I'm trying to be fussier with it.
After the salvos we drove over to another consignment shop..don't remember the name but I bought a small chrissie gift there, can't say what. Michael's craft shop was next and I walked out with a bag full of fun stuff for under the tree. I almost bought a couple of lifelike crows...all the Halloween things are out and a lot of fun...the crows were great.

Donna needed to get to a particular bead shop and that was in the city so we got on the Queens' Way, which is the big fast 4-lane freeway, and 5 minutes later got off at Bronson Street, turned left and right into Bank Street and just a couple of blocks down we found Sassy Beads. There was some parking around the corner and the meter had 35 minutes left so we took off and found Donna's beading wire she wanted, then stopped in a couple of other places and I bought another small xmas gift and then headed back to the car and found out we still had 35 minutes left!! The meter was broken so we went off to Second Cup and had a coffee before we headed home. Got home about 4.30 through pretty busy traffic.

Tonite Don and I had no food out for dinner so we went down to Theo's and I had my yummy quail dish again...yummo. Then we headed over to Wallymart for some vitamins and more ziplock bags for my kits and came home...nice day.

Forgot to say that Donna arrived this morning with a bagfull of old postcards, sewing patterns, handwritten recipes...very old and some old kids' books for me for my kits...the bag is bulging with good stuff...she is a nice friend.

rainy sunday in Ottawa..

Well it was funny reading your post from your sunday because my sunday is similar. It is raining and quite bleak outside. A lot of the trees are now turning colour as you can see from the photos. They are probably almost exactly the same as I took last year. The second photo is looking towards the river and we can normally see right across and up to the bridge but today it is just white. I'm heading over to Nikki's place in a while. I will drive myself (!!). I collected a big heap of stuff from Donna's on Friday for the new idea of the kits. Maps and old photos in particular so I thought I might start putting them together today. I really liked your idea of the kits. I enjoy this weather as it is so cosy inside and I know we will be out of here in a few weeks and into the heat which I don't enjoy.

Shake it like a polaroid picture

It's a lovely cold rainy day and I am making art, journaling and playing with my polaroid software. Tom is playing on the computer, we are listening to Missy Higgins and I'm heating up leftover eggplant parmigiana for lunch. Perfect day!

The poladroid (software that turns your photos into polaroids) is so awesome! I've been going nuts.

Friday evening

It's Friday night! This week has gone so fast. Crazy fast.
I just made a really yummy eggplant parmigiana for dinner. Anything with that much cheese in it has to be good.

Tomorrow night we are going to the Sunshine Coast for Hollie's birthday, should be a fun night!

I feel like making art but my desk is too messy and it's too hard to clean it.
I'll share some photos instead.

My new bike, it's not very pretty so I only took a photo from the front. The basket is the best bit.

My $3 flowers from Coles. They made my week.

Angel painting finally finished...I think...

Her nose has actually changed again...I don't think I am ever happy with my paintings - I just get to a stage where I think I have had enough of it...

She looks a bit serious...I didn't want her to be too pretty.

She looked a bit 'piggy' here so I changed the nose.

Lunch with Nikki in Westboro on Friday

Looking towards the shops and cafes...

We stopped here for ice-cream and coffee after our luncy...

This is Tivoli, a gorgeous florist shop....

A paper shop full of beautiful cards etc.

She gets smaller every time I see her

I'm so glad I went over to Stanthorpe this weekend.

(Tom found your sunglasses in the glove box)

Nan was very cute. She was so glad I was there and was very responsive. I told her lots of stories about monkeys and elephants in Thailand.


I told her all about our plans to move OS next year which she loved. Tom explained to her where his uncle lives in London who we will stay with and she knew the suburb.
I can imagine how hard it is for Tom, to him she is just a tiny old lady who stares at him with bright blue eyes and doesn't speak. For me, I can imagine how she would respond and what she is trying to say so it is a lot easier to have a 'conversation'.

She loved hearing news about Alex and Dad as well. I told her we are trying to learn Dutch but it is hard.
I told her that your French from Switzerland was coming in handy in Canada and she was very happy with that. I told her I wanted to go to the Cinque Terra and she said that was her favourite spot of all. She also likes Scotland more than England.
I really miss being able to have a proper conversation with her. I can't imagine what it's like for you.
Today she wouldn't wake up when we went to visit her, Tom said maybe it's nicer for her when she's sleeping.



Penny's place is looking lovely, her flowers are looking beautiful. They had a hail storm this week so she lost a bit of her garden.










This is Penny saying hello to Lou.



The weather was freezing, perfect for afternoon naps.


We stopped at our favourite second-hand shop in Warwick. It's closing down! lucky I got to shop at the 50% off sale!