It is a week after Nuit Blanche and all the reviews are in. It was a huge success ! In spite of the rain, almost half a million people came out to visit Art installations both in doors and out doors – all through the night. Well done Toronto!! I mentioned in my last post […]
Nuit Blanche – white night – or in our case – wet night (it rained) was an all night “art thing” presented by the City of Toronto with major funding from Scotiabank. Nuit Blanche is staged annually in several European cities – most notably Paris as a way of having a city, its residents, streetscapes
I saw a knitted brain the other day in the newspaper – this is not a joke. It’s from the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art – I don’t think that this title is a joke either – it was in the newspaper – now some people will say that this particular newpaper is
It must have seemed like a long swim – about 3 weeks or so. Actually it was a short holiday that was over too soon. By the time I arrived, decompressed, took up the leisurely pace of “holiday mode” – the vacation was over. It drove me crazy that my husband rushed us around doing
……. Something to feed the gypsy soul. There were a few things that had to be done very early Friday morning before we set off for the first leg of our trip to Hilton Head. Yes, we were driving. It’s an 18 hour haul which we spread over 2 days, stopping for the night in
“maggie and millie and molly and may” maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and millie befriended a stranded starwho’s rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced
More on organic cotton and beaches. The picture is from Fiona Ellis’ new book “Inspired Cable Knits” (with permission from the publisher…….) When Fiona first started to work on her book she asked me – and others – for yarn suggestions. I was thrilled to be able to give her skeins of organic cotton. I
In just over a week’s time, I’ll be travelling with my husband and 2 of my 3 children to the beach, actually to Hilton Head at the southernmost tip of SC. I can’t wait. Certainly it’s the idea of a holiday, of being with family, uninterrupted by work, of eating too much SC shrimp and
I was reading in the weekend paper about several children’s books that had been translated into Latin. Now I knew that Winnie the Pooh and I believe Peter Rabbit had both been translated into Latin – well these are classics and what better venue than a classical language! But “Walter Canis Inflatus” – Walter the
Yes, we decided to ignore the weather forecast last week that called for more rain along the eastern seaboard of the US – that is, more rain in addition to the rain that had caused considerable flooding in various NE states, including NY, and head to the “Big Apple” with the “kids”. The border crossing
