decorating osmosis

Great minds think alike.

Or something.

Now if only the cats hadn’t already started to claw the irreplaceble vintage fabric.

big girl blogger

Guess what?!?!?!?!

I just had a MAJOR celebrity sighting.

Not major as in: they are my idol, I love them and I care though.

Major as in: Perez is the new fugly.

Major as in…

Wait for it…

Mr. Ex Hilary Duff…

Nicole Richie’s rumored baby daddy…

Mr. Joel Madden himself!!!

I think he was with the rest of his band too, but I don’t recognize them because I don’t see their faces plastered all over the checkout aisle when getting groceries.

I did not break out my camera phone, because I am a nice Canadian girl and we don’t do things like that.

In other news that I actually care about: that charity I might be building a website for might want me to do a whole full blown branding as well! I can not tell you how exciting that is to a fledgling designer. Can not even express it. Can’t. I’m getting started RIGHT NOW.

me really want

I would like this please.

Thank you.

turquoise and red

I just finished Micheal Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union and the cover reminded me of my favourite, prettiest typewriter (which I had yet to mention exists).

The book itself was also pretty, though solely stylistically speaking. I think the fact that I tend to be fascinated by the same things Chabon is fascinated by seems to help, to be honest (Jewish culture, world’s fairs, superheros, detectives, writers, artists, architecture, antiques, modern American mythology, history).

I don’t think you necessarily need any knowledge of Yiddish to get through it, but you do at least need… well… A brain that works, to put it politely, to figure out what’s going on.

One might compare Chabon’s writing to Shakespeare’s – all the clues to figuring out what the heck he’s talking about are in there, you just have to be paying attention – but that’s the kind of literature I like.

A mystery to be solved not just in the plot, but in the understanding of the words.

An intricate knot to be pulled at.

A Yid with a slug in his head and a dead chess player for an alias, to borrow a vernacular…

wants

There are two things I want today, if the internetz will allow it:

Saltwater sandals in bright shiny yellow (or maybe red or orange or navy blue)

and

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (Bruce Cambell! In a western/sci-fi/dramedy! Need I say more?)

The end.

ongoing

I’ve finally finished with the one project I’ve been steadily working on the past few months (a wedding invitation for friends – much more complicated and time intensive than you’d think – certainly than I thought) and I may have another project in the works (building a website for a local charity).

But I also finally have a workable idea for a project for ME to work on. I think I’m gonna keep that one under wraps for a while. But I will say that I’ve realised that I need to work on something I can split into very small little managable chunks (that will eventually build into somthing large and impressive). So it’s not gonna be some huge graphic novel, I’ll tell you that much.