Category Archives: Design

Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love

My solair chair (with minor war wounds from whomever “borrowed” it) has been returned to my back yard, Bal has started planting the immense vegetable garden around the perimeter (and into the driveway), and I’ve got my eye on this… … Continue reading

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Hey little bird, fly away home

Woke up to birds chirping this morning – one commonality between my country life and my city life. All my windows face birds. Then I remembered I had a bird post waiting in my drafts folder (from May 13th! Yowza.) … Continue reading

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Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors, Oh, Ontario, oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Happy Civic Holiday! (“Damn You, John Graves Simcoe” by Ivor Tossell, via Toronto Standard, the prettiest online local I read) It is no secret that I love maps. And hopefully no secret that I love Toronto, despite the somewhat frustrating weather patterns. … Continue reading

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It’s a town full of losers, I’m pulling out of here to win

Totally awesome - Free Nothing @ Some Prints - get some A4 paper and make some art for your walls! (Then go buy a bigger print… see below for one of my favourites) Ferris Bueller + Thunder Road. Something about that just … Continue reading

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What are we doing in this dive bar… how can you live in a place like this?

I want to adopt all of this awesome stuff from the ugly ugly website it has to reside on. Seriously, how can you appreciate something like this: and put it on a website that looks like this:  Shudder. Let me … Continue reading

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