Happy Canada Day!

June 28th marked my 10th year here in the ol' USA, but I still must hum the O' Canada tune in my head today! I'm still Canadian after all. I really don't want to become a US citizen, I'm happy just being a resident.

Spirito di ZNE

Yesterday I was featured at Sprito de Zne!
They wrote a really nice blurb about me - how cool. (thanks gals)
Check it out here.

What color is your inchie?

I just signed up for a fabric inchie swap. I'm coming in on the second round, which is green. (darn it - I missed the first round which was pink!) I'm going to make my own set of pink as my 'practice' squares, so I'll be all primed to make my little greenies.

Melissa Cobb Hubbell of Art Erratica is the hostess with mostess. Her inspiration for this swap came from the blog photo you see to the left. You can click on that photo to take you there.

slide show! Portland Chinese Gardens

We made the treck to Portland for Tyler's INS interview. We got up at 3am to leave by 4am, to make sure we were there by 8am, in case there was commuter traffic on the I5. We got there on time and the whole interview lated 10 or 15 minutes. So, we had the rest of the day to toodle around the city.
We went the Chinese Classical Gardens. It was so beautiful. I would go again anytime - it's so peaceful and pretty. Enjoy the slide show.

Afterward we walked a few blocks to try a wacky doughnut at Voodoo Doughnuts. Not for the timid - the neighborhood, shop, or eats, lol. Later we made our usual trip to l, then ate at yet again at the Noodles & Co, made the favorite stops at Whole Foods, Anthropology, West Elm, North Face, Sur La Table, and then realized we were walking zombies from being up so early and headed back for the 3 hour commute home, which ended up being almost 4 and a half with the end of day rush hour.... BUT it was a great day!

38 and things are changing

Yesterday I turned 38. I'm sliding down the slippery slope to 40, pretty darn fast now. It just feels so weird.

One of my favorite things to do on Saturday mornings, like today, is read my fave blogs and see what my fave artists are doing, creating, thinking about. It's almost a bummer when they start getting recognized and they stop blogging and creating art because they are out touring around the country teaching classes or writing books or something. It's a natural progression, and they need to 'out there' - I understand that, but it's a drag that it seems to change them.

Personally, things are changing too.... my friends are moving or changing and well, sometimes I just hate change.

I'm feeling creative this morning, so I'm happy to have the day off to have fun. I've been working hard all week and this will be a great reward.