tania howells

A little reminder that I will be presenting the book at Word on the Street this Sunday,Yipes!
It is at Queen's park and I am on at 11am in the children's reading tent, the first first one and only for 15 minutes, so I should be able to come up with SOMETHING to say.  I am a teensy bit nervous, but I know Paul will be there snapping pictures and smiling, and after we can go for brunch somewhere- it will be fun!  Even more fun to see some friendly faces there too!  So come say hi if you can.  Bring the kiddies!  You can stick around and check out the amazing line up after me- wow!

 

This was me last week- feeling tense!

After a nice weekend, including:
- a nice big bowl Pho soup
- gorgeous sunny fall weather
- reading on the porch
- baking a peach crumble pie
- sandwiches at 4 in the afternoon
- an ice cream cone in the sun
- lots of lap time with girl cat
-picking spinach and cherry
tomatoes in the garden
... I am feeling ready for a new week.
coming up:
- our weekly knitting night tonight
- spaghetti for lunch
-wearing fall clothes and scarves
- enjoying my new fall shoes -so comfy!
- knitting dishclothes


How is your monday looking?


 

new links!

I have added a few new links - it's been a while!
I am totally digging the syles of  neither fish nor fowl today.
Here's girl cat doing what she does best- sleeping (on the kitchen table- naughty girl) and talking (when she is woken up).

murmur junction

I recently completed this map of the junction area for the murmur project .
Murmur is awesome- this is what it's about.  I think it is such a brilliant project and I was so happy to be a part of it.  My friend Marlena usually does their maps, but she was on vacation so I got to!

I started to work on my quilt this past weekend from the fabrics I showed here plus some of my stash.
It will be one of those stacked coin quilts (inspired by the one I saw in this book ) maybe once it is done.  That is what I was aiming for but you know how it goes, I am not all that accurate.  Thats whats nice about this kind of quilt, accuracy is not mandatory.  In fact , it might look nicer all wonky.  I can hope anyway.



Here are some yummy blueberry pat squares I also madet his weekend with this recipe, minus a bit of butter and sugar.  I had one last week at starbucks and it was so yummy I wanted to see if the recipe was somewhere and it was ofcourse!  There's my new butterfly mug we got last week at the museum.  They were on sale!  Have I mentioned my mug problem?  Well, I have one.  I seem unable to leave a cute mug behind and we are running out of space.  I was good though, on the weekend at the thrift store, I left two really cute ones there.  I am getting better.  I do so love my tea and having it in a nice mug.  Those moments really do make my days so much happier!

Oh, just found Shinzi katoh's site (again?)  SIGH!! Love every single thing here.




 

un-back to school skirt

I love this time of year, it always feels like a new start.  Even more exiting because I don't have to go to school!!  So I felt inspired to make a skirt, based on my
easy A-line skirt.  I am always hunting for the perfect jean skirt, and while this is not quite it, its is good enough for now.  I am hoping the jean material, which I thrifted ages ago, will soften up as currently it is a bit like cardboard!

I felt ready to  try freezer paper stencils and I made this one with inspiration from these trees-so
sorry they are blurry, sigh! So I made them small...



From one of my all time favorite books...
Also a bit blurry , but work with me here people.  This book was in the library at college and I took it out a bunch of times.   Imagine my glee when I found it later  at a goodwill, which cooincidentally was near my current house, but has since been torn down.  Woah, just looked on amazon and its going for 70 bucks!

And there is the beauty of a long weekend. Time to dream and putter.



Including time to be a tourist in your own city, with a little treat for lunch ( look!  there is my new Shini
katoh bottle- love!)

and a visit to some old friends at the museum.  The new ROM is pretty impressive, but the inside of the new crystal part seemed so dark when I expected lots of light.  Perhaps it is to protect the articfacts- that must be it.