5/26/09

memorial day















Bryan works for an American company, he follows their holidays... so I took Memorial Day off too so we could enjoy some time together and
most importantly - put in the garden!

We started out with one of our most favorite of the breakfast meals, bacon and eggs, at Crossroads in Garland Crossing.



We followed breaky with a bit of an adventure to find Baldwin Nursery somewhere behind Falmouth.

I've never see such a large outdoor nursery before. Soooo many shrubs and trees. The perfect resource for landscapers. Bryan left there with jalapenos, green peppers, cukes, Roma tomatoes... and the guy even talked him into cherry tomatoes - though he swore he'd never grow them again the last two years!

I eyed a Forsythia for $15, but held out for the 4/$10 perennials at Superstore. I picked out a nice selection of ground covers and smaller stemmed plants to help balance out my Hollyhocks, Foxglove and Echinacea. I'm kinda making it up as I go, so here's hoping the end result is even better than what I'm envisioning.

On the way home we stopped at the river to get an updated shot of the 101 Highway project. Once there Bryan realized we had a flat. My man is cool as shit! Didn't even curse, just got to it while I dug through the car to see what else I had for posters and took a few more pics.

I said bye to some passing bulbs, then put in all my new flowers while Bry got the tire fixed. Having that dealt Bryan wanted nothing more than to fish, so we took a jaunt back to the river I left the boys to do their thing and went back to the house surprised to find a note from Erika. She LOVES the animation tests I sent and wants to talk right away!

Erika and I had another hour-long power session on the phone - things are rolling and I can clearly see all the stones that have been laid for me in life and the inviting path ahead of me. Watch me skip the rest of the way, with a smile, humming my own tune.

Overall, a pretty awesome day - right down to the lemon meringue pie dessert

sweet

5/23/09

Crossing Paths, The Journey

So I wasn't content with putting up the Miah posters as is. I worried his somber expression might give people the wrong idea - this project is about love and hope after all.

My solution was to have Ange, in her own handwriting, add text to each poster, all her hopes and wishes for Miah.

We then set out following his regular roots, decorating the telephone poles along the way.

For pics and the story of the whole journey check out my flickr set "Crossing Paths"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pistaciapics/sets/72157618672304620/





5/22/09

Link to Apa Film

Here is the link so you can watch the Apa film in its entirety. AMAZING!!!

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5123182744103122879&hl=en

Crossing Paths

Have you ever met a couple that you knew right away were perfect soul mates? Then were absolutely shocked when they broke up, because of the most bizarre of situations... but remained apart even though it is OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE that they are meant to be!

This is the case with one of my most favourite people, Ange, and her true love Miah.

Unfortunately for us all Miah has taken comfort in his fears, and has been hiding away in a lonely, unhappy life, rather than taking a very simple first step towards unlimited happiness and bliss.

Ange and Miah's connection is so strong that both need only to think of each other and their paths will cross. I've been watching for years now in anticipation for the two paths to realign...

So Miah, PLEASE, just do it already!

Forget your fears and follow your heart, it knows the way... it always has. All the happiness you could ever want is waiting for you to reach out and grab it... and the only thing standing in your way is your own mind... so breakdown those fearful beliefs and embrace what is rightfully yours - LOVE, BLISS and UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM YOUR COMPLIMENTARY SOUL!

Life is the best present in the world, so go on, open yours up!

piano makes so much more sense now

My lovely friend Glenn introduced me to this site yesterday, it is just brimming with fantastic information! This clip in particular nearly brought me to tears... I took piano lessons as a young girl - if only I had Benjamin Zander as my teacher!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

5/21/09

Here's a portrait of the ever beautiful and magical Glenn Knockwood, who is setting out on a mission to help save the earth's water, among many other things.

Glenn is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. Glenn's constant quest to understand the universe has brought all of us who love him much knowledge along the way.

Glenn, through his continual research, discovered Parkour well over five years ago, and began to teach himself, and others, the spiritual sport.

Glenn now provides regular workshops and knowledge sessions here in Halifax and is in the works of opening a community centre and gym to give a permanent home to Halifax Parkour.

So if ever you're in our neck of the woods, and see someone resembling Clark Kent flying around our lovely city, go on up to Glenn and introduce yourself. Don't be surprised if he gives you a giant hug and whisper "bless your water" in your ear.

For more info on Glenn and the Halifax Parkourists visit: http://www.halifaxparkour.com/

5/20/09

bless the water

here's the beginning to an AMAZING doc I watched last night on the eternal memory of water an its ability to renew itself and the harmful affects our intentions have over it. Really a brilliant film. Once I find the link for the whole film I'll post a new link, in the meanwhile... enjoy!

5/18/09

M'seiur ventures out in the rain

Someone to Someone

My friend Lisa dropped by the other day to give me an ENORMOUS bag of stuffing to make more critters. While here I was showing her my latest magnets and regaling stories from the craft fair and my encounter with Jenn Grant.

Turns out Lisa was in elementary school with Jenn, but back then they called her Winifred, after her grandmother. Lisa to this day can't help but picture 10 year old Winifred in her head when ever she hears Jenn's name.

See, you're always someone to someone!

5/5/09

procrastination drives me

So far instead of cleaning I've made a feather earring and then had to do a cut-up portait of my self wearing it... but I have no ink.. so I cheated!

Here's my 3rd didi cut-up. Doing a cut-up with a mouse is super hard on the ol' body I do have to say... but I'm loving the effect. It is so reminiscent of when I first started on actual photo paper - so many happy accidents.

Does feel a bit more like cheating though... now I need to do a scissor version and compare!

now for my next trick



Well I'm finally starting to recover from the intensity of the weekend. I, of course, stayed up until 2:30 Friday night preparing, and was up by 7:30 to enjoy a very long coffee before I made my way down to the North Street Church.

Luckily there was plenty of time to set up because I sure was tired. I have to say I was absolutely blown away by the amount of people that flooded in when the doors finally opened at 11 - and it didn’t slow down!!! I wish we had a counter, because there was a lot of traffic. As there should have been! The Halifax Crafters put on a hell of a good show!

I just have to say how honoured I feel to have participate in such an amazing event, surrounded by abounds of talent! Every piece there was just so original. I fit in perfectly with my variety display of crafts. The new feather pendants and hair clips were a huge hit – outselling the critters even! Runners up were the magnets and postcards.

The definitive highlight of my weekend was when I saw Jenn Grant enter and approach my table. I played it cool at first as she stopped her boyfriend right in front of me – “we need magnets!” I had to ask, and double check it was really her, then I promptly offered her a magnet with her portrait - which was a great surprise to her and she insisted on buying it, jubilantly saying to her boyfriend “there’s a magnet with me on it!”

Yay!

She loved the magnets and picked out my Arnie saving the planet one too. Then she asked if I had written a note with her portrait on the web? I think I entered a state of shock at that point... “oh no, she knows about my high school crush!” She said the note was really nice… probably more so referring to the part where I say how proud of her I am for her success. I wanted to say something, thank you… or something… but I had lost my ability to make eye contact and speak. So I just smiled and then let them peruse. Yay, Jenn Grant has my art on her fridge!

(That night I had a dream that we did a project together and our theme was “green” – we were having a phenomenal brainstorming session as we planned our photo shoot and proceeding cut-ups that we would print on a variety of green coloured paper. That was a fun dream ☺)

So now the craft show is finally over and my long days of crafting are on hold for a while. My house looks like a craft show projectile vomited in every room… so I have a lot of tidying ahead of me.

Next week I put on my animation hat and devote myself to the progressive evolution of Xeno Fremmen.

So very exciting!

Life is good :)