January 25, 2016

Jamie

It was so nice to get back to Art Day for the first time since before Christmas! In our Y is for Yellow class B is for Blue and we've been doing these wonderful exercises with blind contour and then adding value (the shading part). I find myself feeling sensitive with drawing, as always but also glad to have the opportunity to work that muscle and let it grow in strength.

Shannon
I'm continuing to have so much fun with Carla's Y is for Yellow Class. I love where there is an exercise that I feel like I could do over and over and over and over again.

Suzie

Reg performing Hallelujah at the Kung Fu party on the weekend. He was awesome!

January 24, 2016

Jamie

It's time for new glasses and yesterday we hit 5 different stores looking for just the right ones. This isn't a fab picture but it gives you an idea of the kind of risky pick I went with. The frames have every colour from yellow to turquoise and they are a bit large for my prescription but I put them on and for some reason they felt like mine. No matter what else I tried on, my heart went back to these ones. Hopefully they'll handle my lenses and look okay when I pick them up next week.

Shannon
On the weekend, Marina and I recorded the last episode of Before the Dawn. It's been has been an amazing ride of 260 episodes over almost 7 years. I have so many good memories of hanging out, chatting movies TV and books from gushing over everything Twilight to Women in Film to adaptions, oodles of news and reviews over the many years. The episode will be up soon, and the video of our Google Hangout is here.

January 23, 2016

Jamie 

I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Suzie! I'm sorry we missed you when we called. I spent the day working on the newsletter and also continuing to work on bringing Give a Girl a Journal to Life. I love the look that Danette created for our logo! I've had fun getting ready to order postcards and stickers :)

 

Suzie

Yesterday was my birthday and I spent it almost entirely on my own. I went to Value Village and thought I got 50% off but just got 20% off so the bill was more than I was expecting but it's OK. I learned that I really want to add colour to my wardrobe and since I was on my own, I indulged in sushi and tempura. I did get a free frappe from Starbucks which was cool. Reg and I ordered a pizza when he got home and we watched Spy. It was very interesting to go back to old dreams for my birthday. We're going to do more celebrating later, when he has time. He has become very busy!

January 22, 2016

Jamie

I couldn't be happier about how much better Escher is doing! I mean, look how close we are! It means so much that he feels safe enough to have this closeness and that he's learning to receive being pet more and more. He'll still get scared and swat but it feels like we're making progress every single day.

Shannon
Ah, waiting rooms. Nothing like being told "the wait is 2 hours" to make you feel all happy inside. After I gr-rr'd a bit, I tried not to be defeated by being annoyed but rather took to reading. I actually had a book I was totally keen to finish, but... it expired! So, I settled in to re-reading Romeo and Juliet. I read a good chuck of it during the (only) 1 hour wait, and finished it off at night. I'm surprized at how many passages were so familiar, lots of the stuff between Romeo and Juliet, but other lines like "A plague o'both your houses" and "These violent delights have violent ends". Amazing what sticks. Or more likely, what's re-iterated in other works.

Suzie

The meds are helping and thank goodness I can eat again. I can also stand and walk a little and made it to my first pottery class. Oh how I loved the feel of the clay on my hands. And playing with it. Embossing it. Sponging it down, cutting it. Shaping it. And they actually taught in the class and I sat at the front and could see what was happening and I didn't feel a lot of physical pain. It was the best thing to happen to me in a long, long time.

January 21, 2016

Jamie 

Another week at choir and the chance to sing David Bowie again - beautiful! I can't wait until the audio is available. After the main event they sang a song they had done a few weeks ago and it was so beautiful I thought, "I never want to miss a night. Not one."

 

Shannon
Okay so here is a bit of a reveal after yesterdays picture! I had so much fun with these exercises and especially loved drawing mountain goats (top) as well as muskoxs. There are so many cool Canadian animals out there, I feel like I could keep going and keep drawing them forever!

Suzie

Still been mostly resting and watching The Killing on Netflix. It is set in Seattle but filmed here, you can tell by all the rain, LOL. It's a dark show and I have to skip some stuff but it's good and I can't really do much these days but watch TV.

January 20, 2016

Jamie 

The Y is for Yellow class is starting with A is for Animals. Our first assignment is to do some drawing exercises, including drawing with our non-dominant hand. This is my left-handed gorilla and I love him.

 

Shannon
I'm having a lot of fun in the Y is for Yellow class that Carla is teaching this year, especially with looking up so many pictures of different animals as inspiration to draw. So much fun!!

Suzie

I FINALLY got out of the house! I got to my sleep doc and had to get out to get my prescriptions filled. This is the back alley walk that I take all the time and the mountains were so beautiful, I just had to take a photo. Even though the last few weeks have been hell, I always turn to them for strength.

January 19. 2016

Jamie

I have no idea how I took this screenshot of my phone but that's the photo I have for my busy Monday. It was a great day of getting things done and working with clients. This season alongside regular work the two big projects are Give a Girl a Journal and writing. It's exciting to dive in and get to work on both.

Shannon
I know I've posted a fair amount about War and Peace....but this might be the last time because I finished it! I am still in a bit of shock that I did. 1,308 pages. Likely will be the longest book I will ever read. It was so good, a fantastic reading journey and although had some bumpy parts and took way longer than I expected it was totally worth it.