November 14, 2014

Jamie

I had a truly amazing day yesterday at Andrea Lee's Wealthy Thought Leader coaching salon! It was a day of deep thought, great conversations and awesome insights. Also it was a good reminder of the value of getting out there live and being in the energy of the room. I'm starting today with a lot of ideas percolating!

Shannon
I've been having issues with how iTunes organizes music for quite a while now, and there was a recent update that totally messed everything up even more. I'm not trying Windows Media Player, and I'm still getting used to it but so far it's feeling much better. It imported all my music (easily) and set where I wanted the default save place to be (also easily) and I can view stuff by album, artist or genre and also make playlists pretty easily. I did get some errors that I still need to sort out, but so far I'm much happier using it to organized and listen to my own music. Fingers crossed that continues!

P.S. In the time it took to upload the picture I solved the error problem!

Suzie

Oh my goodness yesterday was a crazy day! The big thing was getting the President's Choice Christmas Box delivered and you two get a first look at some of the goodies! I also baked cookies, made ice cream… Did a ton of photography and my first bargain or bust video where I buy stuff from thrift stores and then record whether or not they work when I get home. It was a ton of fun to do, I loved it. So glad I came up with that idea.

November 13, 2014

Shannon
I've been a little stumped on reading, and after a bit of hmming and hawing over what that was about I realized it was because I was reading The Haunting of Hill House and it's too scary to read at night! Hopefully these library selections will provide something that will get over this reading slump.

Suzie

It's been frustrating to be so busy lately. Things that make me have to stay in the house like phone calls, house calls, deliveries… It's been so bright (chilly but not raining) and all I want to do is go for long walks! I did run out of the house a bit today to go to a local market. I got all of this for just over $5! Limes are almost $1 each out east. So that felt good but I want to be outside more!!!

November 12, 2014

Jamie

It was a gorgeous fall day yesterday, really temperate weather and the sun just golden when it went down. We had an amazing all-day planning session and man, we must have been really focused because I didn't even take one picture. Not one! Crazy! But I did walk away with a clear vision of where I need to focus my attention and some great insight into the year ahead.

Shannon
I've been trying to really remember to pace out doing stuff these days, and I have really had a lot of fun with little games that I can play on my phone during down time. Plus, these little farm icons are so freaking cute!

Suzie

Yesterday was an emotional day. I tried to spent it being as busy as I could. One thing I did was take photos of the fabrics I bought. Check 'em out! I'm thinking of making a skirt with the skeleton one. And you're right, fabric isn't cheap!

November 11, 2014

Jamie 

It was so great to get out to Interstellar with Justin and Shannon yesterday! I knew Shannon would share the movie poster, hehe, so I thought I'd share the view on the way home - the Christmas windows at The Bay. Fun! Oh, and the big news was that there's a Michael's going in right beside the movie theatre. Woohooo!!! How good a day was this?! All that and we liked the movie too :)

 

Shannon
Movie time! It was so great to get out to the movies and see Interstellar, it seems like we *all* went this weekend-ish. SciFi will do that, eh?

Suzie

Yesterday Reg took me to the Fabricland that is kind of in our neighbourhood but at the bottom of the hill, making it impossible for me to walk to and from. At least for now! This was the least pretentious one I have ever been too. People were not super friendly but they were helpful and man, did they ever have a ton of stuff. I got some Halloween fabric and fabric for making my own tights! Very exciting...

November 10, 2014

Jamie 

I'm so glad we had time for art day this weekend. Yay! Plus that I was able to get out and do some photocopying, which you need for our exploration of contact paper image transfers. This is so very, very fun! I'll look forward to sharing more on stART!

Shannon
Art day, in process. This was quite a fun one, and quite different from the others. It was wild to see all the images soak in the water and then see how they looked after on the contact paper. Definitely a technique to keep in the tool kit.s

Suzie

You can't tell from the photo but Reg is standing beside the poster for Interstellar. This weekend he was very busy with different classes but we got to see the film and he loved it. He has been waiting for it for a long, long time and it did not disappoint. Oh my goodness, isn't he cute?

Random: November 9, 2014

Jamie

Today's date made me think of our house. I've also been thinking a lot about the cats lately. Here's Bascha and Jinx when we very first moved into the house.

Shannon
This was as random as I could get, even though I bought this yogurt very intentionally to match a certain TV show that I just got and likely will "burn" through ;).

Suzie

I apologize for the swearing but I loved that the graffiti was so positive. It reminded me of an interview I heard with John Lennon. He went to an art exhibit where he had to go to extreme lengths to climb up to look through a magnifying glass to see a word. He said that if the word said no he would have just left the exhibit. But it said yes. So he wanted to speak with the artist and it was Yoko Ono.

November 8, 2014

Jamie

I spent the day immersed in my newsletter and thinking about words. I'm working on really getting clear on how to communicate the studio to people who are absolutely new to it. When I asked people to share their thoughts on what brings them to the studio, I was blown away by the generosity of and the love in their answers. It filled my heart.

Shannon
I feel like I've been with Tender is the Night for so long now. It's only been just over 3 months but it's been quite the bumpy ride. I finally got my vlog about it up and it feels good to start to draw this one to a close.

Suzie

Last night we went out to a geek TV night. They show TV shows and you can have dinner together. We hit terrible traffic trying to get there and it was very stressful. It was an unusual collective experience because it was fun and yet at the same time, uncomfortable. It is clear people have been doing this for a long time together. I grow weary of trying to find my tribe. All I kept thinking was, I did my hair and makeup for this? I could have shot a video! LOL. Well I guess those are my priorities these days.