November 5, 2016

Suzie

The sun they promised never really came out yesterday but the rain halted and I got out for a walk. I discovered these HUGE mushrooms right down the street from me, I have never seen anything like them. The colours, the size... Absolutely amazing. I picked up some food and rested for most of the day. It has been a long and busy week.

November 4, 2016

Jamie

This continues to be an incredibly intense week of work. Yesterday I filmed my Fauxbonichi class and it reminded me how much I absolutely love keeping one of these journals. I really miss it when I don't do it and hope to renew my practice. 

Shannon
A slice-of-life pic for the day. It was nice to get some Glue Journal time in before dinner. One of the things I am really enjoying is that I can take as much or as little time with it as I like. I can do just one page, or (shocker) and unfinished page, or I can keep going and going til I run out of steam. Really cool.

Suzie

Had a very long day today helping out a friend and was rewarded with a little sunshine! Which is supposed to hang around with us tomorrow too which is so exciting!

November 3, 2016

Jamie

Yesterday was a very busy day in which I was less productive than I would have liked. It's a full week this week with Journal Sampler, Journal Club and me leading a journal workshop on the weekend. Clearly all the hustle and bustle didn't bother the kittens! I would have liked to have curled up with them and taken a nap! Maybe that would have made me more productive.

Shannon
It was an oddly quiet/late start/actually mostly rested kind of day. And what went hand in hand with that was not many pictures to choose from... therefore... here is a snack pic!

Suzie

After having a few crazy days in a row, it was time to take it easy during another day of rain warnings. So dark and wet!!! I FINALLY caught up with Grey's Anatomy too. So it wasn't a complete waste.

November 2, 2016

Jamie

The day after Halloween and it was time to host another party - a Glue Journal Party for the Journal Lab class. It was a fun way to end the day. The rest of the time I was working on a workshop I am leading this Saturday.

Shannon
It's been a while since I've been up to day with the book club I'm following but this month I was! Yay! I didn't love the book but I loved watching the ladies chat during the hangout.

Suzie

Only Anna Olson could get me out of the house the day after Halloween during a crazy dark rainy night for her cookbook signing! I am so glad she did, I could cry just looking at this photograph. This moment meant so much to me. In a time when baking is demonized, to meet such an amazing woman and teacher stand up for baking and treats... It just meant the world to me.

November 1, 2016

Jamie

Gosh, it was great to take Halloween off to feast, relax and enjoy. We had an amazing meal and watched some fun movies. Just what I needed!

Shannon
Happy Halloween everyone!! It was such a fun day and this pumpkin totally rocked! Fun times.

Suzie

We had a couple of dozen trick or treaters and one crazy night of fireworks! I am now going through Halloween withdrawal and trying to remind myself that magical and fun things can happen throughout the year and I can get out my witch's hat any time I want.

October 28, 2016

Shannon
I mostly had to rest today, but one of the few times I wasn't I was looking into and trying some possible book binding techniques for junk journalling. I actually really enjoy threading and trying out different ways because it's often like following a pattern! Fun times.

Suzie

We FINALLY got to the grocery store! See the Triscuits Shannon? I was so excited when I found them another customer picked up a box once I told him how good they are, LOL. We got Halloween candy but no pumpkins! Once we have our pumpkins I will breathe easier about Halloween. At least we have real food and candy now. What a relief.

October 27, 2016

Shannon
I was having a hankering for list compiling yesterday, and I found this awesome list of 100 Canadian Novels, however I had already compiled it as it was already on my spreadsheet. I was glad I noticed before writing it all out again. One good thing though was that since then, I've read twice the number of Canadian titles! I'm only at 10/100, but it's better than 5%.

Suzie

After getting a chill yesterday and having another day of constant rain I decided to stay in today and rest. I started coughing again and really did not want to end up with bronchitis. I also decided to make some spooky cookies and look, here is one on a plate with the same skull design! Although without the three colours, the cookie looks more like a giant guitar pick than it does candy corn but what can you do?