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She needed a tailor so I took her to meet my friends Chris and Jim who are Hoax Couture, one of Canada’s most prestigious fashion houses.

august 5 2009

They have an amazing container garden on their rooftop, one I’ve played poker in.  See in the background the guy in pink?  That’s Chris who, I learned today, was thisclose to being the judge on Project Runway Canada.   But instead they went with that Shawn guy.

See a better photo of Chris here from when we went to Caribana last year, and click here for an apple pie recipe from when Jim made me bake.

august 4 2009

august 4 2009

Love it here, I come here often.  

Often you can see people kiting so today I strolled down the beach and introduced myself. Turns out this and just down the road at… I forget… are the two main Toronto areas to kite and the veteran guy I was talking to said he’d be happy to help get me out there.  Sick, since it’s on my ‘to do before the end of the summer’ list: make myself fly.

Happy Holiday Monday!

Do you have a ‘junk drawer’ too… one area you put all those little things you don’t know where else to stick?  I brought home a whole cardboard box of that kind of stuff and found these:

august 3 2009

That’s the best pen (it’s more of a red marker) that I’ve ever owned, and of course was never able to find again.  And that pink thing is a stamp with my name on it, and the only thing I’ve ever owned with ‘Keri’ spelled correctly (besides this); got it when I was around 7.

Also in that box I found the first season of ‘Arrested Development’, so I watched it today. The whole season.

Because I had to move so quickly last year a ton of my stuff I just shoved into a friend’s basement.  But I recently heard through the grapvevine that she’d had enough, and was taking people down there and giving away my stuff.  So today was spent cleaning and Goodwilling. 

I’ve always loved hats.

Also have always loved big black boots.  On the left were my winter ones for years, so Napolean-ish eh.  Stomped around in the ones in the middle forever, they were not Goodwilled.  And on the right is a skirt I wore almost out.. got it at Value Village in high school (some of my best stuff has come from there), and now it’s back from whence it came. 

Okay HOW did I accumulate so much stuff?  I’m not a shopper nor a collector, I don’t get how this happens.  I had to borrow my friend’s van and make two trips in it to finish this job.  And make a sustenance stop.

Clockwise from top left:

– a painting of Rosslyn Chapel, and that guy there is probably a member of the Knights Templar
– neat record eh?  A million years ago I dabbled in DJing, and while I would’ve never spun Rotterdam (I liked dirty house) I thought that thing was beautiful.  I wasn’t any good, but if I had to walk up to two 1200s and play something I could, meh
– my favourite keyboard ever.  No particular reason, just felt right to type as they sometimes do
– that’s my souvenir Ann-Margret t-shirt from a concert Tony and I went to

Photos I found:

– for a girl who’s not that big into hockey I’ve found myself beside the Stanely Cup three times
– this is kinda neat, you know that story I told you about Canada Day in Ottawa years ago?  That’s me on that day
– that’s me and my oldest friend circa 10 years ago

Printed things I found:

– you know when you’re in like grade 1 and older kids do projects with you?  These older kids had to write a book about us younger ones, and the top photo was the page about my favourite foods; I haven’t changed much
– that’s the title page of my last ever university project.  I can’t remember what we were supposed to be doing but I’d talked the professor into letting me do mine on Amway, thesis: proving it’s a cult.  Proved it
– that’s my brother cleaning the floor from a book I wrote in grade 6 about him; my computer art skills haven’t evolved much

Clothes I found:

– that was my winter coat for years from Gap Kids
– another Value Village find, a gift from an old friend and one of the only things I regret Goodwilling
– of course I have a belt with bullets on it 
– my purse for years