Here’s something fun I found this morning, an online app that lets you create word clouds. It’s free, and didn’t require a membership. Here’s the site. I made mine by making a list of words. Words I repeated were bigger in the final word cloud.…
As a martial artist I’ve had a lot of exposure to different ways of looking at self defence. One of the things I’ve found interesting lately is the rise of this movement called ‘slut-walk’. At one end of that spectrum are people who believe that,…
As part of Toronto ramping up for the 2015 Pan Am Games they’ve participated in an international project call ‘Play Me, I’m Yours.’ The project involves putting pianos in public spaces, and has already been through 26 cities around the world. Each piano is painted…
I’ve updated the pattern for Jax to include instructions for a full-length leg warmer pattern as well as the boot topper version – I was enlightened to the need for this by someone who listed it as a project on Ravelry, and let’s just say…
This past weekend was the dan (black belt) grading at my karate school. It was an excellent grading, and now that it’s over I wanted to share the photos of Senpai that I took for his grading submission. Every black belt I know dreads the…
This weekend I have done nothing but have fun. Dearly needed, overdue, fun. Sunday was the icing on the funnel cake as a bunch of us spent a glorious day at Canada’s Wonderland. A rainy morning combined with a long weekend resulted in a…
The Senpai (Martial Arts Teaching Assistant) of our school is grading for his 3rd degree black belt next month. Last weekend I got to be the photographer for his Sandan photos. They’re very dramatic and with his permission I hope to share some after the…
My uncle passed away in Mumbai this morning. He and I didn’t speak much, because of our total language barrier – but my favourite memory of him is this: Whenever he left his home to walk to work there was a troop of stray dogs…
Last Friday night Tito and I were invited to our artist friends house for dinner and creativity! To add to the night I brought the camera and a collection of glow sticks, sparklers and bubble mix. Sadly, breaking tubes of glow sticks and pouring them…
My life is going through one of those periods where I feel out of rhythm all the time. I’ve been travelling for work a lot – and while the shine hasn’t quite worn off on the idea that someone likes my photography so much they’ll…
My family loves animals. In fact, I can confidently state that we occasionally prefer them to people, that’s how much we love them. Conversely, we all still eat meat, albeit with much guilt. We’re a confused lot for sure. I like to think of us…
A few months ago the Yarn Harlot featured my yarn bowls as being great Christmas gifts for knitters – which was very lovely of her. Unfortunately it resulted in me being inundated with requests I couldn’t fill – because I don’t ship pottery. There are…