Showing posts with label Julie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julie. Show all posts

Thursday, November 12, 2009

What Love Is....

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ‘What does love mean?’ The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined See what you think:

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love..’

Rebecca- age 8
‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’

Karl - age 5

‘Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.’

Chrissy - age 6

‘Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.’

Terri - age 4

‘Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.’

Danny - age 7





‘Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.'

Emily - age 8

‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.’

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’

Tommy - age 6

‘During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.’

Cindy - age 8

‘My mommy loves me more than anybody You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night..’

Clare - age 6




‘Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.’

Elaine-age 5

‘I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.’

Lauren - age 4

‘When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.’ (what an image)

Karen - age 7

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.’

Mark - age 6

‘You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.’

Jessica - age 8

And the final one:

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

‘Nothing, I just helped him cry’

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Julie Loves....

I've begun a little photo file on my work computer for pictures of things I'd love to have in our home! Here are some of those images:

I love this awesome chunky knitted rug, although I suspect the cats would destroy it:
I love this simple yet functional chairs and table arrangement, although I do not like the chairs:
I love, love, LOVE this chair! I foresee a dining set that has a great old fashioned wooden table, but these awesome translucent chairs:
I love the giant and simple scissor painting on the wall, and want to try to do something similar.
A simple ball of yarn for art- muted colour palette, something personal, blow it up to huge proportions- win!
I think a white background and watercolour goldfish would compliment the orange scissor painting:
And this would look good framed on the back of the patio door in the kitchen:
And of course, we have already begun working on this dramatic wall:

Monday, June 22, 2009

To- Do: Romance on the Cheap

In the many blogs I follow, there is a trend towards cheap date ideas- who says romance needs lots of money? Not I. So, may I present my dream Guy & Julie Romantic Date List:

- picnic in High Park
- strolling around the beaches
- explore a new area of Toronto we haven't been to yet
- try a new cafe and whatever different treats they have
- have an arts and crafts weekend of making things
- go to the AGO on Wednesdays after work
- go to a fancy restaurant just for dessert
- people watch from a patio and make up stories about their lives
- build a fort in the living room out of our blankets and pillows
- staging funny photos in various locales

Let's see how many we get accomplished by the end of the year.....

Friday, August 15, 2008

Love. This.

One day I'd like to have a little writing nook that has the walls done just like this. I already have the deerhead! ; )

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Our Cats Will Rule the Apartment From a Cardboard Throne


We have more than enough cardboard to do this! Let's build one for the kittens. Instructions can be found here. We could build them a little cardboard treehouse, too!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Toronto Raccoons

The local wildlife welcomes you!They really do look like this. They also make an adorable sound that is a cross between dolphin clicks and a cat purr. I can never be mad at raccoons- they are just too darned cute. The Annex raccoons are excited to meet you!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Hopefully little kittens have been bringing you birthday cupcake after birthday cupcake, and catering to your every whim!
Or maybe you are feeling low, weighed down by lack of family festivities and the heavier issues of the birthday paradox. Note: kittens cannot help you comprehend the magnatiude of this sort of thought process. Their solution to most problems is to lay down and get a tummy rub. More peanut butter jelly beans might help, too.

So, since I can't be there, here's a star that first became visible when you were born.

And an Audi R8. Wish I could get you a real one!
Happy birthday, my love.


x

J.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Me Mosaic

On the many knit blogs I stalk, this little game is currently making the rounds. It's basically making a photo mosaic of the things that visually represent who you are.

The Concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Julie
2. What is your favorite food? toast
3. What high school did you go to? Sudbury Secondary Schoool for the Performing Arts
4. What is your favorite color? green
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Clive Owen
6. Favorite drink? gin and tonic
7. Dream vacation? The Dalmation Coast
8. Favorite dessert? creme brulee
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Writer
10. What do you love most in life? Everything*, can't pick just one
11. One word to describe you: catalyst
12. Your flickr name: teamknit

1. Happy Birthday Julie!!, 2. toast bed (double divan), 3. DSC03094, 4. Nant Ffrancon and Glyder Fawr, Wales, 5. OUT903958, 6. Gin & tonic, 7. Life Is Beautiful, 8. Crème Brulée, 9. writer's teeth, 10. Go get your morning bean, 11. Cisco's One Millionth Catalyst 3750 Switch, 12. Julie Darling

* how do you pick? I love you, and weekends, and late nights, the sparkly ceiling, and laughing, and being silly, and thinking about the big stuff, thinking about little stuff, and knitting, and music, and driving. I love my life. I've got no complaints, expect that it would be better if you were here.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Julie's Secret Obsession

I am addicted to Ah Caramel! Cakes:They are absolutely horrific for you- they are factory made white cakes, with caramel and thick confectionary icing on top, and the whole thing is covered in chocolate. They come two in a plastic pack (of course they come in plastic- that's how ghetto they are!), which means you can never have just one. Well, you could share the second cake with someone, but then you'd resent them for eating your second Ah Caramel Cake. You might begin to plot their untimely death.

I hadn't realized it, but they are only available in Canada. canadaonly.ca is, as you might guess, a site that sells only Canadian food products. They are willing to ship them anywhere in the world. I never really thought the food I was eating was so regional. These are also Canada-specific:The reason being it was a marketing idea from an intern at Ogilvy Advertising in Toronto. Although shreddies are everywhere, Canada is the only place they are being marketed like this. Hooray for cleverness and irony!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Bad Day at Work?

Well, there are really only two choices.

Option one:
Or option two:
The first is the most practical. But the second is the most entertaining!

Inspiration, the Magazine

Design for Mankind is such an amazing site, and routinely go above and beyond the standard design blogs-- They put out regular e-zines of designer inspiration. Basically, they pull together different designers who work in different mediums and have them do up a page of what turns them on, gets them thinking, gets them working. They've just put out issue number 5.
A cup of tea, and this. Ah, I can feel the universe getting exponentially better.

Friday, May 23, 2008

One of Julie's Secrets

As much as it pains me to admit it, I do this at least twice a day, every day, Monday through Friday......
Although for some reason, I take the weekends off. Mentally sorting out the best way to take down bad guys while remaining relatively unscathed is exhausting.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Maybe this is what's wrong with the MR2....

Book Art

In Melbourne, Australia, there is a book artist named Nicholas Jones.
He carves paper. He folds pages. He is is, oddly enough, a book sculptor.
He even looks the part of the reclusive, crazy-haired artist, doesn't he?
I'm utterly entranced by these sculptures. And feeling pretty good that I live in a world where someone can make a living by creating and selling them.

(courtesy of The Design Files and Dlish Design)

Friday, May 16, 2008

Habi-Kat!

Finally, cat stuff for people with tiny apartments:
I love this concept. Instead of those giant carpeted cat trees, these are made from industrial felt and are wall mounted (with endless possibilities on the shaping and layout) so that your kitty can have all the fun of their own cozy place to curl up, without sucking up half your floor space. And this picture just clinches it: Look how much those kitties love habikat!

More of her work (and some seriously detailed mock ups that show the whole design process) can be found here, courtesy of design sponge .

Next up under the category of things I saw today and loved:
Those wall teacups are awesome! I would love to have several all in a tidy row.

And finally, a cartoon:

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Sheep are Calling

I'm willing to bet you haven't seen this before: Yeah, that's right. Sheep made out of telephones.
I wonder if they are fully functioning- I'm not saying I'd get a telephone sheep (Hello, Habitat? Are you selling telephone sheep yet?), they are pretty big, but I'm not ruling it out, either. I love how the hooves are made out of receivers!

(source: some spanish site of which I can't make heads or tails)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Guy already knows this about me (and lucky for me, doesn't think it's odd) but I regularly stalk about 15 design blogs a day (more if I'm procrastinating), which is why, although I have no formal education on the subject whatsoever, I know a frightening amount of useless information about design and designers from all over the world. Case and point: When I was in the UK , we had a wander in Habitat one day and I bought this...

I was so excited, because I have been in love with Tord Boontje designs for the last couple of years. And when I was having my overly excited fit in Habitat, Guy had no idea who Tord Bonntjet was. I think TB is awesome. It's the fairytale aesthetic, really. They way he swings completely in the opposite direction from minimalizism. It's lush, it's visually complex, it's all laser cut textures and the feeling that you wandered into a Brothers Grimm story.

Look at that carpet of leaves. Seriously. It's like a forest floor, in your living room. Looks like it would be a bitch to vacuum, though (so don't worry, love, I don't want it : P):

But I'll admit, he got commerical, started doing stuff for Target, and unleashed these ugly dishes onto the world:

Blegh. But I guess we don't always have great days at work, either. But the item below has brought me the most amusment today:


It's a coffee cuff. It's a bracelet AND a reusable coffee sleeve. It claims to be made from "reclaimed architectural veneer offcuts" (whatever those are....) and can be yours for $68. Seriously. It's the ongoing trend of pretending to save the world by buying over-priced cool stuff. Awesome.