4078 km later...: 2012

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Photos of things I am too lazy to explain

the looks I got in these tights!

god I love sandwhiches

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I went to Saskatchewan

just my luck

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Lately

new on the waterfront

I spend my Friday nights at the waterfront - alfresco film festo

someone at the library is OCD

there is an AMAZING store called PlanB on Gottingen

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Point pleasant

seriously, take a walk down Young Street and be amazed

I may have gotten seriously lost on my way and had to walk through this SKETCH pedestrian walk way

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Thursday, 14 June 2012

And Back Again...

Hey folks, I've got a one way ticket on a West bound plane.

Yes, this does mark the second time in less than 16 months that I have picked up my life and hauled it across the country. I am fickle like that.

Halifax is a lovely city. It just isn't the city for me. I think that is was the city for me five or six years ago, I just didn't know how to make that happen. I will miss my place. My lovely, little bachelor in my heritage Victorian home, my first place alone. It is perfect and I will miss the light.

I will miss my habits and my places, say what you will but in my short time here I definitely explored and adventured and hopefully in the next two months I will get to finish seeing everything I wanted to. I have found a lot of things to love here, but I haven't found whatever it is I was looking for.

I need something bigger. I need to feel consumed and lost in a city. Hopefully Vancouver will provide that and if not, well, at least I tried. So until Aug 30 I will be 4078 km later, then I will be 6,227 km later. Yikes.

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

To Do's

Oceans Day on the Halifax Waterfront: Thurs, June 7 10am-3pm @ Maritime Museum

World Naked Bike Ride: Sat, June 9 2pm @ Ecology Action Centre

Beetle Juice: Fri, June 15 7pm @ The Khyber

Pickings are slim this week and I am blaming it on Bike Week, Chaos Festival and Fashion Week

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

no words.

Monday, 28 May 2012

Gettin' Knitty with It

So I got obsessed with knitting last fall. There was a groupon for classes at the school of extended studies at NSCAD and I signed up for a knitwear design class that met every Thursday.

This is a swift. It is essential to pro knitting. If you don't want to drop mad $$ on one, most fabric shops will let you use theirs when you buy a skein from them (they are used to turn skeins into workable balls)

SEE!

in the first class we made our own needles - super easy

Materials: Dowels, saw, pencil sharpener, nail file, sandpaper, olive oil, paper towel

Step 1: cut dowel with saw to desired length - tip: bring your needle gauge to the hardware store so you can get dowels in a variety of sizes that fit standard patterns. We cut long needles in 16" lengths. This is also a really good way to expand your collection cheaply - one dowel can produce a long set of needles, along with a four set of double pointed - all in the same size of course.

Step 2: use the pencil sharpener to point the end(s) of your needles depending on if you are doing a standard or double sided set.

Step 3: use the nail file to soften and round the newly pointed ends - you can use sandpaper for this I suppose, but a nail file gives you more control and leverage making it faster and more accurate.

Step 4: use the sandpaper to lightly sand the entire needle.

Step 5: use the olive oil, VERY SPARINGLY, on a paper towel to coat the needle and seal it/make it soft

Optional step: you can get little caps at the hardware store to cap your dowels so your fabric doesn't slip off the ends. I have never made anything large enough on my needles to warrant this, so I don't think they are that necessary for myself.