Halifax Farmers Market

Everyone in this town loves the fact that once a week (be it early on a Saturday morning) they can go downtown and have the best that the maritimes has to offer, organic , hand made, sustainable, local, ethical, Halifax Farmers Market.

My visits usually consist of: heading straight for the waffles,

drooling over the Susie shortbread's,

people-watching in the grand square,

paying a visit to some of my favorite local artists and designers,

checking out the local produce,

listening to the nova-scotian music,

then stocking up on the good stuff..

A toy's story..

I sat on my bed last night, Hugging Ritchie, saying that I feel bad because in the last couple of months he's been getting gradually less and less hugs as I spend more and more nights with the boy. Today me and the boy went and saw Toy Story 3. As with most people our age, the original was one of the movies we grew up on, the first completely computer generated movie so not only did we love it for the characters and the story, we loved it for how it looked. Sometimes sequels aren't worth the paper that the ticket is printed on but this is not one of those. I cried like a baby, smiled and nodded at all of the things that I can see now are true and still hoped that toys really do have adventures when youturn your back. This is a photo series I did one day in winter with Ritchie, my dog who has travelled with me the world over since I was 18months old.

I also have another photo series which involves people and their toys which I will share later.

Wassup art?

I'm the first to admit that after finishing my BFA I've let myself somewhat out of the art loop. I dont go to gallery openings every week, dont participate in any artist groups etc but my one saving grace is keeping up to date on what exhibitions are on back home with the help of a subscription to art whats on. I get an email once a week and i can just scroll through and click on the ones that interest me. They have now even made the website so that you can save images directly from it, which I like doing and putting them in a big folder titled "Inspirational images" so that one day when I put my artist hat back on i'll have all the inspiration i need just sitting there. This week's one featured an exhibition called between worlds by Polloxeni Papetrou from the series games of consequence and the images make me smile.

Artists on Vinyl

So I finally completed something I started back at Easter which is for a charity exhibition called Artists on vinyl and Heres the finished product. enjoy :)

Looking up..

Working at a Camera store/Lab, you get to see alot of run-of-the-mill engagement photo-shoots and wedding photography. I know as a photographer who doesn't want to be a commercial photographer, I find it hard to be in a world where the standard shots are needed (and wanted too I guess) so when you see something different it really is great. I found a great blog about a shoot that Is like what I would like to be shooting for people for their engagement/wedding photos, and what eventually I would like done for me when the time comes, something personal and different.. Enjoy!

The thing about being an only child..

Possibly the only thing that I've complained about having been an only child was that there was never someone around whenever you wanted to play a 2 or more person board game.. I think this is probably why i'm still so into board games now.. Especially Monopoly! My friend got Monopoly City for christmas last year and when i went to visit her and her family we basically ended up playing Monopoly for 12 hrs straight which was amazing.. and this year i finally acquired the monopoly board i've wanted for awhile now, The Beatles! complete with pewter playing peices like a strawberry (fields forever), (here comes the) sun and (I am a) walrus. It's basically the same rules as the board I'm used to back home- mums board from the 70's, but Beatle inspired and theres heaps of differnt ones out there now so i'm sure that everyone could find one that they love, but if theres not, you can make your own! the people over at Photojojo have this wonderful new product called the Photo-opoly board where you add your own photos to make it your own!

Just a small town girl...

Hey guys, long time no blog, So heres just a quick one for ya today.. I LOVE the tv show Glee.. which I know is not unlike alot of people spinning around the world but right now i have the Glee cast's version of Journey- Don't stop believing in my head because me and my boyfriend were (intoxicated) dancing to it last night.
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