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there are a few little things I wanted to mention this past week:

this sign appeared in my apartment building one morning:

you’ll notice, some critical information is missing…the TIME that this will be happening!
(you may notice, someone wrote on the sign “from when to when?”)
well, by the time I came back from work, the sign was gone, so who knows what happened

last weekend I went with my family to my aunt’s house for dinner. I guess it had been a while since I saw that aunt. …like maybe 8 years or so. She lives in Markham or Scarborough or something like that.
anyways, I LOVE her house.
I wish I took more pictures of it. I felt a little weird though. I mean, going into someone’s house and randomly taking pictures of every ‘mundane’ thing? Who does that?
so, it “reminded” me of the 70s/80s. But in a fun retro kind of way. There was wallpaper everywhere, those old school bright orange and guacamole green colours, there was a mirror wall in her living room (normally, I’m not a fan of mirror walls, but somehow it worked in her place…)
Another thing I liked was that the house had like 5 different levels. Each level separated by like 8 or less steps! It was odd, yet fantastic at the same time!

so here’s the one picture I took incognito:

the wallpaper continues onto the ceiling!
love it!

last Wednesday I came home from work and decided to get some hair stuff for my hair appointment on the weekend.
now, the thing I’ve noticed about living where I live, is that it’s almost like instant gratification.
Like, when I decide that I want to paint something, I walk across the street and get supplies.
when I think about getting something from Dollarama, I hop on the subway and I’m there in less than 20minutes.
When I decide that I want a cd, or a book, or coffee, there’s a mall at the corner with HMV, Chapters and Starbucks.
If I want a slushy, there’s a 711 just down the street as well! etc etc

so, when I decided that I should get hair stuff, I just decided to walk down the street.
now, I had done some research and found out that there was a hair place pretty far down the street, but I figured that I wouldn’t have to go all the way there to find what I wanted.
so I walked along Eglinton Ave West and found some fun things:

like this house with a lime green window, and the neighbouring house with a red front door:

That house was close by to this apartment building:

I want to live in a building called “The” something!

“The favorite” (note the American spelling!!) works…. but so would…

The Eglinton!
haha

I didn’t take many other pictures… it rained a bit.

so, I ended up having to walk all the way past Allen to find what I wanted.
And after that I walked back to Eglinton station and took the bus back home.

I met up with a friend yesterday in Etobicoke and then took the subway home late at night.
for a while, I was the only person on my subway car! …that’s never happened to me before!
…so I took a picture.

So I was a vendor at the BIG on Bloor Festival yesterday.

IT WAS AMAZING!!!

I really hope they have it again next year, i thought it was a complete success! There were TONS of people, my table was close to a Long & McQuade stage, so we had continuous music and some cool special presentations: fashion show, dance show, karate demonstration. (The karate presentation had one of the guys from Jackie Chan’s stunt double team, and this guy was CRAZY! I was kinda standing far away so all I could see was his feet continuously in the air in crazy formations, and wood somehow being chopped at the same time. hehe crazy wood chopping flips.)

The weather was one thing I was ‘concerned’ about, because I heard that it was going to thunder storm, and so then I would have to pack up my stuff and wait out the storm …or leave.
but thankfully, there was only ’spotty’ rain!! And my cards are all covered in plastic, so there was no need to pack up! but it was great weather to be outside in, because it wasn’t too hot and sunny.
During one of the rain spells someone came by on a bike and bought a card, and then picked up my business card too, and was like, “Your business cards are waterproof!! How convenient!”
haha, sweet! who knew?

My company was great!
to our left was the Owner & helper from Covet Originals.
And to our right were friendly people from some NGO… I can’t remember the name though.

And i say ‘our’ because my friend Jen hung out with me all day!!! It was FANTASTIC! I haven’t seen her in a while so it was good to hang out with her for hours. AND she was a great help with taking stuff to the location, and setting up!
My parents also came by, which was fun! Somehow they arrived from two different directions, which I’m still confused about….but as always, my parents were very encouraging and supportive. Thanks mad! (lol, a new short-form! …I just made it up… “mom and dad”)

And as I’ve said already, the crowd was great! it’s so encouraging to do shows! First of all, it’s encouraging when people buy things, but also when they just look and are like, ‘wow, this is so great!’ and then they grab a business card and walk off. And then there are those people who are just really cool and have interesting things to say. I had some
fun conversations yesterday.
Some of my favourite moments are when people buy cards that I think are FANTASTIC but haven’t had much/any success on Etsy. I had a several surprises yesterday in that sense.

there’s much more I could say, but I won’t go into that right now… maybe later