My talented friend Megan made herself a retro style jacket and was looking for a crest to jazz up the front. She dug out her collection of Red Cross swim awards. I have mine somewhere too, just haven’t come across them yet in my ongoing clear out project. I have […] Read More
Not that this is a collection, but it is an indicator of my “collector’s mentality” and how I hang on to things for a very long time. I have had this old Norco bike for decades. I have been window shopping for a few years. But recently, as I was […] Read More
I sold all of my Barbies to some lovely folks that work at a cool vintage store on Main St. in Vancouver. They are collectors! I still had a few left over dolls that I wanted to find a good home for: Mary Poppins and Mitzi, as well as a […] Read More
Some years back, I started to let my hair go grey. Family and friends were alarmed. My brother said it was “too soon.” A friend offered to buy me a box of hair dye. Granted I was starting to look like Cruella, one grey stripe down the middle of my […] Read More
This is what I am facing right now. Phase 2 of my clear out project. The dreaded storage locker. It is daunting and dirty work. It is also emotional, throwing out parts of your life that were previously so meaningful and now mean nothing. The memories may still be precious, […] Read More
I love tea towels. You can never have too many has been my motto. Especially when I see a new colour collection for the 100% cotton, flour sack ones from India – the green, yellow, aqua, teal and red shown in the stack here. Trouble is, you can have too […] Read More
I have enough wrapping paper saved up for a lifetime. I’ve saved scraps of paper hardly large enough to even wrap anything. But what if I have that one small gift to wrap? This pretty paper would be perfect. So into the rattan unit it goes. And then there’s the […] Read More
I remember the last time I did a presentation with slides. I walked into a large university classroom where the organizer had kindly set up a slide projector. He’d dug it up from some back room. I’m sure some of the students I was presenting to had never seen a […] Read More
Many moons ago, I was in advertising and then branched into documentary film making. One of the downsides of that branch of my career journey is that I have a box of old audio cassettes and videotapes. Many of the tapes are demo reels of my work that I used […] Read More
I have started Phase 2 of my clear out project. I have gone into the deep, dark dungeon also known as my storage locker. Much to my dismay, one of the boxes I brought up to sort had many file folders that were attached to the job contracts I had […] Read More