Catching up

Now that it is the holidays and we are pretty much ready for it all, I have time to play. I'm not home, so I am limited to books and a journal, camera and laptop (plus one more present to finish making). I took the opportunity this evening to upload the photos from our 2005 Vancouver trip to flickr. Three sets are finished, but the other "around the city" needs editing. Here are some highlights:

Capilano_mosaic

1. Forest debris, 2. Old and new growth, 3. Interesting trunk, 4. Light on leaves, 5. Up through branches, 6. Moss and leaves, 7. Pond, 8. In the pond, 9. In the deep, 10. Capilano signs, 11. Tree, 12. Hairy trunk, 13. Light on conifer (what kind?), 14. Crowds on the trailways, 15. Look up, look waaaay up

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Buy Handmade Update

If I am buying YOU a present, do not follow the links (if you do, you are baaaaad and I will keep your present!).

For the rest of you, I wanted to share some of the good luck I have had with the 'buy handmade' pledge. I have ended up with handmade gifts both bought and made, edibles & drinkables, and art supplies.

Pretty things from here;

this from this cooperative;

this, that I painted;

and two secret things - I've finished one and one is still in progress;

I made Z a sketchbook that she might kindly photograph for us if she reads this!

This coolness here;

these to send (although it will be next year now);

this prettiness for our house;

this (for me!) with my Christmas money from my in-laws as well as the Golden fluid acrylics I was raving about before;

and both of these too.

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