Archive for October, 2006
Hipster Bingo
Back in my day (said in the cranky old man voice), we played “Keener Bingo” during class. The cards had the names of all the people who routinely tried to impress the professor with their comments/questions. But I’m beyond that now….
Now there’s Hipster Bingo. I think I’m getting older, because nothing in [...]
Expanding shoes = Longer product life
We found Inchworm shoes recently via surfing Gizmodo.These kids’ shoes expand one full size (in half-size increments) thereby increasing the amount of time that your kid can actually wear them since for such wee little feet chances are, the shoes won’t get worn out, but rather grown out.
There’s quite the range of styles for both [...]
Fellow indie designer: Plueys
I originally heard of Plueys through the Switchboards (a great forum for creative women in business — lots of other indies, naturally). Plueys makes a fine selection of products all geared towards rainy days — impressive products for a small business.
My favourite ‘puddle stompers’ are the Go Fish! boots ($55 US):
View the full selection of [...]
Lego lovin’ for grown-ups
Back in my day (note that this should be said with a cranky old man voice), Lego was a simple toy. I remember the joy that could be found in dumping out the WHOLE bag of lego on the floor and building whatever out of it. We had no fancy pieces. Just plain bricks. Maybe [...]
Fellow Indie Designer: Happy Owl Glass
Waay back when, the first barter we did with another indie designer was with Tracy Bull of Happy Owl Glass. I jumped at the chance of a trade since I’ve loved Tracy’s work since the very first time I’d ever seen it.
I have a couple of lovely pendants from her Badge Menagerie collection. The badges [...]
Beautiful minds: A voyage into the brain
This is a video excerpt (runs about 5 minutes) from the documentary “Beautiful Minds: A voyage into the Brain” featuring Stephen Wiltshire, aka the ‘Living Camera’. Stephen is autistic and has the remarkable ability to be able to retain visual details — in this case, details from an aerial view of Rome — and put [...]
Blossom 2006
If you’re a woman and you’ll be in Ottawa for Sunday, October 15th, make sure to check out Blossom, a ‘Lifestyle event for women’ at the Brookstreet Hotel (in Kanata). A portion of the proceeds of the event will go to Rethink Breast Cancer, a charity that focuses on education, research and support programs — [...]
Mmm… sushi
One of the (many) things I missed being able to eat while pregnant was sushi — I mean real sushi with the raw fish and not the placate-the-craving-with-the-cooked-stuff kind that I was able to eat. Though, I do have to say that the Dynamic Rolls and some of the other special Maki at Sushi Time [...]
