you again cast fight

You Again Cast Fight from Betty White

Saw this on Lainey today and it's totally worth sharing! So funny and even funnier because Kristen Bell IS known to be pretty much exactly like this in real life.

day of kelly!

Happy Birthday to my fave lady Kelly!! She's pretty much the greatest ever so her birthday is a pretty big deal. I'd say I hope you're toasting the day but I know that's a given. Please drink something icy and fruity just for me!!!

Happy Birthday!!

yurt love

I pine for a yurt somewhere fabulous therefore this picture makes me endlessly happy. Marc and I will be off together next summer with the bambina and doing some yurt camping in Algonquin Park is top o'the list.

omg...

...the new season of Gossip Girl starts very soon packed with plenty o'gossip, silly/fabulous clothes and a seemingly alive Chuck Bass? Please tell me our bambina will allow me some quality G.G time...xoxo!!!

guess who's 2?

Happy 2nd birthday to our first furry baby!

ah animals...

I break radio silence to bring you penguins chasing a butterfly. Pretty feel good if you ask me!



But don't worry, the butterfly escapes one hairy situation only to land in another and make a daring escape!

day of marc

Wishing the happiest of happy birthdays to Marc - pretty much the greatest guy on the planet. Thanks for taking such good care of me these last 9 months, I know it hasn't always been a treat. You certainly make being the coolest cucumber in town look easy. For your birthday present this year, I shall birth your child.

I kid of course! Being a great wife also means I got you a great gift!! See you by the cake!

luxury camping

I bet if more trailers looked like this more people would like camping. How could you not feel like a queen?? I, for one, might never leave my trailer. Instead handsome servants wearing tiny clothes would bring me yummy things to eat and pretty shoes to approve.

via JumpedShip

good indeed

Goodness I love this! This is the winner of Good's "Take a Picture of Someone Doing Something Good" photo contest. I would've voted for this pic 1000 times.

weekend round-up

Well not only am I coming off my weekend but I'm also coming off a weeks vacation so that would explain the lack of blogging etc. As is my norm, when I'm on vacation I tend to vacation from everything -- internet included. That means no blogging, no blog reading, no celebrity gossip perusing, very minimal email checking -- everything. The tech check-out is one of my favourite parts of being on vacation -- no hard feelings though blogland!!

Spent my week off staying pretty low-key but not really by choice. Been hit pretty hard by some third trimester nausea (which is super common but I had no idea was coming) which unfortunately laid me up on and off during the days. Not to mention it was crazy hot this week and I'm just getting too ginormous to be able to handle this heat very well. Anyway, it was still a good week off but was also a prime example of why I hate taking time off by myself and when I have nothing to do -- I just end up sitting around fussing with tiny things feeling like I'm getting nothing done. Sigh...

Anyway we kicked off my last weekend of freedom by a last minute fancy dinner at Ristorante Verdicchio. What a treat! Especially when it was so unexpected! We even got serenaded by the resident guitar and accordion players -- when they saw my giant belly they started playing a lullaby for us. It was really sweet. We're trying to take advantage of this remaining time alone before the baby comes and time is running out!!

Saturday most of our day was taken up with the most mundane errand EVER!! All I need is a double curtain rod for the nursery -- I don't want it to be black, it has to be deep enough to accommodate the depth of the original window casings in our house, and I'd like it not to be like every other piece of drapery hardware you see everywhere. After all, it is a nursery so why not find something unique right? Well apparently not. Every single double rod we found (when we found one at all that is) were either black or silver, too shallow and butt ugly. So after scouring the city for hours we came home with nothing at all. Grumble....

Came home from our fruitless errand and drowned our sorrows in a yummy dinner. Marc wrapped up some chicken in some bacon and tossed it on the BBQ along with some grilled sweet potatoes and some roasted corn on the cob. It totally helped to forget the frustration of the day.

Sunday we spent most of the day in the nursery attempting to put it in some kind of order. As it stood before, all of our mountain of baby stuff was "stored" on our guest bed as Marc still had woodwork to finish up in the nursery. Well with houseguests coming this weekend (for my baby shower -- EEP!) it pretty much dictated that we start moving stuff over. We moved around furniture, folded mountains of tiny clothes and blankets and just generally tried to make sense of things. Not sure if we totally accomplished that but at least the room is starting to look like maybe a baby might live there. And our houseguests won't have to fight their way to the bed in the guestroom. So that's a bonus too.

Took a break to visit the farmers market where we scored some perfect sweet plums and sugar pears -- perfection! Hit home in time for Marc to get in some gardening (farewell lettuce garden -- thanks for a great summer!!) then I made us a simple pasta dinner with a shredded zucchini and tomato sauce. Yum!!

Monday turned into a day of organizing -- organizing of epic proportions! What started as a conversation about how we hate this dilapidated lazy susan in our kitchen ended in a total kitchen re-org. The lazy susan is now totally abandoned (thank you god!) and everything has been moved around to places that make 100% more sense. Silly but I feel more productive in that kitchen already. Rewarded all our hard work with Marc's homemade grilled burgers and some ginger ice cream. Now I'm so tired I can't even see straight. Gonna hit my pj's and watch Mad Men and spend some quality time with my pillow.

Back to work tomorrow -- thanks for the long weekend love!!!!

summer shoe

I love these Campers. If only my feet didn't resemble sausages at the moment....



These though? Well these little darlings might just fit someone else I can think of. Someone we might meet in about a month and a half...

kitchen vignette

Hello perfect kitchen.

*via Home Sweet Home

how soundly would you sleep?

....cuz I know I'd be a wee bit anxious about any sudden movements. Love the aesthetic though...

wedding succulents

A wedding bouquet made up of only succulents = so pretty.

*via Craftzine*

river and sky

Here's where I'll be this weekend -- bring a tent and come on out to the River and Sky Camping and Music Festival!! Tis the prettiest festival around.....

too early for christmas?

I hope not cuz I'm already totally smitten with these deer bowls over at Mex Chic.

family tree

Love this idea for a family tree. Simple, unique and lovely. I might have to "add to cart."

*courtesy of Cozy Blue's Etsy shop*

vinyl cafe

In case you missed it on Sunday, this week's edition of The Vinyl Cafe was especially fantastic. Recorded on Manitoulin Island (our little island backyard), it had great music courtesy of Jim Bryson and a Dave and Morley story about losing their dog Arthur that made me cry and cry. Click here for the podcast if you feel like busting out some tissues.

portland wedding love

I know I fall in love with a lot of weddings but this one might be my most favourite wedding ever. Kelly and Joseph had a wedding in the woods in Portland and it is cut straight from the cloth of my fantasy wedding. As a little girl I never, ever dreamed of my big white wedding in a church with all the trimmings. I only ever wanted a small, homestyle wedding on the dock of our family camp. That was never able to happen as my grandfather sold the camp when I was in my early teens - something I consider to be one of our great family tragedies. But I digress.

This wedding is exactly the wedding I would have wanted.

Of course there would be dogs....

I love the idea of a wedding party travelling through the forest.

I love the way her bouquet looks like she picked it on the way to the ceremony site. I'm also ultra in love with her perfect birdcage veil.

Picnic blankets everywhere -- best idea!!

And this. This is my favourite wedding photo of all time.

Photos by the truly gifted Leah Verwey.

weekend round-up

Strange weekend I think. Typically I'd have spent this entire weekend at our city's annual music festival, the Northern Lights Festival Boreal but this year there were about 50 different things that kept me from being a festival bug for 3 days.

Friday we pretty much spent our entire evening running a pile of errands that we'd been putting off. Picked up some more flowers and herbs for the garden, bought the best skirt ever that I'm thinking I might wear for the entire rest of this pregnancy and just did a whole host of other tiny things. Got home in time for this lady to make some toast and crash out. I know, I am a wild party.

Saturday we made it out to the festival for the day at least but I was pretty under-whelmed with the whole experience. They had to change venues for this year and I just felt like it was really lacking in the atmosphere that usually makes the festival so wonderful. Being a huge fat pregnant lady didn't really help me get into the spirit of the whole thing either though so it was kinda an uphill battle for me from the start. With the extreme heat, zero shade, and no chairs I was just not a happy camper at all. I tried hard but just couldn't bring up the festival love I'm afraid. Headed home around supper time for a giant sun-stroked fueled nap and made it out again for the festival after-show at the Townehouse which perked me up considerably. A little Cuff the Duke will make any gal smile I think. Oh and we also watched Moon with our dinner -- what a great movie!!! Clearly talent does run in the Bowie family....

Sunday I slept in like crazy, we took Sadie to the lake for a swim, ran some more errands and were home in time for the World Cup Final game. And snacks!! Yay for Spain! Ole indeed!! Finished off the night with a truly delicious dinner courtesy of Marc (he made one of Mario Batali's recipes for beef with these super yummy vinegar potatoes) and some True Blood watching.