same but different

One of the local designers was at the museum yesterday. We have been emailing back and forth as she recorded the tv program about the show for me an I am still hoping to get my hands on it. While she was there she snuck this picture through the window of my dress....
Yay...
Working alot these days. Post are gonna be pretty pathetic. Sorry.

A friend just found this and told me about it. Apparently this is what my dress looks like at the museum!
Cool.
Wish I could see it.
Started working on this years, but it is going to slowly!

In case anyone feels like shopping on a really rainy cold day in January....

I will be donating all my etsy shop proceeds to Haiti from now until the end of Jan. I haven't had alot of sales lately but fingers crossed that will change. The dictator and I made a small personal donation this week - it doesn't seem like enough somehow.

Canadian Red Cross (hoping to raise at least $2 million): www.redcross.ca/helpnow, or call toll free 1-800-418-1111, visit any Red Cross office.

Humanitarian Coalition (consists of CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Quebec and Save the Children Canada): www.thehumanitariancoalition.ca.

Plan Canada: https://planCanada.ca/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pidid

Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmy.ca, or call 1-800-725-2769. Bell Mobility customers can make $10 donations by texting the word "haiti" to 45678. Donations can be mailed to Army Territorial Headquarters, Canada and Bermuda, 2 Overlea Blvd., Toronto, ON M4H 1P4. Donations can also be dropped off at local Salvation Army units. Specify "Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief Fund."

Doctors Without Borders: http://www.msf.ca

Unicef Canada: https://secure.unicef.ca/portal/SmartDefault.aspx?at0&CID

United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto: http://www.ujadonations.com/haiti or call 416-631-5705.

World Vision Canada: https://www.worldvision.ca/give-a-gift/Pages/EarthquakeinHaiti.aspx

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has also compiled a guide designed to help the public avoid scams and ensure their donations are of maximum value:

http://www.international.gc.ca/humanitarian-humanitaire/Canadians-help-aide-canadien.aspx

Shoe porn post!
I'm going to need some AWESOME funky shoes for my wedding (yes this is a billion years in the future but I can still plan ahead.) So it is time to start hunting.
My current fix is Fluevogs. I only own 2 pairs but they are so comfy and well made I'm hooked. I love that they don't follow trends so they never go out of style. I love that it is a Canadian shoe designer who is known all over the world!
SO here are my thoughts on the current selection:


these are a great shape for a wedding - but not my wedding - think sand. They are a fabulous color too.


these are a great shape for my wedding and the sand - I know not quite - work with me here - but they only come in black. POOP!


these are a great color and sand shape but not really for my wedding...

Sigh. I think he is going to have to design a shoe specially for me. That's the only solution.

And these:


are the ones I bought on sale this weekend! LOVE THEM!!!

Just came across these - Love them...

This is one of my all time favourite movies. I saw it in 1995 on VHS three years after it was released with some friends in Montreal. I loved it. I still think of it often. It has been years since I have seen it and I've been thinking about it lately. It might be time for me to try and find it on DVD. I looked on itunes - not there yet....

The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin), a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Canadian novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the reality of his life. After deciding that his mother (Ginette Reno) was impregnated not by his father, but by an Italian tomato, he rechristens himself Léolo, and begins to have sexual fantasies about his neighbour Bianca (Giuditta del Vecchio).
Gilbert Sicotte, as the adult Léolo, narrates the film. The cast also includes Pierre Bourgault, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Julien Guiomar and Germain Houde.
It was Lauzon's final film; he died in a plane crash in 1997 while working on his next project.

I did not know - but wikipedia says it was named one of the best 100 movies of all time in 2005. Yup. I can probably put it in my top 20.