Give Away Time and Hollyhocks has a new look!

Check out Hollyhocks new blog site, she has a new look and a (pardon my french) kick ass give away on right now!
You can view her give away post here.
Good Luck!!
Oh and a little tease - here is her pic for the give away:

Awesome huh!!

I bought Fandango!!

I just could not resist it any longer. I decided to use the $5.00 coupon I had from Wish Upon A Quilt and get it on its way - and it is here!!
Check it out:

 These last two are not Kate Spain - I cannot recall whom they are from. If anyone is interested, just leave me a comment, it is on the bill which I left at work.

Fall is here.

I just loved this little shadow shot. This is me waiting for the train to come in and take me to hell.. ... ah, I meant work. Sorry about that. lol.

I love the color of these leaves this time of year. I am not looking forward to the snow. It is funny watching the dog play in it though! Doesn't this picture just make you want to run out and buy Halloween fabric? And start making pumpkin pies? Well, it works for me.

Cheers,

Carolyn

Another awesome give away

Check out Spun Sugar blog for an awesome give away - plus lots of great tutorials!
You can check out Vickie's blog Spun Sugar by clicking here.
Good luck. Check out the tutorials and let me know if you are going to make any of them. I am going to do the Zipper pouch! I know just which pair of jeans I can not longer squeeze into that will donate the zipper. Joy!! Its like I was meant to eat all that chocolate cake. hee hee hee

Dress shopping!

Look what I got! The hubby got a suit for a wedding we are going to, which meant I got to get some pretty things too. We cannot have our husbands look better can we? I have been such a good girl and not bought anything new for ages - maybe since almost Christmas - certainly this is a well deserved treat. 

I got this brilliant jacket that can go with all everything here and in my closet. Here I have put it with a polka dot blouse.

This is the jacket again, with a ruffle tank top and a pencil skirt.

Close up of the tank top - I had to reduce the light intake so you could see the black detail on the ruffles. Do you like the necklace I chose?

Last one - a sweater dress. It looks much better on then on the table. Really it does.

Cheers,

Carolyn

My give away from Cotton Cocktails came! Look, isn't it awesome, she sent me beautiful hand painted cards and photo post cards.

Thank you so much Hazel!

Next up - this silly donation quilt is taking me forever. Now that I am suddenly concerned with making everything line up and perfect - doing it the right way - its all taking me forever. Still lovin in, but I wish I had more to show you guys!

Oh and check out this yumminess! This my friends is plain old spaghetti sauce with mushrooms, onion, garlic and I shredded a few carrots in so I could make it healthier without the hubby complaining. lol. A can of diced tomatoes and a tomato paste - simmered on the stove for 30 min. Made up some noodles, then put it together in these fabulous little ceramic dishes my dad and his wife gave me (I love these things - best gift to date possibly from them). Again, I used that fabulous Gouda with tomato and olives. Delicious. 

This awesome dish I bought at one of those trade shows from a booth called Evelyn's Kitchen. It is brilliant. The texture on it allows me to "grind" garlic, onions, ginger - anything - even cinnamon sticks to a fabulous paste. With this, I was able to make my own garlic butter for the cheese bagels I toasted to go with our bakes spaghetti. 

Mm mm

Cheers,

Carolyn

I do not condone, but have an appreciation for good graffiti

The home owning, tax paying, going to work everyday part of me says graffiti is not good, but the artist, free spirit and rebel in me says, "yeah, you take that spray paint and rock it!" I dislike tags that are just poorly done scribble on trains and business alley walls. But a picture, or great lettering is different. Of course that does not mean I want graffiti all over the place, but I think some is lovely in its own way.

This morning, I saw on my commuter train to work, a tag that normally I would not like, but it was just so striking. Its not English, but a lovely symbol or word in another language. I really hope its not a gang symbol! That would be awful, falling in graffiti love with a symbol of hate. I do not think it is though, for one, I fell for it straight away due to its color. Hot pink! Isn't that the best color? I mean if I was a police officer and came up to someone with hot pink spray paint, I would be like, Okay, show me what you can do and we will critic it after and decide if it should say. If it were lime green - I would probably have the same reaction - if it were navy blue I would shut this party down! ha ha

Hot pink people, how can one go wrong?

The expression to me on this graffiti, again not condoning, but appreciating, I think it is a lovely little tag.

What do you think?

HA HA HA, Did I mention I take public transit? The train does not stop here so you will have to use your imagination!

Here are some others that I have found and enjoyed:

In Vancouver, BC

In Vancouver, BC

This one was in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

This is along the commuter train in Edmonton too, but I was walking that day.

I only found one graffiti painting when I was in London, UK. This blew my mind - how out of such a humongous population could there not be any graffiti?? Unfortunately we lost all our London photos during our trip so that one piece I cannot share with you. So, if you are traveling Southern UK and find a memory card with hundreds of pics of London and two dorky white people - its mine. ha ha ha

Cheers,

Carolyn