Sometimes I have thoughts that I think are wonderful and brilliant and all that,
and I think,
Let's blog about that.
And then I realize exactly how strange those thoughts would seem if I actually put them into words.
Sometimes I am just amazed at how cool this world is - everything in it (with the possible exception of some of humanity's unfortunate habits) is just so neat, and I get all excited, and I want to do everything, see everything that I possibly can. I want to travel and meet people and see old buildings and paintings and then just sit in the grass and look at the sky, and that's really exciting too.
But if I ever mention anything like that, I always get odd looks.
Apparently I am amazed by the simplest of things, and most other people just don't see the world that way.
I think it's their loss. It's a good feeling. It can be infuriating when I can't travel or work or experience certain things because I have no money and I'm not eighteen yet, but it's still a fantastic feeling.
I'm going to go weed my garden.
Monday, 28 May 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Saturday, 19 May 2012
What happened to the Folk Fest Jacket
The lining - I was briefly tempted to leave it as a jacket of it's own,
but no.
I would also like to state for the record that this jacket will not fall apart (there are no open hems to fray) and it is the most ridiculously comfortable jacket I own.
Love making things :)
And, once again, all the denim is old jeans, the lining is old flannel pajama pants that my dog chewed up, and the patches are all old volunteer t-shirts.
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Work in Progress.
Every year I volunteer for the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, and every year I get a volunteer t-shirt.
Isn't that nice.
Because the Festival is in August, I tend to butcher my t-shirts in order to make them tank-tops. And this works for the duration of the festival, but then afterwards they tend to be unwearable to most places.
I therefore decided to salvage patches and the names of people I liked from my old folk fest t-shirts and attach them to a jean jacket made from the remains of old jeans.
Here is where I am at.
When I'm done my ridiculous Social Studies assignment and return to sewing, there will be facing, a collar, and flannel lining salvaged from old pajamas that my dog tried to eat.
Every year I volunteer for the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, and every year I get a volunteer t-shirt.
Isn't that nice.
Because the Festival is in August, I tend to butcher my t-shirts in order to make them tank-tops. And this works for the duration of the festival, but then afterwards they tend to be unwearable to most places.
I therefore decided to salvage patches and the names of people I liked from my old folk fest t-shirts and attach them to a jean jacket made from the remains of old jeans.
Here is where I am at.
When I'm done my ridiculous Social Studies assignment and return to sewing, there will be facing, a collar, and flannel lining salvaged from old pajamas that my dog tried to eat.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
On Wales in General
I have basically established I need to spend the rest of my life travelling.
For ever and ever.
New York was pretty fantastic. But here's the thing - Britain, and Europe although I didn't cross the channel, is just so neat. There are things that you see on tv, or read in a book, and it doesn't quite strike you that people actually say and do that until you're there. For exampe - the phrase "all right". It's a greeting.
I love it. And people do actually say 'chap'.
This isn't all Wales - some of these observations are from the two hours spent near Paddington station.
The main thing, though, was the history. There's so much old stuff there, I guess they're just used to it, but it doens't really strike you until you're there that this actually happened. I saw about four or five castles, Roman ruins, but I can't even begin to take in what it would be like to be standing at Versailles, or go to the remnants of a concentration camp. I only use these examples because they've been drilled into my mind by Social Studies.
And it was the same thing with art - I'm a lover of the French Impressionism era. I saw a Van Gogh, and I'm still not really registering that he was an actual man, but it kind of struck me that these things aren't just google images or chapters in a textbook.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I want to go back. And I want to go everywhere, because it really is different, and the same in so many ways, but there is so much in this world, and I want to see it all.
One advantage of living in this century. Airplanes.
For ever and ever.
New York was pretty fantastic. But here's the thing - Britain, and Europe although I didn't cross the channel, is just so neat. There are things that you see on tv, or read in a book, and it doesn't quite strike you that people actually say and do that until you're there. For exampe - the phrase "all right". It's a greeting.
I love it. And people do actually say 'chap'.
This isn't all Wales - some of these observations are from the two hours spent near Paddington station.
The main thing, though, was the history. There's so much old stuff there, I guess they're just used to it, but it doens't really strike you until you're there that this actually happened. I saw about four or five castles, Roman ruins, but I can't even begin to take in what it would be like to be standing at Versailles, or go to the remnants of a concentration camp. I only use these examples because they've been drilled into my mind by Social Studies.
And it was the same thing with art - I'm a lover of the French Impressionism era. I saw a Van Gogh, and I'm still not really registering that he was an actual man, but it kind of struck me that these things aren't just google images or chapters in a textbook.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I want to go back. And I want to go everywhere, because it really is different, and the same in so many ways, but there is so much in this world, and I want to see it all.
One advantage of living in this century. Airplanes.
Edmonton River Valley Skyline on Wednesdays (February 29 - March 21)
February 22
February 29
March 7
March 14
March 21
I would have gone farther but wasn't there fore about three weeks and it ruined the continuity.
Next time.
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