Adventures in Toronto

*Warning: This will be a picture heavy post (because I'm lazy and just took lots of these pictures off my camera now)*

Back in July (I think it was in July - that was a busy month and most of it is a blur), Dee came to Toronto to visit. So, of course, Heather and I took her on a yarn crawl.


While walking, we passed an old building that I adore. If I ever in my life get a chance to build a building, it's going to look like this:

Here we are having fun at Romni Wool...

The red ball of yarn was sooooooooooooooooooo soft...

Heather thinks I'm nuts

My Noro! Mine!

And after dropping Dee off, Heather and I strolled about for a bit and spotted two moose. Remember those moose statues that were scattered around Toronto? Well, we found two

On someone's balcony.

Then in August (August 5th to be exact) was the 2nd Annual Stitch N Pitch! We had quite the crowd come this year - Nancy, Heather, Mike, me, Richard, Jane, and Dave ... and I bought a ticket for Sarah, but unfortunately she had to rescue her boyfriend in Pickering and missed the game :(

Take me out to the ball game...

Heather and Nancy

Modeling my nearly completed Noro sweater... I love Taiyo!

Me and Jane (and Jane's mitten)

Me and Richard (who actually came to watch the game... go figure)

Oh, and for the record, the Jays won against the Oakland A's 4-3 at the bottom of the ninth. Way to wait until the very last minute!

Walking the Labyrinth

Okay, so there's going to be another post before the Anime North loot.

I just saw this on my Facebook and decided to try and help promote it a bit. A friend of mine, Peter Cavell, is performing in both the Ottawa and Toronto Fringe festivals this year. I saw his performance in London last year, and it was spectacular.

Check out the preview:



And visit his site www.petercavell.com for more details! Go see it!

Ski vacation - the picture edition

So, as promised, here are a few pictures from the ski weekend.

The first little while, the cottage had no heat. Man, was it cold! I was wearing loads of layers and we buried ourselves under blankets. Fortunately there were electric heaters for the bedrooms so we didn't freeze while we slept, but that doesn't mean it wasn't chilly!

Highlights of the weekend include:

Skiing at Sir Sam's

Cooking dinner after skiing (I'm making pesto for the couscous)

And playing of musical intruments

And, because I started working on my So-Called scarf, using yarn that I think looks like cooked veggies (or vegetable pasta according to Dee), here's what I have so far.

(oops. sideways picture. sorry!)

I squee every time I start knitting this. I love it so.

Ski weekend :)

I had a great time last weekend with Heather, Mike, Em, and Ian at the cottage (even though we didn't have heat for most of it and it was *cold*)

Pictures will come when I find my camera under the piles and piles of piles I have all over my apartment.

In knitting news, I only have to do thumbs for my gauntlets, and I started knitting my so-called scarf in wonderful yarn that reminds me of veggies for some reason. Again, I'll post pictures when my camera resurfaces.

Thanks for a great weekend, guys!