Sweet lord, I do not charge enough for my custom quilt-work. Or anything else for that matter.

Denyse Schmidt Quilts are funky. Simple, and straigtforward, but eyecatching.

I thought this was interesting:

“Denyse was designing, but could not possibly find the time to do the quilting. So, she went to the source – Amish women have been quilting by hand for over a century. The Amish lifestyle, with its emphasis on simplicity and a slower pace, lends itself perfectly to quilting. Denyse’s quilts are produced with the highest degree of craftsmanship. The quilt production schedule sometimes has to take a backseat to the farm chores (especially in summer), but we believe the wait is well worth the quality.”

Apparently, the solution to my time-crunch is Amish women. Who knew?

Super fast update (safari keeps crashing and losing my posts. Grr. Hello firefox!):

• Crazy week. Work work work work work.
• Super-cool pre-christmas present from ben. What a sweetie. He has, however, reached his quota of apple-store related presents for the year. I do have to draw the line somewhere.
• One of my kitties is getting adopted by a good friend. Yay!
• Roommate is home from the maritimes. He brought with him three jugs of BEEP and a candle that includes PEI sand. Have I mentioned that my roommate brought me BEEP? You heard me. I LOVE my roommate.
• After two straight weeks with no snow, and roommate getting all the snow out east, he brought it home with him, TONIGHT.
• Bought screenprinting supplies tonight. Expensive! Oh well. Getting started with anything is pricey, yet worth it.
• I won stuff! It apparently pays to suck up a little bit, sometimes.
• Work work work work work. American thanksgiving. Breathe. Work work work work work.
• A guy I used to date turns 30 next weekend. His new girlfriend has invited me to his sleepover-birthday-party at his cottage. Is this WRONG?

Up and Coming

• Joel Plaskett. Kingston, Monday.
• December. Eek!
• Lab time. School. On SUNDAY. Yuck.
• 222 Lyon. Tapas. Saturday night.
• Also, Lower Deck. Saturday night in search of a comparison. It can not possibly be better than the one in Halifax. Sacrilege.

For ages, I’ve been looking for good compostition notebooks for music, and sketching, and storyboarding various stuff. I keep a LOT of notebooks. They are literally everywhere. Under the bed, in the nightstand, in the kitchen, in my glove compartment, wedged into my laptop bag, etc., etc.

Plain notebooks, lined notebooks: easy to find.

Good music notation books? Impossible. Storyboarding books? Get real.

Until now. Moleskine has launched a new music notebook and a new storyboarding book. I want them both, but they appear to be impossible to find. All of the good paper/stationary vendors in this city give me funny looks when I even deign to request.

If you see one, will you tell me about it?