I’ve got my head down in my newly changed around studio this week, working on quilts (hi jen!), puces pop items, new stuff, designs, and OMG so much work. Sophie loves the new digs (our offices are like top secret rooms that we NEVER let her in to, so when the doors open, she is there. Right there. And sometimes she sneaks in when we’re not looking, only for us to find her five minutes later standing on the radiator trying to hang herself in the cord for our window blinds. She is trouble this one! But the cutest kind of trouble.

Just four more days of work until my (well-earned) holidays, which I’m looking forward to. One crafty week (I have about a billion camera / guitar straps to make, and new oilcloth for bike seat covers (including burberry plaid!)), and then I’m off to visit some friends and family in Halifax for a week. Can’t WAIT to get home for a while and drive along the coast. It’s been ages!

it’s been a loooong loooong time since I talked about music over here, but hey, it’s never too late, is it? Maybe?

My current craft soundtrack as I work my fingers to the bone enroute to this year’s Puces Pop includes beirut (who plays montreal in two weeks – you should go!), el perro del mar, the cinematic orchestra, kate nash, jane vain, memphis, feist, tokyo police club, amos the transparent, casiotone for the painfully alone and modest mouse. Oh! And the new Jens Lekman tracks and The Blow’s Paper Television.

What got me through the long days in Amsterdam was falling asleep to Regina Spektor and waking up to Peter, Bjorn & John. That and having an espresso machine on hand for 10 hours a day – which I can highly recommend!

My iPod is acting funny, but hey – it’s three years old and it’s been all over the world, through downpours and sandstorms, and been tromped on by kittens galore. Maybe it’s time for a new one? Not quite the same as the iPhone I was coveting on my trip, but close…

she has no name yet, but soon.