I made a whirlwind, quick trip to Vancouver, Canada this past weekend and seriously… Granville Island was my favorite “tourist” spot. Mainly because the Public Market was full of so much amazing food. I am already regretting all of the food I didn’t get a chance to taste! I will probably spend some nights dreaming [...]

Just a quick post. I finished this over the weekend: I did most of it in the car while we drove to Padstow. We did a 2 hour “Learn to Surf” session there. It was SO AWESOME. I love surfing. I stood up! (For about 5 seconds). I don’t have any pics of me surfing, [...]

I broke open my Canadian piggy bank and I have $11.40 in Canadian dollars! Whoo hoo! I am ready for my Vancouver trip!… What? Don’t we all have a Canadian piggy bank? This Thursday, I’ll be taking a trip to Vancouver, Canada to hang out with some of my best friends. We’ll be sightseeing– and [...]

Rilakkuma (リラックマ Rirakkuma, a combination of the Japanese pronunciation of relax and the Japanese word for bear) is a Japanese character produced by the San-X company. Rilakkuma debuted in 2003. Rilakkuma and Tarepanda, another San-X character, have been described as “huge hits in Japan” by The New York Times. Rilakkuma ranks as the fifth most popular character in Japan in the most recent survey [...]

I’ve been going hobby crazy the past couple of weeks. Crochet has been going well, and I’m quite fast at it now. So, I set myself the goal of improving my knitting, as it seems a shame not to be equally good at either. So, I started a washcloth which uses the seed stitch and [...]

So, we finished our tour, which is totally worth the £20, by the way, and headed back to Camden! Each shop front on the main street has unique fronts, some were really cool: We wandered down by some markets by the river. It was a great market. I got two t-shirts there. One of a [...]

Friday, I took a day off work and went on an adventure in London with my friend Laura. We had booked a tour at Angels Costumier. Angels does costumes for pretty much every major film. They hire out costumes, they make costumes, wigs, shoes, you name it they probably do it. Our tour didn’t start [...]