Christmas schnauzdeers

2012/12/28 Karen 0 comment

Dress up and dance for our Christmas presents? Seriously?

Book presents

2012/12/28 Karen 2 Comments

I can’t wait to dive in to some of the books I got for Christmas:

Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted MasterpieceNoah Charney— PublicAffairs, 2010

Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian designHeather Smith MacIsaac— Vendome Press, 2010

Fresh from the vegan slow cooker: 200 ultra-convenient, super-tasty, completely animal-free one-dish dinnersRobertson, Robin— Harvard Common Press, 2012

The woodcut artist’s handbook: techniques and tools for relief printmakingGeorge A. Walker— Firefly Books, 2010

Best American Essays 2012

A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems / Daniel David Moses

Not to mention subscriptions to The Normal School and Utne Reader! Yay!

A GeoCities Christmas

2012/12/28 Karen 0 comment

Ten years ago this Christmas, Eric and I had just moved back to Daejeon after a few months back in North America. I’d just finished a TEFL training course in Phuket while he’d spent a month rock climbing in Krabi. And our buddy Pete (who’s still living in Korea) had just introduced Eric to web site design via GeoCities!

Here’s a screenshot of one of Eric’s very first projects:

Christmas 2011

2012/01/31 Karen 0 comment

Apparently, I didn’t attend Christmas with my family last year…

Our Christmas gift to Mom and Dad: two extra schnauzers for 2+ weeks!!

Mom wrapped gifts with National Geographic maps.

I hope he knows those are not swim trunks…

Please, put the camera down and let’s eat.

Christmas ornaments

2011/12/13 Karen 2 Comments

34 random photos

2011/01/23 Karen 2 Comments

A collection from one of my “random miscellaneous” folders:

Walking on water, two. Yet again courtesy of L.

This stony wall, stream, and shadow remind me of Korea. It’s Elora.

Stockings for the poochers at my parents’ place, Christmas 2010.

Is Eric at work or on break in this coffee shop? Always hard to tell.

Another lost cat poster in Montreal (they’re everywhere).

Plaque under a memorial tree at Riverside Park in Guelph.

My beads spilled all over the floor, in our Montreal apartment.

Me and E. at the waterfront, Christmastime 2010. Thank you for the photo, L.

New Year’s Eve cheese snack stalked by Abbey.

A pumpkin effigee which I smashed with a hammer in November after it rotted.

Overexposed driveby photo of a convenience store in Guelph.

Eric swinging down off a little stone wall, Elora.

BBQ King on my parents’ deck, August 2010.

Weird scarecrow party on someone’s front lawn in Rockville.

Sage violating the dartboard rules: nobody in front of the red line!

Do you recognize this arm and cell phone?

Two little trees

2009/12/26 Karen 0 comment

We planted our Christmas trees today!

Christmas 2009

2009/12/25 Karen 0 comment

After the snowstorm, Eric and I headed to his dad’s house to celebrate Christmas as originally planned. It was our first year to choose a live Christmas tree and of course we couldn’t decide, so we ended up with two: a little potted rosemary bush and 2 foot blue spruce that we will plant after we find the key to the shed with the shovel. Since all of our ornaments are in boxes in Montreal, we made some paper ones out of books from the local Friends of the Library used bookstore ($3’s worth), new ribbon ($4), buttons ($2), rubber stamps (borrowed from Nancy), and my new Colorbox inkpad in reds and silvers.