1. Tri City Villain's official first video! Good for them, they played at Oasis Pub in Halifax this past Saturday and were even awesomer than last time.
2. Jump on my shoulders by Awolnation (youtube video)
3. Random nineties music: Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies and Sensitive Artist by King Missile.
4. This video was really good, haven't linked one of her videos for awhile: self soothing process by Teal Swan
5. Blackfly Coolers I don't drink much at all but wished someone would come up with a vodka drink with natural fruit juice and not a pile of crap in them, for summer. Aha, someone did! These look like they'd be the typical chemically crap drinks but aren't, and conveniently come in plastic bottles with a screw lid to keep flies out. I like the vodka citrus ones best, we tried the vodka cranberry ones too - haven't seen the other types around here yet. And they're Canadian! and Craft produced! nice.
5. Garden, Haskap Berries, River...Summer... have also been thinking about REITs a lot this week (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and the havoc I think they're wrecking on the Canadian if not global economy. Reminds me that I wrote this Monkey Story last year: The Story of the Monkeys Who Started a Real Estate Investment Trust.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
This Week's Favourite Things! Monday June 15th - Sunday June 21st, 2015
1. "Land Care Nursery" at 1436 Hwy 10 around Cookville (10 minutes or so out of Bridgewater if heading towards Middleton).
This is a new nursery with a couple of greenhouses run by a knowledgeable fellow from the area who had a similar business in Alberta for years and is now obviously having lots of fun.
It's awesome - really nice berry bushes, we got huge haskap berry bushes from there that produced quite a lot of tasty fruit right away, and just picked up some blueberry bushes that are loaded. He has lots of trees and other stuff like pro-mix, seeds and other garden supplies. Pretty big operation for a backyard greenhouse, with good selection and some great deals. Very worth checking out if you like to garden and are in the area.
2. The Moon - never heard of using the Moon in trying to manifest things until I pulled an Angel Card about this. Here's an interesting article about this: 4 Keys to Accelerated Manifesting with the Moon Cycle
3. This Stuart Wilde tape on youtube "Creating Miracles In Your Life". Great lecture explaining the Law of Attraction, I love the bit where he talks about how people get brainwashed to believe in scarcity. I totally get this from gardening - the earth is very abundant...
4. This Abraham-Hicks youtube talk: "The Probability is not the question your allowing is". One of the best ones I've heard! I loved the bit where she compares the law of attraction to the law of gravity, and points out that we didn't need to go to Gravity School to learn the law of gravity, it just is.
5. This Barbara Corcoran talk on risk-taking, failure, and how to get back up.
6. Well.ca "Canada's online beauty, health and skin care store". I wanted to send some of that awesome Natural Calm Magnesium Supplement that I found previously at the Healthy Bug in Halifax to my mom, but live out of town and found this site. Free shipping in Canada for orders over $29! Success, the parcel arrived via UPS to her door, saved me driving and packing. Good way to send healthy gifts to family or friends that live away, or to ship yourself some supplies. They specialize in shipping things to people so their online stores has a large array of drugstore type items as well as food.
This is a new nursery with a couple of greenhouses run by a knowledgeable fellow from the area who had a similar business in Alberta for years and is now obviously having lots of fun.
It's awesome - really nice berry bushes, we got huge haskap berry bushes from there that produced quite a lot of tasty fruit right away, and just picked up some blueberry bushes that are loaded. He has lots of trees and other stuff like pro-mix, seeds and other garden supplies. Pretty big operation for a backyard greenhouse, with good selection and some great deals. Very worth checking out if you like to garden and are in the area.
2. The Moon - never heard of using the Moon in trying to manifest things until I pulled an Angel Card about this. Here's an interesting article about this: 4 Keys to Accelerated Manifesting with the Moon Cycle
3. This Stuart Wilde tape on youtube "Creating Miracles In Your Life". Great lecture explaining the Law of Attraction, I love the bit where he talks about how people get brainwashed to believe in scarcity. I totally get this from gardening - the earth is very abundant...
4. This Abraham-Hicks youtube talk: "The Probability is not the question your allowing is". One of the best ones I've heard! I loved the bit where she compares the law of attraction to the law of gravity, and points out that we didn't need to go to Gravity School to learn the law of gravity, it just is.
5. This Barbara Corcoran talk on risk-taking, failure, and how to get back up.
6. Well.ca "Canada's online beauty, health and skin care store". I wanted to send some of that awesome Natural Calm Magnesium Supplement that I found previously at the Healthy Bug in Halifax to my mom, but live out of town and found this site. Free shipping in Canada for orders over $29! Success, the parcel arrived via UPS to her door, saved me driving and packing. Good way to send healthy gifts to family or friends that live away, or to ship yourself some supplies. They specialize in shipping things to people so their online stores has a large array of drugstore type items as well as food.
Monday, June 15, 2015
This Week's Favourite Things! June 8th - June 14, 2015
1. The garden! Lupines are blooming, there are more raspberries, rhubarb and herbs. Been busy planting transplants and seeds, ate my first haskap berry. When I find my camera I'll take some pics to show my mom (Happy Birthday mom!).
2. This was a great story in the Chronicle Herald by Aaron Beswick: Instead of Moving to Find Work, Advocate Harbour Creates It's Own. Up with small town living! Such a refreshing change from other doom and gloom stories about the demise of rural Nova Scotia.
3. This is a really nice Herald article by Elissa Barnard about Laurie Swim's 10th anniversary show of fine art quilts at her space in Lunenburg, on until July 12th, sounds like an awesome show. Swim Creates the Fabric Of Life
4. Been working on manifesting a few (top secret) things and really enjoyed this blog post by Enoch Tan: Higher Feelings Manifest Your Desires Faster
5. Still slowly finishing off a few bowls gearing up to do a firing soon I hope, and I got into watching Ross Rosenberg youtube videos. He's a therapist who is a recovering codependent and has some awesome videos aimed at helping others recover, as well as explaining how us codependents end up glued to narcissists. He calls it the human magnet syndrome. I might have listed this concept and his videos before. This totally explains various relationships I've had with every type of narcissist and it's nice to hear that codependency is curable. Things I wish I knew 25 years ago, oh well. Healing.
Codependency & Loneliness: Why Codependents Stay with Narcissists
Malignant Narcissists Are Dangerous
Deep Into the Minds of Narcissists and Sociopaths
Covert Narcissism: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing These are maybe the worst sort, the ones that pretend to be downtrodden martyrs...
6. The above links led to me checking out this one by Lisa Romano, another recovering codependent. I loved this video, watching it felt like having coffee with a smart friend. I've totally been sucked in by that "I know what you're thinking" line at the beginning of a pitch. It cost me a lot of money and years of my life once! lol never again!
Narcissists Emotionally Abusive Phrases To Watch Out For Dear Ones
7. This quote by Albert Einstein.
2. This was a great story in the Chronicle Herald by Aaron Beswick: Instead of Moving to Find Work, Advocate Harbour Creates It's Own. Up with small town living! Such a refreshing change from other doom and gloom stories about the demise of rural Nova Scotia.
3. This is a really nice Herald article by Elissa Barnard about Laurie Swim's 10th anniversary show of fine art quilts at her space in Lunenburg, on until July 12th, sounds like an awesome show. Swim Creates the Fabric Of Life
4. Been working on manifesting a few (top secret) things and really enjoyed this blog post by Enoch Tan: Higher Feelings Manifest Your Desires Faster
5. Still slowly finishing off a few bowls gearing up to do a firing soon I hope, and I got into watching Ross Rosenberg youtube videos. He's a therapist who is a recovering codependent and has some awesome videos aimed at helping others recover, as well as explaining how us codependents end up glued to narcissists. He calls it the human magnet syndrome. I might have listed this concept and his videos before. This totally explains various relationships I've had with every type of narcissist and it's nice to hear that codependency is curable. Things I wish I knew 25 years ago, oh well. Healing.
Codependency & Loneliness: Why Codependents Stay with Narcissists
Malignant Narcissists Are Dangerous
Deep Into the Minds of Narcissists and Sociopaths
Covert Narcissism: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing These are maybe the worst sort, the ones that pretend to be downtrodden martyrs...
6. The above links led to me checking out this one by Lisa Romano, another recovering codependent. I loved this video, watching it felt like having coffee with a smart friend. I've totally been sucked in by that "I know what you're thinking" line at the beginning of a pitch. It cost me a lot of money and years of my life once! lol never again!
Narcissists Emotionally Abusive Phrases To Watch Out For Dear Ones
7. This quote by Albert Einstein.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Monday, June 8, 2015
This Week's Favourite Things! Monday June 1 - Sunday June 7th
1. Knights of Shame by Awolnation, especially the rap part that starts at 4:44 not who sure this is but I love all the lyrics, especially the bit that goes 'life is whatever you think it is'.
2. Gogol Bordello, I'd forgotten about them and hadn't seen them live before but this concert video is so great, happy it randomly popped up after watching an Awolnation concert. Revolution is internal... Here's one of their official videos for one of my favourite songs: Start Wearing Purple
3. This youtube video on the secrets of alchemy. I assumed that alchemy was all about crazy people trying to turn lead into gold but that's actually a really literal definition of what folks were up to - apparently it's a lot to do with personal transformation. Cool.
The rest of this week's list is mostly all about Lunenburg as it was their 262nd birthday this past weekend.
4. The Lunenburg's Farmers Market! It is awesome, every Thursday 8-12. This past week I got some delicious dried mushrooms for soup and met Elizabeth Brown the woodcarver, with her awesome display of beautiful work. Really nice stuff!! and well priced for what it is!
5. The four brand new paintings that Evgenia Makogon painted for Jenny Jib and dropped off there this past week. Wow. they need to be seen in real life to be appreciated.
6. Moongrove gifts on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg. Little Mysteries in Halifax has shut unfortunately but this shop has some similar stuff including stones and incense, as well as ganesha's garden solid perfume that comes in a carved soapstone box - it's really nice.
7. Fiore Botanica these folks moved to Lunenburg from Liverpool this month and make small batch all natural skin care products. They're super knowledgeable and have lots of nice stuff. Their bath salts are untreated like grocery store salts are and are really nice and potent. I used the rosemary lime liquid hand soap at a friend's place and it smelled so nice I had to get some - monkey see, monkey do, $5 only, and they have refills too.
8. Belle Plaine (this is a chronological list!) - so on Sunday there was a concert at the Discord Gallery by this group from Regina! Friends of friends and a familiar face - their awesome bass player played in an Intergalatic Virgin show that was the last concert I saw before leaving the province in 2008. Anyhow this group is swingingly awesome; the lead singer has a beautiful voice and they are continuing on tour around the Maritimes with a concert in Halifax at the Company House for June 27th.
9. Ironworks Distillery. Wow I assumed this would be whiskey but they don't make whiskey at all, rather they're a small batch distillery in Lunenburg that makes really nice rum and an apple vodka among other spirits. They were giving out rum, ginger ale and lime punch samples at the Discord Gallery. Tasty, I don't drink much so I'd splash out on this stuff for sure.
10. The Discord Gallery and Discord Studio, what a nice space! Operating in what was the nicely renovated Anderson gallery of contemporary photography, this got bought by Farblack who turned the bottom into a music venue. Nice. So I did some reading up on them and their philosophy, they seem to be all about restoring heritage buildings around Lunenburg and promoting art and music. Cool.
11. Maulstaschen - homemade giant German ravioli stuffed with beef and spinach and served with mushrooms, fried onions, cheese and gravy - at the Old Black Forest Restaurant on Hwy 3 between Lunenburg and Mahone Bay. I've been trying to be more vegan and tried this with hesitation but it's super good and comes with salad
2. Gogol Bordello, I'd forgotten about them and hadn't seen them live before but this concert video is so great, happy it randomly popped up after watching an Awolnation concert. Revolution is internal... Here's one of their official videos for one of my favourite songs: Start Wearing Purple
3. This youtube video on the secrets of alchemy. I assumed that alchemy was all about crazy people trying to turn lead into gold but that's actually a really literal definition of what folks were up to - apparently it's a lot to do with personal transformation. Cool.
The rest of this week's list is mostly all about Lunenburg as it was their 262nd birthday this past weekend.
4. The Lunenburg's Farmers Market! It is awesome, every Thursday 8-12. This past week I got some delicious dried mushrooms for soup and met Elizabeth Brown the woodcarver, with her awesome display of beautiful work. Really nice stuff!! and well priced for what it is!
5. The four brand new paintings that Evgenia Makogon painted for Jenny Jib and dropped off there this past week. Wow. they need to be seen in real life to be appreciated.
6. Moongrove gifts on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg. Little Mysteries in Halifax has shut unfortunately but this shop has some similar stuff including stones and incense, as well as ganesha's garden solid perfume that comes in a carved soapstone box - it's really nice.
7. Fiore Botanica these folks moved to Lunenburg from Liverpool this month and make small batch all natural skin care products. They're super knowledgeable and have lots of nice stuff. Their bath salts are untreated like grocery store salts are and are really nice and potent. I used the rosemary lime liquid hand soap at a friend's place and it smelled so nice I had to get some - monkey see, monkey do, $5 only, and they have refills too.
8. Belle Plaine (this is a chronological list!) - so on Sunday there was a concert at the Discord Gallery by this group from Regina! Friends of friends and a familiar face - their awesome bass player played in an Intergalatic Virgin show that was the last concert I saw before leaving the province in 2008. Anyhow this group is swingingly awesome; the lead singer has a beautiful voice and they are continuing on tour around the Maritimes with a concert in Halifax at the Company House for June 27th.
9. Ironworks Distillery. Wow I assumed this would be whiskey but they don't make whiskey at all, rather they're a small batch distillery in Lunenburg that makes really nice rum and an apple vodka among other spirits. They were giving out rum, ginger ale and lime punch samples at the Discord Gallery. Tasty, I don't drink much so I'd splash out on this stuff for sure.
10. The Discord Gallery and Discord Studio, what a nice space! Operating in what was the nicely renovated Anderson gallery of contemporary photography, this got bought by Farblack who turned the bottom into a music venue. Nice. So I did some reading up on them and their philosophy, they seem to be all about restoring heritage buildings around Lunenburg and promoting art and music. Cool.
11. Maulstaschen - homemade giant German ravioli stuffed with beef and spinach and served with mushrooms, fried onions, cheese and gravy - at the Old Black Forest Restaurant on Hwy 3 between Lunenburg and Mahone Bay. I've been trying to be more vegan and tried this with hesitation but it's super good and comes with salad
Monday, June 1, 2015
This Week's Favourite Things! Monday May 25 - Sunday May 31st 2015
1. Finally made it into the Made in the Maritimes Artisan Boutique this past week and it's even more awesome in real life than online. There are lots of excellent items here not only from Nova Scotia but from Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick as well. It's so nice to hear that in the short time they've been open they're already shipping across Canada.
Bravo to the owners for raising the profile of all their suppliers! This can only be good for all the other galleries, markets and venues of locally made products around the province as more people find out that Atlantic Canada is a hotbed of fantastic handmade stuff; and as more Halifax area shoppers who might normally just shop at malls get turned on to locally made items. A rising tide floats all boats!
I want one of everything in there, and especially loved the bright bud vases by Rachel DeConde and all the jewelry by New Brunswick's Clairvoyant Art Glass - I treated myself to one of their pendants at the NSDCC Christmas Show a few years back and wear it all the time. It has really good vibes! It was also great to see Carol Smeraldo's beautiful raku pieces looking lovely in the window, and more of her work in the temporary "Brainstorm" art show. This was a fundraiser for the Nova Scotia Mental Health Foundation put on by a group of artists in another part of the mall.
2. Sunnyside Mall - speaking of good vibes! I'd never gone here before checking out the store and show listed above. Normally I feel a bit of a soul crushing sensation in malls, but when I went in this one I actually felt uplifted. I noticed things I wasn't expecting like Turbine Fashion with its excellent locally made clothing designed by Lisa Drader Murphy and Limoncello which had a fun window display of cool Nova Scotian sock monkeys. I didn't have time to look around more but recognized signs for other local businesses like Freak Lunchbox and Pete's Frootique.
What is going on, I wondered. So I googled it when I got home and yes, Sunnyside Mall is keen on small local businesses. Bravo! Here's a blog post by Made in the Maritimes describing why they located here, and a Retailer Insider article about the mall's reinvention into a social destination that favours Nova Scotia based independent shops and restaurants. And here's an article about it from last May's Chronicle Herald. For example, I had no idea that Statement, a popular local furniture boutique that used to be on Agricola Street had moved out there.
Not sure who owns this wonderful mall... I just did a quick check and nope, it isn't Crombie REIT. Last year I wrote this blog post suggesting that Park Lane Mall in downtown Halifax, which was for sale, could be turned into a sort of Indie Shopping Mall, though I had no idea this was happening at Sunnyside Mall. Nice. Maybe my clairvoyant art glass pendant has increased my clairvoyance. I hope Sunnyside Mall is a smash hit and inspires a reinvention of malls all over the world into centres of local shopping. Why? Here are some reasons for supporting local businesses.
3. Dart Gallery's Jim Henson Tribute group show: "No Strings Attached". Great show! Tomorrow (Tuesday June 2nd) is the last day to see it! It's a quick drive from Bedford to downtown Dartmouth with no toll bridges in the way so that made for fun art crawl. Dart has another call out for a group show, "Versus" which sounds like a lot of fun, deadline is August 5th and the concept is described on their submissions page. Speaking of art shows, the Art Zone Gallery in downtown Halifax has an opening this Wednesday June 3rd from 6 - 8pm for their Urban Construct group show, as well as the lovely pastels of Rae Smith.
Bravo to the owners for raising the profile of all their suppliers! This can only be good for all the other galleries, markets and venues of locally made products around the province as more people find out that Atlantic Canada is a hotbed of fantastic handmade stuff; and as more Halifax area shoppers who might normally just shop at malls get turned on to locally made items. A rising tide floats all boats!
I want one of everything in there, and especially loved the bright bud vases by Rachel DeConde and all the jewelry by New Brunswick's Clairvoyant Art Glass - I treated myself to one of their pendants at the NSDCC Christmas Show a few years back and wear it all the time. It has really good vibes! It was also great to see Carol Smeraldo's beautiful raku pieces looking lovely in the window, and more of her work in the temporary "Brainstorm" art show. This was a fundraiser for the Nova Scotia Mental Health Foundation put on by a group of artists in another part of the mall.
2. Sunnyside Mall - speaking of good vibes! I'd never gone here before checking out the store and show listed above. Normally I feel a bit of a soul crushing sensation in malls, but when I went in this one I actually felt uplifted. I noticed things I wasn't expecting like Turbine Fashion with its excellent locally made clothing designed by Lisa Drader Murphy and Limoncello which had a fun window display of cool Nova Scotian sock monkeys. I didn't have time to look around more but recognized signs for other local businesses like Freak Lunchbox and Pete's Frootique.
What is going on, I wondered. So I googled it when I got home and yes, Sunnyside Mall is keen on small local businesses. Bravo! Here's a blog post by Made in the Maritimes describing why they located here, and a Retailer Insider article about the mall's reinvention into a social destination that favours Nova Scotia based independent shops and restaurants. And here's an article about it from last May's Chronicle Herald. For example, I had no idea that Statement, a popular local furniture boutique that used to be on Agricola Street had moved out there.
Not sure who owns this wonderful mall... I just did a quick check and nope, it isn't Crombie REIT. Last year I wrote this blog post suggesting that Park Lane Mall in downtown Halifax, which was for sale, could be turned into a sort of Indie Shopping Mall, though I had no idea this was happening at Sunnyside Mall. Nice. Maybe my clairvoyant art glass pendant has increased my clairvoyance. I hope Sunnyside Mall is a smash hit and inspires a reinvention of malls all over the world into centres of local shopping. Why? Here are some reasons for supporting local businesses.
3. Dart Gallery's Jim Henson Tribute group show: "No Strings Attached". Great show! Tomorrow (Tuesday June 2nd) is the last day to see it! It's a quick drive from Bedford to downtown Dartmouth with no toll bridges in the way so that made for fun art crawl. Dart has another call out for a group show, "Versus" which sounds like a lot of fun, deadline is August 5th and the concept is described on their submissions page. Speaking of art shows, the Art Zone Gallery in downtown Halifax has an opening this Wednesday June 3rd from 6 - 8pm for their Urban Construct group show, as well as the lovely pastels of Rae Smith.
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