This Week's Favourite Things! Monday December 7th - Sunday December 13th, 2015

1.  The "Dart Wars" Star Wars tribute group show at The Dart Gallery in Dartmouth.  It's great!! Tomorrow, Tuesday December 15th is the very last day to visit the gallery, and see what's left of the show this year before it shuts for vital, unfortunately timed, structural repair to its building.  Here's a Dartmouth Tribune article about the show that just came out today.

a bit of the Dart Wars show - which has great Darth Vader and Stormtrooper "Gingerbread men" ornaments by France Arruda

2.  Also at Dart, this awesome new stoneware pottery, also by France Arruda.  Love this glaze combo, here it is on a bowl.

3.  The first annual Halifax Lights Holiday Market at the Historic Properties in Downtown Halifax.  This is so nice!! Very festive! Lots of great vendors sharing a few empty storefronts, as well as the regular shops.  This past weekend there were cool events like a parade of dogs in Christmas costumes that I got to see, and a concert that I wish I caught.

As the website says, a welcome-shoppers gift, there has been some free parking on the waterfront development lots.  Next two free days are Saturday and Sunday, December 19/20.  The lot nearest the market/Historic Properties was barely half full when I visited this past Saturday afternoon:

The Dart Gallery will be packing up shop to cross the harbour into a big space there for the next weekend, bringing a bit of the "Darkside" to downtown shoppers.  

Also popping up from Dartmouth: The Bodega Boutique and Dartmouth Shirts shared a large space, and are also participating in the final weekend.  Here's a pic of a window display from their pop up shop, with an awesome "Woody the Talking Christmas Tree" shirt.

 

4.  This Forbes article:  The World's Top Earning Youtube stars, 2015.  Love this.  Of all these I'd only heard of #1 through a South Park episode.  Nice to see people being themselves, doing what they love, and getting rewarded for it.  Also nice to see that these are just random individuals, and not big corporations that harm people or the environment in anyway.  Cool! 

5.  Bad Mouth Soap "Salty Dog" soap.  This is so nice, I grabbed a bar at Jenny Jib in Lunenburg awhile ago with some others, and finally used this one.  I think it's my new favourite, and the next best thing to swimming in the ocean, as it's a bit cold here for that now.  This soap is made of: organic coconut oil, Maritime Salt Maker Sea Salt, and scented with grapefruit and pine essential oil.  The salt makes for a gentle scrub.  Simple and refreshing, it'd make a nice stocking stuffer, as would any of their soaps.