1. Art Collectors. It's tourist season in Nova Scotia and a big thanks to everyone who has been buying up my art! Pics of new works in progress and our garden will be coming soon to break up this blog which has been rather text-heavy lately.
2. Red Currants. I'm about to do a "garden update" post finally but the sticks that my mother wrapped up and mailed to me from BC three years ago are now bearing lots of fruit. yum!
3. More about curing cancer with veggies: here's a link from the Chris Beat Cancer page, "Author Ann Cameron Cured Her Stage 4 Cancer With Carrot Juice, Nothing Else." I've been drinking lots of fresh homemade raw carrot juice this week in celebration, it's awesome!
4. Global Systemic Economic Collapse in 6 minutes. Ok so this is a typical fear-mongering youtube ad for precious metals, but what I liked about it is that it mentions how the global financial system (aka "global debt based ponzi scheme") is a mess because it's run by psychopaths. More reason for everyone to read up on psychopathy. And perhaps plant a vegetable garden. This got me looking in the economic collapse thing some more, this interview with Robert Kiyosaki was interesting: "Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Coming in 2016". We'll see. This video was interesting too: Thom Hartmann "The Crash of 2016". And finally, "This is how people will lose everything" - Bill Holter.
5. This article on surviving narcissistic parents. Not my parents, but I know people affected by this, so this has been helpful. There's lots of stuff online on the topic of how narcissists/sociopaths/psychopaths may affect their children.
6. The whole concepts of "flying monkeys" with respect to narcissists/psychopaths. Love it! I've not only experienced being turned into a flying monkey in the past, but I've had metaphorical poop flung at me by other flying monkeys. Haha. It's fine. karma. learning. The concept is very well explained in this video: Flying Monkeys and Narcissists from the excellent youtube channel, Narcissist Support. This video is good too: How I handled the rage at the end of my narcissistic relationships.
7. 5 Matrix Traps we fall for by Infinite Waters
8. Back to the topic of codependency, I was suprised and delighted to see that Teal Swan and Ross Rosenberg had a chat on youtube about the codependent/narcissist connection and healing childhood trauma.
9. Vegan artisanal coconut Kefir, "The Cultured Coconut" which I found at the Healthy Bug in Halifax, locally produced, tasty and full of probiotic goodness. Nice. There are lots of articles online describing why taking a probiotic supplement is good for you, eg, 10 reasons to take a probiotic daily
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
This (past two) Week's Favourite Things! Monday June 29 - Sunday July 12, 2015
1. Youtube interview with Sam Vaknin (a self-aware narcissist/psychopath) on "How to Deal With Narcissists and Psychopaths in the Workplace"
2. Psychopath Versus Empath: The War Between Truth and Deception (article from The Mind Unleashed).
Speaking of stopping cancer (an analogy made in the article above), the next points include some links about people who stopped their diseases with nutrition! ... as within, so without... I haven't been diagnosed with any of the illnesses the next links are about but know people who have
3. Interview with mature athlete Bill Vick: How I'm beating IPF disease Part one (breaking muscle magazine). And part two, another interview with Bill one year later. The IPF diagnosis (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis) is given out as a death sentence, however Bill Vick talks about how he stopped the spread of his condition through lifestyle and following a Paleo diet. Inspiring!
4. Youtube Video: Fasting and 100% raw vegan diet helped reverse stage 3 kidney disease. Yup.
5. BBC article about how apples are good for your lungs
6. 20 Minute Yoga Series Increases Lung Capacity
7. Googling articles about Adult Children of Alcoholics, these traits can be shared by those growing up in homes with other hard circumstances such as a home with a chronically ill or morbidly obese parent or strict religious background. Here's an article about being in a relationship with an ACoA,
8. Mother Earth News article: Possum Living: Living well without a job and (almost no) money. This has excerpts from the book with that title written by Dolly Freed (a made up name) in the 70's.
9. This Oncology Nurse Quit her job after 17 years to spread the truth about cancer. I found this on the higher perspective website but the youtube video is awesome, so is the whole "Chris Beat Cancer" youtube channel. The intro video is good: What every cancer patient needs to know. Love it, nutrition works. I knew two older ladies; one in her 60's and one in her 80's who got diagnosed with cancer. The younger took it as a death sentence and ate steaks till she passed. The older one managed to shrink her tumour with diet, eg, she ate a lot of pomegranates, despite her doctor telling her it wasn't possible to reverse cancer. MmmHmm...
10. The realization that by studying biology at McGill technically I have about 25% of a Medical Doctor degree. We took all the same courses as doctors for about the first 3 years. Cell biology! so all this healing the body with nutrition stuff makes sense to me. The human body is just a big bag of cells undergoing a lot of chemical reactions, so it makes sense that all chronic diseases are manifestations of things like nutrient deficiencies or chronic inflammation. Eg, here's a good comprehensive article about inflammation. I'd include Nightshade plants (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants), GMOs, Candida overgrowth, and parasites as other potential causes of inflammation; hence the success I think people have following a raw vegan diet with lots of juices and anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory foods, makes sense that raw plants help since parasites thrive on cooked foods, and most fruits and vegetables are alkaline forming, not acid forming like sugars, grains, dairy and meats. Inflammation: a common denominator of disease.
11. My pet theory that the increase of shark attacks in the US has some sort of correlation to the nonstop screenings of Shark Documentaries on the History Channel lately for Shark Week or whatever. I'm such a big believer in the law of attraction I actually worried a bit at the beach last week that maybe I'd attract a shark from watching all this stuff. I didn't but thought about it when I read that there has been an increase of shark attacks in the Carolinas. Maybe it would be fun if someone came up with a Mind Science department in some university and looked at whether there's a correlation between Shark doc screenings on cable tv and shark sightings/ attacks. We might discover our minds are more powerful than we realized...
12. More big picture thinking: a reason why I never went to medical school though I could have, was that I didn't feel comfortable having people's lives in my hands. It's a lot of power. Hats off to the empathic people who take this on, like the awesome surgeon I had for my back. But, aha, so if psychopaths are drawn to positions of power, what if there are a bunch in the medical professions? They speak with such authority that it would just take a few to do a lot of damage (eg, look at what Hitler accomplished). This could explain the issues that the oncology nurse listed above had with cancer treatment being ineffective to the point where she got fed up and quit her profession - a psychopath wouldn't care if chemotherapy wrecks people's immune systems and makes people sick. It could also explain the widespread use of treatments that were found later on to be ineffective, like lobotomies.
So maybe someone needs to take a good hard look at the medical systems in place in North America and decide if, like our ridiculous fiat currency banking system, some psychopaths may have muckled their ways into position of power and are abusing these positions to do more harm than good to people. This Youtube video indicates that perhaps this is the case: . Look: The Rockefeller Drug Empire
Uh oh. Everybody: quick: buy a juicer to juice up some vegetables (highly recommend: beet, carrot, ginger, celery with an apple for a bit of sweetness), replace your lawn with kale and beans, eat a lot of salad, and read up on psychopathy....
2. Psychopath Versus Empath: The War Between Truth and Deception (article from The Mind Unleashed).
Speaking of stopping cancer (an analogy made in the article above), the next points include some links about people who stopped their diseases with nutrition! ... as within, so without... I haven't been diagnosed with any of the illnesses the next links are about but know people who have
3. Interview with mature athlete Bill Vick: How I'm beating IPF disease Part one (breaking muscle magazine). And part two, another interview with Bill one year later. The IPF diagnosis (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis) is given out as a death sentence, however Bill Vick talks about how he stopped the spread of his condition through lifestyle and following a Paleo diet. Inspiring!
4. Youtube Video: Fasting and 100% raw vegan diet helped reverse stage 3 kidney disease. Yup.
5. BBC article about how apples are good for your lungs
6. 20 Minute Yoga Series Increases Lung Capacity
7. Googling articles about Adult Children of Alcoholics, these traits can be shared by those growing up in homes with other hard circumstances such as a home with a chronically ill or morbidly obese parent or strict religious background. Here's an article about being in a relationship with an ACoA,
8. Mother Earth News article: Possum Living: Living well without a job and (almost no) money. This has excerpts from the book with that title written by Dolly Freed (a made up name) in the 70's.
9. This Oncology Nurse Quit her job after 17 years to spread the truth about cancer. I found this on the higher perspective website but the youtube video is awesome, so is the whole "Chris Beat Cancer" youtube channel. The intro video is good: What every cancer patient needs to know. Love it, nutrition works. I knew two older ladies; one in her 60's and one in her 80's who got diagnosed with cancer. The younger took it as a death sentence and ate steaks till she passed. The older one managed to shrink her tumour with diet, eg, she ate a lot of pomegranates, despite her doctor telling her it wasn't possible to reverse cancer. MmmHmm...
10. The realization that by studying biology at McGill technically I have about 25% of a Medical Doctor degree. We took all the same courses as doctors for about the first 3 years. Cell biology! so all this healing the body with nutrition stuff makes sense to me. The human body is just a big bag of cells undergoing a lot of chemical reactions, so it makes sense that all chronic diseases are manifestations of things like nutrient deficiencies or chronic inflammation. Eg, here's a good comprehensive article about inflammation. I'd include Nightshade plants (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants), GMOs, Candida overgrowth, and parasites as other potential causes of inflammation; hence the success I think people have following a raw vegan diet with lots of juices and anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory foods, makes sense that raw plants help since parasites thrive on cooked foods, and most fruits and vegetables are alkaline forming, not acid forming like sugars, grains, dairy and meats. Inflammation: a common denominator of disease.
11. My pet theory that the increase of shark attacks in the US has some sort of correlation to the nonstop screenings of Shark Documentaries on the History Channel lately for Shark Week or whatever. I'm such a big believer in the law of attraction I actually worried a bit at the beach last week that maybe I'd attract a shark from watching all this stuff. I didn't but thought about it when I read that there has been an increase of shark attacks in the Carolinas. Maybe it would be fun if someone came up with a Mind Science department in some university and looked at whether there's a correlation between Shark doc screenings on cable tv and shark sightings/ attacks. We might discover our minds are more powerful than we realized...
12. More big picture thinking: a reason why I never went to medical school though I could have, was that I didn't feel comfortable having people's lives in my hands. It's a lot of power. Hats off to the empathic people who take this on, like the awesome surgeon I had for my back. But, aha, so if psychopaths are drawn to positions of power, what if there are a bunch in the medical professions? They speak with such authority that it would just take a few to do a lot of damage (eg, look at what Hitler accomplished). This could explain the issues that the oncology nurse listed above had with cancer treatment being ineffective to the point where she got fed up and quit her profession - a psychopath wouldn't care if chemotherapy wrecks people's immune systems and makes people sick. It could also explain the widespread use of treatments that were found later on to be ineffective, like lobotomies.
So maybe someone needs to take a good hard look at the medical systems in place in North America and decide if, like our ridiculous fiat currency banking system, some psychopaths may have muckled their ways into position of power and are abusing these positions to do more harm than good to people. This Youtube video indicates that perhaps this is the case: . Look: The Rockefeller Drug Empire
Uh oh. Everybody: quick: buy a juicer to juice up some vegetables (highly recommend: beet, carrot, ginger, celery with an apple for a bit of sweetness), replace your lawn with kale and beans, eat a lot of salad, and read up on psychopathy....
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
This Week's Favourite Things, Monday June 22nd - Sunday June 28th 2015
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.
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.
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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