Eastside Culture Crawl

Oh my gosh... I try to make it to one day of the Eastside Culture Crawl every three or four years and this year I was invited to join two well-school women in the world of art and literature.  Well read and with strong ideas of art and things new, not to say movies as well.  I was thrilled because I was the fly on the wall.  My favourite trek for the ECC is the home studios of which we landed in a couple and then headed to William Clark Studios that is floor upon floor of studios often two or three artists in one space.  What I love about this Crawl is that you get to see the artist AND a rare chance to see in their work space and art.  Here were some of my faves.

Jill Pilon - Mixed Media Artist
Jill had a real nice modern touch.  Would go great in any high end minimalist setting.  Loved it!  She was super too.  After posing without her glasses we asked her to put them on. They suit her so nicely.

Jill Pilon - She had a piano in her studio as well!

Famous Empty Sky - Mixed Media, Drawing, Printing, Collage, Photography, Painting
FES was great telling us various stages of a well developed process that is all her own. You certainly can tell that she has worked at perfecting this method.

We not only talked with Famous ES, we also were delighted to meet her daughter and granddaughter
Everyone fully vested in her venture and of course, delving in their own mediums.  Such a treat.

Afuwa - Printmaking, Painting

 

We loved hearing Afuwa's point of view.  Unique, honest, complex.  We probably could have brought a good bottle of wine and spent a chunk of time with her just hearing her point of view.  An amazing treat!

Afuwa - we were invited to decode the binary on the plexiglas screen.
This was one of my expert companion's favourites! 
Can you see the code?

Colin Johnson - sculpture

 

Colin was so fun to talk with.  He had been working on this through the night to complete.  After my co-crawl walker teased and cajoled information out of him, we saw the rest of his work.  Absolutely delightful.

 

Colin Johnson - the centre doors hide a liquor cabinet with mirrors and another secret storage to the right.

 



Colin makes wooden puppets and a whole lot of other neat stuff

There were more but either my pix didn't turn out or I could not find their links.  Darn!

This type of  'Crawling' works up an appetite so off to Havana on Commercial with my art buddies.

Yes... here they are talking about books, book clubs, and a little later they announced that they were going to their 'church' in the morning.  The Vancouver Sun Sunday Film Series.  aka Breakfast and a movie

They are all over the culture of Vancouver.  So fun!  Such a great day!  Lucky me.

THE VANCOUVER SUN SUNDAY FILM SERIESpresents
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK 10am Sunday Nov 18
at The Park Theatre



Join us for a
free breakfast at 9:30am.
Guest speaker
Katherine Monk
Post media film critic.

Always in Style.

I wanted to give our sweet neighbour a thank you for coming to the rescue last week when all three of the adults in our house had the stomach flu and the 10 month-old was in dire need of healthy food on a schedule.  Sweet neighbour came through like a pro.  She's the only one on the block who also has a 10 month-old and knew exactly what should be on the menu.  Having been housebound I had no card card but did have a Sizzix Owl Die that was an impulse buy a week ago.  Impressed with my own foresight I grabbed a plain paper bag, put my glue stick to work, and had something to say a homemade thanks.  I used to complain about having too many bathrooms.  Not last week.  We needed all three!!!  In everything give thanks. Here's to you sweet neighbour so thankful for you too!

Reno world

It's so close to being done!  My floors have changed and the front stair treads were delivered today. Our finish carpenter is coming this week to hang doors and start putting down the base boards.  New floors, new cabinets, new appliances!  I'm living in a dream house without having to move away from my wonderful neighbours of 21 years.  Started this transformation at the very beginning of September and here we are thanks to my very diligent SwHt.  I'm LOVING it!  Some have asked if I was sad to let the artwork on my floors go. I can easily say 'no' because it's not hard to release one thing when there is another thing much more desirable ready take it's place.  In our case, a little explorer.  Can't tell you how much she matters to us.  The colour of the floor hides so much, not too dark, not too light.  My kind of upgrade.

Age Appropriate Wardrobe for 55+

My parking spot at church today.  So pretty even
though it was raining.

Figuring out how to take my pix.
... learning curve...
but you can see that tiny peek of colour right?

Was thinking of Fall on my way to church today. How this burst of colour is so amazing. Mother Earth saving the dramatic for last. I'm looking for my own personal blast of colour and wondering how I could renovate myself. Went to H&M yesterday and picked up a little bit of colour in this plaid shirt. Fall always makes me feel a little bit Ralph Lauren-esk. Never goes out of style and is always any age friendly. 

I love the blogs where young women are sharing what they are putting together and where to find it.  Haven't landed on one that aims for my demographic although I think this blog is fantastic and always puts a smile on my face.  Something to aspire to.  But while I'm not quite in this older demographic either, I'll keep working on myself.