Have you seen: Bell Book and Candle?

Bell Book and Candle has been one of my favourite movie for quite some time. It's enchanting and cute and it's one of those movies you can watch over and over and still love.



There's something so perfect about old movies especially those that star James Stewart, Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon. And this one takes place in New York City back in the late '50's. I would have loved to have seen the City back then...

Next time it's a rainy day at your looking for something to watch, give this one a go!

When in Bath...

Last night was a massive party. Needless to say, none of those pictures will be making it to this blog!

So instead, I'm pulling out a picture from the recent past for the photo of the day.


Behold, Bath.

I love the cobble stone streets, the cute shops and most important:  the beetle!

Surfers Night Markets

Every Wednesday (and some Fridays, but I'm still not sure which ones) Surfers puts on night markets. It's basically like every other market- stalls full of crap that you don't really need, but because (if you're in Surfers) you're probably on vacation you'll buy it. It's a genius concept, really. Wish I had thought of it myself.

They are doing mass construction off Cavill Ave in Surfers. Brand new buildings, a new "face" of Surfers and other stuff that cuts off my access of walking path's along the beach (not sure what's happening there) so now the markets are literally out my door (I can see them from my window). I've been wanting to take pictures for a while and finally made my way the 100 steps from my apartment door, down the stairs and to the street and got a couple that I like:

Heaps of people were here this evening. More than I remember there being last week-- must be more tourists because of the long weekend...

I just love how these look hanging outside every week. They are not at all practical for indoor use unless you have outlets in the ceiling, but they look neat against the dark night sky. 

Missing The City.

I was asked for a list of my favourite shopping spots in NYC by a friend who's friend is heading to the City this week. I compiled a pretty comprehensive list of amazing places to snag some deals, along side some great places to eat because a day of shopping requires a good breakfast! Yum!

I haven't been in about a year as I've been dancing around many other countries, so this picture is from my last trip to NYC.

But Anyway, this got me thinking about how much I love the city...

Bleecker St. in the Spring... what's not to love?

You know that song? "hey heyy do dooo doo do doo yeah yeahhh"

I was dying to hear that song, so I posed the question to my friend Nelson. Apparently I threw him with the "doo doo doo doo dooooo"'s. I should have clarified that it was electronic and a club song.

We worked it out and:



Love Kid Cudi.

Office Space

This is perhaps the worst photo of the day. It's a desk, I know. But it's my desk and that makes it pretty neat.

A little back story: A few weeks ago I was searching around campus for a place to start researching my dissertation. I found nothing but a few empty spaces on a bench in the library. If I had searched further I probably would have found a bean bag chair in the library. But I did not. Who can do work sitting in a bean bag chair?  I'm not sure about you, but I tend to people watch in the library and not do any work anyway...


So I asked for a workspace. I didn't care where it was as long as it had a computer and, if I was lucky, a window. Well ask and you shall receive because that day I was afforded with:

Beauty isn't it? A computer (with access to facebook-- probably should have switched that to a scholarly site prior to taking this totally geeky photo), a chair & outlets for my computer. Sweet deal.

If you follow the American version of the Office-- I need to make a bigger sign for my space. I have a little one between the computer and the monitor, but I need a massive one sort of like this:

 Now if only that dissertation would start to write itself... 

Jenna's Summer Jam (well, Spring Jam)

Remember the band Train? They had that song "Calling All Angels"... Yeah, they didn't sound like this before--but they do now:



My friend Jenna (also the newest guest blogger/ craft expert on this blog) just sent this to me. She says it's her new Summer Jam (but it's really only spring back in Canadaland... and it's Autumn here. I guess that means it's no one summer jam just yet!) But it's still fun and I like it... and maybe you will, too?