Monday
Nov212005
Santa Claus parade, quilting squares, Hairy Potter
Monday, November 21, 2005 at 11:32AM
Today's Blatherings consists of pics I took over the weekend and today. Click on any photo to see a bigger version and comments.
Thanks to Margaret Middleton, who made me this wonderful quilt square to hang from my office tree:
After being hung on the tree:
The package also contained the quilt square kit I ordered. My plan is to turn this into a square I can contribute to the GAFilk quilt. I have zero experience in quilting, so this should be interesting:
Thanks to my friend Walter for this cute Hairy Potter t-shirt:
Walter also gave us a fire extinguisher as a housewarming present (THANK YOU, Walter!). He told us he hopes we never have to use it. :-)
And a few pics from the Santa Claus parade yesterday (you can see a full set here)...
Clowns have always creeped me out a bit:
Especially upside-down clowns. And what's with the bunny on the turtle?!?:
Sometimes the corporate sponsor signs/floats seemed a bit odd:
...or inappropriate, like this one for Lipton (to non-North Americans: Lipton is a company that makes chicken soup products). These chickens seem awfully cheery considering that they're ALL DOOMED:
Not sure what these wolves were doing in the parade, though my friend Andy helpfully suggested that they were the wolves that ate Rudolph:
Christmas skunks?!? I really don't get it. Can ANY animal be part of the Santa Claus parade, even if they have nothing to do with the holiday season?
After the parade and some hot chocolate, we browsed the Christmas display windows in the Bay/Simpson building (a tradition for many Torontonians since childhood). This year, there were about half a dozen Narnia themed window displays. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo below; I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of the reflections in the glass, and also couldn't get close enough to the window because of the crowd of children :-) :
Thanks to Margaret Middleton, who made me this wonderful quilt square to hang from my office tree:
After being hung on the tree:
The package also contained the quilt square kit I ordered. My plan is to turn this into a square I can contribute to the GAFilk quilt. I have zero experience in quilting, so this should be interesting:
Thanks to my friend Walter for this cute Hairy Potter t-shirt:
Walter also gave us a fire extinguisher as a housewarming present (THANK YOU, Walter!). He told us he hopes we never have to use it. :-)
And a few pics from the Santa Claus parade yesterday (you can see a full set here)...
Clowns have always creeped me out a bit:
Especially upside-down clowns. And what's with the bunny on the turtle?!?:
Sometimes the corporate sponsor signs/floats seemed a bit odd:
...or inappropriate, like this one for Lipton (to non-North Americans: Lipton is a company that makes chicken soup products). These chickens seem awfully cheery considering that they're ALL DOOMED:
Not sure what these wolves were doing in the parade, though my friend Andy helpfully suggested that they were the wolves that ate Rudolph:
Christmas skunks?!? I really don't get it. Can ANY animal be part of the Santa Claus parade, even if they have nothing to do with the holiday season?
After the parade and some hot chocolate, we browsed the Christmas display windows in the Bay/Simpson building (a tradition for many Torontonians since childhood). This year, there were about half a dozen Narnia themed window displays. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo below; I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of the reflections in the glass, and also couldn't get close enough to the window because of the crowd of children :-) :
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