glass dragonfly

Above: the latest instalment of Will Write For Chocolate.

First off, I wanted to clarify something about my Hashimoto blathering, in case any of you had the mistaken impression that Jeff and I eat at Hashimoto regularly (I wish!). Hashimoto is a restaurant we reserve for rare occasions...like our 15th wedding anniversary. We went to Japan for our 10th wedding anniversary. I suppose we could have gone away for the weekend for our 15th, but we agreed to spoil ourselves with a extra-special dinner instead. :-)

But back to this weekend...

I had a very good Saturday. Went to Mountain Co-op and had lunch with my sister, then went to our friends' ice cream and dessert party in the afternoon. Laura Suzuki and Peter Cook are not only great dessert-makers, but both are immensely talented illustrators, writers and graphic designers; you can find out more at Doodletronics. You can also find a list of their science books for kids by searching for either of their names in Amazon.

Here's Laura:



I took a photo of her from above, then played around with the background for fun. And here's Peter, taking a picture of me:



I liked the blurriness of this photo. Most of the time I trash blurry photos as rejects, but every so often they capture the essence of a person or moment for me.

Here's my favourite photo of Peter, taken at a watergun party at Reid's and Luisa's place:



Anyway, Jeff and I were admiring a new glass panel in one of the doors at the dessert party...and then we found out that Peter designed and made most of it himself (with some assistance from someone with glass etching equipment):



Here's a detail of the head:



Pretty amazing, huh?

I also met some interesting people at the party. Mireille Messier, for example, who made me wish I had remembered more of my French from school. Erik Spigel, who made me wish I knew more Japanese! Also enjoyed meeting children's author/illustrators Loris Lesynski and Barbara Reid, and photographer Ian Crysler (Barbara's husband). Peter and Laura clearly have a lot of creative friends! I also picked Reid's brain about CSS and Wordpress stuff.

After stuffing ourselves with homemade pastries and chatting with friends, Jeff and I went to see The Illusionist with Ray and Parki. I enjoyed this much more than I expected; Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti were excellent. Afterward, we had dinner at Cha Liu, yum.



All in all, a good Saturday indeed.

:-)

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