Roaming Victoria

This is my favorite store. That's it. The entire store was once a windowfront. It isn't very deep, but it is high and they are very agile with hooks and poles to reach clothing displayed 10 ft off the ground.





This building has great bones. I cannot understand why it isn't renovated yet. It has been like this for years and it's on the water, for heaven's sake. Great location.


The flowers are everywhere.


Capital Iron parking lot. I love Capital Iron. Apparently, it's genetic. My grandmother (who died when I was only three) loved Capital Iron.





This is the view from Dallas Rd. The dark shadow behind the Straight of Georgia is the Olympic mountains in Washington state.


This is a crow on the beach at Cadboro Bay. I did not see the Cadborosaurus.

High Park

Iguana, and um.. Geisha

Another pillow... cause it is easier (and safer) to sew than to carve when exhausted.




Oh! I almost forgot the seahorse:

nautilus with blues and greys

I printed my nautilus lino block onto screen-printed canvas and made a patchwork with a couple of lovely spotted contemporary prints. The reverse is pin-striped grey with a label from a thrifted men's shirt.

Nautilus & Mermaid Pillow

New pillow! Nautilus printed on silk with some lovely contemporary fabrics of a suitably nautical bent, um... or faux-bois, because you cannot have too much faux-bois. 12.5" x 12.5 or 31.8 cm by 36.8 cm.







It's all about the tentacles, and the contrast with luxurious fabrics.

Science at Sea... with more kittens

The whole secret to doing marine science is cleaning. Sad, but true. See, if you are sending electronics to the bottom of the ocean, you need to place them in a sealed vessel. Sometimes these are made of glass. Ours are made of aluminum. The pressure vessels are sealed by metal-to-metal contact. They have really really flat surfaces and employ o-rings (like your vacuum cleaner, except we keep much better care of them). We wash these surfaces and the o-rings ad nauseam. We wash them with Kimwipes. These are 'delicate task wipers'. They have no fibres which could scratch our surfaces or o-rings. So much of my professional life depends on these Kimwipes. It irks me that my cell phone would not let me text 'Kimwipes' as it assumes (correctly, but that's not the point here) that I cannot spell. So, you'll understand the need to post the cat-in-a-box ... of Kimwipes.

waterlily

InkySpider, textile artist extraordinaire has featured my Frog and Lily print in her Trans-Canada Etsy Team round-up of gifts for CANCER - The Crab. Thanks Inky!

Edit: Oh, I wish I could spell.