From September 14 – September 20 tickets to the One of a Kind show in Toronto can be purchased for just $6!!! The One of a Kind is the highlight of my year, it is SO much fun to do!…

When it’s nice and sunny outside, and you’re strolling along blissfully staring at stuff it’s really easy to find interesting moments. It’s been a bit grey and drizzly this week and I’ve been mentally distracted with work stuff (boss says…

Blank sheets of paper have always intimidated me. They’re so very white and fresh, so expectant of brilliance. The first blank sheet of an empty notebook is always the worst, when you realize there’s an entire book to fill. So…

Armed with my trusty camera, I am taking a photo a day as I travel through life. Travel isn’t the places you go, it’s the way you see the places you are. Right now it’s easy to find a moment…

Yay! I’m super excited to announce a new feature – a monthly Giveaway! Life is mighty good over here at Sailorgirl and I’m celebrating by sharing the love! At the beginning of every month I’ll announce the giveaway on my…

Well I’ll skip the bears thanks and stick with the lions and tigers. And you can add in a cheetah and a leopard. I admit it, I am fond of the felines. I think large wild cats are the most…

armed with my trusty camera i am traveling through life and a busy life it has been lately. what is it about the end of august that we begin to panic at the summers end and try to pack as…

OOOOOHHHHHH!!!! I’m so happy! One of my favourite blogs – Today I Saw – is back! Jill Wignall is a lovely lovely girl who lives in England. Everyday she sees things, draws something on a postcard and mails it to…

my name is catherine and i am a notebook addict. there. i’ve admitted it, maybe now i can get some help. what can i say? i LOVE notebooks. although i’m working up my arm muscles carrying all this around, it’s…

yay! it’s aug 21 and i’m 21 days into my project 365!!! only 344 to go! it really does change your perspective when you start this. i wander around my days with the thought in my head of “oh, that…

Start the day with an iced latte, the morning paper and french toast with a fresh blueberry sauce (so pretty!!!). Hop on bike and ride uphill to your studio. Play with hot glass for a couple of hours, so much…

August 11, biking up Pape Ave to the studio when WHOA! there in the corner of the street, urban carnage right before me! one of the last remaining phone booths in the city being savagely attacked and devoured by the…

Last weeks Creative Colour Challenge was raspberry red. After carefully studying several pints of raspberries (which had to be devoured quickly because boy do those go moldy fast!) I moved on to studying raspberries with yogurt, raspberries with cream and…

I am a tourist in my own life. I am embarking on a project 365. Everyday for 1 year I take a photo. Somedays I’ll take more than 1, however only 1 goes into the archive. The original 365 was…

Sunflower yellow. Sunflowers – happiness, bright, cheery, yellow, golden, vibrant.I’m feeling guilty because I really didn’t have much time this week to work on this. It’s a quick and easy. Next week I promise to work harder.

It’s time. Time for a clean up. Time for a little spiffying (is that even a verb?). When I started this wee blog it was for a lark and a giggle. Still is. However now I see where it’s going…

what can you say? they’re geniuses. i LOVE little birdies.

As you know, colour is not something I shy away from. As far as I’m concerned it can never be bright enough. It is for this reason that I will be participating in the Creative Colour Challenge for the month…

What a fab weekend! 3 days of great weather, tons of people strolling the park, excellent music, yes one of those weekends when i think “i can’t believe this is my job”. Definite highlight was Bruce Cockburn. Even better than…

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on July 14. In France, it is formally called La Fete Nationale (National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the 14th of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fete de la…

I may have mentioned sometime that I like colour. There is no place in my world for grey and boring, life is just too short. Dutch artist duo Haas&Hahn feels the same way on an even bigger scale. They have…

on a hazy summer evening this is the best way to view the city. rather than racing around the cans in the inner harbour we opted to go outside the islands and blast out. fantastic. standing at the tiller is…

Sailorgirl Jewelry is now officially on Facebook. One more thing on the TO DO list checked off!!! This blog is for all sorts of stuff other than the jewelry, I’ll be posting about life, the universe, and all the things…

Show season is in full swing and I’m spending a lot of time driving around Ontario through green fields and crops and trees and big machinery. I like to drive on smaller roads with the windows down so that I…

I’m in Cobourg this weekend at the Waterfront Festival. This show is run by the Rotary Group (they always put on great shows) and they provide giant marquis tents for us. This means that it will be guaranteed sunshine as…

sometimes bad stuff happens, like you keep the bead out of the flame just a few seconds too long or you work on one side of the bead and forget to keep the other side warm and it cracks. sometimes…

With all the flag waving World Cup fever around here and Canada Day approaching I thought I’d make some Canada Day earrings. Except I don’t want to make maple leaves… and I got kind of carried away. At least they’re…

a fabulous evening! we didn’t get rained on! there were no tornadoes (they happened 100 km to the north). there was no hail (that happened 30 km to the south). we saw a spectacular sunset! i had a whole evening…

Happy June 21 – the first official day of summer!!! Yipppeeeee!!!!!! So seriously folks, I have a to do list that’s scary, I should be doing some bookkeeping, making these gorgeous goldfish beads into a bracelet and earrings, making headpins,…

YAY!!! my weekend is Tuesday and Wednesday, my sailing nights. Between now and October it is only allowed to rain on Monday and Thursday. Is this not a beautiful coloured spinnaker???