Not much sewing going on, although I am posting a new CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH entry tomorrow – theme: REPETITION REPETITION REPETITION
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Meanwhile, a few more photos of Rok Rok in his new home on the window sill at work … enjoying the sun.

Rok Rok on the window

Can you spot him? Here’s a close up:

Close up of Rok Rok

Today, a whole class of children went by and they all stopped and peered in at Rok Rok and were pointing and smiling and looking mildly puzzled. I wanted to email Jasper, but he’s gone all floating away like, so I’m posting it here for the rest of the world. No pictures… I had no camera or cell with me. (and only a room full of workmates with cell phones)

Loving the sun at my new work

And, just so you don’t think life is all about Rok Rok, here’s a Yermit I made a while ago – he’s a Yermalike for one of my work colleagues, and ended up being the prototype for a lot of the Yermits … his sweater and shirt and laptop and such. I stole him back and now he sits on my desk.

Yermalike

Close up of his laptop and Blackberrry

laptop bag, Blackberry, shirt bottom with fish

Oh, and one more picture- because I’m also obsessed with this construction site – or rather, demo site. It’s where the new library will go. For a while it was going to be built really soon, but the latest I heard the timeline for the project is now themed “In Our Lifetime” which cracks me up.

New library

Ok – one more – icicles by the door as I was going into work yesterday. I had to stop and admire the sunlight on them. Sun is the theme lately …

sun and ice

When I am not sewing, here is my day:

In the morning while I ate breakfast, I did some sketching.

cake

Today was a gorgeous day to be out walking in the morning, but I always enjoy the walk to work.

walking

Sometimes I’ll walk through this park. It has some lovely tall trees. Years ago, before I lived here, I was dating a guy who lived here. One summer he and I and a pack of his friends had a “tree climbing guild” and we would climb the trees in this park.

The park with trees

First the trees would be rated for difficulty – how far up the first branch was, texture of bark, handholds, that sort of thing. Then whoever wanted could take a run (literally – you had to run at them and jump and scramble) and then you’d be rated at your skill and daring. By the end of the summer we were covered in “guild scars” – scratches and bruises. (note: we were 19 or 20 at this time)

We probably climbed this tree:

Rated a 7.

And this one – it lost a huge branch last week actually.

rotting tree

So my day is spent doing computery stuff – I didn’t take any pictures of that part.

At lunch I went for a walk downtown.

An old mill by the river

Admired some graffiti,

larger than it looks

layers

happy graffiti

I was wearing purple legs today. It was just a purple-legged day. Some days are like that.

purple legs

While downtown, I purchased some new prismacolor pencils and some markers for sketching.

new pencil crayons on my desk, with Rok Rok

I gave a couple of the girls at work some Yermit boyfriends last year. Today one of them got a new hat, via some generous clients.

Yermit hat

Sometime in the afternoon I decided that, as much as I love my Rok Rok, I no longer wanted him on my desk because he reminded me of Jasper, who gave him to me. (See Forgetting Jasper post to see why – yep there really was a Jasper.) So Rok Rok went to live on the window sill.

Rok Rok on window - and it's starting to snow

I think he’s happy there.

Rok Rok looks out onto the street

After 11 hours it was finally time to go home. (no the days are not all that long) I said goodbye to Rok Rok from the outside.

Rok Rok on the inside

By this time, however, the storm was in full force.

Winter storm

But, I’m a good Canadian and love my walks, even in the blowing snow and dark.

Blowing snow

Scary trees

Blowing snow