DIY Old T-shirts Rug

Sorting clothes at my grand parents, I found a lot of old T-shirt too old and shabby to donate and perfect to make something I had wanted to try for a while. A braided rug.

I used this DIY by My Poppet. I love this blog. Her pictures are always beautiful, and her instructions crystal clear. And also, she has the best ideas for DIY projects, always original and fresh.

I cut the shirts and made balls of yarn. It took me quite a while. But that was fun.

I watched Law and Order SVU all the time I was making the rugs. That is hours on end.

I did a couple of them since our place is really small, one big one would have been hard to find a spot for.

I hated every single second of the braiding process. But, as you can see with the number of pictures I took of my big ball of braided yarn, I loved the finish product though.

Unfortunatelly, I wasn't able to assemble the rug with my sewing machine. The braid was too thick, so I had  to handsew the whole thing . Which was fine, hard on my poor hands but kind of fun.

Got a little crazy with my ball.

Let's take a minute and appreciate yet again the love I bore for my ball of braided yarn.

(plus it smelled like the laundry detergent my grand parents used. Love the memories)

Some more love for my ball.

I found this in my grand mother's things, she hadn't finished it. So I'll try to finish it and make something out of it.

I don't have a good picture of my finished rugs, they'll appear here and there, bits and pieces in the next posts. 

Birthday Boy

We just got back from Toronto today. I ran to the lab to get three rolls back and gave them all of my rolls from Toronto.

I'm so sleepy right now I could pass out. So I'm trying to keep busy blogging about these pictures from last July.

It was my Grand Pa's birthday and we celebrated at m parents'.

My Mom BBQing. Always exciting.

I hope I did a better job with the Toronto pictures than I did with these. They are so blurry. But I still need time to get around this camera (Olympus OM-2).

I love this outfit. I got the skirt when we were sorting out my late Grand Ma's clothes. It's actually a 'jupe culotte', mix between pants and skirt. I took for myself a bunch of her clothes and it's so nice to wear them and keep her memory alive somewhat.

Haaa... Champagne!

My tired brother.

My Grand Pa and his birthday present. Greg and I got him 2 cushions for his living room. I think he likes them. He put them to use right away.

Tomorrow I'm heading to my parents' for a family meal and to get my cat back, they looked after him while we were away and on monday my Grand Pa and I are going on one of our road trips with the camper. I still don't know where yet. My Grand Pa seems to have figured out a destination but I kind of want it to be a surprise till the last minute.

Another Week in Toronto

And what a week!

I have to share, right now I'm watching the brandnew first episode of the 18th season of Law and Order SVU, and I'm so excited! I love this show! 

Anyway, we visited High Park this week and it was absolutely gorgeous. Probably one of my favorite spots in Toronto. So much wildlife! 

We saw so many chipmunks! We don't have those in France so it was pretty exciting. We are still hoping we'll see a racoon.

I bought some more books. 

Here are all of them minus one. 

We still have to go up the CN tower. It should be done some time next week.

Last sunday was Open Streets Toronto. Bloor st and Yonge st were closed to cars and open to pedestrians and cyclists. 

Loved it.

Yesterday was a special day. We went to Niagara Falls. One of the major things on our to do list. 

Last time I was there was 17 years ago.

It was a beautiful and warm day in a beautiful place.

The falls were awesome and I had no idea that the town behind was so fun. 

We even stumbled upon a car show.

We still have only a little over a week in  Toronto, too bad because I'm just getting comfortable.

Food Porn and Other Things

We are almost halfway through our stay in Toronto. So many things we still want to do. We're trying to plan a day trip to Niagara Falls and it makes me so excited.

But now, let me talk about food.

I usually don't like mac and cheese, at all. But we found this place called Bobbie Sue's near the place we rented and it blows my mind. Such delicious cheese, so much flavour, I'm just making myself hungry again.

A few nights ago I cooked, steak and mashed potatoes. It is kind of weird when at home I cook every single day and on vacation we eat out for lunch and dinner everyday. Felt good to cook a meal myself, as simple as it was.

Pecan pies! How I love you!

Lunch in the park on sunday...

...followed by reading.

A beautiful walk we took by the waterfront. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous ever since we got here. I even got a tan. :o

I was craving snails ever since I saw them at the grocerie store the other day, yesterday night I caved. What a wonderful meal!!! Wine, snails, a nice salad and pecan pie for dessert... 

On today's walk.

Wendy by Walter Scott

Ooooh! This book! I first saw it after lunch in a museum gift shop. I was intrigued. I went through it really quickly, thought the graphics were nice and put it back on the shelf. On our way back tonight we stopped at an independent library by Trinity Bellwoods Park and it was there again. I bought it and I started reading it and just couldn't put it down.

I loved the story (a young artist in a big city trying to make it), the graphics, the quirkiness... I was so excited that I preordered the next volume that's going to come out in mid-november (on Amazon France though, maybe sooner in North America).

I love finding such wonderful things randomly.

Hello from Toronto!

 This is an all instagram picture post. :p 

We have been in Toronto for a little over a week. It's cool. 

Not as cool as Chicago but cooler than Portland in my opinion.

We are dead tired from walking miles after miles everyday.

It is very hot and very humid. Which makes everything even more exhausting.

I'm having trouble with the Olympus OM2. I think the batteries died. I hope I'll still get a few pictures that are worthwhile.

Always on the hunt for bookstores. This is Eliot's on Yonge street, my favorite so far.

 We rented a place near Trinity bellwoods park. The area is packed with restaurants. Good ones. Everything is at a walking distance from our place.

Yesterday we walked by Olivia Wilde who was strolling down Queen st. We didn't talk to her but that was kind of fun.

I went swimming in Lake Ontario, and I'm hoping I will again soon.

These are a few of the things I wanted to remember through this post.