Yard Sale! Open House! Hot Apple Cider!

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I feel a little bad that this is the first post after a long silent period, but being at the under two weeks until New Zealand mark I'm sure you can all appreciate how nutty things are around here! Also, I'm kind of putting off the year in review/farewell type posts until I have the time and emotional space to get down something coherent and is able to express properly how I'm feeling. 

So! If you're in Vancouver, I would like to invite you to a yard sale/farewell open house/hot apple cider drinking event happening at our place this Saturday Jan. 22nd, 1pm - 6pm. Please come!

We live in an apartment so a yard sale in the traditional sense is a little tricky, but we have a bunch of stuff in our apartment that need to find good homes to go to so we would love for you to come along! There'll be books, records, arts and crafts supplies, cameras, vintage and new furniture/homewares, fabric, plants, tools and more. Plus, fortified apple cider to warm you up.

We live in Strathcona, just east of Chinatown and if you're interested in coming please email me at beckanathan (at) gmail (dot) com

Hope to see you there!

Film trials and tribulations.

Both Richard and I are pretty terrible about checking our phone messages, so over this weekend I found one reminding me to pick up a couple of films from May that I had completely forgotten about! One was from our Portland trip which I'll upload soon, and the other is full of shots from around our neighbourhood and walks I've taken. I'm still trying to figure this little camera out, next time I really need to take a notebook with me to note down what I'm doing on each shot because things are a little all over the place. The light meter only works sometimes (I think) and on both these films I got a number of prints that were entirely blue! I'm not sure if it is the camera or the film I used that caused this, but I actually like some of the 'bad' shots. Just have to keep trying, I guess!

I initially felt like this film was a bit of a dud, but I'm definitely starting to like some of the photos more and more. You can see the rest over here, if you like!

A couple of things;

- I made you a mixtape inspired by the lazy summer days we've been having.

- I love these little otchipotchi wall vases, found via Abby.

- This post over at All Buttoned Up has inspired me to make my own t-shirts. I have a hard time finding ones that fit me the way I like and are long enough (never long enough!) and I love the look of that last one!