Home Sweet Home

I love going on holidays but getting back home and sleeping in my own bed is the best!!  This past weekend, mom and I went to Edmonton to watch my cousins year end dance recital. While we were there, I of course made sure to go shopping at the West Edmonton Mall.  I'm such a tourist.  I've been there a million times but I can never get enough.  I love this mall!  We even got to see Two Toed Sloths:

Who knew they could be so cute?  They were totally performing for the crowd.  Hanging upside down and chasing one another.

And of course we had to hit Whyte Ave.  my other favourite place.  Among other things, I managed to go to a cool candy store:

and get my fortune told by Zoltar:

I also went to a cool cupcake shop called Fuss Cupcakes and had an outrageously good vanilla bean cupcake.  Yummy!  Funny how my favourite stores usually involve food!  I'm making it my mission to visit every cool cupcake shop in any city I visit from now on.  When I was in Vancouver in March I went to the Original Cupcakes shop and it blew my mind.  I'm thinking of dedicating a journal strickly to cupcake shop reviews and consumption logs.  Whaddya think?

Since I've been away for a few days my postcrossing cards have made it to their destinations so now I get to send out more!  I love mail.  Speaking of which, right before I left, one of my happy mail partners sent me a card.  Thanks Cristina!

Hope you are having a great Monday.

Miss Doe

P.S.  Tonight I am going to see this movie.  So excited!

Good Mail Day!

I am so excited.  Today I received my first postcard since I started postcrossing again a few weeks ago.  It was a sweet little kitty card with lyrics on the back.  Too cool!  I also received a zine I ordered from Hanna  called Metta, all about art journaling.  I am so excited to read it.  Her blog is one of my daily reads and I'm always inspired to go make stuff.  Last but not least, I ordered a magazine called Underground Art School, after reading about it on Anna's blog.  It's the Spring 2009 issue called The Sketchbook issue.  I love Anna's style and she's featured in this issue.  If you want more inspiration to sketch daily, you should definately check out her blog.  I am trying to sketch more often, I don't feel that I am very good at it, so I tend not to do it.  However, like anything else, you have to practice in order to grow and get better so I am making it a goal to sketch a couple of times a week at least.  I have to blank Moleskines just waiting to be filled with bad drawings!  On that note, I am also excited by this announcement.  Something new to lust after!

I have also decided now that I am an official letter writer and sender that I should get a proper letter opener.  I will be on the lookout for anything cool.  Let me know if you see something you think I might like!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Monday

So I activated my Postcrossing account again today.  I didn't ever really deactivate it, just stopped sending postcards when I got too busy and after I got a really creepy letter from an inmate (a story for another post!)  I am so excited.  If you hadn't already noticed, I LOVE MAIL (thats not bills).  So I am spending my evening writing out postcards and dreaming of stamps, envelopes and other mail supplies. If you guys love mail as much as I do, you should totally check this girl out:

Her name is Bianca Jagoe and she can be found at Good Night Little Spoon.  I just recently discovered her site and am still going through her archives.  She's totally cool and her mail art is unbelieveable.  She also has great links to other mail artists and mail related items.  Her etsy shop is ahhmazing.  I think I'll write her a letter.