[dance, baby, dance!]

Some pictures from this year's Heritage Festival. 

For new readers of my blog: The Heritage Festival is held each year at a big park here in Edmonton. This year there were 63 tents/stages. Each one for a country or an ethnic group. You can see their dancing/singing/other performances and purchase merchandise. You can also taste food from different countries.

This time my favorites were: Eritrean dancing (always my favorite, I could watch it for hours), Ugandan dancing, Korean drumming (so powerful!) and Karjalanpiirakat munavoilla (kun olen itse liian laiska niitä tekemään).

Gotta love the Heritage Festival!

Here are some video snippets for ya. Enjoy!

Then...
More dancing. Different venue. 
This So You Think You Can Dance performance brought tears in my eyes as I thought of all the misery and pain addictions cause. 
Cole is so wickedly great in this number!

[online shopping]

First time for everything. Shopped online tonight. Me thinks I'm going to shop like this from now on. Comfortable. No waiting in lines. Click, click, click and you're done. Plus everything was 30% off (today and tomorrow only in case someone else is interested).

Gap

Old Navy

[ten years worth of memories]

Back home from a wonderful vacation. Hundreds of pictures to go through as usual.

Can you imagine waking up after fainting and finding you have lost ten years of your life due to memory loss? Instead of being happily married and pregnant with your first child, you now have three children and a divorce to deal with. 

Interesting story so I'm giving this book three and a half stars out of five. I might have given it four but the swearing brings it down a notch. 

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[canada's first nation art]

Wolves and eagles bentwood box.

Dove rattle.

First hunt mask.

Bear & owl bentwood box

Raven guarding the light.

All of the above are done by John Marston of the Coast Salish First Nation.

Mask by Wet'suwet'en artist Stephanie Anderson.



Love by Rande Cook of Kwakwaka'wakw.













Owls by Kenojuak Ashevak.

Love these! 

The First Nation people in Canada bring so much cultural richness to our country.

[another good summer read]

Story of a woman who learns that there really is such a thing as lasting happiness. I’ll give it four out of five stars. 

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I so want to visit Positano, Italy, some day!

[images via google image search]

[instant delight!]

I'm sure all the rest of you have used Instagram for a long time already. I have an android phone so I thought I couldn't use Instagram. But lo and behold - I can! Yey!

I'm in love with these super cute tiny squares.  And I love it that I can see my sister's photos instantly too.

I'm working hard to get 252 photos done so that I can purchase PRINTSTAGRAM STICKERS. :)

How on earth did we ever survive in the olden days when we had to take the film to get developed, go pick up the photos, put them in an envelope and send them to someone? Instant is all I can handle nowadays! :)