This Friday and Saturday is the studioshop Take Away Show and Sale! I'll have a few things for sale and the other items I've seen so far look amazing. Erin asked me to help chaperone the event so I'll have to remind myself that I'm there to hopefully make money, not to spend it. Come on down and check it out:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Concourse Gallery

1399 Johnston Street

Friday, July 4th 6-9pm

Saturday, July 5th 11am-6pm

Finally! Devon and I made it to Saravanaa Bhavan. We've only been meaning to go there for months now. There was some difficulty trying to figure out what to order so we asked for some help. Here's what we got... mini ghee idly, onion & tomato utthappam and a special dinner. It was all really good but the utthappam smelled particularly amazing when it arrived at the table. Thank goodness for the yogurt or my mouth would have burned up! But then I'm especially sensitive to spicy food. We will definitely be going back for more...

Saturday I met up with Trish, Jen & Andrew down at Kits beach. Since I was too late to join the girls in the pool I sat under a tree with Andrew and watched a group of guys practice their cocktail showmanship skills (a la Tom Cruise circa 1988). Who knew that kind of thing was still (or back) in fashion?

Then it was off to Moderne Burger for a late lunch. It's only been about a year and a half since they closed down for renovations and then kept taunting us with the promise of opening, month after month. But the wait is finally over and the food is just as good as ever. Welcome back Moderne Burger!

June's Critical Mass was fantastic! Jessica, Devon and I met up with a couple of Devon's young friends and headed over to the art gallery. You can't tell from these pictures but there were hundreds of people in attendance. We had a beautiful ride through Stanley Park - a portion of which I've included here just so you can get a feel for how nice it is to ride around without cars on the road (sorry it's not more exciting!). Jessica and I stayed on the ride for about 3 hours, until we were outside of Rob Brady's house at which point we stopped and headed in for a drink.

I wish I could take full credit for this one but the drawing of the bird was originally done by Shawn. This paper cut was framed, packaged up and mailed to Shawn for his 40th birthday. I changed the background colour though and it's now a green colour. Since every birthday should include something sweet, I also included some cowboy cookies and videos of Graydon.