Toronto is the absolute best.  I can't believe how quickly things changed and how much I love living here, how used to the city I already feel.  I'm completely in love with everything: the fact that it is so busy, but my street is so quiet, I love the subway, I love balfour books and the 1040 gallery on Queen and there are so so many art stores, ( Read more... )

Today was the best snow day in history: I worked at books, and packed books, and made bocce covers (here are pictures to prove my honesty!)


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Nevermind the jobs I was previously excited for, I just applied for a job as a gallery manager!!  And I'm actually really qualified.  It's amazing.

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This week is my second last at the Clay and Glass Gallery, which means I get to be there for the opening of the best exhibition ever, which features Vanessa Yanow's immensely gorgeous glass ( Read more... )

Since we found our house, I've been obsessing over everything I can do in Toronto.

I applied for multiple jobs, including:
administrative assistant at OCAD
volunteer co-ordinator at the Toronto branch of the Vancouver aquarium (!)
AND, most excited for: Development Associate at this little theatre company called Clay and Paper (pretty much finding ways ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal,

I found a house!!  It looks like this:

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Does anyone want to travel to New Ulm, Minnesota with me to visit Wanda Gag's house?  Or to Savannah, Georgia and we could visit Flannery O'Connor's house.  I want to visit houses.

I'm terribly excited!  Here is the reason:  I have decided to semi-quit at Nightjar Books, as I'm mostly done with making the boring-ish books, and instead I am starting ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone,

Yes, I just wrote half a minute ago.  But I just wanted to say this:

look at my etsy faves
this is how amazing etsy.com is
please buy handmade this holiday season!
even better, buy handmade and local:
(Stitch n Kitsch (Dec 15th), the Make-a-Difference market this year at St. Jerome's, and more!)

Love Amy.

Dearest Friends,

I've officially started buying art.  And by art I mean prints.  And I've officially stopped being the kind of person who puts posters on the wall, and am now the kind of person who frames prints and semi-hangs them.  This is mostly because Ben has infinity frames filled with old show posters, which I have taken over and filled with ( Read more... )