Seen around

This post has been long overdue! how you

My neighborhood is super quirky and you never know what you might find!

 I love walking home and I take the same route most every day.

Funny how you can walk by something every day and not notice it...

 Yes your eyes are not deceiving you!

It is a mannequin sitting on the ledge of this building with a bucket on

its head! FAR OUT!

Besides this awesome sighting, life is what it is.

you get up , feed the pets, go to work, 

go home, pay the bills, watch tv and go to sleep.

And do it all over the next day. It does sound terribly boring

but I enjoy it.

I love the structure of the routine.

On the food front I am deeply obsessed by Indian food.

I don't know why but I dream of the spices, the heat and the comfort.

 Yesterday I made curried chickpeas with cauliflower stew.

This hit the spot! I added some sriracha sauce for some heat

and served it over basmati rice and Tikka Masala turkey breast.

GOOD!

 I saw this Barbie cake in a nearby bakery.

I don't like this bakery because the owner looks dirty

(her nose is full of HUGE blackheads)

and she reeks of smoke. And let's face it the cake looks way too

handmade (Pinterest fail)

I also saw this cruddy but vintage oven on the sidewalk.

I love the design and I am sad it is ending its life that way 

I will go in a Quebec road trip to Saint- Barthelemy village.....

(100,000.00 pieces of antique hardware)

Seen Around

Last week we filled the car with boxes and bags to donate and headed west

to the nation's capital Ottawa.

This is called hitting 2 birds with one stone: we get a road trip and we visit a lovely Value Village

where they are not sick of us....

I love this picture.....

But I had to leave it at $9.99!

This is probably a frame destined for a child's bedroom...

REALLY???

The clothes look like they were made out of scraps to tissue paper 

and toilet paper....Pass!

I used to have coasters like that at my old house...

This jar would've been dyn-o-mite in my Etsy store...

BTW I reopened my Etsy store!

I have a soft spot for Scotties!

This piece of nail art, is as intricate as tacky.

That is a lot of work!

It was really popular in New Brunswick.

They would make fishermen and Sagouines

This fondue set really caught my eye...

But I was here to donate, after all.

These pieces were unmarked but I highly suspect they were BMP

Blue Mountain Pottery from Collingwood, Ontario.

Alo seen in the Byward Market

Sweet, sweet Easter cookies!

 The Byward Market is an outdoor market in Ottawa, Ontario.

It is surrounded by specialty food stores (cafés,fish mongers, charcuteries, cheese shops, butcher shops) and restaurants. We make a point to stop and shop every time we visit! 

We had a lovely time!

Until next time, Ottawa!