frogpondfarm // hungary

working at a winery has its perks, but it completely unrelated to my studies or my interested studies. some afternoons i wonder if i should just take off and become a winemaker. except that i know nothing of chemistry or farming. i am always so inspired by little shops like meike willems  that have such nice things in them. i like handmade things and would be nice to have a shop for handmade goods. i am thinking to move to hungary in october. david says his grannnies have whole attics full of nice things that might serve for inspiration for a future project. i am excited but not thinking too far too soon. feeling again like i am standing in one place and the traffic is driving by. ive got my thumb out but there is no ride to catch. 

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green ears and an etsy shop

trying to work to get more things in this etsy shop

takes some time though. embroidery hoop collages, drawings and totes. sew sew with a glass of wine. only for a short while. models from art school in spain. on wrinkled scrap paper from the floor. two second look, not on duty. and its one of my favourite. i now have some selected works and postcards available for sale at frogpondfarm winery in niagara on the lake. lovely wines and lovely faces there!

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squash soup // fruit salad // sunday.

happy sunday.

cant seem to find something nice for breakfast today. meh. reading and typing for my course at school.

finally back on track with my professor about it. freud and descartes he says. alright alright. 

so it is. 

making nice foods from nice books lately. squash soup and this nice fruit salad with real, whipping cream topping with mexican vanilla and organic cane suger on top. mmm. last night we made mushroom and lentil burgers with nice german rye bread and mango sauce on top. then to drink a frogpondfarm cabernet franc to drink. lovely niagara wine.

today breakfast, eventually. then winery then home dinner reading sleep. 

i had such nice dreams about travelling across canada in a little dingy with four people through muddy rivers and streams and it was adventurous and funny. i wish it was true. 

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tote tote tote

i sewed this the other day. thinking to weight it, and get it up on etsy soon. as soon as i find a scale to weigh my items. talked a long talk with lindsey over her cottage phone. it was very nice. we are reading some freud and some descartes with bordo now. should be perfect. i will bring some readings with me to work today. oh yes work. hm i better get moving on sandwich building and get myself out of here. 

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thursday

took david in early to work this morning, 8am. then i drove home and went back to sleep. 
woke up to do some sewing but seems ive lost the zipper foot for my machine so i can't make what i had originally planned to make. poo.
so im taking a break, making some photographs and thinking about cooking a soup for dinner tonight.

day off day off.

i finished my medicines, feeling much better now. even had a glass of wine with dinner last night. my own personal gourmet macaroni and cheese, oven baked. haha its the classic poor college student meal and has a bad reputation, but i can cleverly disguise it to be something special with spinach, onions, and sun dried tomatoes.

and today? squash soup with acorn and butternut squash, fresh ginger, and whipping cream. delicious.

they are in the oven now, softening up and then the soup making begins. 

it is lovely out. finally a hot day. i think summer has arrived, for one day only.

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winery // winery // broken car.

working a lot at frogpondfarm. it gets busier and busier these days there. seems there is always work to be done, berries to eat and pick and of course guinea hens to feed. its so nice there these days, just hanging out with jens, eating raspberries after the shop closes and talking about conspiracy theories and french oak barrels. i love it there. it is one of the most authentic places i know. the people that own and run that place are so genuine, can be entirely serious one moment and have you side splitting the next. i love it. not so rare that i find myself out of the tasting room, helping move baby chicks, or weeding the vegetable garden, or just enjoying the sunshine with the customers from the shop, just chatting about organics and wines we love. 

i am feeling another sewing day arriving this week, making another few totes for the shop. a photograph day to get some new things in the shop, and also a trip to peterborough to get my snow tires and some paintings left behind there. lovely. there also happens to be a wine and food party close to there that night which i think we might find ourselves at. i hear frogpondfarm will be there :)

our car is also sick, needs a new, very expensive part. so she finds herself at the mechanic again, waiting for the diagnosis. shes gotten us this far, i hope she will still get us a little further. our little golf.

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etsy shop in order

finally, after looking around i started it, wrote the shop policies and finally posted my first item on etsy.

a set of five postcards. lovely. i will make some more photographs tonight to post items on my shop also and we'll see waht happens. waiting for the first sale. hm. waiting, waiting. haha.

alright, well here is the link:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=19798

enjoy. 

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