Mod Mischief

It's no secret that we love Spins & Needles in Ottawa. It's hard to beat craft time combined with good beer and music. But as we're on the other side of the continent, I think we've found the next best thing in Whitehorse. Tonight we had lots of fun with safety scissors and school glue at the Gold Pan Saloon. There was a lantern making workshop put on by  Yukon Educational Theatre  for Winterval, and Chris and I each made a glass jar and tissue paper lantern.

Photo by Colleen Johnson.  byfieldpitman.com Putting together the bouquets for myself and my matron of awesome was one of my favourite wedding projects. I posted before about ordering the kit from Princess Lasertron , starting the flowers and even bundling them while I was in Whitehorse for job training before the wedding. Photo by Ben Welland.  byfieldpitman.com I used the kit as a starting point and added as many personal touches as I could squeeze in. If you look at the photos closely you might spot  zippers and studs leftover from my Bebop costume ,  Beau's Beer ribbon,  mesh from the suitcase that travelled the world with me when I was a teenager, buttons from Chris' father's military uniforms and his uncle's fire fighter uniform,  bits of bicycle inner tube rubber leftover from making armour,  ribbon collected from all sorts of events and gifts, tulle snipped from tutus, aluminium roses, feathers and bits of jewe...

Our wedding photos are finally online! Ben and Colleen from byfield~pitman photography did such amazing work! Between the terrible lighting conditions, everything running late and our guests waging nerf warfare while we were supposed to be getting formal portraits taken, it couldn't have been easy for them. They still managed to capture the event beautifully and Chris and I are both so impressed.

We were so excited to have a house to decorate for Halloween! I actually started working on some of the decorations while we were still living in the motel - I just couldn't wait to work on Halloween crafts! I haven't been feeling well for the past few days, so we didn't do much beyond decorate the front yard and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. We weren't sure how many kids to expect, so we bought candy for over 100 (my coworkers told me there would be lots of kids downtown). In the end we only had 13 kids come to the door, so there's lots of leftovers for Chris to enjoy. The children who did come by were super impressed with our decor, especially the fog machine. I think we'll have to step it up next year to draw in more trick-or-treaters. You've got to build a reputation, right? I've posted the full instructions on instructables for how we made Zero, the ghost dog from the Nightmare Before Christmas, in our motel room. The...

After years of house hunting, and many false starts and heartbreaks, we've finally bought a place of our own! We got our keys today and couldn't be more excited. Chris even filmed a cute little house tour. Chris has started a blog of his own to chronicle his adventures in the Yukon: www.whyoneeh.blogspot.ca "Why one, eh?" is a play on the start of Whitehorse postal codes. Clever, eh?

Our little Cutie traveled all the way to Whitehorse, but unfortunately she won't be moving into our new house with us. Cutie hanging out with Chris in our motel room She'd become so frail over the last few months, we're really impressed she actually made it so far. Hops is a little lonely but we're looking for a new Yukon friend or two to add to the mischief soon.

Halloween is just around the corner! Great Pumpkin Ball 2012 photo by Alissa Albert We're still living in a motel, so we don't have any big costumes in the works at the moment, but you can find all the posts on our past Halloween fun and costumes at these links: All Halloween Blog Posts All Costume Blog Posts Instructions on how we made the costumes are over on Instructables