Favourite Pendants

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ikea`s ps maskros  source  ikea

Winnie Lui White Chandelier.  source bonluxat.com

blown glass handmade pendant lamp   source luz difusion.com

























diy ikea-hack your own petal lamp source designsponge






























diy Lothair Hamann’s Loopy Lu pendant light  source loopy lu


signed, the willow

So, I've been blogging for over three years...

And someone STEALS my name!

Just to clarify right here and now "Willow of the Wood" has been my blogging name since February 2007 and I reserve the right to use this name.  If your name is Eleanor, June, Mary-Lou Who and you choose to use the name Willow, go ahead.  But please please please, don't go and call your blog "Willow of the Wood" as someone is already using it!

My parents blessed me at birth with the name Willow.  Since my last name was Atwood and we lived in what most would consider to be "the bush", the name began to evolve.  My whole life was spent despising the name Willow.


Here I am here practicing my blogging capabilities with my BFF Sharon.  Oh, and Colin & Justin were coming over to decorate later.

























Other times my parents would dress my brother and I up in matching navy outfits and take us outside and call us tree names to see if we would respond:  WILLOW!  BIRCH!  TAMARACK!

oh and they didn't cut the grass before the shot.


But the truth of the matter is this:  Willow is my middle name.  Atwood literally means "of the Wood".  So, there you have it.  And if you take that one step further and delve deep into my family tree you will find Robin Hood and the other merry men.  As Wode (or Wood) would have been pronounced "Hood" and Robin was "of the Hood".  A history lesson all rolled into my blog post for the day!

Enjoy your long weekend CANADA!

signed, the willow

5 www Loves

Reasons to embrace the internet again:

1. Lucy May Schofield
2. Sandra Juto
3. KeepinItLeal (Thank you Jann Arden!)
4. Up In The Air Somewhere (Love the water towers & the paper bowls!!!!)
5. Art Wall

signed, the willow

Save the Whales & Dolphins AGAIN

Please help save the dolphins in Japan and while you're at it, save a whale too!

SaveJapanDolphins

Would you eat a dolphin?  How would you feel if you had already consumed one and didn't know? 


signed, the willow

A Dance To Danby

As a little girl I grew up appreciating the art of Canadian artist, Ken Danby.  He fit the criteria that I still value today:
1. Canadian
2. Northern Ontario roots (Ken Danby was born in Sault Ste. Marie)
3. Subject matter related to nature
4. Contemporary
5. Sense of relaxation through the comfort of faded blue jeans.

Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be in the presence of a young lady who grew up knowing Mr. Danby very well.  So well, that her mother was the Sunbather.

Canada misses Ken Danby.

signed, the willow

My Friends the Etsians

Etsian (noun: a person who provides aesthetically pleasing handmade goods on Etsy.com)

lisa roy  - lisa roy handbags

She's the original Etsyian in my books.

Love, love, love her and her purses!

mandy higgs - My Charming Pets

Mandy is so talented in so many ways.  She has a quiet connection inside all of us.  A spark.  A dark side.  A loving side.  To call her multi-faceted is an understatement.  If I were in my 20s again, I would live my 20s as Mandy.

kerry turcotte - superMOLLY capes

Perhaps I've known her longer than the other Etsyians here.  Kerry is a dedicated and very cool, hip mom with might very well be the coolest kid on the planet (no, seriously.  she rocks)!  I have felt more at ease because of her and she always offered to make a cape for *Mila*, but I had no idea what she had in mind until now!  If only I had known then what I know now!  Yay Kerry!

Enjoy the girls of Etsy!  Let the shopping begin!
signed, the willow

Yellow Bird Project

YELLOW BIRD PROJECT

What a great idea!

Take some creativity then add some indie bands.  Let the musicians choose the charities and voila!  Sell the t-shirts and then the charities get the benefits, the indie bands get the exposure and welcome to the barter system.

These are the simple gestures that one person can do to change our overabundant, yet overly impoverished world.

And they have this great colouring book!



signed, the willow

Umbra has a little contest

Umbra has this great little contest and since we sell Umbra at our store (which you will find here)Please visit you design umbra and vote!!!  Check out my personal favourite:


signed, the willow

Wii Run

I can't get over how happy she is in this picture.  Wii really should run on the wii more often!

signed, the willow

A new white vacuum to match the white floors

A new vacuum just sucks so much better than on old vacuum, which literally sucks.

signed, the willow