cherry blossoms

Neither artsy, nor fartsy - the thing to do this past weekend was to check out the cherry blossoms in High Park.  It's part of the culture and rite of spring here in Toronto.  Bliss!

brief baby reprieve

A bit of an escape today.  I wasn't sure how I would feel about being away from the babe.  Truthfully, I haven't been away from the babe all that much since his arrival in September.  In all honesty, he travels quite well and is quite an urban baby - walking and transiting.

My baby reprieve today was in the form of a visit to the Design Exchange.  And....it felt quite good, in fact.  I panicked a bit when I heard a small child crying on the subway.  But then, out on the street, wearing high heels (sigh...foot happiness), feeling the swish of the hem of my dress against my legs, I felt really, really good.  And then, I got to talk about me! 

Bragging rights about my background in the arts, exhibition coordination, exhibition critique - oh bliss!!  Adult talk!  I raved about the Alexander Calder exhibition that was held at the AGO.  Then, I ranted about the King Tut exhibition and how terrible I thought it was.  We discussed the nature of blockbuster exhibitions and the Disney-fication of these types of exhibitions.  And, there was dialogue.  Oh, feedback. 

I love the little man, but he just doesn't give me his opinions!  He doesn't agree or disagree with me.  He smiles, gurgles, kicks his feet and than pinches my cheek. 

It was a gloriously free 2 hours today.  As I remember it fondly, I'm listening to his deep breaths on the baby monitor.  A great day!

who would have thought!

Never in my wildest dreams (and I am a dreamer) did I think I would end up becoming a Mum!  I never thought of it while I was younger (perhaps I just thought that getting married would lead to kids).  In the past few years, I thought I would be fine not to have a child.  I'd resolved that I was too selfish and had too many plans.  So....a little gamble and here I am with a 6.5 month old little man sound asleep (for now) as I write my first post for this blog.

This is the third attempt at a blog and I realize that theme-ing (that's not a word, but we'll go with it) a blog helps!  So, my first unthemed blog was merely an exploration into this world and was eventually tossed.  The second blog, sewcraftymummy.blogspot.com is on hold in fact because I found out that it is hard to be 'sew crafty' and be a new mummy.  However, scheduling the babe helps me find time.  I realize that with the babe, I do want to do more and more things (my lists run on and on and on and....).  Now, I want to share them with him.

So, that's why we're here with the third blog, Artsy Fartsy Mummy.  Simply a self designated title that I hope suggests that I am artsy (both a creator and lover) and a bit fartsy - simply to suggest that I am fun and full of whimsy.

The purpose for this blog was inspired by Erica Ehm's Yummy Mummy Club.  In my before baby life, I would troll galleries, buy art supplies and feed my stashes of fabric, yarns, etc.  I thought that I would have to put my city ventures on hold because of baby.  In fact, I don't.  I just have to strategically  and creatively schedule!  And be organized.  And have a stash of Baby Mum Mums on hand!

So, this blog is meant to show that one can be a Mummy and still connect culturally with her city - with baby and without (when I'm ready).