Cranes in the City

I caught sight of some long-legged long-necked birds the other day ... screech ... hold it ... there are no cranes in Toronto! Well, there are no crane birds in the city, but there sure are plenty of another kind of crane .... the building construction kind.

Right now, there is a building boom going on downtown, with an incredible number of condominium buildings going up.

Not everyone is a fan of so much additional housing being built all at once, as of course the thousands of people that will follow in the next few years will mean that the city will have to add the infrastructure to handle them. Nick and I have already seen a big increase in the number of people on the streets in our neighbourhood. So far, I am happy with the influx of new and interesting people but we have just touched the tip of the iceberg of what will be, so I might change my mind as time goes on.

But having people live right in the city should reduce car traffic here, which I am keen on. As it stands now we have a lot of commuters driving into the city to work. We are talking long snaking lines of bumper-to-bumper traffic filing in and out every workday. I am not a fan of that being a walker who has to manoeuvre the streets safely amongst all these cars.

However, with this post I am not passing judgement as to whether or not all the new building is a good or a bad thing for the city. I am merely saying that it is happening and showing some pictures I have taken over the past month, of just a small number of the cranes currently silhouetted in the Toronto skyline.

Dream Dollhouse – Part III : The Bathroom

c="http://www.loulou.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bathroom-rub-sink-and-acces.jpg" alt="bathroom-rub-sink-and-acces" width="640" height="446" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16827">Hi. Here is my third installment in the mini-series on how I would decorate my dream dollhouse. Today we look at what the bathroom might look like. In gathering pieces for this particular room I discovered that people who are in the dollhouse business have quite a sense of humour, as I came upon some pretty funny things for sure.For new readers (welcome!), this series was inspired by my love of looking at miniature dioramas. Although I don't want to actually have a dollhouse, I thought it would be fun to decorate one virtually, with pieces I have found for sale on ebay. So none of these pictures were actually taken by me, however I have cropped, brightened and cleaned them up using Photoshop.So far I have decorated the the kitchen, and the bedrooms.As far as dollhouse bathrooms go, it seems there is a wide choice of colours for your fixtures. Forget about plain old white and consider pink, green, orange or blue. My personal favourite is the jade green set in the picture at the top of the post.