Tis the season of rampant online window shopping consumerism.


A ton of stuff that's currently making my "add to cart" trigger-finger itchy:

• Yellow Owl stamps
• This quilt
• Granted sweaters
• Regional Assembly of Text Vancouver t-shirt (and I don't even like Vancouver!)
• CB2 mini porcelain spoon (I actually did try to buy some of these as gifts for people but then found out that the shipping doubles the cost - stupid teasing American stores)
• heyday design's large beaver jar (as in our national animal - git yer head out of the gutter)
• Kid O coloured cubes (I'd say that they're for the kid but who am I kidding: so pretty!)
• Any and all of the shoes from Gravity Pope
• dip cups from up in the air somewhere
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (I got sucked in by a preview and then found out it's classified "young adult" - I think I officially have a problem)
• Sweet Fine Day's Kitchen Conversions print
• This house (I love to torture myself using mls. It's a sickness.)
• A MacAustland's blanket
• The Shatner Show book (he shoulda been Govenor General)
• Fuji Instax 210 (damn you Polaroid obsolescence)
• A custom Aristotle bike
• Modern Art print by Craig Damrauer
• A canvas teepee (yes, just like every other "fixie" (see UO bike above) loving hipster douchebag)
• Speaking of UO-loving hipster douchebags: for the kid, a Fisher Price Classic Record Player
• Ork's Great Lakes poster
• Easy Gluten-Free Baking (we're lucky not to have any known gluten issues but sometimes I feel that we could all use a little less wheat in our lives and guts. I may actually buy this for the office gift exchange since my manager is celiac and always gets the shaft on office treats, something I can relate to from my Twinkie-packing days)
• Flip & Tumble produce bags (not that I ever f*&king remember to grab the million other reusable grocery bags I have)
• A bottle of small-batch Forty Creek Whisky (who knew that the spelling "whiskey" is American? I blame my ignorance on my early childhood exposure to US Sesame Street)
• Giles & Brother hook with leather lashing (and, you know, like almost everything else they make)
• Haptic Lab Ottawa Baby Quilt (so when we finally blow this pop-stand for better climes the kid can have a momento of where she was born)
• A CSA share from Upper Canada Heritage Meat (I've read that meat that's raised with love tastes better and I believe it. My raw-fed dogs had better hope we don't get too broke... I kid: there's not enough meat on them to make it worth it.)
• MamaK's aromatic play clay (it sounds so yummy I may be tempted to eat it)
• Lambswool robot hot water bottle cover (for my to-be sister-in-law perhaps, though I'm not sure how she feels about robots)
• Pure beeswax tea lights (apparently burning beeswax somehow improves indoor air quality. They'd probably look great in these firepot candleholders if CB2 ever lowers shipping costs. Grrr.)

Ok, I'm cutting myself off here because I could go on for days. Really. I have a problem. Or a talent depending on how you look at it.

Anyone needing a personal online shopper let me know. At least it's slightly more constructive than a gambling habit. Right?