We had our first snow storm this week. And it was quite big for this time of year. This was taken on my way to work. Behind the car is the restaurant I go for lunch sometimes. It's what you can call an old fashion diner where they make old quebecois recipies like rice pudding, prunes in syrup and hamburger steaks. In French we call this kind of place a
binerie...
On another note, I received the
I love your blog prize from
Gracia. What an honor! Here are the rules:
Do an entry with the prize
Answer the questions
Give the prize to 10 blogs
So here we go
1. Why did you create the blog?I think I said it before. I started to blog in 2007 on Myspace. I had bought a point and shoot camera and started to take photos, some of them that I liked enough to show on a blog. Back then Myspace was very active and I met a lot of great people there. I wanted to document life in Montreal and in Québec, show my surroundings to these friends from around the world. At one point, Myspace became a ghost town, people moving to Facebook. I never liked Facebook so I decided to create this blog. It will be two years old in a few days.
2. What kind of blogs do you follow?Hmmm! I follow so many kind of blogs. I cannot start my day without visiting a long list of my favorites. I like design, art, illustration and photo blogs the most. Although I must say I cut down my visits on the last. I find them to be a lot alike. Off course, I also follow the blogs of the many great people I met in blog land.
3. Favourite makeup brand?Okay, this is where it's getting tricky. See I don't wear makeup. And you'll see in the next questions that I'm not very girly.
4. Favourite clothing brand?I don't like to spend a lot of money on clothes. I buy most of my clothes at Reitman's, a local ladies wear chain. When I'm looking for something a bit more chic, I go to Simons, another local chain. I would need to be very rich to buy the clothes I really like. But once in a while, I find a great piece at a thrift store which makes me very happy.
5. Your indispensable makeup product?I have none since I don't wear any. But I've been do the Clinic face cleaning routine for ages. I replaced their cream by Nivea water base face cream which was recommended to me by a dermatologist. He said it is the best face cream for any skin.
6. Your favourite colour?As in clothes or in general? During winter, I basically wear grey and black. As for colors in general, I like them all. Really! Except maybe some shades of green that I find particularly depressing.
7. Your perfume?Surprise! Surprise! I don't wear any. Unless you consider deodorant to be a perfume. I love the smell of patchouli, but I don't dare wear it. It is so strong!
8. Your favorite film?Now I have so many! Here are a few of my favorites for as many reasons as there are movies, and not in that order necessarily: The Piano, Once upon a time in the West, 21 grams, Babel (I love Inarritu), Manhattan (and so many others from Woddy Allen), Taxi Driver (and almost all of Scorsese's movies), My Dinner with André, Cabaret, Nikita (the first French movie by Besson), La neuvaine, Les bons débarras, etc. etc.... I'm sure I forget so many!
9. What country would you like to visit and why?Hmmm. Hard to say again. There is so many. I would love to visit Newfoundland here in Canada. I like the fact that it is remote and isolated and surrounded by the see.
10. Make the last question and answer to yourself: what would be a perfect working world for you?In my perfect working world, weeks would have 8 days so I can have a 3 day weekend. It's not that I don't like to work. I'm just frustrated by the lack of time I have for doing personal stuff like painting and drawing and playing with photoshop more...
Now I pass the prize from
Gracia to
Kerry,
Line (who just started a new blog),
Sophie,
Élisabelle,
P. K.,
Anairam,
Gretchen,
Valérie,
Trinch... and
Robert. I'm looking forward to see his answers for questions 3 and 5!
