A Chance to Win

lilac blossoms

Welcome to June! The warm months seem to go by so quickly. There are always many summer festivals and activities planned to take advantage of the good weather here.

I was at the grocery store the other day and heard an announcement from the pharmacy.  Anyone who could be there in 3 minutes and had a blood pressure reading of 120/80 would receive a grocery store gift certificate.  When I got there I understood the reading had to be exactly 120/80 and that the prize was a  $50 grocery gift certificate.  Well, there were 3 of us in line and nobody had the magic reading.  Mine was borderline high at the time but I am on medication so I was not too alarmed.  There was a nice young lady in line behind me who offered me a portion of her potential winnings which I told her was totally unnecessary, if kind of her.  The lady in front of me was like 119/92.  Later on, I ran into the kind young lady and she told me her reading was below 120/80, which is good news anyway!

New Product

I had a $1 coupon for this new Sunlight dishwashing liquid pump.  I located it at Walmart and was happy to use a good coupon!  I'm not really sure how necessary a product like this will be and perhaps of less value in term of savings.

Laurie asked what scent it is, it says 'berry fusion with soy extract'.

And wow, we are at the end of May already!

Sidewalk Ramp Bumps

I noticed the city has installed these sidewalk ramp bumps known as truncated domes.  From what I can google it is to make the sidewalks wheelchair accessible and assist people with disabilities. Apparently they are quite expensive and so may cause some controversy.

I found this Philadelphia article from 2012 that says each ramp costs $7500 or $60,000 per intersection or $858 million for that city.  I also read some articles where people find them helpful and some where they do not.  I can certainly understand how it could help a blind person. 

Sunday Sketches - Springtime Tulips

Michael's Stores (the Arts and Crafts retailer) is running an art challenge (May 31 - Jun 19) in the US and Canada if anyone's interested! The prizes are fabulous.

It's time for Alexandra's Sunday Sketches! I did some springtime tulips on a greeting card for you today. It's done in watercolour pencil and crayon (4 1/4" x 5 1/2").

Mall Art

Here is some mall art for you.  I liked the splashes of paint adorning this wall display.

Walmart Canada recently started charging 5c for their plastic bags.  It's a good thing but apparently this money doesn't all go to charity.  The cashier at Shopper's Drug Mart told me that all the money collected for their plastic bags goes to charity.  

Paint Party Friday - Elephant Love

Michael's Stores (the Arts and Crafts retailer) is running an art challenge in the US and Canada if anyone's interested!

Welcome to Eva and Kristin's Paint Party Friday!  I am calling this piece 'Elephant Love', done in my art journal (8 1/2" x 11")  in watercolour crayon.  It was inspired by a photo I saw in the newspaper.

Ikea Canada pop-up

I took these photos of this Ikea Canada pop-up store we happened upon in downtown Toronto recently. The promo runs until May 26. So we got free chocolates and herb seed packets. We were given a wooden spoon to shop with. It had some kind of sensor on it, so you would just tap anything you wanted to purchase and at checkout the items would be brought out to you.

herb seed packets

shopping spoon

free chocolates

pop-up store