LIBERTY POST

NEW Blog Address!

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Hello Dear Reader!

Guess what? This blog is now in a new home.

Please visit

http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

Please visit my NEW BLOG http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

Who's On The List?

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:06:00 +0000

Over the last 3 years – my word! – has it been 3 years? – I have collected some of the best, best, best blog addresses on this virtual planet. I’ve met some incredible bloggers and read them ‘a lot’. I call it my BLOG TOUR (noun) and now it’s here on pattifriday.com! I am hoping that those of you who follow me or linky love me back will add my new and improved blog address. Click on BLOG TOUR (noun) - under LINKS – to enjoy my favorite friends and come back often…look over to the right/middle page (sidebar) - you may travel and discover new sterling creatives - BLOG TOUR (verb) often. Hugs. xo
NOTE:
My good ol’ ever lovin’ blog was Liberty Post (this one)
My NEW blog address and ‘BLOG’ name is Patti Friday
http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com
**********Blogger Users********** If you have my old blog (Liberty Post) on a BLOG LIST on your sidebar (THANK YOU!) – would you mind changing the url ? to http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

Half Honeymoon

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:55:00 +0000

What I mean is: Half Marathon for a Honeymoon! Yes, my Egypt Girl is eloping in July and spending her honeymoon running the Half Marathon in San Francisco. Instead of gifts they are asking 'the world' to help them raise money for Parkinson's disease. You can go HERE.

Hope to see you soon over at my NEW address: http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com
Subscribe to my blog HERE.

Subscribe To My New Blog: Patti Friday

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:34:00 +0000

Hello! I'm over here....over at http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

You may subscribe to my new blog HERE.

Alternately, here is my actual feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/pattifriday

Thank you too, for telling all your friends about my new blog address!

I appreciate all of you who are promoting it on your Twitter and Facebook and Blogs!

Oh, how I love thee!

PFxo

Patti Friday Photography Dot Com

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:03:00 +0000

That's my new blog address:

http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you over at my new place.

Hope you have a moment to edit your 'LINK' to Liberty Post to my new address.

Hope you wouldn't mind telling all your friends about my new address!

PFxo

(That's a photo of me in Art College in 1980 - I studied 1/2 and 1/2 = Interior Design/Fine Art. I was a rebellious student, frustrating most of my Teachers. Le sigh. Looks like I am in the workshop doing bugger all.)

Here's My New Address

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:07:00 +0000

It makes me as happy as finding pussy willows! (well, not quite) But, I am so pleased to introduce you to my new blog address (I have my fingers crossed that you will change the address on your links/blogroll...hugs xo).

Here it is:

http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

This Blog Has Moved !!!

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:24:00 +0000

Hello!

Thank you for stopping by Liberty Post (Gallery of Goods) Blog. I am Liberty Post Editor, a.k.a. Patti Friday. My blog has moved. Please click HERE to see my new place! Also, if I am fortunate enough to be included now (or in the future) on your BLOGROLL, please note the new correct blog address:

My blog will now be called 'Patti Friday'.

http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com/

It has been a pleasure publishing on BLOGGER for almost 3 years. I have enjoyed it so very much. Thank You Blogger!

******I will be forever grateful if you give me some 'blog lovin' and write a post - telling your readers about my new blog address******

Canadian Hugs and Kisses

Patti

GO NOW.....scoot scoot!!

Please Analyze

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:28:00 +0000

Huh?

Anthropologie Chair By Ashley Longshore

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:54:00 +0000

New Orleans artist Ashley Longshore conjures an underwater dreamscape on the soft cotton upholstery of Anthro's new sturdy armchair. The mid-century Scandinavian frame provides sleek, stoic contrast to its abstracted print of a girl swimming. That's my girl! Congratulations!

I Need Your Help

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:25:00 +0000

My Dear Readers, I really, really, really need your help! (picture me on my knees begging) In a few days I will be switching/moving to my new blog address. (ooooh...so exciting!) When that happens, I am hoping you will help spread the word with your readers, so they can tell their readers and so on and so on and so on. I also have my fingers crossed that you will update our 'stinky dinky linky' love! On your blogroll....should I be fortunate enough to currently (or perhaps in the future) be on your list, would you mind taking a few moments out of your busy life to change it? Ahhh...there. I got that off my chest. I've been worried about you 'not finding me'. (I've had nightmares about you calling my name in the blogosphere..'Lib..er...teeeee...come out, come out wherever you are....) So.....the new address will be posted here shortly....within days. Love to you all in friendship and blogging, Liberty Post(Patti Friday) xo

A Complaint Free World

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:55:00 +0000

My friend Emily lives and works in Vietnam. She has started 21 days of 'zero complaining'. Do you think you could do it? I think it's refreshing and positive and worthy of investigating! Go HERE!!!

Green With Envy

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:41:00 +0000

How do you feel about green? Tell me your deepest darkest secret opinion on the colour? Would you drive a green car? (my Father claims a green car is bad luck) Do you wear green? Do you have a green room? Are you 'green with envy'? (Kate Smith sure has a handle on GREEN)

Bloggers Getting Sued

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:58:00 +0000

I would read this if I were you. HERE.

What is the Huffington Post's Comment Policy?
A:

Huffington Post pre-moderates comments on our blog posts and post-moderates comments on news stories. We never censor comments based on political or ideological point of view. We only delete those comments that include the following transgressions:
• are abusive, off-topic, use excessive foul language• include ad hominem attacks including comments that celebrate the death or illness of any person, public figure or otherwise• contain racist, sexist, homophobic and other slurs• are solicitations and/or advertising for personal blogs and websites• thread spamming (you've posted this same comment elsewhere on the site• are posted with the explicit intention of provoking other commenters or the staff at Huffington Post.• contains content that may infringe the copyright or intellectual property rights of others or other applicable laws or regulations.

Spring Shoot Thornbury & Meaford

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:49:00 +0000

Yesterday. I indulged. I took myself on a sunny walk. All by myself. It was glorious and creative and inspiring and therapeutic. Well, I wasn't entirely alone. I had my camera. And, along the way I met some new friends who you will meet next week. I am so very happy it's Spring. LPxo

Passover Recipes

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:35:00 +0000

Here are some from the NYTimes.

Interesting selection of recipes here at The Jewish Daily Forward.

And Martha Stewart's amazing offerings.

Finally, Epicurious!

Talkin' 'Friday' On 'Monday'

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:37:00 +0000

Many people have asked me, 'Is Friday your real last name?'. Yes! It really is. (with a short story) Friday was my maiden name, but it was actually 'Frieday' with an 'e'. Some of my family members had it without the 'e' too. (spelling mistakes at the hospitals - ha!) It turns out that my German Grandparents changed their name from Freitag to Frieday. I have always used 'Friday' for all my creative work - the bank even knows me as Patti Friday. So, why the heck am I talking 'Friday' on 'Monday'? Because as some of you know, I have wanted to convert to Judaism for decades and every time Jewish holidays happen...I start to dig again. My parents believe our ancestors were actually Jewish; if my maternal Grandmothers were Jewish, then I would be Jewish now. But if is comes from my paternal side, then maybe not. Hmmm. Confusing. Interesting. Unsolved. I will settle for being 'Jewish By Choice'.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from (respectively) Middle High German vritac and German Freitag ‘Friday’ (Old High German friatag, frijetag, a translation of Late Latin Veneris dies: Freya was the Germanic goddess of love, sometimes considered as equivalent to the Roman Venus). The German name may have denoted someone born on a Friday or who performed some feudal service then. However, Friday was considered unlucky throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages (because it was the day on which Christ was crucified), and it seems more likely that the name was given to a person considered ill-omened. It is found as a byname in this sense in Old High German. This is by far the commonest of the surnames drawn from the days of the week, followed by Sonntag ‘Sunday’, traditionally a day of good omen. Among Jews, it seems to have been one of the names that were distributed at random by government officials.

Handmade Heirloom: Anvil Wrought Iron Furniture

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:07:00 +0000

I met a new friend, Vitania, today via Facebook. The blogging, social media world continues to surprise and delight me. One moment uninspired with nothing left to say; the next - passionate, exhilarated and over-flowing with new words for new ideas and people. Vitania has an incredible story about her family business, Anvil Wrought Iron Furniture - a Canadian company that works with Designers and Retailers around the globe. When the company her father was working for started to fall apart, he led a group of men, all co-workers, to pool their resources and keep their business alive. (isn't that amazing!) With her father at the helm, they formed a company called Anvil Fireside Accessories Ltd. that supplied hearth products to pretty much everyone. Tool sets, wood holders, spark guards, andirons….you name it they made it! That was 30 years ago. Today, Anvil is completely family owned and operated, and Vitania, of course, has the pleasure of working and learning, with and from, her father. Over the last 3o years, the line has expanded dramatically to include beautifully crafted Iron Furnishings, as well as a fabulous collection of Outdoor furniture. They operate under the name Anvil Wrought Iron Furniture to include this expanded product offering. To die for people! To die for! All hand made! Located in Mississauga, Ontario, (just outside of Toronto) a small but talented team of people come together to make some of the most beautiful iron furniture today. Made using traditional methods, steel is cut, forged, hammered, shaped, polished and painted. As a custom manufacturer Anvil offers their clients the choice to design exactly what they want. Their products are designed to last a lifetime. The kitchen table and chairs you will sit at, eat, laugh and cry over. A bed your children will crawl into in the middle of the night, and you will long for when you are away from home. Pieces that are meant to be passed from one generation to another. Please take some time over the weekend to tour their website (and catalogue). You will be longing to purchase several of their pieces....either for yourself or a client(s)....or both!

Cayenne Mashed With A Side of Rings

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:23:00 +0000

Part of an ongoing culinary art project dedicated to my friends, Artist, Sarah Ashley Longshore and Jewelry Designer, Amanda Jaron - to whom my wildest, food fantasies begin and end with my proud membership of 'The Big Gaudy Ring Hoarders Society' (TBGRHS).

Cayenne Mashed Recipe:

Fill a big pot with lots of cold, fresh water

Salt

Bring to boil

Fill till overflowing with peeled white potatoes

Boil until tender

Mash with hand-masher

Add plenty of salt and cracked black pepper

Butter

and gunk gunk gunk of milk

Heat skillet with more butter

Fry up the mashed potatoes with a generous amount of cayenne pepper.

Top with another pat of butter

(be sure to wear your 'big gaudy rings' while eating this....tastes better that way...and you'll look sterling too)

-Patti Friday

My NEW Book !!!

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:44:00 +0000

Fresh Water by Patti Friday | BOOK INFO

Breaking Design News

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:18:00 +0000

Anna Spiro of Black and Spiro and my Blogging friend (Absolutely Beautiful Things) will be featured in the May 2010 issue of Canadian House and Home Magazine! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. It will be so wonderful to read about someone we have all come to know and love over the last few years. (In other Design/Packaging news.....Wasaga Beach Coffee, the certified organic & fair-trade coffee that I branded is a hit here in The Beach!) Tastes delish too. LPxo

The Friendliness of Canadians

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:21:00 +0000

Just a few quotes sent to me by my friend, Angela Ritchie (Thanks!):

“Thank you, Canada. For being such good hosts. For your unfailing courtesy… For reminding some of us we used to be a more civilized society. Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.” – Brian Williams, NBC News

“Along the way, there was plenty to like in Vancouver, if not always the weather. The people were generous and spirited, the volunteers cheery. Once, I saw a guy fail to smile; I think he was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor .” – Boston.com

“Before the closing ceremony begins, let me just take the time to thank the people of Vancouver for a wonderful 19 days. The people here couldn’t be nicer, from the volunteers who make sure the buses run on time, to the citizens walking the streets, to the athletes and people from around the world who were here.” – The LA Times

“The Olympics went into overtime Sunday. It was perfect. No one wanted the Warmest Games to end. Warmest weather. Warmest hosts .” – The Miami Herald

“Make no mistake, Canada’s people were the stars of these Games. They jammed the streets of Vancouver, cheered the most obscure sports as long as a Canadian was competing and all but drowned themselves in a sea of red. These are not folks normally given to outbursts of patriotism, but they found their voice here .” – Chicago Sun Times

“Why can’t we be more like Canada? They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile … and they have the Canadian Mounties. But most of all what they have is a kick-ass national anthem, a tune that says everything about who they are – and about what we, as Americans, are not.” – The Huffington Post

“Graciousness is their default mode here. For the last two weeks, beaming has been a way of life. In a nod to the local vernacular, let me just say this is the nicest city I’ve ever been in.” – The Los Angeles Times

“No question the biggest winners of the 2010 Winter Olympics were the Canadian people, who were unfailingly polite, passionately patriotic, and self-deprecating enough to poke fun at themselves in the Closing Ceremonies.” – The Miami Herald.com

Antique Bird Cage & Garden-Inspired Accessories

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:30:00 +0000

I am selling this lovely 'story' - grouping of items. Glistening Green Paperweight, White Lacquer Ceramic Peacocks, Speckled Dish Garden Container (perfect for succulents!), Large Green Beer Bottle (looks fabulous in the sunlight on a porch) and Antique Bird Cage (with old and odd little fake bird and original brass food and water dishes). Let me know if you are interested and what you would like to offer. LP xo

UPDATE: March 23, 2010 - Birdcage is SOLD

(the rest is still available)

They Got ENGAGED !!! On MT. KILIMANJARO !!!

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:05:00 +0000

And Phil got down on one knee and proposed....at the bottom of the mountain...as he said the climb was going to be symbolic of a marriage...some good, some bad, some happy, some sad, some easy, some hard....but love triumphing over anything. And the ring...is a simple, chic, classic silver band with 'HEA' engraved inside = 'Happily Ever After' !!!! So romantic! (tear) Read more soon (they are pooped) on their blog: http://www.thepearlcurriculum.blogspot.com. LPxo

Cooking With Stella

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:56:00 +0000

A lighthearted, satirical, social comedy about an unsuspecting couple in the Canadian Diplomatic Service posted to New Delhi who inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the wily, charming... and totally inspiring cook - Stella.

I can only imagine the luscious sets, landscapes and colour in this new movie. Production Designer, Tamara Deverell (top photo), studied Renaissance art and architecture in Florence, and design and painting at the Emily Carr Institute of Art. She worked as an art director with renowned production designers François Séguin and Carol Spier, on such films as Crash and Existenz, both directed by David Cronenberg. She was also the art director on X Men, and on Guillermo del Toro‘s Mimic. Her work as a production designer covers a wide range of periods and styles, and includes the Eloise at the Plaza television movies, and the mini series Sounder and A Feast for all Saints. She was the production designer for Deepa Mehta‘s comedy Bollwood Hollywood, for Breakfast with Scot, director Laurie Lynd and also for THE Burning Season, director Harvey Crossland — which was shot in India. She is currently designing the ABC series Happy Town. Her four months in New Delhi researching and designing Cooking with Stella were a professional and personal highlight.

Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but not until the guru-student relationship between Stella and Michael has been sorely tested. Michael has learned many important lessons from his teacher ...including glorious traditional South Indian cooking. And Stella? Well... let's just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.

Official 'Cooking With Stella' website.

Stella's Recipes here.

Country: Canada

Year: 2009

Language: English, Hindi

Runtime: 103 minutes

Format: Colour/35mm

Rating: PG

Opens March 19, 2010

Make - Collingwood, Ontario

noreply@blogger.com (LIBERTY POST EDITOR) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:05:00 +0000

A new Canadian Art and Crafts discovery! Make. In a sweet spot inside the Gayety Theatre building in downtown Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Exciting gifts for you, your home or as a wonderful Canadiana souvenir.

Located in beautiful downtown Collingwood at 155 Hurontario St., 'make collective' is a group of artists working together to showcase their artforms. The shop houses the wares of over 16 artists working in a variety of mediums and styles, from the traditional to the contemporary. Each day a different artist staffs the space, providing one to one contact with the hands and minds that make the artwork. The shop is open Monday, Thursday -Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm, and Sundays 12 - 4 pm.

I wish I knew the website. Hopefully, one of the artists will leave a comment for us!

TA-DA!!!!!!!!! I sourced the website:

http://www.makecollective.com/

Make

705 444 2228

SLIDESHOW OF ART HERE

http://www.wilkinson-stainedglass.ca/

http://www.sarahsmile.ca/

http://www.studiobythebay.com/

http://www.charilynn.com/

http://www.wigledesigns.ca/