Hi Everyone! Sorry for the radio silence of late - I've been busy, busy with school and work, so finding some time to dedicate to writting has been a little difficult.

Remember that wee video I put together for Para Paints? Well, I'm rather shocked to say that I was selected as one of the 5 new members of the Para Paints Blog Crew!!! How neat is that? The other members are Sarina at Pink Little Notebook, Sara at Saige Wisdom, Meredith and Susan at Newberry Sykes, and Kes and Tash at The Dreamhouse Project. I need to start planning what I'm going to add colour to.

Two weekends ago I had to the opportunity to see the Ai Weiwei 'According to What' exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and it was stunning. If the show comes to a city near you I encourage you to check it out (I believe it's now moved on to Washington D.C). Once I had seen the show I went to do a bit of browsing in the gift shop. The AGO's shop is always rather impressive, and while some of the items are a bit pricey, they always seem to have a few neat things I wouldn't mind bringing home with me.

One item that stood out to me was the Chick-A-Dee Smoke alarm.

Now, before you think I've gone completely off my rocker consider that the design idea comes from the birds miners used to bring with them to work to detect deadly gas, and more importantly, smoke detectors have got to be one of the more unattractive but necessary things in our homes. I love how this adds a bit of whimsy to a normally unimpressive safety device.

Most of the marketing images I found had it placed in a kids room, but I think it would be fun wherever you would put a smoke alarm. What do you think? Would you buy one for you house?