Poladroid is a great application for converting your digital photos into digital “polaroids” applying some filters and producing great results. I’ve fallen in love with the app and have used it on many of my photos, but there’s some which simply stand out because of what’s in the photo or the colours or what they represent for me as a whole; I’m sharing those with you:

Putting up wall decals in our loft:

Some clutter in our place:

Our wedding day:

Downtown Toronto:

Biking in august:

Rocks, lake & volcano:

Funny face:

Easter in Antigua:

Panama city from Casco Viejo:

This all makes me want to get an actual Polaroid camera.   

Through Twitter I found out there’s been a 6.2 degree earthquake in Costa Rica pretty close to where my family lives. They are all fine but the damage through the country has been substantial (over 100 houses with damage, landslides, 25  hurt and 2 dead). Apparently there’s been over 250 smaller earthquakes after the big one and they are still happening.

The earthquake took place near the Poas volcano and there’s an impressive Youtube video from one of the tv stations that really captures what happened (and is still happening).

There’s a lot of coverage from ticos on Twitter reporting live, which is amazing. Technology has come such a long way for this to be a reality (getting reports live from people experiencing it). I’m in the loop even though I’m nowhere close to Costa Rica right now.

The highways are collapsing with traffic making it impossible to get around the capital. There’s reports of casualties already, people are being sent home by employers and there are still smaller earthquakes happening three hours after the first one. Newspapers websites and local internet is saturated, the biggest newspaper in the country set up a live chat on their home page for people to report on and others to stay in the loop.

I’ll be keeping an eye on twitter for more reports and information.

This morning I had a hard time walking to brunch thanks to the layers of ice and slush all over Toronto. What a pain it is to do that when you’re not wearing winter boots.

Lisa and I have been on the look out for great wall decals to decorate our new loft in Toronto. We feel that they add so much to a space it’s worth the time they take to put together.
 
The best we have found so far are the designer vinyls at the magic pony:

We are looking for something more interesting though, rather than just playful cute desings.
 
We experienced issues with the last set we got (which weren’t from the magic pony), they would not really stick to the walls and actually started falling off the day we put them up.