Free- Trolls Coloring Page

Are you and your kid/s fan of Trolls? 

Well...my son and I are :)

A new pigment : glorious "YInMn" blue

Blue - lonely, holy, hip, irreverent blue. It was the first man-made pigment, and the last color word developed across cultures. The color reminds us of the ocean, sky, calmness and tranquility, one of the color mostly used by painters is now expanding! …drum roll

A new BLUE pigment is discovered!

What?? What do you mean?? How?

Well...In 2009, as part of his lab at Oregon State University, Subramanian - a professor of materials science -and his students were mixing and grinding chemicals then heating them to over 2000 degree Fahrenheit  to manufacture new materials that could be used in electronics. That was when one grad student, Andrew E. Smith, took a particular mix out of the furnace which had turned to a surprising, bright blue color.

"You know what Louis Pasteur said?" Subramanian asks. "Luck favors the alert mind."

Smith and Subramanian, as it turns out, stumbled upon an undiscovered pigment of blue — the first new blue in over 200 years.

"Color is a part of a spectrum, so you can't discover a color," Subramanian says. "You can only discover a material that is a particular color." That spectrum is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet — no indigo. A pigment is a material that absorbs certain parts of the color spectrum and reflects others.

Yorkvill Village Art Festival - Review

This past weekend, I had the chance to visit Yorkville Village Arts Festival. 

YVAF is an exhibition of contemporary arts done by OCAD university students and recent grads located in downtown Toronto’s Oval Square. The location itself features some of the most fashionable clothing and lifestyle brands.

I found the exhibition a small entertaining event that will run till Nov 9th and presents beautiful paintings, sculptures, textile and acrylic work. 

Below is a sneak peek to the event: 

Art by Lindsay Ferriss

(Quiet) games for 3 to 5 year olds

Cold season is fast approaching and I know there will be more than one occasion that we (parents) have to entertain! Our kids. 

This year, after our recent hospital experience when my son was admitted and not allowed to leave his room for almost a week, I think I’m a bit more prepared ;) and I thought maybe I can share some of our favorite quiet games and toys with you.

*If you want to know what happened to my son, read about it here.

In this post I am going to stick to Puzzles only because you can do so much with them:

• Not only solve them but you can use them instead of plush toys and do a little pretend play: take those farm animals to the stable, dinosaurs for a battle, give them some food, make them jump in muddy puddle then wash them, turn the lights off so they sleep when they don’t want to!, or keep them awake when they are too tired!
• Try using the puzzles pieces as puppets : come up with a story and then put a puppet show. Or you move the pieces to tell your story to your child, or he can be the one who acts and you tell the story (or reverse!).
• Teach them something new about the animals/objects; 

Doctors are humans too! They make mistakes, can be inexperinced or unethical...get a second and/or third opinion.

Rant Alert!!! this post is to share with you how inexperienced and unethical some doctors and nurses can be and how big of a risk we take if we only take the advice of doctors without listening to that inner voice that we all have. 

It all started last Thursday with a mild tummy trouble, then fever accompanied with diarrhea on Friday. Things got worse when vomiting was added to the equation on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, things were out of control; we couldn’t lower my son's temperature, despite he had lots of Advil & Tylenol in his system so we rushed to Mackenzie Health Hospital’s emergency.

After about 4-5 hours of waiting, doctor Shelton visited my son. He just asked a few questions and concluded that we should wait for few days then if he is not any better, we can go to see our family doctor and that it’s just a virus nothing to worry about.

So we left the hospital but when we got home, the fever went back rocket high to 39.5 even though he was almost maxed on the dosage of Advil AND Tylenol. We wrapped him in a cold wet blanket and went back to Mackenzie Health’s emergency. We told the nurses that we were there half an hour ago and that we insist on seeing the doctor again because of the high fever and that my son was very pale with blue lips, shivering and feeling very weak.

First they asked us to stay in the line again to "Get a number and create another chart!!"....after they