I went to the Junction to see if any of the holiday window art had been kept.
Every holiday season artists paint, usually frost-like images, on the windows of shops.
It’s only there for a month, a cold and snowy month. This is why I’ve never made it there for the happening.
I found only one. It’s on a record store window. I don’t know if it’s from the art fest or not, but I like it.
I was in a window once,
in a pantyhose ad.
Found this when tossing stuff from the back of a closet. Kinda glad I still have it… crumpled & stained though it may be. (I touched amap out as possible.)
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She’s Pretty & she’s on a trash bin, so she’s Pretty Trashed.
Pics taken by Resa – May 25 & 30, 2026
Toronto, Canada
Artists: Unknown to me at this time
Graffiti Lux Art & More 
The winter girl in the window is lovely as is pretty trashed. The photograph of you is terrific. What fun that you were a model. All girls wish they were pretty enough to be models and you were.
I agree, Robbie! Both the window and trash bin women are equally beautiful. I adore street art faces. (all faces in art actually) Still, something about being painted on a wall, window or bin etc. adds extra poignancy.
Thank you about the model thing. It’s interesting to me now that I didn’t care about that. Many wanted to take my photo, and I was in other ads for friends when they asked, but I wanted to be the one dressing the talent, the one deciding on the costuming, behind the camera. ❦🌹
That’s fine. I think being a designer is a longer career. I assume modeling ends at some point as you get older.
What a fun post. I love the pretty trashed girl- inverted cross and all!
Thanks Violet! Ahh, I didn’t catch t he inverted cross bit. Yes, I see it, but it meant nothing to me. Interesting.
I love the old photo of your ad Resa. And how fun that shops have their windows painted for the holidays.
Thank y ou, Brad! Yes, those painted windows are such a cool happening.
OK! This year I’m going, for sure!
Maybe you can send a drone. 😄
Hahahahaha!
I can afford the bus fare to get there, but a drone is not in my budget. 😂
Oh well. 😄
I could afford… 🤔 … a battery. 😂
The energizer Resa. 😁
I’ve been called that before, and worse. 😂
Such a beautiful windowpane; it must look warm on cold winter days. And such beautiful trash, though in our modern world, I will always look into the trash, as I know its worth missing!
Thank you, Resa, dear friend.
🙏💕🤗💖
Thanks Aladin!
Trash… it is really a huge component of out=r modern world.
I’m using some really nasty trash to try and make my new gown. Ouch! What a challenge. I’ve been at it off and on for a year.
Sending love, dear friend!
❦🌹⭐️💛
You’ll touch them, and they’ll turn into beautiful art.
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What a fun post. The window is so pretty and perfect for winter in black and white. Trash girl needs a better venue. LOL I don’t think she’s happy there. Another fun post with beautiful art. 🙂
Thanks Gi!
I really need to make it to the Junction when the window art fest is in full swing. This year!
Trash bin girl … I wonder who painted her? Could be an up and comer? Maybe I’ll find more of her on a wall one day. Still, that alley is fabulous. If I was art, I’d be thrilled to be in there somewhere. ❦⭐️
You can figure out how to get on the wall. I’m sure of it. And that seems like such a wonderful place to find art. You can do it.
love the windowpane art and so fun to see your flashback picture
I adore the window art too, Beth. There is something Art Nouveau about it.
That photo… my hair… I have poker straight hair. It’s so cool that for 1 day I had curly hair. My hat’s off to the hairdresser!
Looking beautiful with your theater binoculars!
Thank you, Cheyenne!
Those binoculars are cool. I wonder if theatre goers still use them? I haven’t been in about a decade. Maybe they have BIG Screens now?
Such a great idea , seasonal window art. Gf, you are so gorgeous. I love that you retrieved this ad.
xoxoxoxo
Thanks Meece!
I will try harder to get to the actual window art fest this year. It’s just that the cold and snow are not my bag, but, I’ll try!
Yeah, the ad is a hoot. I’m intrigued by my curly hair. My hair is so straight, it defies curling. That hairdresser was gifted.
Hey, watched Bowie vids this morning. You are right about his eyes. Wow… they are sooo blue and clear and wildly expressive.
I feels like another Black and white drawing… with blue eyes. Make the blue pop.
xoxoxoxoxo
I woukd love to see some winter art but don’t want you to go out and freeze trying to get it!
Did you notice that Bowie has one blue eye and one brown eye? Born that way.
That’s fascinating!
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NO… I did not notice.
I was watching mostly live performances, to get his live energy. Promo videos are very different.
Thinking about it, in one of the vids I watched, he had 2 blue eyes. It was not a live image, but an arty one.
I need to find a close up of his eyes!
His eyes will be a feature of the portrait.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
These words really got me:
Ooh, look out, you rock ‘n’ rollers
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older.
He was so right!
That was another great song of his! Oh, yes! The years are passing by and I’ve earned every line on this face! Love you Meece!
xoxoxoxoxo
LUV YA!!!
xoxoxo🐭🐭xoxoxo
Such a fun, eclectic post! Wow–look at you, gorgeous, glamour girl!! So great to see this!
I love that someone made a trash bin beautiful. The window painting is lovely, too.
Thanks Merril!
Lol, I had to be a glamour girl sometimes. It was one of the ways I kept my rock’n’roll guitar playing hubs in check.
A pretty face on a not pretty something is one of the things I like about street art – the juxtaposition appeals to me.
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You’re welcome! 😊
Yes, I like the juxtaposition, but also just making something mundane beautiful.
Agree! ❦
Oh, I was intrigued to see the Hopper painting you use sometimes for prosery (girl alone in a cafe) was in an art article today about the “Saddest Paintings in Art History”. https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-saddest-paintings-in-art-history/
Oh, I’ll have to check it out.Thanks!
Cool!
The window art is beautiful; goes beyond winter holiday time. Too bad that girl is trashed. I agree with hitandrun that she needs a better place. It’s great that you revived your appearance in that ad. Very glamorous!
Thanks Audrey!
Yeah Gi (Hit and Run) is right. However, the artist may paint her somewhere else in the future, as is the way with street art. And I’ll hopefully find it.
Yeah, it was fun to find my old self in the back of a closet. Thank you!
Wonderful window and street (trash) art! The black and white really catches the eye. I wish my bin could look like that; it would certainly brighten things up! What a glam ad; I bet you had fun being in it! 🦋🌷🦋
Trash art…love the phrase, Ada!
You could paint your bin? I see more and more garbage bins painted. Hmm, maybe I should collect pics of those too? I could call the post GART. (garbage art)
Yeah, it was fun that day, long ago. I love the curly hair. I have poker straight hair, so it was a treat!
xo❦🕊🌹🕊❦
⬻𓂀☆♡ 🎀 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑣𝑦 🎀 ♡☆𓂀⤖
Agree, 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐲… on a sunny afternoon…
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The woman in the window is wonderful. The pantyhose ad as great. When was it done? Pretty trashed looks like she has the blues.
I think the woman in the window has an Art Nouveau vibe. That appeals to me.
The ad…. in the 90’s. It was a bit before we moved here.
Thanks Tim! xx
Fun times! There’s a touch of ‘ooh-la-la’ about that photoshoot. Have a lovely weekend, Resa xx
Ooolala! Lololol.
Art is fun. You have a great weekend too, Jo! xx
Great photos of the art, Resa. I loved that shot of you by the window. It is a super ad. I enjoyed the trash lady too. 🐂
Thanks John! All in all a wonderful world of art.
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Yes indeed. Made better by your talent. 😊X
Aww, OX OX
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This is fantastic, it took me a few minutes to process this
Thank you! Art has a way of both arming and disarming us.
“Pretty trashed” haha. I love the top one found of the record store with records in the petals. Cool.
Yay! Yeah, I though Pretty Trashed was a cute title.
Yes, the girl in the window is very Art Nouveau like. I love it!
Thank you for visiting, Melanie!
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I do like the window painting of the record store. It is so romantic. 🙂
Stay safe, dear Resa!
It is romantic…sort of Nouveau to me.
You have a wonderful weekend, Martha, and you stay safe, too! ❦🌹
Beautiful B/W art; I love it, so gorgeous!!
But WHOA, I LOVE your photo in the pantyhose ad! The 80s vibe is so cool, it’s trendy again now as I see young folks wearing pantyhose with flats now. Look at your shapely legs, oh la la! 😍
Happy weekend, Resa!
♥❦❧XOXOXOXO♥❦❧
The art is lovely, kind of Art Nouveau!
Yeah… to bad we age. (but my legs have survived) That photo is closer to 90’s… after we got rid of the BIG shoulder pads ordeal.
Yes, the lace and slippers are very Madonna, Cindy Lauper 80’s. But advertising is always behind.
Pantyhose is back eh? It never went out for me… LOL! Shows my age. I hope black pantyhose comes back. I love that.
Happy weekend to you too, Ruth.
Hey, I’m enjoying Widows Bay! Thanks for the tip & I will def nom it!
xo❦🕊🌹🕊❦xo
The woman with flowers in her hair is a very striking piece of art, Resa!
I agree, it really is lovely, Dave.
Cats in her hair would be more stunning, but I adore flowers in hair.
Ha, Resa! 😂 Maybe that will happen during the next Leap Year. 🙂
Okay! When is the next Leap year? OMG – 2028, an election year.
Quick, someone start The Cat Nip Party!
At some point cats might be better at running things. They already do, sort of.
They have my vote! 🙂
They’d win… no doubt!
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What a fun collection, Resa! I’m so glad you found that splendid photo/ad of yourself.
I like the record shop window a lot too… the style of the drawing and the vinyl albums as centers for the flowers. Thanks or sharing these. Hugs on the wing!
Yes, finding that old ad brought back a lot of memories. I try not to keep too much from the past. I find it can weigh me down emotionally.
But this ad was a cool memory.
I adore both the art pieces. Their canvases are just as interesting.
Hugs flying to you on bee’s knees!
Resa… I think when I say it comes to imagination knowing no bounds that pic of you is the best cos in its own way I know no anything…. It is wonderful. AND the rest of the images in this post are pretty epic too xxxxxxx for this xx
Interesting comment, Shey. I like this.
It’s true. We meet out here, knowing nothing about each other except our creative output.
Then one day someone posts a slice from the past.
For people who grow up with this tech, it will be different.
For us, it’s like that life then, and this life now.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx for that xxx
Exactly. I just thought when I saw the pic…way to go lady.!! What a great slice of your life to have kept. it is amazing actually.
Yay! Thanks Shey!
Someone just said I was channelling Kate Bush. I adore her. xxxx
I won’t say she was channeling you! Oops. All joking apart I agree. Seriously thank you for this braw glimpse of your life. xxxxxxxxxxxxx You know there’s a Scottish guy who was the brains and artist behind the Great Tapestry of Scotland — a massive project. Anyway when he was an art student years before all that he was looking for folks to take part in a silent movie short, as part of his final piece so I was one. He did the most amazing photographs from that shoot. All in b&w, like old movie stills. he also did a whole lot of artwork and there I was centre stage with flowing black hair and flower garlands. I couldn’t believe it. Alas I don’t even have a single bit of any of these. So it is great you have this. And you look abso fabulpous on it.
Thank you!!!
Call me Katres.
Yes, kidding aside, it is – IMO – important not to weigh ourselves down with baggage from the past; be it emotional or visual in pics or memorabilia. Still a few choice images, a few momentos are a lovely connection.
What is the generation who has grown up with smart phones going to do with the plethora of images they are collecting?
There is so much, the images lose impact, are relieved of all preciousness.
There is 1 B&W photo of my grandparents wedding in known existence. Looking at is a visceral happening.
Sending hugs for a great week ahead!
I got a pic like that of both of mine. One is just a photocopy . I never ever knew one set at all But the ones I did know, well they were an ill matched couple, married after she secured herself in the time honored way, pinching him from someone else in a city with hardly any men cos of ww1. I used to think her pose suggested she had got him. But if you look really close, it is more like someone knowing they’ve made a mistake and hoping i will work. Totally agree re the current trend re the amount of pics folk take and keep.
Interesting.
Lol…pinching him… and intriguing what you read in the pic.
I can’t stand selfies. When people ask for one now, I say not until my hair and make-up team get here. It doesn’t seem too offend them as much as NO! xx
I can’t sand them either. Dahling, one must offer exactly that excuse to basically say NO. LOL. Oh yeah my nan did pinch him. The hand resting on his shoulder in the pic is far more tentative closer up, when you really look.
Ha! xxxxxxx
There is something wonderfully dreamlike about the woman in the window, Resa. The flowing lines, flowers, and swirling hair remind me of the Art Nouveau artists who blurred the boundaries between nature and imagination. What fascinates me is that this appears to be the lone survivor of a temporary display. Most window art disappears with the season, yet this image remains—almost like a fragment of a larger story. Sometimes what survives captures our attention even more than what was originally there. Thank you for a great post!
You are welcome, Rebecca! I so love sharing art.
I agree about the Nouveau feel to the image.
I always wish they would keep the window art, but there is something special about the festival’s art’s ephemerality that keeps it special.
Maybe this is the year I get there in time!
Thank you for your wonderful comment!
A very cool tradition (no pun intended).
Lol…Pete!
At least you weren’t frosty about it.
Trash Girl’s smile is more enigmatic, and more interesting, than that of the Mona Lisa
I agree. She looks like she knows something, and maybe she’ll tell us or maybe she’ll keep it to herself.
I’m loving this whole (maybe better than) Mona Lisa smile.
Street art can be surprising. Many artists go on in their art careers, having been noticed on a wall, or trash bin somewhere.
The world is a gallery.
“The world is a gallery.” I love it!
Yay! It really is, Liz. Not all the images are nice, but some are fabulous and there’s lots to see.
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Hello Penny,
This is an interesting comment. Ha! Street art rules… well, the smile on this one anyway.
And you have made me smile. Thank you!
We had a wonderfully enigmatic smile on a mural-art woman painted high on a downtown Vancouver building — alas now painted out, and the building itself due for demolition & replacement with something-or-other
Penny,
Yes, that happens.
If I know something will be torn down, I always check it out. There seems to be a flurry of art on doomed buildings.
The ephemerality appeals to street artists. Also, if they aren’t being paid, they get to do 100% what they want. It is some of the best art.
Exactly. I suspect money became a noose around the formerly creative neck of the VMF (Vcr Mural Festival) — originally real street art, plus talented street muralists, but as the Festival attracted some corporate support, the art became (while still competent in execution) more safely non-controversial and decorative. The Festival no longer exists, and the street art scene here (Vcr) does not have the vitality I associate with Toronto
Interesting, Penny.
Yes, there used to be some fabulous street art in Vancouver.
Toronto is hanging in, in spite of corps using street art motif here and there. I don’t take pics of that. We still have a program, where the artists can get free paint. And they do sponsor a couple of big murals every year.
I love the woman in the record store window, but of course you in the window are even better!
Aww.. thanks Liz. It was a cool time of my life.
It blows my mind how fast the time passes.
It doesn’t really fly by. It moves so fast, one can’t see it. It’s invisible. Then we are invisible with it… in a way.
You’re welcome, Resa. I experience time the same way.
You in a window channeling Kate Bush 😙
OMG! Thanks Matt! I adore Kate Bush.
Obviously 😚
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I’m feeling Roy Lichtenstein channeling Valley of the Dolls in the black and white and I love it. As for Blue Girl, it’s giving me Les Mis vibes and I love that too.
I can see that.. Valley of the Dolls vibe.
Ohh yeah… I get the Les Mis vibes too! Great spotting. YES!
MUAH!
Very much so, it’s so . . . wait for it . . . groovy!
Thank you lovely.
MUAH!
MUAH!
Wow, I love the winter girl and the trash bin girl, but woohoo at you the star of the show! 💜💚❌⭕❌
Yahoo!
Lol… thanks Debby! A little bit of the past catches up, now and then.
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I love it!!! xoxoxo
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Thank you Resa for always bringing art to our “windows”. The record store art was very good technique. Lots of emotions conveyed. Plus the records being already a thing of the past added a touch of nostalgy.
So that is you in the ad? (You have been busy in your life… Compliments)
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Yes, I have been busy! Still going strong, still busy, still “on the move!”
Now… it’s about art.
Thank you, Brian! xx OH… this is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mewnvI_3gNI
Of course the US depends on Canada for many things. As we all depend on each other. Interesting video. Thanks Resa
Welcome Brian! Yes, we are in interdependent world. “No man is an island” has ever been more true.
I’ll be by tomorrow! xx
Indeed, it’s just the rednecks who don’t realise that.
(I’m struggling with the new WP visual format!!! Whys do they always “fix something that works”!) Grrrr.
YES… me Grrr too!
The comments notifier is annoying now. WTF! I think they keep fixing things that aren’t broken to keep people in jobs.
WHOA! I hope AI isn’t fixing (NOT) everything.
Yes! That’s atrocious. It used to be unread comments had a colour background, now this is a bl..dy mess! I hope they monitor our comments. But… Remember when they changed the editor! Arrgghh!
Something weird now, my old comments annotator is back!?!?
Yeah… the editor…turns out I like the new one, but it took me a lot of TIME because of the learning curve.
Everything is overkill like this, now.
I need a new TV.
OMG! WTF!
Tech is moving to fast. It’s costing consumers a lot of $$$ & time.
One tv said – pros… good for someone who wants to keep their tv for over 5 years.
Ummm… mine is now 23 years old.
And don’t get me going about the new washer and dryer I had to buy. The guy tried to get me to buy a “SMART” set.
I asked, “what makes it smart”.
He said , “you can hook it up to internet.”
I asked, “why?”
He said, “so you can start it when you’re not at home.”
I said, “that is the stupidest thing I ever heard. Until it can sort the laundry, put it in the washer, select the proper cycle, then load it into the dryer, set, the dryer cycle, then fluff, fold and put the laundry away – it’s still stupid”
I bit my tongue before I said , “Like you!”
Yes, the old visual is back. I think this was a test and everybody screamed. (So they are reading our comments…)
Hmmm. New TV. Oft times, ours -about 5-8 years old goes out of phase and it takes our 10 year-old grandson to fix it. 😳
And yes, connecting your washing machine to the Internet is stupid. (The next model will use ChatGpt or Anthropic… 🤣)
LOL… New Podcast – A chat with Resa’s washing machine.
😉
These are wonderful photos!
Thanks Dan! Lotsa fun out there.
Love the window art and the idea that inspires it. How did it begin?
And nice pegs. 🙂
Lol…pegs! Thanks!
Not sure how it started, but they have a holiday winter window fest every year.
I need to get there this year, before all of the art is gone. BUT it is soooo cold at that time of year.
We don’t get real cold here – no snow or ice etc – but I know the feeling of not wanting to get out of a nice warm house!
I also love the fact that such a creative idea was proposed and took root so strongly. Definitely more pics if you can manage it. 🙂
I will try!!! ❦
So u were hot. Love this all. Through and through.
Thanks Daniel! I lost track of you for awhile. Did you take a blogging break? Or was it me?
No. Not you. I took a three year break. 😊. Just couldn’t write anymore. Not really sure why. Don’t know if I can now. Want too. We will see. I missed you and the Whitby Ladies, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and all my ghost.
Hmm, well, don’t force yourself. It won’t “happen”.
Try new approaches, to feel fresh and inspired. Like MAYBE.. Just very short prose, or poems, or “short” anecdotes to make a point.
Take pics of images that inspire you, write a few words with their inspiration. Best to use your own pics, not AI or other pics. IMO
Something out of the blue that no one is doing, which I don’t know what that is because no one is doing it. I do Art Gowns.
Perhaps do ONLY Whitby Ladies? Perhaps branch out from Whitby Ladies with another place and ilk of ladies? Write about both and set up a juxtaposition, or healthy rivalry.
I guess my point here is “creative passion”.
I think it’s like love. Don’t look for it. It never seems to come. Just be out there, expose yourself to ideas. Then suddenly one day, you are in it. It finds you.
And I’m John Belushi on a ladder!😍🪜(🤙)