2008: Next to the Loop

I’m not really a top ten kind of girl. (And as soon as I wrote this I realised all the implications of that statement. And I’m leaving it in. ) I always forget something, then feel terrible, or read other peoples top tens, and feel inadequate, or read top ten album/political moments/starring performances by animals [...]

I think they call it pancake butt.

Alright, lets just hop on the straight talk express and ride to honest-ville for a second.
It may come as a shock to you, but I’m really not the agent of instigation here at the M&F household. Case in point? After coming home from work today at 1, I stepped over my luggage in the front [...]

Nancy, we have a problem.

But really – you can’t have too many medium sized brown boots….right? *cringe*. PS – Second from the left are yes, my new Frye boots. Whoop!

Monday Must Have

I’m not going to lie, there may be a little less Monday Must Have’s and Wanted Wednesdays for the next few weeks – I’m feeling a little gluttonous after such a lush and crazy Christmas, and thinking about Must Haves and Wanted’s just makes me feel oh.. like I’m dipping my turkey dinner in chocolate [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – Sister Edition!

Hello Lovelies! Today’s guest blogger has been appearing a lot recently on M&C – My sister! Though we’re seven years apart, we look a lot a like, reinforced by our similar taste in style, fashion and art. I’ve had the strange experience lately of being in public and feeling as though I must be walking [...]

Intervention me. Please.

I know that part of this must go “accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”. But there is the problem. I am so blinded by my puffy eyelids, so groping with my chubby fingers that I cannot tell the difference.. [...]

On the day after Christmas, a road trip gave to me..

12 Christmas Oranges [...]

Whereby I descend into the maddening crowds..

My god. I’m exhausted. We had a collective brain lapse this morning and decided to go to Montreal to do our boxing day shopping. Insanity. I’d love to tell you more about it, but to be honest, I think I’m about to slip into a retail induced coma. So I’m just leaving you with a [...]

Merry Christmas

My lovelies. I’m signing off for the holiday and some time off. All my love to you and yours, thank you so much for visiting, commenting, and being here when I need you. (And giving me such beautiful things to read, and see, and love.) J – I miss you more than I can possibly [...]

Because next year it might be Christmas Churros.

Oh yes, more glances into the life of A and siblings. Wherein we all panic on Christmas Eve and proceed to the shopping centre to run around like manic elves, and regroup outside the Beaver Tail stand and quash/hype our nerves/excitement by eating copious amounts of deep friend dough, sugar, cinnamon and lemon. (Carlynn [...]

Hockey Sweater

{Dala}
We had the pleasure of seeing these two young women (Amanda and Sheila)  in concert the other night and this song just about broke my heart in it’s absolute beauty. They wrote it for a friend who fell in love with, and subsequently had her heart broken by, a hockey player. [...]

Wanted Wednesday

{“The Meeting Place” statue by Paul Day at St. Pancras}
My lovelies. The weather is so terrible here, the flights so delayed, the sky so grey, that even the airline that shall not be named is handing out 500$ vouchers to people as they get ON the plane. Nobody is going anywhere, and faces are grim.
It’s [...]

Laughing Lunch

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{my sister and I}

Yulia Brodskaya, My oh Mya.

{Fantastic work by London based graphic designer Yulia Brodskaya}

Bottegga Nicastro

Chelsea, QC

Dream a little Dream.

Because she’s so damn cute, Zooey² this morning.

Monday Must Have

I’m not sure if this must have is Zooey Dechanel.. or these beautiful tortoise frames from Oliver Peoples. Either is pretty awesome. Come to think of it, I’ll take that cab driver too. And his cab. It’s a greedy Monday here. xoxo

Size 6 1/2 Cure for the Snow.

{Thanks Mom!}

A Sunday Kind of Love – Carlynn Edition!

Hello Lovelies! I’m signing off this snowy Sunday and leaving you in the incredibly capable hands of a very close friend. Carlynn and I met ages ago in Grade 8 (!), and she has stuck by me through sickness, distance and a serious dose of pink hair, any one which could have proved fatal. Her [...]

The Arrival of Snowmaggedon.

My lord. I don’t know what it’s like where you lovelies are, but we just drove through the city, and it is snowing with conviction out there! We turned on the radio and they are predicting about an inch and a half an hour, and they’re bang on as far as I can tell. It’s [...]

The Christmas Buffet. Or – My Brother.

I have a soft spot for old people. They have many soft spots, so I guess it works out.
Every Christmas that my mother has been the Director of Medical Care, we’ve gone to serve the Christmas Buffet (cue oohs and aahs from the octagenarians) at the Old Folks Home. It’s never a lot of work, [...]

Don’t Know Much About Geography…

There are very few regular events that happen in my life, or at least are marked in identical ways – I’ve narrowed it down, as far as I can tell, to birthdays and Christmas. As such, both have become events whereupon I can mark the passage of time, where I stop, take notice of the [...]

The Hand Waving Continues

{Emilie Bjork}
{Miuu}
{Jessica Hans}

Flickr Friday

Hey Lovelies. I’m not feeling so great this morning.. It feels like somebody came around with a baseball bat and hit me in the knees demanding their sleep debt that I accumulated this semester be paid back..NOW, so I feel slightly comatose, arthritic and my tummy is rebelling against anything I put into it. Is [...]

Rock on? (ouch)

{I know. Lame title. But it’s late, and I just couldn’t resist posting this beautiful ring from Masaoms. Incredible.}

Quietly Quietly

{Color and fashion inspiration from the beautiful Nicholas Haggard. Thank you to Fran for reminding my why he’s in my favorites..}

Wanted Wednesday..ish

{“Dreaming of Spring” – Doll Face Design}
Though I’m usually loathe to replicate or borrow anybodies posting, this was one of Jay McCarol’s picks on Etsy today (textile designer plus Project Runway winner..meh) and I just adore it. Dreaming of spring is what I’m often doing in the  -30 weather back home.. but now that I’m [...]

home.

Airports are a funny thing. Because for all intents and purposes I usually do my “leaving” BEFORE I hit the terminal of sadness and over-the-shoulder-sobbiness, (that intent and purpose being I want to look fabulous, not ruin my makeup and be bumped to first class because I couldn’t POSSIBLY be sitting in coach…) I often [...]

Baby.. it’s cold..

{From my living room window}
I took this photo yesterday morning, when the little bits of frost were collecting on my front window, winter pulling a lace veil down over our home in the minus 25 degree weather. This morning it was a complete, nullifying, quieting curtain of frost, our own private modesty screen. It’s truly [...]

Veggie Bling.

These amazing necklaces by Otto Von Quast are actually casts of broccoli – incredible. Though I find the idea of pitching this concept to somebody fairly humorous. “Ok, so we’ve got some broccoli.. and we have a precious metal. Lets say we take them…and put them together..bam! Beauty!” Find them here.

Mimosa. Wear it, drink it, love it.

Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2009 is… Mimosa! (PANTONE® 14-0848) I can dig this. Mustard (or, apparently, Mimosa) has been on the radar for a while, and I look ok in this color. I’m sure they took that into account. Pantone says “In a time of economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount [...]

Monday Must Have

{Neology By Nina}
Good Monday morning my lovelies! I’m basically running the last mile today – I’ve got 2 exams tomorrow, one on Wednesday and then that evening.. I’m going home! J and I celebrated our Christmas this weekend, which I’ll post about later. I’ve been keeping this beautiful Bar Ring all to myself, but [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – Guest Blogger

Hey lovelies! Here is our first guest blogger, I’ll let her introduce herself. J and I are celebrating and early Christmas today, so I’ll let her take it away!
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When Miel asked me to guest blog for Miel et Cannelle, I was both thrilled and intimidated. Thrilled to write alongside such a talented writer, but intimidated [...]

Extended.

{from KnitKnit}
I operate almost exclusively in panic mode. So much so, that the only deviations that truly cause disruption in my life are the times where I am forced to relax. Panic becomes the norm, becomes the regular – I only ever really get sick, tired, depressed, sad… when it slows, when it cools, when [...]

a lighter shade of grey.

{whyte}

I’m pretty sure this means he loves me.

{Even if he isn’t smiling. J at the mother of all craft fairs, which I couldn’t actually fit in my lens…}

File this under: Etsy is stalking my Favorites.

 This jewellery from J McCanles is so absolutely beautiful that I don’t half mind if everyone buys one and makes this uber-talented “copywriter in another life” a raving mad success.

It’s a Wrap

{Tom’s new Wrap Boots}
One of my favorite people that I don’t know (which is many – the don’t know, not the favorite) at my school is this sweet little hippy girl in my Gender class. She has the most brilliant, wild red hair that sticks out all over the place and the most enviable creamy [...]

Embroider-tree..? *groan*

{treefox}

Le Bouton – Sneak Peak

{Le Bouton is going to be releasing some new designs in the next few days – stay tuned, they go fast!}

Yes! I love food! Yes!

You know, this would be kind of nice. Every time I ate everything on my plate, as opposed to feeling like a glutton, there would be some type of glee and encouragement at the bottom of my plate, instead of a gravy stained reflection of my sad sad face. Printed on “found” mismatched plates, Christopher [...]

Thursday’s Style is Cool, Calm and Collected

{Frank Gehry Fish Necklace – Tiffany&Co. , Panama Dress – Toast, Repetto The Japon Shoes – La Garçonne}

Softly Stylish

{via Lookbook.nu}

Bunny Love

{Can you imagine having like, 10 of these on your couch? Damn.. From Velocity.}

2 Small Things.

I came to two realizations as I was cleaning the bathroom today.
1) Despite the honest, smart and eco-friendly reasons to switch to environmentally friendly cleaners, there is really only one true, dark, selfish reason that I did. I am terribly afraid of mustard gassing myself in my bathroom. *laugh* I flipped past a news show [...]

Affordable Art Gift Guide

I’ve been searching for a lot of prints lately under the auspices of Christmas shopping, and have come across a few lovely/interesting new artists. So, since it is entirely possible that a)these are MY picks for MY Christmas presents and b) you may also be looking for some totally affordable Christmas giftable art.. here you [...]

Music to run to. Just joking.

Hello lovelies – it’s Wednesday! I have an exam tomorrow, so that means it’s ALMOST 2 down and three to go. Yay! I’m spending the day curled up at home studying up on my sociology of gender theories, so chances are you’ll hear a fair bit from me today!  Procrastinators.. we [...]

Wanted Wednesday

{Artist Stephanie Levy}
I’m a big fan of mixed media, and this artist just takes the cake. American born and Munich based, Levy’s work is just a perfect balance of print and illustration, style and cheek – I love it.

A Winter Surprise. Surprise, it sucks.

Good evening my lovelies. I ask you, with all politeness, what fresh hell we have descended into today? It was so cold that I spent only 5 small minutes waiting for the damn bus, and I was so very very frozen that when I got off the bus.. I RAN HOME. Literally. Do [...]