Fantastic Man

{Fantastic Man Magazine}
It’s hard enough for me to get J. into anything that could be slightly likened to pastel (the man gets iffy around slate grey for goodness sakes) but some of these pieces are really incredible, and regardless of any likeness to a metrosexual easter bunny.. I like it.

Spring-spiration

I just bought these on the way home from the courthouse and they made me so happy! I’m loving how rich and beautiful they are, and how spring they make my living room feel. The little kids are playing and laughing outside, I’m making a beautiful spring salad for dinner… *sigh* A good day.

Monday Must Have

{Dress – Dear Golden, Shrug – Allen Company Inc}

Once upon a time, as recently as this Sunday
A girl insisted on acting like it was Monday.
She was glum, she moaned, she flailed around,
Didn’t do anything, melancholia abound.
She cleaned her house (mostly from spite)
Stayed up late and grumped about all night.
Monday came and she felt like [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – Bits and Bobs

Bon weekend friends – I’m sorry this is so late, the weekend has been a little bit much for me. I’m posting some of the beauty that has kept me afloat for the past few days, and hope that it carries you along with it too. xoxo

{Le Ballon Rouge}
{Oh Hello Friend}
 

{tweexcore}
 
{Ffffound}

{via [...]

Friday Five

This week has been one of the strangest, most embarrassing and hilarious weeks I’ve had in a while. SO, instead of doing a Friday 5 of things that I’m thankful for, we’re going with 5 things that happened this week that really really need to be shared.
1.
I was trying on dresses in Club Monaco for [...]

SEE Spring Fashion!

Hey everyone! It’s HERE! I’m so pleased, everything looks so beautiful – thank you to everyone (Loyal Loot, Nokomis, Bike Works, Soul Soup and Michael, Meryl and Angela) who made this so incredibly beautiful and special. Check out the slide show of the shots in the paper HERE, a behind the scenes look at some of the [...]

SEE Andrea freak out. Again.

Hello petite cornichons. I’m running a bit.. ahem.. behind… today. (See: despite the most valiant efforts on my part, I didn’t manage to get even 1/2 of what I wanted to do yesterday done.. *hyperventilation*) So I’m going to leave you with a little bit of exciting news – the SEE Spring Fashion [...]

Wanted Wednesday – Beesnetta

{Beesnetta – The Field Guide Bag}
To say that I like “big” bags is a little bit of an understatement. To say that I essentially have a hump equitable to the that of a world class violinist is actually more apt. I generally have everything I could need in the event of a) a hurricane (granola [...]

#8

{Gabrielle Tilley}
At the end of the day, the bus didn’t smell or look much better than a public washroom. The floor was wet and soggy, the preventitive sandy grip floor peeled away from the edges and curled forward, catching transluscent cigarrettes in the tsunami of ice and slush. The smell of alcohol processed through pores [...]

Tuesday Inspirations

{The softness of my new sheets, and how manly J looks wrapped in flowers}

{It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand what she’s saying. Francoise Hardy is so beautiful, you wouldn’t be listening anyways.}

{The Oxford Shirt Dress from AA}

{Dear Golden Vintage Heeled Oxfords}

Monday Must Have(s) – The Cheap (ish) and Chic

Happy Monday Chums! It’s a busy week ahead of me with all sorts of goodies going on, including the fashion issue coming out on Thursday. This weekend was so rejuvenating, I feel like not only making it to the end of the semester, but doing so with a modicum of sobriety and self preservation. Go [...]

A New Project

{The new sheet set and duvet from vintage sheets I made! Look at handy me go.. I also love this photo..}
There was a lot of creativity flying around our little house this weekend – cameras were clicking, I sewed a new duvet cover (and you do realise when I say “sewed” I meant three [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – Guest Blogger from Paris!

Hello All! Today’s Sunday Kind of Love comes to us direct from Paris. Lila is that fabulous student studying over in Aix (who turns us all green with envy) and when she offered to do a Sunday Kind of Love from Paris while on a trip with her boyfriend (I am now a jade color…) [...]

Saturday Inspirations

{Plants and Animals – Feedback in the Field}
{Via the Selby}
{Grunge Gypsy}

The Flora and Fauna

 By some incredibly strange set of consequences and luck this evening, J and I both have a Friday night off. Not just off from work, but… off. Everything that needs to be done is going to get done tomorrow in my sunny office, anything else that doesn’t need to get done by tomorrow certainly can be [...]

Friday Five

Brief quibble before we start with the angels and cupcakes – my house is surrounded by a moat. Not a small stream, not some “spring melt” but a moat that I cannot, despite my furious attempts, stretch my legs across. I have to walk all the way up the block and into a backyard to [...]

CanStyle Files – Maryam Keyhani

 
 
{Maryam Keyhani}
Hello Lovelies! We’re starting a little feature here at M&C called the CanStyle Files. Working at the paper, blogging here, I’m coming across the most incredible Canadian talent that needs to be displayed – et voila. I’m starting the little series with these absolutely.. mind boggling.. pieces from Maryam Keyhani. Inspired by her art [...]

The Awesome Imperative

{Recovering Lazyholic via Daydream Lily}
Bonjour everyone! It’s only 7:30 and it’s already a fairly exciting day at M&C. Shall I tell you why? Yes! I have one piece of secret exciting news, PLUS I’m going to pick up my brand new SLR that is by all intents and purposes a birthday gift that I just [...]

Dream Ride

{The Pashley Princess}
I’m not really one for dream interpretation or analysis, but let me tell you, lately…I’ve been having these really intense dreams about having a baby and being so .. confused as to what to do with it, how to feed it… Followed promptly by a dream about rolling down a hill on this [...]

Wanted Wednesday

{shespeaksoceans / for me, for you}
It used to be that there were only maybe 5 blogs that I visited religiously, went through the process of getting a feed reader for, checked everyday. That number has since expanded exponentially to the point where it usually takes me a good two days to get back to the [...]

Bird Brains. Indeed.

Hello little aubergines. I’m on the run today to an exam and to hack away at my first thesis draft due on Thursday. I am going to sleep like the dead Thursday night, I tell you! But while I’m running about telling myself it’s just a few more weeks, I’m going to be listening to [...]

Monday Must Have

Hello Pretty Pretties, happy Monday! I’m looking out my office window (which I can say now, because J. made me an office and now I can drink coffee and write and say things like “looking out my office window” and it’s not a blatant lie..) and it’s snowing big huge soft flakes. Which, a few [...]

Sunday Kind of Love – Leafing the City

Happy Sunday Lovelies. Sadly our somewhat spring like weather deserted us in the middle of the night, and left us sullen and sad in our light cardigans and open toed sandals.. sometimes with this weather I feel like I’m pulled from one side of C.S. Lewis’s magic wardrobe to the other, befuddled and poorly dressed [...]

In my minds eye, I look like her today.

{Neil Krug}
Hey folks – I’m feelin’ a little nutty and exhausted today so A Sunday Kind of Love won’t be posted until a little bit later. However, if you’re feeling vicarious, you can capitalize on me succumbing to peer pressure and reactivating my twitter account after almost 2 years of it languishing. I’m there, under [...]

One last thing.

{Rachel Comey}
Oh lovelies, it is Friday! I’m almost done work, I have a wonderful drink with a friend awaiting, a full fabulous weekend and I’ve been looking at this beautiful dress for damn near a half hour. Yes? Yes life is good. xoxo

Friday Five

Despite being outrageously busy, it seemed like there were just more moments of awesome this week – perhaps because I’m becoming better at noticing them. I also completely forgot to mention that I was guest blogging over at Good Girl Gone Blog for Pink Thursday.. so go check her out for my pink picks. I’m [...]

Like a junkie folks. A well shod junkie.

{This was the preview photo printed for Spring Fashion today!}
Alright, things aren’t exactly slowing down, but they are falling into place a little more! All the clothes have been picked and set for Saturday’s shoot, and I’m ready to take on school and work tomorrow with renewed gusto. I’ve miraculously managed to make all meetings, [...]

Happy Birthday! Please god, don’t drink shots with milk in them.

This has been blowing my mind lately. I can assume that you all have some general memory of 1991. Yes? Ok. Hold onto that. My sister’s 18th birthday is today. Got it? Ok. She was born in 1991. Which, by my incredible powers of deduction, I figured out that 1991 was indeed 18 years ago. [...]

But the rings.. on my fingers..

{Ach Ach Liebling}
*gurgle* Must.. Not.. Shop..

The Things I Could Have Used

{SEE by Chloe at Gravity Pope. I held one of these in my hands the other day and contemplated how far I could get with them. And the likelihood that I’d be able to go back and get the other in a weeks time.}
i) I am not stupid. Yet, I do not find pleasure in [...]

Bonjour Provence

This little picture of Lila at her “local library”  over on Bonjour Provence made me so happy. Her blog is delish, I’ve been keeping it to myself, but can’t resist sharing. She’s a young ‘un studying abroad in France and recording her adventures here. I envy her and love her to pieces all at the [...]

Serenity Now!

{A badge of courage from Miss Crowland Leather}
The few of me that know me in real life, and the ones that read carefully here know that I am a little high strung. A psychological soprano if you will. I operate best, and with the most efficiency under stress. I never figured that my positive efficiency/stress [...]

Wish me luck..

{Keith Davis Young}
Hello lovelies. I’m on the run today shooting at Loyal Loot (wish  me luck) and still have a lot of running around to do prior, and more work after. I hope that you all have a lovely Tuesday, and I’ll see you late tonight or  tomorrow! xo

A Sunday Kind of Love – Winter, I’m Leaving You.

Dear Winter -
It hasn’t always been like this, has it? There was a time, just a few months ago, where we weren’t always at each others throats like itchy scarves. I haven’t always sobbed into my pillow as I glanced up at your face at my window, or turned the television off when I saw [...]

For a very important date..

Hey tulips – I’m late, as per usual, but on this particular day I am artificially late – damn that daylight savings time. It’s not saving me anything. I’m on my way to the school and have (have have have) to get this paper done by tonight in time to study a ridiculous set of [...]

What I really do on Saturday mornings..

See: have Jared lift me up on his legs and pretend I’m flying. Take pictures of said adventure. Then go to school.

Help Wanted

{Blue Bell Bazaar}
Hey folks – I’m stopping in on the fly. Because the weekends are getting busier and busier for me (which doesn’t sound like correct grammer..) I’m looking for some lovely readers out there to take on A Sunday Kind of Love for the next few Sundays. It’s a feature that I really really adore [...]

Friday Five

Due to C and E.P.’s unrelenting inspiration (and the fact that it’s working…) I’m turning Friday over to a new feature. For my own sanity, I’ve taken to thinking about all the good things that happen in my week, even when it’s rough going. So on Fridays I’m going to start sharing them in the [...]

Winter Got the Girl

For once, she returned home later than him – the house was already warm and full of life as she shuffled in with bags of takeout. “At least it’s sushi!” she smiled at him, “We may split the hairs of our spending rules if not the seats of our pants.” They smiled and chatted about [...]

What am I doing with these rocks in my pocket? Oh, swimming.

{Sheena Callage}
Hello pumpernickels.  I’m consistently making the small, panicky sounds of a cornered baby hedgehog, so I think it’s best if I sign off for the week. I promise on the weekend I will regale you with an entirely hilarious story explaining why everything that WAS on my walls at 9pm last night is now [...]

Wanted Wednesday – Spring

Hello lovelies! It’s been a bit busy around M&C these past couple days. Unfortunately, Jared has fallen ill (which is pretty impressive considering this is the first time this winter) and it’s fast becoming crunch time with the fashion issue. (I have some pretty exciting news about that, but I’m keeping it under my [...]

Splash

splash
the illusion is that you are simply
reading this poem.
the reality is that this is
more than a
poem.
this is a beggar’s knife.
this is a tulip.
this is a soldier marching
through Madrid.
this is you on your
death bed.
this is Li Po laughing
underground.
this is not a god-damned
poem.
this is a horse asleep.
a butterfly in
your brain.
this is the devil’s
circus.
you are not reading this
on [...]

Monday Must Haves

Hello pickles. It’s flippin’ Monday. I’m not sure where my weekend went.. oh wait.. yes I do.. here. But we digress. I do feel a little sad that I didn’t do a Sunday Kind of Love post yesterday, but I was feeling a little wacky (as is evidenced by the entirely too personal story). So [...]

Nota Bene

{Jurate Gacionyte}
Hey folks. There isn’t going to be a Sunday Kind of Love today – my apologies. Spent the afternoon/evening in l’hôpital  and I’m just not up to being witty and creative. Which explains why I’m switching channels from “My New BFF” and “From G’s to Gents”. xoxo
***
Later that same day.. Har har. Yeah. I [...]