Soft Sunday Inspiration

{some shots of vintage clothing/fabric from our trip this weekend. miel et cannelle}

Friday Five

Happy Friday lovelies. This week took the piss out of me (mind the french there) and I’m thrilled it’s over. I went out last night to see Clues, but sadly, after a stellar opener (Yes, Nice) we were left with way too much down time and 20 minutes of warm up on Clues part – and [...]

To be good.

{via the ever talented New Orleans artist Rebecca Rebouche}

Tantrums

{Men in Cities – Robert Lungo}
Damn yo. It’s been a rough one.
I was once standing in the frozen food aisle when I saw a child, about three years old, pitch himself down onto the ground. He lay there, kicking and yelling and screaming and wailing. And his beautiful, well put together mother put down her [...]

Wanted Wednesday

{United Bamboo at Opening Ceremony}
I, like every other daughter of a nurse, got a detailed and uncensored version of the facts of life. Not in a crude manner, but in a “this is the what what, and this is the how how.” I, like every other daughter of a mother, had some inkling of the [...]

Horizonless Manhatten

{here and there}
Check out these incredible (and sort of strange.. I think they give me vertigo.. but I’m not sure..) posters by here and there. “They’re intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.” For god [...]

Color Inspiration

{miel et cannelle}
Hey all! Wanted Wednesday is going to be a little late today, I’m in a bit of a rush this morning! Mostly because I was procrastinating using my new lens attachments and tripod and remote.. *smile* I will be back a little bit later. Cheers chums!

For Me, For You – No Really. For You.

{For Me, For You Etsy Shop!}
I think creativity is like a virus. I wander around the blogosphere and become so inspired, so compelled to create, so interested and invested in people and their projects that sometimes I’m struck dumb and infected by the beauty of it all.
In a poor but apropos metaphor, if creativity is a virus, then Kate at For Me, [...]

It’s in the air.

Jeepers creepers, what a week this is going to be! J and I have decided to head to Calgary this weekend to (in equal parts) see his family and head to Farm, a restaurant I’ve been itching to go to since it opened. We’ve been trying to plan a trip down for a few months, [...]

Monday Must Have

Hello sweet tarts, happiest Monday! I had a beautiful and warm weekend full of cheery friends and good food, sunshine and bike rides. Jared came home Sunday and we had a big dinner with friends and family – the perfect way to end the weekend. I’ve always been a huge fan of big Sunday dinners, [...]

Friday Five

I’m not going to ask “Do you watch COPS?” , because you do. There is a singular, beautiful moment in every car chase where there is the wobble: a quick swerve and correction where the man in the car looses control for a brief moment, hits the road spikes or dodges a dog, and recovers. And that [...]

The Remains of the Day

{miel et cannelle}

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Wanted Wednesday – Giveaway!

Hello persimmons! To counteract the still chilly weather (I biked to work in a toque and gloves!) I thought I’d cheer us up with a giveaway, for your choice of one of the neck-fanciers above. We’re getting really close to being at 100 subscribers (which makes me really happy), and so the giveaway will work like this [...]

Belated Monday Must Have

So it snowed. Yes. Seeing as how the weather is feeling … whimsical… I’m going to share some whimsical wants of mine from BLESS, availible at Stand Up Comedy. Because I just want to stay firmly focused upon my computer screen instead of looking out the window at the wintery wonderland outside. *grinds teeth*
As per [...]

The Happy Returns

{Via DeviantArt}
Hello little gateaux. I should have been up with the birds doing yoga and celebrating the first day of being a certain age, drinking soy shakes and meditating on philosophical, dietary and spiritual goals, but alas, it was not to be. Instead I heaved my un-yoga’d, year older self out of bed to go [...]

Cake

{mieletcannelle}
There are a few things that my father cooks – spaghetti sauce, christmas turkey…and my mother’s birthday cake.  From the time that I can recollect thinking about birthday cakes that weren’t my own, I remember the pepperminty, fluffy, oreo cookie based grasshopper cake that my father made appear from nowhere every June 26th. At such [...]

Friday Five

Hullo pickles, I’m off my rocker and high on ganache today, due to some impromptu early birthday celebrations at work today. I think I may have diabetes. We’re not planning much for my b-day tomorrow, I think just some relaxation, perhaps a cupcake or two. I already celebrated Wednesday in a snowballing chorus of “Oh, [...]

She’d stick it in his eye.

Sometimes I think it would be wonderful to have a uniform. Not in the military/scholastic way, but in a “everyday I will wear a white button up shirt and tan pants of the utmost perfect cut, color and make” and then you would never have to worry ever again. It seems that I keep coming [...]

For your late night dance party listening pleasure..

{N.A.S.A – Way Down}

Wanted Wednesday

{Via The Selby – A utopia-like place where I too can roll around in white sheets and white shaggy fur jackets and never get my makeup on anything.}
I am fairly certain that Julia Roitfeld is the only person that will ever make me think “Cowhide. Sure. I could do that.”
Other things I am currently coveting [...]

Vain and Vintage

Nevermind the mess in the background (and the lumpy sweater in the foreground)! I found this adorable piece at Goodwill the other day and just fell in love with it and wanted to share it. I didn’t think much of it on the shelf, but I thought it was kinda grandma-chic when I put it [...]

# 12 and 35

{The Moon Music Orchestra}
It is a rainy, gloomy day here. I mean, it’s perpetually gloomy in my little windowless cube, but I usually get to venture above ground occasionally and see the sun, and it brings the warm and fuzzies to my heart. Today? No warmth. No fuzzy. Grey people, grey days. But I’ve been [...]

One photo and one inappropriate conversation.

{It’s alive!}
J. and I went for lunch to this new little icky vietnamese place that just opened by our house. It appears that as far as we can tell, the more questionable the hygiene, the better the pho. Jared loves it because we can drink Vietnamese iced coffee (the man is a fiend for it), [...]

Monday Must Have

Happy Monday babes! I’ve got the day off so to be perfectly honest, I’ve been sitting here drinking coffee in the sun and listening to the new American Life. What a day. *smile* I’ve been looking for saddle bags for  my bicycle lately, so that when I go to the market I don’t have to [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – In the Kitchen

Happy Sunday my little onions. I hope that everyone is enjoying the day off, and that most of you are getting the beautiful weather that we are up here. My strawberry plant, jesus mary and joseph in a peach tree.. is flowering. I can only assume it’s doing so out of shock, awe and fright [...]

Warming Music.

Even though it’s only the begining of May, the heat has begun to creep in and settle into the corners of our house. It will eventually fill to the brim, seeping inwards until we resort to laying in our underwear on the hardwood living room floor, drinking beer and holding hands and realizing how much more we need [...]

Friday Five

Oh bloggerkins. I feel like I’ve woken up from a week of playing hooky in la-la land. I haven’t been on the computer (except at work) I’ve been reading, willy nilly, just about anything I want, cooking up a storm every night while drinking wine and dancing about like a madwoman. It’s been rainy and [...]

Because you don’t know enough about me.

1.What is your current obsession?

Sadly, something I have absolutely no room for. Chairs. Every time J. turns around there is another one – looking around right now there are 7 different chairs. Most of which I bought for the frames and require reupholsterying. I think we’re going to have a stylin’ garage sale.
2. What are you listening [...]

The Lost Weekend

There is a reason that we don’t own a car. There are actually a number of very interesting, plausible, financial and environmental reasons that we have “chosen” not to own a car and are instead  banished to the realm of “couples that walk and bike places” after the bar because they’re ridiculous and poor. However, [...]

Please Return to Owner

Lost Blogger
Height: 5′2″
Weight: Wouldn’t say
Hair/Eyes: Blonde/hazel
Last seen: Closing the computer Friday evening and proceeding to galavant around town in a rented car. Spotted at the farmers market, Whyte Avenue, the grocery store, the Starbucks, the movie theatre, the shopping centre, the thrift store, the liquor store, 4 restaurants and Ikea. Seen in the company of a dashing [...]

Friday Five

 

{via La Princesse Endormie}
The weekend is so close my dearests.. I hope you all enjoy it, be wild and crazy and beautiful. xo
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What a week! There are times when my job gets me down. “But Andrea,” you ask, “aren’t you thrilled/thankful to have a job that lets you excersise your mind and be creative?” And the [...]