THE BROTHERS BLOOM

I just recently watched The Brothers Bloom and loved it. The movie was directed and written by Rian Johson. At the same time, it had glimmers of a Wes Anderson or Tarantino film. I was particularly in love with the wardrobe of Bang Bang (played by Rinko Kikuchi). I tried to find out who the wardrobe designer was but was unsuccessful. If anyone knows...message me!

HENRIQUE OLIVEIRA

                        

Henrique lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. He harvests the wood from  dumpsters and constructions sites around the city to build these massive installations. It is amazing how he manipulates and layers the wood.

VINTAGE FINDS

These fun findings are from my last visit to the St. Lawrence market. I have just started to go there again. I stopped going because one of my favorite vendors stopped selling there and I hardly ever found old photos. I guess this last Sunday was my lucky day because it seemed that every other stand had piles of old photos to sift through. I might have lost my mind with the embroidered accountant sweater and the one lensed glasses!!!! 

STYLE AT HOME

A couple of my pieces were featured in Style At Home Magazine.Yay!!!! Always cool to see how they look in different spaces.  

WISH LIST

Col. Littleton No.5 Cinch Belt

Brady's Sutherland fishing bag.

Col. Littleton No.1 Grip Bag

Col. Littleton No. 2 Grip Bag

Braided hoof pick belts

Col. Littleton No.1 Grip Khaki

DOILE COLLAGES

I made these doile collages for a recent show. I plan to sell these on etsy at some point!!!!!

MONTREAL

I went to Montreal last weekend so I wanted to share some of my finds.

FOOD:

- Olive + Gourmando for breakfast and lunch. This is the cutest little Cafe in Old Montreal.

Soups, sandwiches (on the craziest focaccia bread), salads, and a million baked goods.

- Aux Vivres for breakfast, lunch, dinner, every day!!! This is one tasty vegan diner. I am still mad at myself for not buying the secret dragon sauce!! watch out Fresh!!!

-Schwartzs famous deli for a mid- day feast. There was a long line so we had to try it. Their famous smoked meat sandwiches with black cherry pop is pretty darn good. Just as we sat down, a young man was being wheeled out to an ambulance waiting outside. I was praying it was not a reaction to the food. I made it through the calorie packed snack alive but I stayed full all night and missed out on my next recommendation.

- Au Pied du Cochon- My friend Brianne highly recommended going here for dinner. I read a bunch of blogs that mentions how amazing this place is.

- Juliette et Chocolat for chocolate fondue and crepes. This place served different vintages of liquid chocolate like it was fine wine. Yum...chocolate lovers heaven.

SHOPS:

Monastiraki: This shop/gallery/art studio/museum to random objects was the most inspiring store I saw in Montreal. If there is one store we are missing in toronto it is this. This magical little place turns into an enchanting community space for art workshops and "micro" concerts.

Leora looks like the cutest little vintage shop... through the windows!!! I wouldn't know what it was really like because I went to visit it on a Sunday and it was closed. boo. too bad. I am sure it is amazing because it was recommended by the most adorable Isabelle of YeYe style blog.

Thank you Isabelle!!!

Les etoffes was a really cute boutique on Saint Laurent. So happy to see Ken Chow's Krane bags there!

Armee du salut- go to all of them! Good stuff!

Village des Valeurs- more good stuff but value village is getting more and more expensive!!

HINTS:

-Lots of things are closed on Sunday and Monday.

-Almost every store closes at 5pm!!!!

-Bring some sort of French translation device. Although Montreal is bilingual you may get stuck when a horse carriage driver is yelling instructions at you or you get lost in Dorian on a detour a fraincais. I know, I put my Canadian heritage to shame with my lack of french.

- Montreal is a great city to bike around. You can rent bixi bikes but they can get mighty pricey if you want to use them for more than 90 minutes.

JUSTYNA WERBEL

Justyna constantly amazes me with her creativity!!! She creates incredible work in all mediums. Industrial design, photography, collage, sculpture, social change campaigns.....Justyna does it all. I am especially fond of this series of collages. These were constructed from a box of ephemera that was given to her. When Justyna described the man who gave this to her, I realized it was the same person I used to visit every Sunday at the St. Lawrence market to buy my old photos and notebooks. When he stopped selling at the market, I stopped going because he always had the best collection of found objects.

THE XX

Sorry for the lag in blog entries!! Just got back from a trip to Montreal. It was a long drive there and back but some new music on the ipod helped the time pass.

Here is my favorite new find...thanks to Kathryn. THE XX. Especially obsessed with this rexix by Jamie (eliza doolittle) from the XX.

TREASURES

These beautiful art pieces are past birthday presents from Kathryn Macnaughton. It was recently her birthday ( her little gifty is the purple bag in the middle photo). I usually make art for her too but this year she got a makeup goody bag from me. I will have to search for photos of some of the pieces I made for her. The bottom photo shows the collaged horse boxes Kathryn made for me two years ago. I feel so lucky to have such wonderfully creative friends!!!!!! Thanks Kathryn! xoxoxo

FUN PURCHASE

courtesy of Deco Alley

Hard to tell from the first picture but I am showing off my new candy- covered contact and pill cases from Deco Alley on Etsy. You won't believe the detail on these!!!! My sweet tooth has officially overcome me!!!!