Snow Day

I think this a rather fitting occasion to share these photos as the city is quickly being covered in a blanket of snow. Welcome to New York fashion week visitors! Hope you brought your Sorels!


I put together a little soundtrack for Samantha's fashion week presentation that you can listen to here (well, a portion of it).


Stay warm and bundled friends, wear a sweater over your swimsuit!


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Some snowy pictures from Instagram after the cut.

Snow Red

Some snow filled photos from our time up north. I borrowed this gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite red velvet dress from Samantha for some festive jogs through snow. These were taken Christmas day when we were treated to a wonderfully warm and sunny afternoon.

Tomorrow, or rather, today as it is now the early early morn and I'm putting off sleep in favor of watching "The Grand" (a nice bit of period soapy goodness) I'm heading off to Phoenix. I'm meeting up with Landon who is driving over after a busy and successful week in LA for the contemporary art fair! Looking forward to desert times, some warmer temperatures and hanging out with Landon's mum's chickens!

See more of Samantha's designs here!

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The Winds of Winter

 

Had a chance to update our neglected website of the same name along with this senescent space! It's a bit cumbersome to navigate at the moment but a few more hours of rambling off a variety of expletives in the manner Joe Pesci in Home Alone 2 should do the trick. You can push the pictures around like you would digging through a friend's old stack of memories, kinda fun I think!

I'm not sure what will come of this space moving forward. This year is going to bring about some big changes and I've got nervous do anything but what I've got to do feelings (which turns me into a marathon TV watcher, updater of forgotten websites, cooker of long meals and scratcher of head while staring blankly at wall). These are good changes though and once I've grown the vagina (way stronger than balls, guys) to make it happen no doubt the floodgates of communication will come swinging open.

Hope the first week of the new year has been kind to you all!

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Slumbering North of the Wall

Will be back soon with a new look for this old blog.

Happy New Year! 

Halcyon Days

We are returned from our Canadian adventure where we were absolutely spoiled with perfect wintery weather, truckloads of chocolate and the very best company. I feel so incredibly fortunate to have my pop's home to run away to. Highlights from our trip included a cross country ski to the grocery (where we spotted a deer! Never in my life have I felt so... Canadian), tobogganing without injury, maple candy cooking, glittering shoes with my aunt; sharing a bed with Landon, Rebecca and a long limbed whippet puppy, lots of cranium, some settlers of catan and fireworks (and fire) on new years eve.

We had a quick visit in Montreal where I was able to satisfy my bagel craving by stuffing my mouth with not one, not two but three (and a half) hot sesame bagels all in a row. I don't know why folks are always on about New York bagels - they're basically regular bread in a circle formation but man alive, Montreal bagels are next level eating. It was especially cold while we were in Montreal (25 below) so we limited our activity to jumping in and out of the car and popping into only a few shops. Of the shops we visited Citizen Vintage was definitely a favourite, super cute and nicely curated. Frustratingly I cannot recall for the life of me the name of the other shop that I really enjoyed. The shopkeeper was delightfully chatty and her prices were just right that if I had any extra dollars to spare they'd have gone straight into her shop (serious knick knack heaven there). I promise should the name come to me to post it right away. On the subject of vintage shops we also had a chance to pay a visit to my favourite (and frankly, the only that I now know of) vintage shop in Ottawa, Ragtime. I have fond memories of renting Twiggy style dresses from them when I was in highschool. Super chatty shopkeeper and just brimming with treasures (lots buried so much digging required - my favourite)! The coat I'm wearing above was a gift from my Pops from Ragtime (Landon & Emma both have ones to match so we can coordinate and look like a disney vacationing family while wearing them).

Oh, and then there was the POUTINE, the excessive kids in the hall watching and falling asleep each night on the sofa with a book in one hand and 1.5 kilograms of chocolate in the other. Perfect, perfect holiday.

You may also click through for a few instagram pictures of our travels :).

winter sports

We've spent the last week participating in various winter activities while celebrating a second christmas with my family up north. We built an ice rink, made a pathetic attempt at a hockey game that mostly involved me missing the puck repeatedly and spinning in circles on my skates, carved out a (rather dodgy) toboggan run, cross country skied up the river (though I forced our crew onto the much less terrifying train tracks after my companion stepped through a bit of thin ice and scared the bejesus out of me), brought out my ten year old snow board and have stopped drinking water in favor of hot chocolate. It is the calm before the storm that is the next two months for me! I'm going to play that rather nasty game of "I've got a secret that I can't reveal just yet" but oh man, it is a pretty neat one. (Can I give you a hint? It rhymes with the word that came before one.)

Thank you so much for the warm response to my previous post! I'm brimming with excitement as any day now they'll be available to ship off! Just in time for that oh so romantic day of the year.