There really is no shortage of good blogs on the internet. I feel like Hollie and I could keep doing this Required Reading series for ever and still have lots to cover. This week I decided to focus j...
To celebrate our good news, we threw a keg party on Saturday for some of our family and friends. I did my first ever keg stand, and Hollie, a keg stand veteran, even lent our lovely intern Lindsay he...
Things are good around these parts. Real good. The weather is beautiful, there is lots to do around the store, and in our personal lives things are happy and busy. Like I said, things are good....
I was late starting my seeds this year, so they are still only medium sized babies. But Im not worried about it, theres plenty of time for these guys to get big and feed me. I havent had much time to...
Oh, you know, more dream life links. Oliver and Abrahams is written by McKenzie, a genuine homesteader. She lives with her fiance on a large plot of land that they work themselves, and where th...
Lets try our hand at modeling again, shall we?So many pretty things have been coming into the shop these days, its hard to find the time to even get them all out on display. One of my favourites are ...
Gonna be honest, Im a little self-conscious about how much were talking about the dress sale. I said a while back that wed be media blitzing the cuss out of this event, and it actually happened on a ...
Man, oh man, are things busy with prep for the Dreaming of Dresses sale this Friday. Were working really hard to make sure that its an unforgettable event.While we were at Victoire two weekends ago, ...
Lately I have noticed that Im not really reading blogs as much as I used to. You know what I am doing though? Scrolling through blogs and loving the pictures. A lot. The blogs featured today ar...
Our whirlwind weekend in Ottawa went by so quickly. We took part in Victoires Spring Fling Vintage Dress Sale and it was a frenzy of beautiful dresses and beautiful ladies giving them beautiful homes...
If it feels a little quiet around here this week, its because Hollie & I are frantically preparing for the Spring Fling Dress Sale at Victoire this Saturday. The picture above is just part ...
Wow, City of Craft. What an amazing, inspirational, super fun awesome day. Huge mad props to all the organizers for pulling off such an awesome event, time and time again. The photo booth featu...
I first read about Urnatur on The Anthropologist, where they produced a beautiful series of images and videos about the eco-lodge based in Sweden.Set in the middle of a dank, lush forest there is a f...
Weve got a busy couple of weeks coming up. This Saturday, April 21st is the first ever City of Craft Spring Sale, and rare specimens is going to be participating. I am fuh-reak-inh out. In the ...
I held off on Instagram for so long, but I upgraded my iPhone to the newest version with a sweeter camera, and now Im kind of obsessed with all this old style filter goodness. Plus, its so much easie...
A couple of weeks ago Mike and I built this shelf for our living room. We based it off of this awesome wall unit from Hindsvik, using new pine instead of reclaimed wood. Mike did all the construction...
Yup, gonna die of happiness soon. And be surrounded by the most exquisite vintage dresses when it happens. This is gonna be off the hook, Ottawa!And dont worry Hamilton, we havent forgotten abo...
On Sunday I ventured out to the The 40th Annual Paris Gem & Mineral Show to see what it was all about. The answer? Lots of rocks. It was actually pretty amazing to see so many mineral speci...
Its been a while since we did a Required Reading post, and I thought it might be about time. Truth be told, Im not reading too many blogs these days. Has twitter shortened my attention span? There ar...
I havent been up to much blog-worthy things these days. A lot of relaxing, visiting with dogs and family, and drinking some patio beers. Well, I was drinking some patio beers before it went back to b...
Oh right, this is supposed to be a blog about our little ol store. Good thing I finally got around to taking some photos of the amazing new things weve got for you here.We got a small shipment of the...
Went to the Hamilton Cat Fanciers annual Cat Show at the Ancaster Fairgrounds for the third year in a row this weekend. At which point do I start identifying myself as a cat fancier? I suppose I alre...
Some more pretty things...Friday night just before Art Crawl started, Lindsay dropped by with two of these incredible cookies for Jane and I from Cake & Loaf. We were absolutely floored. Lindsay,...
Something special today. I woke up to this beautiful photo shoot posted over at Beaux Mondes. These ladies look beautiful, and there photographer Jay Perry did an amazing job. They contac...
Glass egg? Check! Awards manicure? Check! Hollie and I had a great time at the Tourism Awards this week, mostly because so many of our lovely friends and fellow entrepreneurs were there, gettin...
Hollie and I are both MIA at the shop today. Shes busy selling produce and moving potatoes, and Ill be preparing for the social event of the season... The Tourism Hamilton Awards. The awa...
I feel like this is the introductory line for every Neighbours post we do over here, but Ill say it anyways - we havent done one of these posts in a long time.Theres good reason for that. Theres been...
I went out for dinner with my mom last night, and she spent a bunch of time asking me about the jewelry I was wearing. She had lots of questions about where it came from, what it was, why I was weari...
Filling my home with happy things. I needed something bright to cheer me up last week, so I popped into the new floral shop, I Fiore, across the street from White Elephant and owner Beverly was nice ...
... and baby goats you will receive! While we were in Phoenix we visited the Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium. Im pretty sure this was supposed to be an activity mostly for the children, but I promi...
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