Champagne Wednesdays

Doing careless cartwheels on a beach in San Diego. Christmas 2006.

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1. I am easily romanced by a great MLS picture promising bay windows and a hint of character. Ever since we bought our condo in October (our clean, modern condo with floor to ceiling windows but not a sight-line out of any of them), I have been looking for a place [...]

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I must power down for Earth Day, so this will be my only post today.
 Ash and I are trying to go the extra mile. We’ve been sitting here all morning with the fireplace off and we’re freezing. Little white clouds of breath escape from Ashleah’s duvet cocoon. Coffees are getting cold too fast.
 I’m [...]

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Hello snow, you didn’t stick.
- photo from savethestage on flikr 

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Above photos from Etsy seller, Fieryeyed.
Last week, I got this from Yellow Monday in Australia:

It makes me laugh every time I look at it. Where are Ashleah and Whiskey taking the house?
I am 100% etsy crazy…and loving it.
I also want this and this.
Jen

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Some Wednesdays, usually around our second glass of champagne, we like to play maps. World maps on our laptops, city maps in the back of travel books, printed maps used as placemats for dinner. By the third glass, we’ve posted everything we own on craigslist. That’s how we lost the coffee table for $20. Spontaneous fundraising for our first glass of champagne [...]

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Photographs and stories.
I really wish I liked tea more than I do.  

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I love this window on Maple Street & 10th in Vancouver. Its just a block from work, and I walk past it often on my way to La Petite France for Illy coffee and lunch. The window with its pretty chairs and white balls of twine always makes me stop. It must be a designer’s [...]

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Ash and I have a song we like to sing it the morning. It goes like this: “Going-to-work, crrrh crrh crrrh.”
The “crrh crrhh” sounds really need a live performance in order to get the full effect…but the general idea is one of friction, resistance, denial, fingers slipping off the cliff of our lovely weekend.
This photograph [...]

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This pretty much captures how I plan to spend my day today.
It’s a painting by the talented Liza Hirst of Dordogne, France as mentioned here in one of my favourite design blogs by Anna Spiro. I share her love of paperweights, flowers and anything French.

I bought my very first paperweight at Les Puces (the [...]

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