Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Feb 26th, 2009
Two birthday celebrations on a Wednesday night have left me itching for champagne: One for the gracefully bed-bound, Liv, which I was so pleased to attend. And one for the ever-charming, Rich. I am sorry I missed your party. Instead of my presence, I give you internet fame. I am sorry readers, he’s taken. Happy Birthdays! [...]
Posted in At Home, Champagne Wednesdays, Vancouver, writing on Feb 25th, 2009
Between budget restraints and being a bit under-the-weather, Ash and I haven’t had much champagne to report of lately. Not that I’m complaining. It would just be nice to have a little bubble-powered story to tell you. Sometimes when I’m too sleepy or distracted to think of new things to say, I roam around trying [...]
Posted in At Home on Feb 21st, 2009
Considering selling our apartment or making it look like this.
Posted in Adventure Saturday, music, Vancouver on Feb 19th, 2009
Going to Granville Island this Friday night to partake in the new, though poorly advertised Winterupption festival. I just heard about it yesterday when the Dean of our School of Music popped his head into my office to tell me about a show he’s performing in. His band Poetic Justice is backing up a spoken word performance. To the average person [...]
Posted in Restaurant Reviews, Vancouver on Feb 17th, 2009
(Please ignore the covert, spy-quality blackberry photo) Risky business(es): 1) Intravenous Drugs; 2) Opening a restaurant next to the Ivanhoe. Undercover as a grossly ignored corner of Vancouver’s most troubled area, something interesting springs to life. A restaurant. It kind of reminds me of this: Having been raised in East Vancouver, the word “Ivanhoe” conjures up a lot of imagery pertaining [...]
Alice in the pretty green dress: thank you for the card! It made my day! And it arrived on a weekend full of stories from New Zealand…. Last night, our dear friends, Jaimie & Al, made a short pit stop in Vancouver before making the final leg of their journey home after a month in New Zealand [...]
Love is not what I thought it would be. Less a certainty and more a strengthening. A muscle formed under skin. A firming up of the soul. I love you husband. Jen Photo from LittleBrownPen’s travels in Paris.
Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Feb 11th, 2009
What to do with all those leftover corks? Here’s an idea from Design Within Reach. Previously, DWR and I were in a big fight. I had ordered Ash a very high-tech air purifier for Christmas to cure all his allergy related ailments – and they never bothered to send it. And when I called, they really could [...]
Posted in Adventure Saturday on Feb 9th, 2009
Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Feb 4th, 2009
Because I have been in the smelly back corners of Main Street vintage shops, I ask you this question: is this gross or genius? A Vancouver-based company named Coat Check is saving mink coats everywhere. Yesterday’s social faux-pas is today’s designer recycled good. The Coat Check ladies refurbish old fur coats into reincarnations of plush throws, pillows and personal accessories – and sell [...]
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