Posted in Adventure Saturday, Restaurant Reviews, Shopping, Vancouver on Mar 30th, 2009
One year and 200 posts later, I celebrate my blog’s anniversary with a return to antiquing. You might recall last March when I came home with this champagne bucket from Mission. That seven dollar bucket still brings me great joy. It’s funny how far small wins can take us. I am glad I stuck with blogging - otherwise [...]
Posted in At Home, Restaurant Reviews, Shopping, Vancouver, writing on Mar 26th, 2009
Perfect spot for blog strategizing with beer: Post Restaurant & Lounge, Seattle. Patricia Gray, I am so glad you are from Vancouver. I am also glad you told me about these. Spring picnics anyone? And this snippet, from the poem Marginalia by Billy Collins and found on the blog Wide Open Spaces. It made laugh heartedly: [...]
Posted in At Home, Restaurant Reviews, Shopping, Vancouver, wedding on Mar 26th, 2009
I am one of those lucky women who can say they married well. Very well. Look how he saved me from falling over this steep and unruly cliff. Ok, maybe he didn’t save my life, but he made my life. Even better. Today’s proof: a smorgasaboard of muffins delivered to my office (in-person) from [...]
Posted in At Home on Mar 25th, 2009
As I clumsily move forward into the skin of a new last name, I am reminded of the formative powers of my first one. From the Jen11 show: More than a million of us were dubbed Jennifer within the span of just fifteen years. From a place of relative obscurity, the name grew on a wave [...]
This morning Vitamin V (or is it D now?) sent me my regular morning hit of spend-more-money, get-more-beautiful, we-are-fabulous. Given that I usually open their e-shout-out about 7:00am, on my way out of the shower, with a ratty towel twisted impossibly on top of my head and various creams covering various areas of concern on [...]
We made it to Spring! Hi-5 mittens, $71 on Sale. www.katespade.com
Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Mar 19th, 2009
This photo from Pia brings me back vividly to the brief time I lived on a sailboat in Brentwood Bay. The soundtrack of that memory is something I wish everyone to know. Imagine the most satisfying of yawns stretched out across a nighttime; sleep with more movement and stillness at once. Shhhh listen: the small, charming music of sails in the rain.
Posted in At Home, Champagne Wednesdays, writing on Mar 12th, 2009
I’ve been reading a lovely book titled ”Cultivating Delight” by Diane Ackerman for the past week or so. It’s the kind of book you wade through with your pants tucked into your boots. A wild, hairy field of fact and latin names and rich descriptions you must pick over once or twice before ingesting. It’s far less depressing [...]
Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Mar 9th, 2009
My nephew has this very cute post-dinner habit of saying, “favourite. dessert” repeatedly until ice cream with chocolate sauce arrives on his plastic dining tray. Sometimes I know how he feels. This weekend my favourite dessert came Sunday. After dropping a birthday present of magnolia branches off at my friend Kari’s house, Ash and I hiked around the beach at Cate’s [...]
Posted in Champagne Wednesdays on Mar 5th, 2009
Edit: Conversation continued at www.christinacrook.com I come out of my blogernation (that’s the words blogging and hiberation conjoined like wiggly newborn twins) to bring you this article. Is writing for the rich? To me, it often seems like more of a luxury than I can afford (whether that be with the riches of time, energy, currency, etc). My fellow [...]
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