I'm Stacy.
I spent three years alone navigating grief
with my 21-year-old cat, Flo,
on a remote island
in the Pacific Northwest.
What I experienced and how it changed my soul are infinite.
Some plain language was used to capture a few stories.
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May 26, 2025
May 15, 2008
ABOUT
Stacy - Alouette Lake, British Columbia
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Stacy has lived in small communities throughout BC, including Hornby and Vancouver islands.
Growing up where the ocean meets the trees, she's influenced by the moody tones of the landscape and the hard-living souls of the city streets and remote islands.
photo and letter from Gerry Gilbert
Her journey with spoken word and underground literature began in the late 1990s, thanks to the encouragement of Vancouver poet and multimedia artist Gerry Gilbert.
Gilbert praised her poetry, saying it had a drive that would read well live, and invited her to read her work on his radio show, radiofreerainforest.
She continued her live readings with Gilbert and at underground clubs and cafes around the city.
Writing
In 2008, she started Bijou Living, a profitable design and architecture blog with over 1,300 unique posts, more than 1 million visitors, and links in T Magazine—the New York Times Style Magazine.
Inspired by the new wave and punk scenes of the early 1980s, she began shopping at thrift stores with the money she earned from her part-time job at a local fashion retailer.
At 14, she was taken under the wing of Kenny Spada, proprietor of Vancouver's first vintage shop, deLuxe Junk.
Spada purchased Stacy's first collection of vintage clothing, not once questioning her young age.
Spada was a mentor and friend who encouraged her to branch out with her collections.
In 1998, she designed and established one of the first online vintage stores, Czarina Vintage. Czarina was profiled on CBC's Venture TV program and in many national print publications.
NYC & LA Vintage
During the early 2000s, Stacy moved her vintage collections to the United States.
In New York, her collections were fixtures during Fashion Week at the prestigious Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show.
She also curated numerous vintage collections for Los Angeles exhibits with Caskey & Lees.
The idea for her next endeavour came to her at a vintage show in Manhattan.
After constantly being asked if she had 'another size' in one-of-a-kind vintage pieces, she had her aha moment.
Inspired by Joe Strummer's Combat Rock era, her expertise in fashion history, and the political and social climate of the early 2000s, she purchased the entire attic supply of vintage apparel from a military shop.
2006 saw the launch of edle - named after her Norwegian grandmother.
Her restructured vintage military streetwear line was carried internationally in boutiques in Tokyo's Shibuya-ku, Chicago's Wicker Park, Los Angeles' Venice Beach, Portland's Pearl District, and New York's SoHo.
Stacy at Gleneagles Studio
After her sixteen-year marriage ended, she changed direction, journeyed to La Cañada Flintridge, California, and pursued a lifelong goal - to practice pottery.
She continued her studies at the Shadbolt Centre For The Arts in Burnaby, BC, focusing on free-form hand-building.
Her work is carried in shops in Vancouver and sits in many private collections throughout Canada.
Higher Education & Teaching
Contact
stacy@bijouliving.com
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