Nov 14, 2012

Last Weekend

Design After Hours
Friday night was a trip to Chinatown to visit, Night Riders - A Design Exhibition for After Hours.
I bought some gorgeous amethyst earrings from Rukus
Untitled
Rachel and Stacy Reynaud
Chinatown
The event was held at the Angelus Novus studio - a great space.
Saturday Morning Northern Flickr
Saturday, bright and early, we headed over to an estate sale at the Baker Residence (Peter Faulkner Smith architect - the home owner's brother) one of the outstanding homes noted in the West Vancouver Survey of Significant Architecture.
Baker Residence
I'll be heading over once everything is said and done to shoot the interior. Excited about this. It's a gorgeous home. You should see the kitchen - all original!


H Faulkner Smith
We picked up some H. Faulkner Smith water colours and Rachel and Eddie scored an oil and some amazing mid-century bent plywood dining chairs (which you can see in the dining room window in the photo above. H Faulkner Smith

buck a chair chairs
I picked these four chairs up two weekends ago at a church sale but forgot to share them with you. They were $1 each and will be used around my unstained pine deck table.
Belgian Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup
Sunday was lazy. I was craving my favourite chocolates from my favourite chocolatier.
so we headed over to Lonsdale Quay grabbed a coffee and chowed down some Belgian dark chocolate peanut butter cups and dark chocolate salted caramel(the breakfast of champions).
  Belgian Salted Caramel
Belgian Chocolate Salted Caramel at Olde World Fudge, Lonsdale Quay (the best in the city)
mid-century bent plywood dining chairs before
Monday was spent on our deck restoring the six bent plywood chairs from the estate sale (Check out Fifty Chairs That Changed the World)).
restoring the chairs

restored chairs
The finished product.




Nov 13, 2012

Quote of the Week - Carl Jung

Pilsner Pup
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.




Nov 8, 2012

Sweatshirts are Cats

missing

Toques are crows, cardboard is dogs,and sweatshirts are cats. I've been known to turn around and drive/walk miles out of my way if I spot something that may be domestic animal roadkill, (I have a crow buddy that hangs out at my place so crows are included). However, like a deer stuck in headlights, I can't keep my eyes out of lost pet posters, lost pet classified ads and the obituary section of the newspaper. It pains me so.






Nov 7, 2012

Vintage Pierre Cardin


1987
Pierre Cardin



Nov 5, 2012

Some Vintage Stuff I Left Behind

west van church sale coffee table
1970s Lane
sally ann west van danish stainless steel
Scandinavian stainless steel bowls
sally ann west van leather chair and ottoman
leather and oak recliner and ottoman
sally ann west van teak cutlery set
teak and stainless cutlery
sally ann west van record holder
teak record cabinet
west van in the end it was free but busted
lamp - it was free at the end of the church sale but it was broken
west van danish serving trays
Scandinavian stainless steel serving trays
west van paragon timer clock 

Paragon timer

Nov 2, 2012

Oct 31, 2012

A creepy little kid

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  - who is actually me - wishes you a Happy Halloween







Oct 29, 2012

A favourite place for inspiration in Vancouver


check out that front door

chandelier bits

vintage doors - great for tables

army canteens and weather instruments
plant skeletons

Heritage Home Supplies - 3662 West 4th Ave.



Oct 27, 2012

Vintage Calvin Klein

1989
Vintage Calvin Klein
supermodel



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