Barrettes are back!

Photo credit: Joseph Saraceno

These are the best kind of sweet treats! Our Bonbon Barrettes are featured in The Kit! Check out this feature on the comeback of barrettes. We're pleased as punch to be in such good company!

Monsoon Monday

That was a wild storm that hit Toronto.  I snapped this photo with my phone moments before the skies opened up and poured record amounts down on us.  Ominous clouds cast a huge grey shadow across the sky and wiped out almost all trace of colour.  Mother Nature was not happy.  I might be imagining things, but above the CN Tower, I can almost see a face with cheeks puffed and lips pursed, about to blast 126mm of rain upon Toronto, a record in one day.  Much is to be cleaned up, but glad to hear that most weathered the storm safely.

(Some pics compiled by BlogTO and the Globe and Mail.)

Oh Canada!

To the Canadians reading this, I hope you enjoyed Canada Day!  I was in Montreal and have yet to load my photos, but will share some at a later time.  As today is the holiday and I am enjoying the long part of the long weekend, I thought I'd check out some Canadian themed finds, starting with a MoonRox piece, of course.  Yes, this list is Toronto heavy, but I am a Toronto gal!

Toronto is for Lovers Locket Bracelet by MoonRox

Toronto Typography Print set of 3 by GoingUnderground

Vintage Canadian National Railway Lunch Boxes from 1970 from rhonaw

Silk Cyanotype Scarf of Old Montreal Map by xobisous

Banff Photograph by WildWildernessPhotos

Oh Canada Embroidered Wall Hanging by nisseworks

Stream, Baden Powell Trail, Deep Cove, Vancouver photograph by graemegroy

Map of Canada Pillow Cover by Nicole Tarasick

Iceberg in Newfoundland, photo by Celticcatphotos

Transportation Collage of Toronto by loosepetals

Glitter!

Yesterday I saw Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical with G. & N. and fam. It was such a fun and vibrant show! I was fascinated by the quick make-up and set changes involving mass amounts of glitter. Now I have a huge urge to glitter everything. Here are a few nice shimmery images I found on flickr.

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I think my Holiday Season whirlwind is slowly calming down. Today was the first day in ages that I did not make a single piece of jewellery. A few more things to catch up with and I hope to enjoy a day off soon! Plus I really need to get on the gift getting and creating. Might have to get some glitter involved in the creating part!

Feel like I'm always rushing around lately... need a holiday! Here are two more pics from the other day. Nice and tranquil!

Last weekend of Summer...

Have a good one!

I took this photo with my point-and-shoot while my Dad had his big SLR on the go a couple days ago. So pretty... but definitely looks like the lighting at Summer's end...

Obsessed with Diana

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My Sister got me the Diana F+ Aviator camera for my birthday. It's not the same colours as the model above, but is just as cute... or in fact cuter! A toy camera is something that I have wanted for a while, but would never buy for myself! So, now I am obsessed with finding out more about the camera and whether I should use 120 film or convert it to accommodate 35mm or exchange the camera for the Diana Mini that uses 35mm... Any suggestions? Any way about it, I'm excited to take pictures the old fashioned way!

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Lovely evening to cap off the lovely day

My parents came by before we went out for dinner. I yanked a PC tarte au citron out of the freezer and made some tea and coffee. This lemon tart is excellent, even compared to freshly made specimens. There was one week where I went around town sampling lemon tarts at different pastry shops and had decided that I had found my fave... until I had this President's Choice one. Of course, I am a sucker for most things citrus so a lemon tart is not a hard sell.
Then we ventured out to the beach for sundown. My Dad wanted to snap some photos of this lifeguard station so I joined in the camera-geeking. It was pretty calm and serene out by the water this eve.
It was a nice day over all and I was able to spend a fair amount of it outside. I am now paying for it, doing filing and sorting jewels late at night!

I've enjoyed roaming around town over the past few days. Here are some random pics from the past few days! A miscellaneous lighted tree on Bloor,

the view from my seat out front of Ideal Coffee in Kensington,

the amazing evening view from W.+W.'s new place.

I just realized today that I missed the first anniversary of this blog! It was on April 10th. In honour of the anniversary I am planning on putting together my first MoonRox giveaway. Stay tuned!

A MoonRox bride

A lovely bride Lindsey sent me an email to let me know that she wore a Long Puffy Heart Necklace at her wedding. I was so happy to see that one of my pieces was part of their special day. To see more visit the website of photographer Christine Kufske at clickphotography.ca.

Photos were grabbed from www.clickphotography.ca.

Stunning photography

These images by Camille Seaman are so beautiful. I have to go to Antarctica to see these massive stunners before they are gone. In her series, The Last Iceberg, Seaman has done an amazing job capturing these icebergs with little colour manipulation. She says on her site that sometimes she even reduces the saturation of colour.

The photographer also has a series called The Big Cloud and big they are indeed. So massive and magnificent!

Check out more on Camille Seaman on her website. There are so many amazing images and there's a great FAQ section.

The gorgeous images above were grabbed from www.camilleseaman.com.

Lovely weekend

Spent Saturday garage sale-ing in J. and T's 'hood, then shopping the high end shops in the Bloor/Yorkville area with the Sis and C. 'Twas a delightful contrast in the hi and lo all packed within a few hours! Made a few purchases... but only at the garage sales! Along the way, we scoped out the windows at Holt Renfrew. Here is a snap shot of Anita Clarke's window. Congrats to Anita of the well-followed blog I Want, I Got! She was one of the six selected fashion bloggers from around the world to be invited to participate in a national series of window displays at Holt's stores.

Saturday evening was spent having a superb BBQ on A.'s roof top patio. It was a perfect evening to be outdoors loading up on good eats and sangria. Here are some more experimental photos. This time they were taken from the A.'s roof... not that you can tell! Sorry to throw so many of these at you. I just like how they are almost painterly. Also, thanks to A. for hosting the gang of us.

On Sunday I meant to check out the Pride Parade, but I am sad to say I was kept away by the rain. Ended up scooting around downtown and then wrapping up the evening with Sunday dins at my Sister's place. Check out the view at sunset!

Lights in the sky

I was sitting on my balcony enjoying a lovely warm evening with a nice glass of wine last night so I tried to document the moment with my little point and shoot digi-cam. Didn't work out at all so I tried something I had seen on another blog somewhere. Someone spelled out letters then words by taking photos of light with a slow shutter speed. I wasn't able to get anything near that with the camera I have. I really want a digital SLR so I can take nicer photos! These are the results of my experiment. I do like how they turned out graphically! Spot the CN Tower!