October days

Here are some photos taken over the past couple weeks.

Sparkly nails, sparkly jewels. 

Crystallized Bracelet and a Tiny Charm Bangle sample.

The array on my dresser after de-jeweling one evening.

A Twinkle Pearl Creme Necklace -- available by special order.

Coffee break and mini donuts with a friend.

Adding Sale items to the Shop.

The resident at emerg drew this.  It's a diagram explaining the parts of my brain that are causing the vertigo.  I think he meant parts of my ear, not brain... He let me keep this masterpiece.

Rain booties bought on eBay.  Bit big... may have to pass them on...

Spent a day café and restaurant hopping with a talented friend.  We were working hard on some new MoonRox related things.

A visit to one of my favourite shops on Queen.  I wish I could spoil myself and buy up armloads of pretty Parisian things in there.

Vegetarian Thanksgiving feast.  We never do the traditional Thanksgiving in my family.  This year we had a veg craving and went to Fresh, and were pleasantly surprised that they offered 40% off to patrons on Thanksgiving Sunday.  So nice!

Thanksgiving Day was spent lounging in the sun with my Sis and W. in High Park...

Followed by a birthday dinner for Aunt L.  Polish feast.  Yum.

Been enjoying mixing some MoonRox new and old with some other pieces I have collected!
From left to right are:  Shine Bracelet (from a few years back), a chain maille find, Crystallized Bracelet, a blingy bracelet from my friends at House of Moda and the Entwined Stalactite Bracelet.

Here's another dresser top shot.  In the foreground are the Stunning Ring (available by special order) and the Scissors from the series of Handy Necklaces.  In the little container are some of my favourite rings and earrings.  Mixed in are a resin and sterling silver ring by Cinelli & Maillet, a House of Moda infinity ring, a AMT "diamond" ring, a ring inherited from my Grandmother, Fancy Pearl Drop Earrings (available by special order) and a crystal encrusted coug.

Dining out after running errands...

Baklava galore.  Some may have come home with us.

A. and I ventured around Bloor St. for LOULOU Magazine's Shop 'Til You Drop. 

The shops were abuzz!  

'Twas a fun evening.  And got me excited about MoonRox being featured in this month's LOULOU Deals all over again!  Don't forget to take advantage!

Made some new pieces that will debut at the One of a Kind Show this November.  These are the scraps... sometimes discards are pretty too.

Sorted the nail polish stash.

Selected these...

and went nuts and did this.

Explored unfamiliar neighbourhoods.

Enjoyed Fall foliage.

Not to be super cheesy, but nature amazes me all the time.  The colours of this leaf pile are all incredible.

Capped off the weekend with a celebration for R.'s birthday with friends.

The past couple weeks have been out of the ordinary.  I have not felt 100% since my vertigo incident so I have not been able to work as much as I would have liked.  I've tried to pretend as if everything was fine and go about my day... but I have had moments of dizziness and have been downright exhausted.  Plus, I have totally missed riding my bike.  Suddenly at 4pm this afternoon, I felt normal again!  I hope this means that life will return to its originally scheduled programming now!  Crossing my fingers that I feel just as good come morning!  This post has taken far too long!  It took ages for the photos to load.  Now it is late!  Off to sleep.  Goodnight friends.  Hope you enjoyed your weekend!  Be back with more this week...

xo

m

Eye wear

I recently broke my glasses.  It's a big bummer even though they were super cheap online numbers and I didn't even love them, but they were my first pair of glasses in over 20 years of wearing contacts and more importantly my first pair ever that didn't make my dizzy.  Oh well!  The fun part now, is looking for a new pair!  My Sis and W gave me a gift certificate to my fave glasses spot down the street.  I tend to buy sunnies there.  On my latest visit, I spotted these from Oliver Goldsmith.  Perfect! Beautiful frames in a neutral colour that fit my apparently over-sized head!  Now I just need to decide if I am willing to splurge.  I'll be a responsible consumer and see what else is out there, I suppose!  If I don't order these glasses, I'll get these lovely Paul Smith shades with the gift cert!  Either in the Onyx with Mahogany or the Nude.  Don't know which I like better!  Thanks to Sister and the future Brother-in law!

Copenhagen -- Day 1

After a day of travel we woke up in Copenhagen!  The Sister had a list of must-see places and the best of the best, was the design mecca -- Illum Bollighus.  Our eyes were darting everywhere, not knowing where to focus... what beautiful thing to look at first.

We were charmed by these Hoptimists.  The Hoptimist was designed by furniture designer Hans Gustav Ehrenreich in 1968.  We had a couple originals in our house growing up.  One big, one small.  Today, I still have the larger one on display in my home.  Not sure if it was the nostalgia or the Hoptimists doing their job and spreading a smile.  The wooden ones are especially nice.

The store was filled with several floors of colourful, new and classic Danish clothing and design for the home.  Drool....

 Even carpet samples looked fabulous there.

 Loved this multi-coloured knobby rug.

 Tactile floor cushions.

 Oodles of lighting options.

The perfect coat rack for me!

View from the top floor.

Very Danish window.

We loved that store!

Found another shop sharing my name!  I look exhausted here... but hopefully not as ramshackle as that awning!

Busy shopping area...  Lots of tourists like us!  

Nuts and dried fruit.

Lovely pedestrian areas.

Made me happy to see bikes galore!  Made me miss my bike.

Walked over to Illum next.  This was more like the department stores we have seen in any city, but still a very nice place.

Later in the afternoon we strolled over to Nyhavn to check out the pretty canal scene and to grab a hot dog.  Can't say that we ate that well in Copenhagen.  Partly because we were always on the go and partly 'cause we didn't see much that tickled the taste buds.  I'm sure it was completely our own fault!

Sisters!

This beautiful old building houses another large department store, Magasin.

Some stylish store fronts...

and beautiful old buildings.

Tried to visit the famed Tivoli Gardens, but it turns out they were closed Sunday to Tuesday, the exact days we were there.  We did see it all lit up and not darkened and deserted like this when we got off the train from the airport the night before.  It had a dreamy glow to it.  Some other time, I guess...