Jazz Fest and festivals galore!

Apologies all! I thought this was posted mid-July, but it wasn’t. Here it is now, without further ado!
Summer is festival season in Montreal, as many of you many know, and so we’ve been trying to hit as many as we can. I mentioned a couple entries ago that Jon’s sister, Ashley, fresh from high school [...]

LABoratoire Créatif

Since there was a long hiatus in our posts, I’m going to try to catch up on what we’ve missed. First, we went to a Marché du LABoratoire Créatif, a fashion sale featuring designers from Quebec at Ailes de la Mode, held by LABoratoire Créatif. Check out their website for a listing of designers, future [...]

Oh Canada

So we apologize, yet again, for falling off the wagon with the blog. Jon’s sister, Ashley, who just graduated high school, has been staying with us for the past few weeks and will be with us a few more weeks. She’s checking out schools in the area and is interning at a few photography studios, [...]

I’m ALIVE!

Wow, it’s been YEARS it seems since I’ve posted anything, so in order to avoid my account being deactivated or something I figured I would send out a brief update. Jen and I have been frantically working on the finishing touches of our apartment. We made much progress over this past three-day weekend [...]

Haitian Delights in Villeray

We’re back! We are officially completely moved in, though we are still rearranging and settling in. Finally, we found a new tenant for our old apartment, and our lease is officially transferred (yay!). Also, Jon and I are both now on Twitter! My username is jen_in_montreal and Jon’s is jknodell. Feel free to follow us!
Yesterday, [...]

Montrealers for Obama

Yesterday was a big day not just for residents of the United States or ex-pats from the States, it was a big day for everyone all over the world. This blog is not a political blog, and Jonathan and I aren’t planning to use this as a platform for our political views, but this is [...]

The Big Idea!

This is a concept I came up with last week and hope to execute sometime soon *crosses fingers*.
I call it the “Big Idea Light”, and it is a simple mix of steampunk-vintage and modern styling.  A sleek white box holds a reproduction vintage “squirrel-cage” lightbulb circa 1912 sourced from the most amazing of period- inspired [...]

Bring on the cold.

Today, we got our first taste of what winter has in store for us here in Montreal.  When we woke up this morning it was -20 degrees celcius (-4 fahrenheit) with a -30 degree celcius windchill (-22 fahrenheit).
It was, simply put, quite cold!  Jen and I are continually being warned about the winters and we [...]

A long, long time ago…

For those who have visited our apartment, we probably had you park back by a large stone seminary school.  Two of the towers pictured above are positioned on Rue Sherbooke.  I had seen them and admired them before, but didn’t think much about it.  I learned today from my new favorite website Spacing Montreal that [...]

Avant-Apres

I am addicted to this feature on Spacing Montreal that loosely translates to “Before and After”.
Somehow they found a vast wealth of historic photographs from all over Montreal and they reshoot the photos in present day comparing and contrasting the differences.  Sometimes the differences are subtle, sometimes they are glaring.  Often, they are not for [...]