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 [...]

Beauregard the Boston Terrier

Meet Beauregard, our new Boston Terrier. He is 7 months old and filled with energy and kisses. It seems that now we see Bostons everywhere, but it’s probably just one of those things.
Jon and I started looking at different dog breeds not too long after we lost Zorro, just to ease the emptiness. We decided [...]

Salvation in the Underground City

This is a delayed post, and my apologies for the lull in entries around the holidays! Jon and I returned to Ohio to spend the holidays with each of our families, and had a wonderful time catching up with everyone, cooking and baking and candlestick-making (okay, maybe not the candlestick-making part), and then gorging ourselves [...]

Winter Wonderland

Today, Jen and I headed out into the frozen tundra of Montreal to do some sight-seeing and stop by a local indie craft fair, which I’m sure Jen will post about later. Click here for some great pictures that we captured along the way.

From Trash to Treasure!

During Canada’s Thanksgiving, Jen and I took a trip down into the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont.  During a stop in this amazing town of White River Junction, we stumbled upon this fun furniture and antique/thrift shop.  We emerged a while later with a handful of stuff for about 10 dollars including this [...]

Montreal Handmade Holiday Gift Guide 2008

1. Framed embroidered wall art, neawear.etsy.com
2. Sterling silver hand-cut tree necklace, brazendesign.etsy.com
3. 14k rose gold band with inlaid opals, artisanlook.etsy.com
4. Sterling silver origami crane necklace, junedesigns.etsy.com
5. Felt necklace, green leaves with flowers, rosetutu.etsy.com
6. A Song for Spring art photo pendant, irenesuchocki.etsy.com
7. Spice kit (large French spice kit shown), purposedesign.etsy.com
8. Noodle ring (sterling silver), mynta.etsy.com
9. Normanville [...]

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 [...]

The Montreal Underground. It’s another world down there.

Beneath the bustling streets and charming cafe’s of Montreal, there lies a secret.  A cavernous system of tunnels that sprawls out like a vast maze with no end in sight.  Many people have entered these catacombs and never returned, resigned to a life of wandering from mall to mall, bankrupt and weary, they pine for [...]

More on our green weekend…

Since Jon already posted lots of photos from this weekend, and it would take quite a while to describe each store and location we visited along the way, I thought I’d post some links to the stores we hit, as well a map that I made for us to use so we’d know where we [...]

Eco-Adventure!

This weekend, Jen and I decided to take an eco-adventure through our favorate neighborhoods in Montreal, Mile End and Plateau.