there was even a bunny petting station for the little ones!
from Ellie’s 1st Birthday Party by stunning floral and event company JL Designs.
in my continuing obsession with all things southern, here’s the Trustees Theater at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
(photo from Jules Pieri.)
i absolutely love that the college purchased and restored an old theatre, but kept every element true to its original 1940s style. from the Daily Grommet blog: “The school has a very sophisticated and controlled visual identity in most communications, but it breaks all the rules when it comes to exterior building signage—using whatever signage style is appropriate to the period of the building.”
can we see more of this in toronto, please? this city’s quickly losing all its old theatres. yes, the Bloor West Chapters (which was once the Runnymede Theatre) is still somewhat authentic inside, but outside? that facade just looks like a big box shop.
solved!
there was a discussion about this during thanksgiving: how do brussels sprouts grow?
last weekend at Fiesta Farms i found the answer:
…i know!
i really, really never would have guessed “on a large stalk.” and despite being a very good answer, there’s now so much more i want to know about brussel sprout cultivation.
i’ve been wearing this new Rimmel London colour “milk chocolate” almost non-stop the last two weeks. true, it is a drugstore brand, but Rimmel always lasts a good five days before chipping and has a brush that can compete with the haute lacquers.
the day after i bought it the oh-so-talented Sophy Robson posted about mixing foundation shades for the mannequin effect she did at the Louis Vuitton SS10 runway. um, i love this idea—and milk chocolate is just the right high gloss beige to blend in. “you remind me of a 1980s pantyhose ad,” J says. exactly.
Lionel puppy seems to like it too.
aubergine dinner party
the colour dinner party series started when sarah hosted an all-green dinner in july. (so long ago how?) last night was the second iteration when i cooked everything in the shade of aubergine.
signature cocktail was, of course, the aviation—thanks to my imported-from-texas bottle of creme de violette.
that’s a plum, ontario coronation grape, red onion, and radicchio salad, recipe inspired by this.
purple potato, purple cauliflower, and leek soup, garnished with purple radish sprouts. (recipe adapted from here.)
raspberry sorbet and blackberries, and OPI Done Out in Deco.
*not pictured: mussels and pasta, because no matter how much beet juice and flesh you boil pasta in, it will not dye the pasta and you will curse yourself for just not purchasing squid ink pasta instead.
natalie’s up next with orange, and then it’s pink with terese—which may end up coinciding with valentines day if we continue the slow food approach to coordinating these meals.
fall, sweaters, colours.
in an ideal world, i would be able to wear things like this QUAIL letterman cardigan all winter long. not so much in toronto, unfortunately.
(stunning sweater discovered via coco & kelly.)
how about this? a look that’s a little bit more favourable to crisp air commutes and water cooler chats. rich colours mixed together with different textures and prints. and then the gold!
(image from mumero magazine, found via the glamourai.)
who cares that Chanel’s Jade isn’t coming to Canada? it’s always been a bit of a ‘whatever’ shade for me. but THIS!
now that’s a shade to get excited about. mushroomy, mauvey, and grey. plus, my YDKJ—the polish this one’s been dubbed closest to—has turned dark with age so it’s time for a replacement.
style.com’s beauty counter blog says it’s called Particulière and we’re looking at a january release. fancy that, just in time for my parents to ship me a bottle from the states for my birthday.
Chanel SS 2010 images from Vogue UK
unfair!!
“Other pieces included a new copper Tom Dixon table lamp, four melamine dining chairs from Design Within Reach, and a white vintage Saarinen table she had bought through Craigslist for $900, which immediately became one of her favorite possessions after discovering when she went to pick it up that it had belonged to the novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss.”
- re: the luck of Sasha Haines-Stiles in redecorating her Brooklyn loft, c/o the NYT.
