This post will seem repetitive to anyone who followed me here from my old blog, but I’m in bed sick again – this time, with some sort of bad reaction to a plate of spaghetti (February has not been kind to me)- and I can’t come up with much of anything new worth posting about.

When my Grandmother used to tell me about when she moved to Toronto in the 1940’s – to be with my Grandfather – she would go on an on about how on Sunday afternoons, they would go to Sunnyside for fun. From what I knew of the beach, there isn’t much to see – so I got to looking up how it was back then. It turns out Sunnyside was Toronto’s own Coney Island, until they came through and built the Gardiner, rendering the West part of the city boring, and driving all of the rich families to move East.

Parkdale is not without it’s charm today, and we are lucky enough to have the Ex come to our part of town every year – as well as some other festivals – but it does look like it was a whole lot of fun, doesn’t it?

 

 

 

 

I stole these photos from BlogTO who do a much more eloquent job of describing the changes made to the pavillion than my sick brain can right now. So, I’ll leave you with the photos.

 

 

 

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February might not seem so awfully dreary to me if every weekend were as lovely as this past one. Friday night Kira and I had plans to go to the launch party for Go Home Print’s second issue (which a couple of Kira‘s photos are in!!!), but Kira came down with the same awful flu I am just getting over, so we both ended up staying in. I finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” Friday afternoon, and was pretty curious to see the movie, so, I settled onto my couch with a bucket of spicy cayenne pepper popcorn and a beer and watched it and wept for a couple of hours.

The rest of the weekend was spent reading, dog walking, shopping, brunching, eating pho, going to birthday parties and watching my friend’ parents perform musical revues in beautiful old churches!

Tonight, a few of us watched the Oscars at Kira’s house and vowed to be more organized and throw a real Oscar party next year. Now it’s nearly 1am and I should put my computer away and let the sound of raccoons screaming outside my bedroom window lull me to sleep. I hope you all had lovely weekends too.

Outfit Details: 

Jacket & Collared shirt: Primark (UK)

Sweater Philistine

Jeans & Boots: Urban Outfitters

Toque & Bag: thrifted

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1990s White long sleeved blouse

Sorry about the slight delay in this week’s shop update, but here it is, as promised! We’ll slowly be transitioning into Spring in the next few weeks – maybe a little optimistic, but why not!

Gray high-waisted trousers (M)

Paisley shirt waist dress with re-purposed skirt (S)

Blue 1990’s Pairie skirt (M)

1990’s grey wool mini skirt (S)

1990’s Floral patterned midi skirt (S/M)

Image from Shorpy

We’re sorry for how quiet it’s been around here. I’ve been mostly just coming home from work and holing up under blankets to try to fight off this never ending cold, and Alex has been crazy busy with work and dance things. We meant to have a shop update for you this afternoon, but a couple of technical difficulties set us back a tiny bit. We’ll have a new batch of items in the shop by tomorrow evening, we promise!

In the mean time, I’m getting excited to dive into this Pierre Berton book about the building of the Canadian railroad. I’ve been feeling pretty guilty lately about how little I know about my own country’s history, so when my boss – who is a big Canadian history geek, in the best way – recommended I get into this author, I got right on it.

You’ll have to bear with me for the next few weeks (or months) while I go off on long tangents about things I’m learning!

Hope everyone has a nice long (for most of us) weekend!

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Having grown up in small-town Quebec, I’m no stranger to the joys of Winter. Building forts, crazy carpeting down mountains, cross country skiing – were all part of the fun for us as kids. When I moved into Montreal, though, suddenly Winter meant trudging to class through brown slush, and packing myself onto an over-heated bus full of people dressed for sub-arctic temperatures.

Winter, since I’ve lived in the city, just turns me into the whiniest little thing!

This weekend, my family rented a cottage in Sutton to celebrate my Mom’s 60th birthday. Being out in the country again made me forget about all the things I hated about Winter, and now I almost don’t feel ready for it to end!

We mostly spent the weekend being lazy – reading books by a fire, eating too much food, and helping each other with crosswords – but we also bundled up and went for a hike, and romped around snowy hills and followed a big furry dog into some woods…and it was amazing! It reminded me how good it feels to get outside – it’s so easy to just want to hibernate sometimes.

I ended up catching an awful cold/flu thing right as our weekend was ending (probably as a result of taking these silly blog photos that first day…), so I’m not entirely looking forward to a 6 hour bus ride home this afternoon…but it’ll be nice to see my dogs again, and I am already looking forward to the next time I get to goof around with my sister and her boyfriend, and spend time with my Mom & Dad.

 

Outfit Details: 

Vintage dress – Common Sort on Queen W

Gap sweater – thrifted

Tights & Socks: Primark (UK)

Boots: Urban Outfitters 

Sunglasses: Kensington Market 

 

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