Jelly Belly in The Distillery District

June 24, 2013November 11, 2014Leave a comment

How did it become Monday already?! This weekend flew by. Meg has gone off to Catskills, NY with her bff, and I have been stalking her instagram making myself so envious of all the amazing things she is doing and seeing. I’m sure she’ll have plenty of pics to share with us when she is back. Yay!

Now me you ask, well, Matt and I spent most of our Saturday in The Distillery District, seeing Kim’s Convenience, a play one of Matt’s pals from an old show he worked on was acting in. It was SO good! Matt and I kept having to hold back our sentimental tears at pretty much every moment. After that we had some snacks and beers at Mill St. Brew Pub, bought some baked goodies and walked around pretending to be tourists. Sunday I had a busy day of dance. It was Toronto’s Choreographer’s Ball last night, so I was dancing my little heart out on stage with my dance company, A.I.M. Always a fun and inspiring night. And one of the few events where pretty much everyone from the Toronto dance scene shows up to. It’s like a stroll down memory lane sometimes.

This shift dress I’m wearing could be one of my favs. I very much love anything with geometric prints or crazy floral patterns. It does however sometimes make me look like I have a pot belly, but that could also be because I have the most horrifying posture. I’m not sure how I did ballet for 19 years and could still have the posture of a jelly bean.

shift dress; 69 Vintage, blouse/shoes; thifted, socks; UO, sunglasses; Philistine

Larkspur Summer 2013

June 20, 2013June 26, 20181 Comment

Photography and design by Kira

Styling and Modeling by Alex and Meaghan

CLICK THROUGH FOR THE FULL LOOKBOOK

After a few hours of banging our heads against a wall trying to figure out how best to upload this thing – we’re finally ready to share the final Larkspur Summer 2013 lookbook with you all!

Kira worked her magic, like she always does, and managed to create a Lookbook Alex and I are so in love with, and so excited to share with you, and right in the nick of time, because we were starting to feel like all the odds were stacked against this shoot ever even happening at all!

We also updated the shop with a lot of the Summer items in the lookbook – check it out here!

You can view the full Lookbook by clicking on the photo above, but we’ve also added a Lookbooks section to the main page of the blog. Click here to get to it.

The photos are also posted to our Tumblr and Facebook accounts.

Matt Skuza as Utah

June 19, 2013November 11, 2014Leave a comment

Matt Skuza has been a dear friend of mine for many years (dating back to the good ol’ Ottawa goth days). And I have been enchanted by his photography for just as long. Matt does all of his art under the name Utah. He originally began with focus on photography, and then dove into the world of painting.

The thing that gets me about Matt’s photography is that it feels real, because most of the time, it is. His subjects are just living and breathing, and he captures those very moments, making you see beauty in simplicity. His cityscapes and landscapes feel much the same. You could walk by a street or building everyday and barely even see it, but Matt will see something special, or maybe not so special, and capture that moment, as it is, astonishing or mundane, I don’t believe there is any difference to him. And that’s why he is so endearing. His art and his life parallel each other so much, that it’s hard to find something to dislike because it is so genuine.

Matt currently resides in Vancouver, BC. If you live in the area, definitely keep an eye out for any shows he’s putting on or participating in. His art won’t disappoint you, and he’s also an incredibly interesting person to talk to if you love having deep convos about life.

Johanna Torell

June 18, 2013November 11, 2014Leave a comment

Johanna Torell is one of those very special people that can pick up a camera and make magic happen (in my opinion). Combining portrait and landscape, she creates eerie imagery, and often times abstract views of the mundane and simple things in life. She breathes new life into all things her camera lens captures.

Coming across Johanna’s work was not really by fluke, as she lived in Toronto for several years, and we have some mutual friends. But to be honest, I only very recently took the time to browse her body of work, and I immediately fell in love. She currently resides in Sweden which I imagine is a pretty magical place to be a photographer.

If you are in to this lovely lady’s work just as much as I am, you should check out her recently released book titled Hemifrån, filled with her amazing photography.

Note: i’ll add a link to her book later, as the website is currently down

Posted by Alex

Clifton Hill

June 17, 2013November 11, 20142 Comments

Niagara Falls is one of those places that is ultra touristy, and could make me feel really overwhelmed and anxious, but instead it makes me really, really, unbelievably happy…

Alex and I have had to postpone shooting our Summer lookbook about a half a dozen times for a million scheduling and weather issues. Sunday was the day that we decided – rain or shine – it had to get done. The weather network spent the week terrorizing us with stupid little lightning bolt symbols and obscenely high P.O.P.s. When Sunday finally rolled around, we woke up to what felt like a monsoon, which put a bit of a damper on our plans to shoot at the Scarborough Bluffs (an escarpment by the water in the East end of Toronto). Luckily, we have a genius by our side, and Kira turned the whole miserable day around by suggesting we drive out to Niagara and shoot a road-trip themed lookbook – which is exactly what we ended up doing, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the end results with you (soon!).

All lookbook related excitement aside though, once we were in Niagara, the weather seemed to take our side again, and we had an absolutely perfect day. We explored the strip with all the weird tacky motels and campgrounds, and ate at a diner shaped like a flying saucer, we shopped at kitchsy souvenir shops and rambled up and down Clifton Hill drinking Slushies and letting ourselves get overwhelmed by all the sights and sounds of the Midway. By the end of the day we had new freckles and frizzy hair from the sun and the humidity, and we were exhausted in a way that only perfect days with best friends can make you feel. We made dinner together and looked through the photos and I went to bed feeling extra sentimental about how much I love my friends.