Montreal Je T'aime

One of the things I absolutely love about Montreal is how much creativity and talented artisans you can find. It's a beautiful thing: a vibrant community of creative people that thrive in making lovely things and those wonderful curators, that encourage creativity by surrounding themselves with carefully crafted, local, beautiful products, attending local craft fairs, shops and galleries.

The other day I made a treasury on Etsy featuring some of my local faves, just some of them as I have plenty! I'll share with you some of them. To see my complete list, click on this link to the Treasury!

Iconic Montreal Airport Sign by excellent photographer Jane Heller

Sugar Maple Seed Necklaces by silvermith Lucie Veilleux 

Druzy crustal earrings by the lovely Noemiah 

Cord and brass minimalist bracelets by the multitalented Natacha from Nanoukiko

Aah, this photo reminds me when we lived in Outremont and used to walk past these doors everyday. Miss my old neighbourhood! Photography by Ginette Brosseau.

Blades bronze earrings by the amazing miss Marmod8.

Montreal fashion represent by Les Enfants Sauvages!

Lastly, map of Montreal by awesome illustrator Raymond Biesinger.

Hope you like my Montreal picks! 

Today I love

This wonderful ceramic collection by MB Art Studios

I'm particularly in love of the cheese plates' modern, geometric designs. Click on the images to go tho their shop! 

I hope you are having a lovely day!

Iveth

Colorful things for a grey day

Lovely things that will make your eyes smile :)

Knitted doll by Sally Nencini

Recycled crayon popsicles by ZeeBree

Color bloc zipper pouch by Pamplemouss

Crochet bracelet and necklace in one piece by Idni Textile Jewelry

Pink felt party garland by Erin Dollar

Color bloc knit necklace by Babbi Livvie

It's so cloudy, rainy, windy and cold today! But looking at those lovely creations and drinking a big cup of tea makes me smile ;) How's the weather today, where you live?

Things I love today

What a great surprise to see Seventy Tree Etsy shop open again! Although Kerry from Seventy Tree had her Big Cartel shop open all this time, as I spend so much time on Etsy, it's great to be just "around the corner" from Kerry's wonderful, quirky, cute illustrations!

All images via Kerry's Seventy Tree shop

Other thing my eyes are happy about is that Erin Dollar has a new line of hand printed pillow covers and tea towels and they are extremely cool. Check them out:

All images via Erin Dollar shop

That's all for today! I hope you are having a great week, thanks for stopping by!

Run wild my child

Naturally, I'm always looking around for cool stuff for kids. This are my favorite things right now (well, I have to admit: I want Royal Mint's bear figurine for myself!):

-Run wild my child print by The Wallaroo -T rex shadow puppet by Owly Shadow Puppets -Clan bear bravelette figurine by Royal Mint -World map pillow by Atelier Pompadour

Wishlist

Tyrannosaurus card by PAWLING

Gaaaah, like Amelia, I feel so crazy about dinosaurs lately. I don't know if it's because of her obsession for all things dinosaur, or just because there are such cool dinosaur related stuff out there...This card by PAWLING is just awesome, so simple but it screams GGGGRRRRRRRR! to me.

Brown and black camera strap by WanderWandering

Been drooling over leather camera straps and I can't decide which one to buy. I need to upgrade my ugly, normal camera straps asap!

Kitted cactus by Odds and Ends

I love, love, love plants but for some reason they don't love me back. It sounds horrible, but they all die when they end up with me. That's why I don't buy plants any more. Maybe I put so much water, maybe they need more sun, I don't know. This little garden of knitted cactus will be the perfect addition to my apartment, plus I'll be sure they will be green forever.

Retro leather camera strap by Magpie Accessories

Another of my favorites in the camera strap department. I love it.

The mini Quinn satchel by New Duds

I've been wanting the Quinn bag from the New Duds for such a long time now it's ridiculous. This bag will be mine one day and that day is not far from now, I say!

Oxfords by Golden Ponies

This shoes look so soft and comfy not to mention extremely lovely. Want them!

There's a lot of leather in my wishlist, gaaah, I just love leather accessories. Feel kind of bad now. I feel like the tyrannosaurus up there. Gggrrrr.

I hope this wishlist is useful for a certain someone *wink,wink* in case he needs to get a present for a certain person which birthday is coming up real fast! *wink, wink* (talking about me and my hubby ;) hehehehehe).

I hope you all have a great day :)

Iveth

Today I love: weekend special ;)

Friday, yay! although I have so many things to do this weekend, I can't help but smile to think of our weekend basics: one day of waking up late, yummy brunchs and movie nights.

Regardless, it's been a little while since the idea of camping is on my mind, so I made a treasury about the nice things that remind me of a weekend on the woods, just beside a lake. I hope you enjoy my picks:

Bird in Hand Vintage

Tipico

Rustic Belt Threads

Mimi Kirchner

Art By Kellie

Have a great weekend!!

Decoration inspiration

The other day I saw this photo on Design*Sponge and was like, wow that's awesome! the embroidery, the silhouettes, the vintage feel, the colors...I love everything about this space.

Under the photo, you'll find my Etsy picks to get the look. I hope you like them!

Design*Sponge

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.

Today I Love

Geometric shapes, things that remind me of celestial bodies, images that make my mind wander...

Berry bowl by Clam Lab

Dot by Debbie Carlos

Mountain fog poster from Debbie Carlos

Linen oblong pouch by Bookhou At Home

Hand drawn mason jar by How Now Design

Today I Love

Hi!

I can't believe we are starting a new week, wow, time goes by so fast lately. How was your weekend? I hope great :)

It was good for us :) I went to have my hair cut (I love it ;), I shopped a bit ;) we watched movies (we saw The Black Swan and I like it a lot!) and on Sunday we went to have dinner with friends. A lovely weekend even when the weather was soooo rainy and will stay like that for the rest of the week :S

And today I want to share my weekend finds with you, I hope you like them!

This bag by Fabric & Handle

This brooch set by So Little Time

This prints by Sunday Punch

Another brooch! (my favorite jewelry!) by And O Design

The lovely colors and cute look (Via Kerry's pinboard)

Wish list's getting longer...

Today I Love

Good morning everybody!! I hope your weekend was loooovely :)

I gathered some awesome things from here and there that I looooove :) i hope you like them, too :)

The coolest pincushions from Strand (an absolutely new favourite!)

The most wonderful little corner, via Seventy Tree Blog

Fields of yellow and green by JumpUp. Awesome.

We need to sleep more by Sabrina Tibourtine . A very good advise for me.

Cool, eh?

In other things, so many stuff going on in the word right now, eh? To begin with, is election day here in Canada and then there is the O.B. Ladden thing. I hope we were a more peaceful specie.

Sadly, war is not going to be over anytime soon, I think.

But I don't want to scare you away from my blog. So I better focus in the little things we can do to be kinder to ourselves and to each other. Let's just begin taking a look outside our window and enjoy the beautiful sight of the world we live in. And let's not forget to smile to each other, even if we are complete strangers.

:)

Have a great week!