Happy Weekend!

You may have been wondering where I've been the last few days. Let me try to explain. Summer is refusing to come to Vancouver so I've been bitter balls like a rodeo clown with no rodeo all week. I felt I needed to keep my whining off of the Internets, so thus the radio silence.

  Hyperbolic photo via Weardrobe

Despite the dreary, gray weather (with no sun! none!), Adam and I took a long bike ride today and sat on a patio in the drizzling rain drinking Caesars with friends. We're Canadian after all.

Anyway, if you're somewhere warm and sweating your cheeks off, here are some links to read while you cool out in the local Starbucks or whatever.

A list for the listless

A female Foosball table*

Popsicles in champagne

The most beautiful wedding venue

A chic wrought iron towel rack

Upcycling like a boss: A chandelier made from a garden basket

Pretty Vancouver style

Making tonight: Cinnamon-Sugar Crusted Coffee Cake Muffins. Yeah.

A stunning silver settee

I brought this potato salad with sun dried tomatoes and basil to a BBQ this week, and it was a big hit. A really nice change from a creamy potato salad (minor recipe adjustment: I roasted, rather than boiled, the potatoes).

Cute sailor shorts


Happy weekend lovers!


*Mixed feelings on this one. I love to play Foosball and it's fun to see female players, but 1. How the f did it take this f-ing long? and 2. Do they have to make everything marketed to women pink? Sigh.

I spy with my little eye

Regardez! A bathing beauty in a life jacket, sunning herself on the sea.

That's right, in a life jacket. Did you miss it? Look again:

 

Yes, that waist-hugging (and dare I say flattering) belt is actually a BandeauBelt, an innovative take on the old-fashioned bulky personal floatation device, submitted to a redesign competition by Vancouver's own Dana Ramler and Kathleen Westerhout. 

As a former lifeguard, I and kind of obsessed with water safety. And a PFD you can look like a pinup in? That's an all-round win. 

via lululemon lab

Headline of the day

(This is not a joke BTW):

Court says civil commissioners must marry gays

Score one for the good guys!

It was a dark and stormy night

via La Belle Bride

Whoever said "rain on your wedding day is good luck" must have been a photographer. Wow.

Vancouver transitional style

Loving this look: warm enough to wear in these pre-spring months, cool enough to wear downtown.

The perfect transition from winter to spring - as long as the rain holds off. I love casual style!


Via Vancouver style blog extraordinaire, Style Quotient

SweaterLodge

Today we went to the Museum of Vancouver to see SweaterLodge, an architectural installation in which a giant polar fleece sweater is suspended from the ceiling of the gallery to create a tent-like structure (1/3 of #27 - done!).

The fleece is made out of recycled pop bottles (!) and is 26.5 meters (87 feet) cuff to cuff (!!). In other words, it's friggen huge. Check out Adam - who is 6'5" - strolling around underneath the beast:

 
The MOV website says: "The installation is a portrait of Vancouver where the veneration of nature and the construction of urban culture stand at curious odds."

If you're in town, I'd say spend the $12 and go check it out.

Two sweet things

Ducks crashed this wedding in Pemberton, BC (represent!):

via Style Me Pretty

Simple, pretty hair:

via Green Wedding Shoes

Happy Tuesday!