thinking of you Haiti.

This image was taken from The Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance .  It’s a very sad week for our planet,  since learning about the devastating earthquake that hit Port Au Prince and buried so many beautiful people.                            xoxoxox

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moosewood collective

i was just chatting with my beautiful friend Maria. She gave us one of our favourite dessert recipe books called Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts for our wedding last summer. Two nights ago i made Lemon loaf (but in a square) which received rave reviews from Chester and his brother Jimmy James- Aunt Juanita stopped [...]

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i LOVE grey days & rain

… and not beautiful sunny days that seem so far away. I remember a most amazing summertime trip that I took with my sister and sister-cousin to beautiful Denver, CO a couple of summers ago — i miss summertime – i wish it was summertime SUMMERTIME COULD NOT ARRIVE TOO SOON ENOUGH! for my liking. [...]

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here comes holiday time

with this Deer Trophy by jennifer Khoshbin (found in tradional home mag dec.09 issue pg.45) Noel Napkin found on page 16 maybe it’s a little late to import and install one of these for this christmas, -start your plans for 2010 early and warm up with an AGA stove but how cool is this old fashioned [...]

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calgary and back

Thanks to ALL of our wonderful Albertan families for such a fun, music, food!, and family filled extravaganza weekend. Acupofcotter’s maternal family was fortunate enough to gather at Auntie Joan’s beautiful home in celebration of Grandpa’s 85th birthday and also to celebrate the season of change and renewal too. Cousin Allie and Aunitie Joanie took [...]

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akio takamori

Seattle figurist artist Akio Takamori is showing his new work, with work from his residency in denmark last year at the James Harris Gallery – now until Dec. 19th (Seattle, WA, USA). “The exhibition explores both contemporary and Renaissance portraiture as a psychological crossroads between past and present.”  I am very much liking the 2-d [...]

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culture crawl… tonight!

gailan ngan studio sale on the Culture Crawl (tonight & tomorrow) .. if you’re in the GVRD (vancouver) tonight, and you have awesome rain gear — then head out on the ‘crawl’ and see some fab things for your house & home. Start at Gailan Ngan‘s amazing little cornershop studio at 898 E. Georgia (say [...]

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lovely family time.

WE just got back from a mid-week second annual sylvia hotel reunion in vancouver, bc. lots of cotters were there. Not just cupfulls…. BOWLFULLS!!!! it was so great. We used to live in Vancouver before moving here to the comox valley. I just recently came across a picture of our “moving truck” that chester built [...]

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beautiful spaces

I’m looking for images of a perfect gathering space, a perfect working space, and a perfect space for air and aromatics. I’m looking for a picture of my dream kitchen!! { because then i could show it to chester – and he might/will build it! } I found my dream kitchen within the many online gallery photos [...]

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on time…

… @ Vancouver’s Contemporay Art Gallery (CAG). Elizabeth Zvonar – one of my favourite people. She worked at Emily Carr when I was there from 04-08- A great intelligent energy she is. “Elizabeth Zvonar’s work often uses iconic images from pop culture to reference art historical works, mixing images through collage or rendering popular forms [...]

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