Etsy Front Page!

Etsy Front Page!, originally uploaded by buenostyle.

Featured on the front page of etsy today!

Come down to Got Craft in Vancouver this Sunday, May 3rd to see more like this.

Royal Canadian Legion
2205 Commercial Drive
11am - 5pm

I missed getting a screen capture, so the image is courtesy of craftcult.com. if you have an etsy shop, they have wicked features like the "heart-o-matic", and you can search to see if you were featured recently on either the etsy Front Page, The Storque, or a Gift Guide.

OAK earrings grouping

OAK earrings grouping, originally uploaded by buenostyle.

Check out these fresh OAK earrings at Got Craft this Sunday, May 3rd!

Royal Canadian Legion
@ 2205 Commercial Drive (at E. 6th Ave.), Vancouver, BC
11am - 5pm

The sublime lyrics of Leonard Cohen

Well, they were the most expensive concert tickets I will probably ever buy, but it was so worth it.

The magnificent Leonard Cohen payed at GM Place last Sunday night (April 19th) and it was a beautiful evening indeed. I have never owned an album, never bought a CD or a book of Mr. Cohen's work. I believe I became a fan by absorption - by default of being a Canadian - and I was quietly astonished by how many of his songs and lyrics I actually knew and could sing along with during the show.

I wrote down the set list as he played and I can't believe I even knew the song titles to most of the songs! There's only 3 songs where I had to write down some lyrics and find out the song name after.

He brought me to tears more than once . . . during Hallelujah . . . during the spoken word piece 1000 Kisses Deep . . . and during If It Be Your Will with the divine Webb sisters singing angelic harmony.

Set List:
Dance Me To the End of Love
The Future
Ain't No Cure For Love
*(missed the 4th song due to a white wine break)
Bird on a Wire
Everybody Knows
In My Secret Life
Who By Fire
Chelsea Hotel
Waiting For The Miracle
Anthem
~ Intermission ~
Tower of Song
Suzanne
The Gypsy's Wife
The Partisan
Boogie Street
Hallelujah
I'm Your Man
1000 Kisses Deep
Take This Waltz
~ encore ~
So Long Maryanne
Then We Take Berlin
Famous Blue Raincoat
If it be Your Will
Democracy is Coming to the USA
I Tried to Leave You

There's many videos all over YouTube of this tour, but none of them really do the concert justice. I"ll leave you with the best one I found so far.

Vintage Score!

I work with vintage costume jewelry pieces and rework them into One-of-A-Kind pieces for my OAK jewelry line. Living in Vancouver, it's almost impossible to find fantastic, reasonably priced pieces in good condition. So of course that means field-trips!

Last Tuesday I booked my first Zip Car (a Prius, naturally!) and picked up my good friend Stephanie Prins and hit the road to White Rock. It's a smaller city about a 35 minute drive from Vancouver, close to the US border and right on the ocean - which is my favorite part of going there. Any small city or town on the coastline immediately goes way up in my estimation. White Rock is full of lots of old people who drive real slow and it reminds me a little bit of my hometown, Victoria BC - which is on an island, and yes, surrounded by ocean.

Steph and I hit 3 thrift stores all within walking distance of each other. I would recommend Superfluity if you are looking for some serious chachkas . . . they had a fantastic collection of vintage glass dishes, china dishes, figurines, and ceramics. All very reasonably priced. I had heard about this thrift store a couple of years ago after a customer mentioned it to me. I always thought the name kind of odd - until I figured it out - it comes from superfluous!

1 a: excess , oversupply b: something unnecessary or superfluous

Ah.

The last shop we hit up turned out to be a gold mine in my books. I'm looking forward to working with all these lovely bits and pieces for my OAK line in the weeks to come. Check out that little owl - how cute is he? He had a manky piece of fur in his belly that was a bit creepy - I almost left him there. At the last minute I changed my mind and scooped him up. I've now taken the fur out of his belly and I will replace it with a pretty flower or perhaps a glass gemstone? Not sure yet. Keep posted!