Banquet Journal

your drawing weekly

i have become addicted to the subscription drawing service, your drawing weekly. every week artist sydney hermant posts a new digital drawing (which can be yours with a certificate of authenticity...

venus fly trap

almost forgot to share, our venus flytrap flowered. kind of amazing. also, our stick bugs hatched. true story.

fall fashun

i'm going to call it: turbans, fur collars, and sweatshirts with birds on them. i might change my mind though. images: barbra streisand from here, peacock sweatshirt from proenza schouler, and las...

we love kid icarus

we love  kid icarus in toronto's kensington market, the tiniest screen printing studio ever. great supporters of banquet, today is their big moving day to larger quarters down the street, and they'...

new tattoos!

new tattoos in the shop today - totally different this time around. we played with scale and colour and the results are vibrant and fairly spectacular. i know for a fact that folks of all sizes hav...

insane in the membrane

one of the reasons even cleveland is one my favourite blogs is the great mix of information she shares. like this video of a cypress hill stimulated squid: During experiments on the axons of the W...

the shell grotto

we should go here. and save the shells the next time we eat oysters. which i hope is soon. (all images via the shell grotto, margate.)

the hat

i am obsessed with this hat right now. i think i need it.

kale

about the only thing that really grew in the garden this year was the kale. a lot of kale. my current favourite way to eat it is in this salad from bon appétit: kale crisped and crumbled over thai ...

settling back in