Banquet Journal

paradise looks like this

life's been pretty amazing lately. last week included a magical dinner on a rooftop overlooking fields of blackberries, horses, and the fraser river. we drank pink wine, ate paella cooked over a g...

Cake bomb

cut the rug

carpet: top, bemelmans. bottom, the vogue theatre.

owls

sorry for our absence. the six had his last week of kindergarten and it was fairly epic. and not without a few tears, mostly on my part. we also (in this case the we being the three and i) were in...

Death and beauty

bronze + brass + gold lamé

a scattered slice: it's all in the mix: sequins + pleated gold lamé + sneakers. a blond mane helps. the one that got away, namely a largish 1920s cast bronze model of mount fuji, at erie basin. ...

more malachite

a malachite and brass belt buckle -kind of oddly perfect.  

gloria

gloria vanderbuilt must be freaking out over givenchy's resort collection... (note especially the lacquered patchwork floor)

givenchy

  what a gown. givenchy resort 2013. here.

doughnuts + euphorbias = good

  i had a perfect saturday morning. it started with four super-fine ladies and the desert plant society's annual succulent sale and show at van dusen botanical gardens, and concluded with coffee an...