Mod Mischief

Chris and I went to the Ottawa Vintage Clothing Show today. It's awesome that they've turned it into a more-than-once-a-year event! While I'm still a little nostalgic for the days when the sale was at the Chateau Laurier, the organizers did a much better job setting things up in the convention centre this time around. There was a better layout, it was easier to navigate between stalls and, without the sun in our eyes , we could actually see the clothing we were trying to buy! We were a little disappointed that there seemed to be fewer vendors with the menswear and military stuff Chris and I tend to gravitate towards, but we still found some great pieces. There are two schools of thought when it comes to dressing for the vintage clothing sale: you can either put on your best vintage clothes in the hopes of impressing all the fashionistas, or you can opt to wear skin-tight spandex so you can try things on without needing to use the crowded, and not terribly private,...

My incredibly talented little brother has a show coming up in June. If you're going to be in Vancouver this summer you should go check it out!

Wow, is it Wednesday already? We've had friends over almost every night over the last week and we've been super productive, working on wedding stuff. Have I mentioned that we have the best friends? Because our friends are the best . While I've been trying to keep the house tidy when company is coming over, it hasn't been entirely successful. It's hard to keep things clean when you need access to a ton of tools and a million little pieces! Hopefully we'll be able to check off a few more lines on our to do list by the end of this week and I'll have lots more photos to show you.

As I mentioned previously , we've been cutting out fabric triangles for bunting. Now that we have thousands (yes, thousands) of triangles cut, it's time to start putting them together. We shuffled the various bits of thrift store bed sheets, fabric leftovers and random rags (there's even some old socks in there!) with the help of Chris' best man, and put them into stacks of 120 triangles. So it's just a matter of sewing all thousand or so feet of bunting together....

Remember how we set up a photo booth for our friend's party ? Well, we ordered a photo book with all the pictures as a gift for Andrea and I'm super happy with the results. The packaging is adorable and they even included a cute gift card so we can give a friend a free book I heard about My Publisher on Young House Love , and with such great reviews I figured it was worth trying out. They did not disappoint!  Setting up the book was super easy and the prices were very reasonable. Best of all, it arrived just a few days later and looks fantastic. Everything is very high quality and the photos turned out great (even though many weren't that good to start with).  Check out the fancy vellum pages and lining! In case you're reading this Andrea, I'm sorry if I ruined the surprise but I figure you probably over heard me at the party, telling everyone they had to get their photo taken because I was making you a book! This wasn't sponso...

We went to a great party tonight. Our friend threw a fantastic 60s Mad Men themed housewarming. After we got home, I realized that, except for the stripes on Chris' tie , we wore the exact same outfits to a party way back in 2008 !

Machete & Sons sent us the muslin version of Chris' tailcoat. It needs some alterations but we're super excited. Just imagine how great it will look in red wool with an ivory lining and pewter buttons!