Glowing street

Despite the rain, I was walking around the town.

In the evening,

I went to my friend's birthday party.

Charles is the birthday guy. 

Nice cheese from Montreal.

Their family, mr. Paul.He loves cilantro.

My new year movie

A happy new year everyone.

Holidays are over, I'm back to work.

When the holidays are over, I feel like a bit sad and blue every year - maybe everyone does.

My "holiday is over blue" cure is watching movies and listening music, keeping going out to cafes.

I watched a movie that my friend Chantal (she's a craft artist from Montreal) recommended, that called "Another earth" (by Mike Cahill).

According to IMDB about this film, the first sentence says"On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system.." it is Sci-Fi film, but it is not a spectacular type of Sci-Fi, the back ground scenes are along with people's regular life.

I like the cinematography which is like cold, winter days.

You can discover more stories with their trailer.

Another earth trailer on youtube.

Sunday lunch

We had a Sunday lunch at Peckinpah in Gastown.

The peckinpah is a cozy barbecue house.

Unique themed interiors.

Look at this shiny bun!

The bread tasted sweet and was perfect for the BBQ.

I had a chicken, they had separate sause in a bottle, I could put the sause as much as I want.

It was messy Sunday lunch, was taste good!

Lambic beer

Since I tried Kriek beer,

I became a big fun of those sour taste beer.

They called "Lambic"

"Lambic is a very distinctive type of beer brewed only in the Pajottenland region of Belgium (southwest of Brussels) and in Brussels itself at theCantillon Brewery and museum." (from wikipedia)

Yesterday I tried was Lambic Gueuze, Cuvee rene.

It tastes righter than the Kriek or Duches, 

according to wikipedia,  "a good gueuze will be given a year to referment in the bottle, but can be kept for 10–20 years."!

It is amazing to know people start making these kind of drinks 500 years ago..

After witches, monsters..

After my halloween reading..

Went for a haunted houses watching .

Preparing dinner..

Bloody fingernail.

Made a "Witchy Salad" Eye balls and fingers on the baby spinach.

The eye ball idea is from Michael Smith's recipe on Food network,

I putted centre eye balls on them.

Dreamy show in woods

We went Flaming lips and Ariel Pink's Haunted graffiti show.

It was at a big park, Stanley Park.

Our rock hero, Ariel pink's Haunted graffiti.We were waiting to see this show!

The Flaming lips. A lot of balloons and lights,they created an another world during the show,it was amazing.

Shoes!

I bought a pair of new shoes at umeboshi shoes,

they have classical look, simple shape.

It is hard to find simple style shoes, like mens style with reasonable price,

I'm very happy with the shoes.

Sunday walk

I took a Sunday walk.

cherry cheesecake at Public market

There is a festival called "Pride Parade" . We saw it from the other side of the ocean.

Walked down to a beach.

There are many kind of dogs.

Colours

Most I like about summer is fresh veggies and fruits - fun to cook, their colours are amazing.

Blueberries from a farmer's stand.

Blueberry crisp with the berries.

Beets, from farmer's market last ttime I wrote.

Salad, with the beets and water cress, cranberry goat cheese and nuts.

At a Public market 2

I helped my friend's booth again for two days and was little excited, cause our booth was next to Susan Cain.

She makes dolls, I saw her works at Circle craft and since then, I became her fun.

Her booth was like a little theatre with full of her magical dolls.

Forest City Lovers

I saw their mini-live at neptoon records.

I didn't know the band since then and now I'm checking their schedule.. Cute band.

Slide show

Watching slides is fun - we made a slide theatre at home!

Outdoor

I love sunshine, but I don't swim usually in summer, just go to beach for beach biking, or walking.

This year me and my boyfriend got a Frisbee! So we will play it and enjoy the sun during summer.

I checked about vintage Frisbees - reflecting the age, found some collective character ones too

From kelleystreetvintage

From Gasoline alley antiques

From tke924

Poilane

I received a souvenir from France - poilane's cookies, made by a famous bakery in Paris.

I heard the store started in 1930's.

The fancy flower shaped cookies, each one looks like one of a kind, has different colours.

Taste like Paris - (I've never been to Paris but I felt like) It is truly classical taste, only using excellent ingredients.

Spring walk

I went for a tea with Japanese friends and walked a lot today.We felt like sightseeing for here.

Cherry trees are blooming, already.

An art work at culinary school's cafe at granville island.

A piece of beautiful cake!

There is a mini train for winter games.it is running from Granville island to Cambie bridge.