I just wanted to post an update notifying all our readers that The Conveyor Belt will be back to normal soon! With summer, a couple of personal losses, having to find a new home in Vancouver (not an easy task), and an upcoming camping trip, it’s been difficult to update daily as I so faithfully did before.
If you’re headed up to the Pemberton Festival this weekend, I think that:
A) you’re looney tunes, and
B) you must go find the Mondo Spider guys. They’re taking their 1,600 lb steel spider machine to the festival for all 40,000 fans to enjoy, so don’t miss it.
I am heading up to Cariboo Country for a couple of weeks with family and friends to fish, relax and put my head back on straight – but if I weren’t leaving this weekend I would certainly be enticed to snake my way through the Sea to Sky to see artists like Black Mountain, Buck 65, MSTRKRFT, Chromeo, and Metric up at Pemberton. I also would have left this morning to avoid the intense weekend traffic – good luck to whoever braves those roads! You could probably walk there faster than you could drive.
Also, please remember to keep voting for the FASHION Magazine Reporter Search – I will be away for the rest of the competition and won’t be able to remind folks to vote every day! It’s been a close race between Craig Long and myself for the Vancouver reporter position…so good luck to us both, we certainly need it!
Keep checking back, as Pariya and Carleen are still kicking around and have some interesting pieces to post in the near future. I hope everyone is enjoying some sunshine, wherever you are.
The legendary Miss604, aka Rebecca Bollwitt, has published a profile on me regarding Vancouver blogging and my quest to become an online reporter for FASHION Magazine. If you want to learn a little more about me, Vancouver fashion, and the FASHION Magazine competition you should swing by her site and check out our Q&A session!
I will admit it, I am a coffee snob and a coffee addict. Coffee to me is like cocaine to the average teen celebrity. I recognize and appreciate a quality coffee from a classy establishment.
So, I shouldn’t really need to explain why I indulge in the anti-Starbucks movement, but I will anyway: their exploitation of music, horrible coffee, cookie-cutter corporate culture, and pamphlets on “fair trade” practices are often infuriating.
In my neighborhood, I have several different options for obtaining my caffeine fix. Trees Coffee on Granville (superb), Finch’s Coffee on Homer and Pender (delightful), the little no-name coffee shop owned by the old Armenian man on Richards and Pender (charmingly Armenian). Lately, however, I have basically been living at my boyfriend’s…so, enter Benny’s Bagels.
Continue reading ‘The Little Persian Girl and the Starbucks Solution’
My girl Nikki from Dominic Designs just relaunched her site, and it’s all shiny and new with some great new photographs (you might recognize one of the models). To celebrate, you can enjoy 25% off all online orders until the end of July.
Nikki uses beautiful reclaimed wood and leather offcuts within her collection, so you can reassure yourself that you’re making an eco-minded choice when you shop Dominic. I am a huge fan of the Dominique earrings and matching necklace (wear mine all the time). Nikki mixes and matches her chains and wood, so I actually have a few of the same styles in various colours since I love them so!
*Unrelated PS* Please don’t forget to vote for me for the FASHION Magazine Reporter Search. Bookmark the link and vote every day for the rest of the month!
I posted on the call for submissions months ago, and I’m proud to announce that I’ve been selected as one of 20 finalists across Canada who is up for a job with FASHION Magazine!
