Fall Style Picks
As the weather shifts from the radiance of the summer sun to the darker rainy mornings of October, we recognize our wardrobes need a shift as well. So what to wear? We have a few ideas to spur your own creativity and imagination with your attire. Weekend Getaway by brooke123-817 featuring avon shoes Cut loose top 27 CADĀ -Ā zaful.comAvon shoes 31 CADĀ -Ā avon.comCĆLINE pocket tote 3,180 CADĀ -Ā shopunder.com Weekend tank tops and flip flops have to be retired for another year as our soft cozy sweaters make their way...
Anne Carson Design: A Tale of an Accidental Business
Today we are pleased to have our friend and collaborator Anne Carson join us on the blog! On October 27 we will be hosting Anne's pop-up shop at our Mackenzie Heights studio-- we cannot wait to see her latest collection and want to make sure you don't miss out! When I open my weekend pop-up shop at Designers Collective on October 27, it will mark the 15th anniversary of Anne Carson Design, or as I think of it: my accidental business. When...
In the garden: A pre-planting pep talk
The calendar said it was spring over a month ago...
Our Designer ‘Eat Pray Love’ Moment
Our Designer 'Eat Pray Love' Moment [caption id="attachment_6592" align="alignleft" width="865"] Meet April Tidey[/caption]Every once in a while you meet someone who shakes up your preconceptions and makes you see possibilities you had not even considered. So was my meeting with Vancouver Interior Designer, April Tidey. I have never met anyone like her before, and feel so grateful for the introduction by our friend Heather Ross.Brooke and I, along with Heather Ross of Natural Eclectic, went on a reconnaissance trip to Los...
Alt Summit in Palm Springs
Alt Summit in Palm SpringsAsĀ our time in Palm Springs comes to a close I am reflecting back on all we have seen and learned this last week at Alt Summit. Alt Summit is mainly a womenās entrepreneurial/bloggers conference that caught our attention a few years back after Tina took some online Alt courses. For the last several years it has been held in Salt Lake city but this year they changed it up and it was held in Palm Springs. The...
My Year of De-cluttering, Styling, Selling, Downsizing, Moving and Renovating
My Year of De-cluttering, Styling, Selling, Downsizing, Moving and Renovating Holy Cow what a year I have had! I finally feel ready to share how this whole saga went down. As many of you know, Graham and I decided the time was right to downsize. Not just to reduce our house size, but also the size of our debt, our overhead - our whole operation. We sat down one day and realized there was way more to life than what we...
Downsizing with Designers Collective
Downsizing with Design Coaches, Brooke and TinaWe are so pleased with the way our Olympic Village Design Coaching project has turned out.This project is a great example of how ācoachingā can work in design. Ā Our clients had sold their large Dunbar family home and were moving to a much smaller condo in Olympic Village. They were in a dilemma about how to manage all their furniture and how best to go about deciding what would fit and what they would...
LOCAL: How opportunity became a creative network
With a show of hands...
Brooke’s European Adventures Continue
Our European adventures continue! We arrived mid afternoon after a near miss of having my luggage stolen on the train-luckily my partner, Randy noticed and confronted the fellow who easily relented but needless to say we were a little more cautious after that. We took the metro to our hotel and the very first sight we saw when getting off the metro was Gaudiās Battlo house! I couldnāt wait to get started! Getting around Barcelona was fairly straight forward- we...
