Shayne and Jessica’s formal birthday party

Me and Maurizio arrived at Shaynes and jessicas birthday party. It looked like this.
I looked like this.
Maurizio was dapper looking as always!
Wearing his new ascot that I picked for him. I love the byzantine feel of that brocade!
Its cool to look cool.
Models and designers always love each other!Fancy times!
And the birthday couple with friends and sisters!
I met  a few of my favourite Montreal designers Jose Manuel and Simon from UNTTLD and  also Anastasia Lomonova!
Yep that is a live jazzband in their appartment! The Fat Kid Quartet, in fact.
And some dirty dancing

Thank you Jessica and Shayne for inviting us to this awesome party every year that makes me feel like I’m part of a mad man episode and that gives me a chance to wear my fancy dresses. I work in an office you know.
Hope to see you in the summer for a double date on motorcycle!

Love,

Cecilia (and Maurizio)

Bottle-feeding a siamese cat.

This is one of my favourite things to do for sure. I tried this when he was a kitten just for fun and then I stopped once he grew older. I wanted to see his reaction after 1,5 year and well, he still goes bananas every time he see the bottle. You know, screams the way only a siamese cat can scream. Youtube it.
Its just that now he is fucking heavy.I just had to share this!

Ciao.

 

Sailing, whiskey on the rocks and Marilyn Monroe sunglasses.

Our landlord invited us to sail with him in Oka. Who doesn’t love sailing and rose vine? Landlord Alain pouring some vine.his friend and wifeAnd the sailor dog!My man!And then I sat there with a glass of whiskey on the rocks and talked to my stepdaughter about life, school and being 13.

 

1950’s style sunglasses from modcloth.com 

 

 

 

The perfect outfit for eating lobster.

And thats not my dress made out of garbage bags. 

This is the pin-up-y outfit I thought would be perfect to eat tons of lobster in. Outfit from behind. Burlesque. Then we hit the village!And we had Jacqueline taking this picture of us with the cool car.Something’s telling me that we are not 100% sure in this picture if our little photographer can handle the giant camera!The little photographer aka my stepdaughter! Do I have to mention it took me until the age of 16 before starting eating shrimps?Im crazy about shrimp and seafood today but to brutally eat this I had to empower myself with rose.One happy manThen I got my hands dirty and loved it. Could totally go back to Maine and eat lobster only for like a week. Lobster omelet, lobster hot dog, lobster pasta sauce, lobster pizza, lobster butter, lobster hamburger, lobster salad, lobster pudding, lobster vine, lobster cheesecake, lobster cupcakes, lobster nutella.
Ok you get it.

 

Lobster and pirates

After driving all night we arrived in Maine and Maurizio wanted to go whale watching so thats what we did. I wasn’t really in the best mood after only sleeping a few hours in a car and then board this whale watch boat in the rain. We never brought any rain clothes with us either so it was basically 4 hours of constant freezing and very little whale. Whale watch popcorn cafe!
And this is basically what we saw. The atlantic ocean was very pretty though!Our captain looked just the way a captain is suppose to! Like, hello, he is wearing a fish shirt! Then we ate tons of cheap lobster for lunch at a bar close to the dock where the guests all were men in their 60’s that looked like real pirates and that asked me and Maurizio if we were some kind of rock star couple.
Night came and as usual Im the one entitled to ride all the carousels with Jacqueline!
Something I in fact love.
Bellbottoms from FP
By the Pier where we bought the most luxurious hot dog of my life.Best ever. (That’s stuffed with lobster only!)
And since we love crepes me and Jacqueline had one stuffed with Nutella for dessert. It was huge and sugary and absolutely wunderbar.
Good last picture for today. Jacqueline tickling me!

the goldfinger dress.

I was invited to see the Antoine Laoun show from the Vip section at Festival Mode et design in August and I took Jacqueline with me.
I convinced her to wear black to look older because I was afraid they would not let her in with me.I was wearing the dress that made me feel like a golden goddess statue. Cant go wrong.The reason for my invitation is this shoot I did for Antoine Laoun and you can see it here or on St.Catherine or in the Montreal metro. It felt awkward and awesome at the same time to find a picture of myself in the goodie bag. Highlights from the Antoine Laoun show.Forever 21 highlights. Mondrian lookalike.I always meet Christine at all fashion events in Montreal! She is apparently known locally  in television here in Quebec but since I don’t have a TV at home I’m always clueless. One of my favourite pieces from UNTTLD that I also saw at fashion week in February.
The back is just amazing!And then we had these awesome feminists entering the stageThey got the chance to do some sexy moves before the security guards came running like angry elephants. And shortly after that we could enjoy some more Unttld. Maurizio came later on and bought me one of my favourites:  Dry martini. Perfect ending of a fabulous evening.

Festival mode et design is happening every year in August and is open to the public. Here is their website.

a part of katy perry.

 

 

 

 

What is happening here?Im being the best step mom in the world transforming us to Katy Perry and Jacqueline is being the cutest step daughter in the world in her purple wig.This was when we came home from the movie premiere of Katy Perrys movie “Part of me” that we saw in 3D. Really cool if you like candy, glitter and all that.

Wearing: Wigs, Halloween shop. Skirts, American Apparel. Silver sweater, H&M and a vintage black bra that I decorated with beads and fringes a few years ago.

Maid of the mist

Saurday June 30th. Dayton, Pennsylvania
We drove by Pennsylvania on our way back home to Montreal and I met my mothers cousin Lars Rosell for the first time and his wife and their 7 dogs! Amazing.Lars used to be in a band called Rockabilly junction and I got to see and touch a guitar that Elvis basist had tried at one point.  Cool!I was mighty impressed by this, too!We also drove by Niagara falls on our way home. It was magical.So we decided to go on the maid of the mist boat tour. Mau is in the hood
One size fits all.

Monticello villa rotunda.

Friday June 29th. Monticello, Virginia.

And we drove off to Monticello. Maurizio drove like a robot for like 6 hours during the night through a tornado. I woke up because the car was shaking and I remember it was such a pain getting gas in the middle of the night since all the electricity was out at all gas stations.  
When we finally reached Monticello we drove to the house of Thomas Jefferson and slept in the car in a parking lot. And then you finally wake up in a hot car under the gazing sun and it feels like you haven’t had a shower for days and you need to change clothes in the car and cannot really put together a nice outfit.
Road trip times, oh sweet road trip times.

Monticello feels just like Italy! Its just as warm and the landscape looks the same.Robot boyfriend that drove all night. Love you baby.The grandiose house of Thomas Jefferson. You gotta show the world that you’re the president of America and the master mind behind modern democracy!Obviously he was inspired by Italy also in the design of this renaissance villa rotunda-house. I have a slight memory of seeing this house in an architecture book in school. Wine cellar door. I want a door like this. Sturdy. Steel. Wood.Big ass party in tha Jefferson house! Wine and dine til you die! Porcelain.Morgonbad. Farmland.and so we walked down the mountain.
Then I got this awesome drink book in the gift shop. This is where I find the recipe for beer battered beans, Dr pepper dip sauce with grilled shrimps wrapped in bacon, honeybee drinks, southern comfort drinks and other yummy alcohol based brewages served in beautiful crystal glasses. Very, very Southern USA.

Fifteen reasons why I love Charleston.

Friday June 29th. Charleston, South Carolina.

Breakfast in a South Carolina jungle!middle balcony was ours.So we went out in the heat on the streets to explore daytime Charleston.They had some Swedish souvenirs here strange enough! The flea market where you can buy handmade sweetgrass baskets and other cute and useful things.Then we went to the shopping street.Charleston has got one of the prettiest shopping streets. They make Forever 21 look like a nice little private owned clothing store. Almost. 
And we ate lunch at this awesome sea food restaurant by the water.

After lunch we went to the beach and took a quick dip in the hot sea. I can’t think of anything better right now than huge, heavy waves that covers me from top till toe in the blink of an eye. Bam.
But we had to be realistic and realized we had about 3 days to get back to Montreal before vacation was over so we had to drive back up north. Otherwise we would have stayed. Forever.
Here is 15 reasons why:

1. Palm trees.
2. Warm sea with huge waves. (Sullivan beach!)
3. Heat. Because I hate cold.
4. The cutest city centre where the biggest of retail chains looks like that local village shop from the 1850’s.
5. The vintage shops are filled with goodies. FILLED. One even had a huge section with only Chanel.
6. Horses and buggies.
7. Nice people with funny accents.
8. Voted second best dressed city in America after New York.
9. Voted sexiest city in America. Voted the most friendly and most hospitable too.
10. The city started growing in the 1690’s. That’s old for being America, people.
11. It’s small and charming but still there is around 120.000 people living there.
12. The rainbow-colored houses.
13. Cheese and wine at 5 o clock on the porch.
14. Whiskey on the porch.
15. Cigarettes on the porch.