This week, like next week, is the time for a lot of socialising and meeting friends. Vancouver seems to have a lot of good restaurants, many of which I have yet to explore.
I met my friend Hannah on Tuesday at the Secret Garden tea shop in Kerrisdale. The concept is interesting, tea and cakes and lunch in a cutesy tea room environment. The location is perfect, as there are a lot of people around Kerrisdale that can probably afford to take long lunches (let’s just say the typical Kerrisdale lady is probably pretty time-rich as well as cash-rich.) We met at 3pm and it was almost full, so they must be doing quite well. When I sat down I saw this lovely tea cup with sugar cubes on the table, and looked at the menu, which had an amazing selection of teas.
The decor had a lot of potential. personally I would have bought old chairs and tables, so that none of them match, but the counter area had a lot of charm.
The tea and cakes was lovely, but I have to say I was really disappointed by their tea pots and cups. Why go through all the trouble with the decor and the pretty tea cup sugar holders on every table, when you are going to serve the drinks in these generic, boring tea cups.
Another slightly disappointing drinks situation was last night when I went to Uva with Debra, Valdimir, Tin, and the husband. Great company, beautiful venue, fantastic decor, great wine list, but very disappointing service. In fact, I am regretting the 10% tip I left, they deserved less. But at least everything looked good.
Love the light fixtures!
These wall patterns look great, definitely something to consider for a wall in our living room.
Speaking of looking good, today I used my Oonagh O’Hagan bag for the first time. Oonagh is an old friend, we studied together at St Martins and we have stayed close ever since. She is the author of a fantastic book, called I Lick My Cheese and Other Real Notes From The Roommate Frontlines. It is a book filled with notes that people have left for their roommates. I supposed I could say I was the author of one or two of the notes in there, but I won’t tell you which ones, as they weren’t very nice.
She did a limited edition run of bags early this year, which were only available at Browns, a beautiful little department store on South Molton Street in London. in London. Her design took after the famous Anya Hindmarch “I’m not a plactic bag”, which sold like crazy a few years ago but was criticized because it wasn’t ethically friendly and it was made in China.
Marisa V‘s version was also very funny, I never got around to buying one, but I defintiely wish I had.
Anyway, here is Oonagh’s bag, I don’t think you can get it anywhere anymore, but you can definitely enjoy my picture!
Its a cotton bag with a photo of a Louis Vuitton bag printed on it.
SO cool!
Perfect size for my MacBook.
