Amethyst Earings Giveaway! Summer Accessories

The designer of Vivre, Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti has a giveaway for you! The designer has built her business around the notion that everyone should have access to luxury. She creates pieces that focus on timeless treasures rather than trends. She has provided Clothes Line Finds with a fantastic pair of amethyst earrings! Earrings are the perfect accessory to spice up any look whether for work or play. Contest closes June 3rd!

Giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY! All you have to do is:

1. LIKE my Facebook page Clothes Line Finds and leave a comment on the FACEBOOK page as to what you would wear these earrings with in your wardrobe!

2. LIKE the Vivre Facebook Page here

Just Made Metro Newspaper's Broccoli, Snow Pea and Baby Corn Salad

I have been inspired to cook by two of my fellow bloggers Lisa and Anne. Anne is always making fantastic things and posting them to her facebook page and Lisa regularly features recipes on her blog. I have started to realize that over the past year much of my budget has gone to food. Rather than wasting it on fast food that ISN'T 1) good for me or 2) very good, I've been trying my darnedest to make new meals each week. Here is a recipe Treasure Seeker Colleen sent me yesterday from the Metro Newspaper. Click here to see the full article! I am going to be having a cookbook giveaway for "Glorious One Pot Meals" very soon so stay tuned!

Anne's site http://themlane.wordpress.com/
Lisa's site http://www.sololisa.com/

Recipe

by Rose Reisman

Ingredients:

Salad

• 2 cups chopped broccoli florets
• 1 cup snow peas, cut into 1-inch pieces
• ½ cup sliced onion
• ½ medium red bell pepper, sliced
• 3 cups torn romaine lettuce
• ¾ cup drained mandarin orange sections
• ½ cup water chestnuts
• 8 ears canned baby corn, drained and cut in thirds
• ¼ cup dried cranberries

Dressing

• 3 Tbsp olive oil
• 3 Tbsp frozen orange juice, thawed
• 1½ tsp balsamic vinegar
• ½ tsp crushed fresh garlic
• 4 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp granulated sugar

Preparation:

1. Steam broccoli until tender-crisp, approximately 2 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water. Drain again; pat it dry. Place the in serving bowl.

2. Add peas, onion, red pepper, lettuce, orange, sliced water chestnuts, corn and cranberries to the serving bowl.

3. For the dressing, whisk the oil, juice concentrate, vinegar, garlic, lemon juice and sugar together in a small bowl. Pour over the salad and toss well.

Greta Constantine's Collaboration with Danier "Skin"

Things are really happening for Greta Constantine this year! They just launched their collaboration line with Danier called "Skins". Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong are known for their drapery and beautiful silhouettes and they managed to translate it into leather. See a few images from the opening event below!

(Images via Toronto Life)

Marc Jacobs A/W Accessories Reinterpreted by Rosha Nutt

Polka dots are back and will be here to stay throughout the fall. Marc Jacobs included polka dot prints throughout his A/W 2011 collection and Another Magazine asked Rosha Nutt to reinterpret the accessories from the collection. Read the full interview with Rosha here.

Marc Jacobs Fall 2011 Ready to Wear

(Images via Style.com)

Reinterpreted by Rosha Nutt

(Images via Anothermag)

My polka dot wedding reception dress

Found this great number at Winners!

Polka dots are not easy to pull off. Be
sure to match the size of polka dot with
your figure. Take a friend with you for
a second pair of eyes!

Stationery from Vancouver and Toronto

We don't often get the chance to send letters anymore, but isn't it wonderful to have beautiful stationery around when we do? A beautiful card is a simple way to say: thank you, I'm thinking of you or even just to cheer someone up who is having a bad day or week.

I have not found very many stores in Toronto that stationery like they do in Japan, although the Paper Place on Queen is quite good. Here are a few others : The Papery (Yorkville), Paper Things (Yorkville), Red Pegasus (College) and the Bata Shoe Museum.

Of course, all of these beautiful cards (below) are from Treasure Seeker Colleen in Vancouver. Here are her favorite places to buy cards: Book Warehouse (Homer Street), The Vancouver Public Library Gift Shop (Homer Street), The Silk Purse Art Gallery in West Vancouver, Value Village, The Japanese Spring Sales or Festivals or the Nikkei Centre (Burnaby), Craft Fairs, Portobello West Fashion and Art Market, Creekside Community Recreation Centre (Vancouver), The Croation Centre's Antique and Flea Markets, Granville Island Postcard Shop and Granville Island Market stores, Museum and Art Galleries.

Short Wavy Bobs for Summer 2011

The summer months are on the way and stars are sporting wavy summer bobs. This look is fairly easy to do. If you already have wavy hair, all you have to do is add some gel (after washing), scrunch with your fingers, blow dry and add a touch of hairspray for extra long hold. If you have straight hair, try some rollers in the morning while you are getting ready or else a large curling iron. Youtube is great for hair and make-up how-to videos. Click here for an example. Will you try this look for summer?

Brooklyn Decker and Vanessa Hudgens

Elizabeth Olsen

Eva Herzigova

Gwen Stefani

Kirsten Dunst

Rachel McAdams

Rihanna

(Thanks Hollywoodlife)

Final Montreal and Winner of the Vaughan Mills Contest

This just in! The winner of the Vaughan Mills contest is Monochromatic Chic's Kristy! Congrats to you! There will be many more contests coming up so stay tuned!!

Here are the final images from my trip to Montreal last week. I already miss it so much! On the third and final day we visited a cafe for bagel and cafe au lait petit dejeuner and visited some fantastic vintage shops! I haven't truly been able to find such fantastic vintage shops here in Toronto. Would love to hear about your favorites!

A beautiful breakfast spot

I hope to be this hip...

Live music

Antique Re-Make Store-Style Labo

Vintage clothing Store Arterie

Lauren Conrad's Style

I have just started reading Lauren Conrad's "Style". We have watched her grow up in front of the camera, first with "Laguna Beach" and then with "The Hills". She continues to build her successful empire with her clothing lines and her books. Have you read it? There are a lot of great tips and tricks for solving fashion dilemmas!

The Doxa-Documentary Film Fest Vancouver

Vancouver is home to at least seven film festivals now and Doxa-Documentary Film Fest - May 6-15 this year, is an excellent one to put on your calendar. Its free Festival Guide is extensive and provides detailed info about its vision, contributors, sponsors, films and filmmakers. The festival has many components: 1)Justice Form - with funding from The Law Foundation of B.C. and this year with support from Immigrant Services Society. Topics are varied ranging from international drug policy to stops and starts in social housing. 2)Youth Programs, 3) Special Programs - this year Spotlight on Vancouver and featuring First Nations Films and Film Makers and many different forums on film making. Films have a Q and A with featured speakers, including producers, writers, actors, and more. This festival is all about young, first time Film Makers and experienced, award winning Film Makers, from many languages, cultures and perspectives. It is all about justice and injustice, human rights, the human condition and all of the ingenuity, creativity, spirit and spunk that go into expressing and documenting reaction to it. For more info go to www.doxafestival.ca

The closing night gala featured "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" by Werner Herzog, USA, 2010 and an awards, meet and greet and wrap up, at CBC Vancouver.

This 3d film is a powerful look at cave art discovered in France, in 1994. The location is remote and the art, fragile and protected from visitors because the moisture from your breath causes mold. The caves would be destroyed by too many fingers and feet. So this is a rare look at 32,000 year old pictures of elephants, rhinos, horses, lions, hyenas, all brought to life by the 3d technology and by the flickering, battery powered lights of the scientists and film crew. Finger prints of one of the cave artists are characterized by a crooked baby finger and we can see that person's progress throughout the caves. The animals are large, dominant, moving, in groups and pairs. Humans making first documentaries about life around them and leaving us a record in pictures, bones and the remains of fires.

The after party at CBC was hosted by friendly, enthusiastic and efficient Doxa Volunteers who kept us well supplied with wonderful food and drinks. A great space, music, and lots to talk about, made this an end to this year's festival but an easy decision to get planning for the next one. Two of the award winners are from Sweden:" Vodka Factory" by Jerzy Slaakonski and "Familia" by Alberto Herskovits and Mikail Wistrom. Both of these involve workers, and work that seems so much for so little. Both involve families and their complexities. "Familia" especially resonates with me when I think about the numbers of overseas workers we have in Vancouver, bringing excellent contributions but leaving behind loved ones and struggling to support themselves and everyone else.

Thanks DOXA and CBC and everyone who made this a huge success.

Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival

Are you going to the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival this month? I just heard about this exciting event featuring over 1,000 local artists at over 200 venues in Toronto. It is the largest photography event in the world. For more information go to Scotiabank.

More Montreal

Here are some photos from day two in Montreal! We did some vintage shopping, saw old Montreal, ate delicious sandwiches on the St. Lawrence River and finally did some shooting for my friend's project. We ARE here to work you know! I love all of the old buildings and how they are mixed with modern structures. It truly is a beautiful city, even when the weather is dreary. One more post to come about several interesting vintage shops.

sandwich shop

jambon et brie

Notre-Dame basilica

Down by the St. Lawrence

Love the old streets

Reminds me of my Classics studies

Chinatown gate

Juliette et Chocolat

Love the houses near Rue St. Denis