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Happy Friday dear readers! It has been a doozy of a week – I managed to trap my 3 feral kittens (HOORAY!), and now I am helping my husband get ready for the Ottawa Antique & Vintage Market happening tomorrow and Sunday. So I leave you with this photo, featuring one of the coolest ideas for a side table I have ever seen. Via Casa Abril, photo by Marco Antonio

While moving from gate to gate at the Puerto Vallarta airport (they are so freaking disorganized) a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this apartment in the latest issue of Elle Decoration Mexico. I have an obsession with plants, which is pretty hilarious considering I am only mediocre at keeping them alive, so this home really drew me in. It is the Auckland, New Zealand home of stylist Charlotte Rust and it is filled with plants! And a couple of cats! The contrast between the raw, lifeless concrete and the beautiful greenery is lovely. This is a perfect example of how you can easily warm up a space. Plants always help. So do cats. 🙂 (Perfectly captured by photographer by Jessica MacCormick)

It’s that time of the year again! The The Ottawa Antique & Vintage Market is back at The Fieldhouse at Carleton University this weekend and my husband (Daff Design) will have a booth there again this year for his vintage updated radios (he has sooooo many this time – and I love them all!) so I will be keeping him company, taking photos and shopping my little heart out! The show was pretty rad last year, and there are some new vendors this year that I am totally stoked to scope out. 

Here are just a few of the radios my husband will be selling there (all previously non-working – he guts them and puts in really good speakers, an amp and Bluetooth for a rocking sound)

How about a little flashback from last year’s show?

I snagged this dressform before the show even opened!

I always spend way too much time drooling over the modernist/brutalist jewelry. And I inevitably end up buying a piece to add to my collection.

I have a thing for vintage cutlery. I would love to find more so I will be on the lookout. 

These were beautiful. Reminds me of the few years my parents lived in Yellowknife when I was attending Carleton U. 

This flat file cabinet was across from the Daff Design booth so I stared at it with lust in my eyes for 2 full days. 

The show is this Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 10-4 at The Fieldhouse (Bronson at Sunnyside) where there will be 30,000 sq ft of awesomeness!!! Stop by the Daff Design booth and say hi!

The 40sqm apartment of Paris-based interior designer Charlotte Vauvillier. A perfectly formed little gem of bespoke furniture and fittings accented with midcentury pieces. Small is beautiful.

Of course, I had to start this post off with a cat on a bed photo as I have cats on my brain these days (my 2 little ferals are breaking my heart they are so sad/scared). British architect Chris Dyson was featured here a few years ago, and continues to inspire with traditional spaces restored and modern spaces where updates are a must. But it is the traditional spaces that makes my heart skip a beat. In London how could you not want to keep this history alive when it is so absolutely gorgeous?