Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

The Summer Of Tea

This is (was?) my summer: sitting at Granville Island, surrounded by other artists and visitors from all over the world, making grocery lists and sipping delicious cold fruit tea from the Granville Island Tea Company out of giant mason jars.  Does this have to end?

Portobello West Blog

Black Drop is featured on the Portobello West blog for March 31 2010. Click here for more!

New Site!

I’ve redone the whole site. Hopefully it’s a little easier and a little more fun to navigate around! See you all at the Canamade market starting this Thursday at 151 W Cordova Street from 11am to 8pm everyday. Black Drop will be there from Thursday the 11th to Tuesday the 16th.

A bunch of years ago I was traveling a lot.  And for some weird and coincidental reason, I used to have airplane shadows cross over me pretty frequently… well, not every day, but 4 or 5 times it happened and I felt like every time it happened to me, that I was destined to be [...]

I’ve been very busy lately with lots of preparation for the shows have happened and for Canamade coming up. So, since I’m still running on the momentum from the last couple months, when I finally got to give myself a day off it didn’t really feel like I could relax. Meet my new coffee table. [...]

Summer!

The summer has been amazing.  The weather has been perfect… also, as a bonus, a thunder and lightening storm in the middle of this brilliant heat wave.  There have been plenty of summery things to do… a wedding, camping, ferries, visiting, going to the lake, yoga, staying up late, doing the Granville Island Market… I [...]

Cupcake Love

Lydia and I slaved away the other day, the day of cupcake camp, to make our cupcake dreams come true. It was fun.  Beautiful venue and delicious cupcakes. Here are Lydia’s: chocolate with raspberry buttercream icing – I saw them get a physical thumbs up from nearby mangers.  They were absolutely divine.  I know because [...]