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The Art of Vacationing
Warm sand between your toes, diving into cool blue lagoons, cocktails on the beach, bright sunshine across your skin. These are, to me, the aspects of a perfect vacation, although I would be equally happy on a couch in the springtime or lying in dew-damp grass with chickens around me. This time though I’m experiencing the former, and being ready for a perfect vacation means feeling and looking my best, starting with building a wardrobe. Pack for the vacation you’re going on – don’t pack summer dresses if you’re going skiing – in this case a tropical vacation needs lots of sun dresses, several bathing suits and short shorts I…
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Restaurant Review: Cafe Aunja
Nestled in the lower levels of the strip along Sherbrooke between Cotes-des-Neiges and Rue de la Montagne, Café Aunja is warm and inviting from the moment you step into the space. Houseplants surround the almost dessert-like pale wood creating a secret oasis away from the hustle of the city. Served in a hefty mason jar mug, the tea leaves are left loose to sink slowly as the tea steeps. A quick stir with a spoon and the picture perfect cup turns into kind of a mess, if you don’t like bits in your drinks you probably won’t like this, it requires either the consumption of the bits or the use…
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Finding Balance
Work Hard, Play Hard. It’s an age-old adage that promotes a balance between work and pleasure. This balance isn’t always easy, we work hard for the money and sometimes it’s so exhausting that we don’t have time for ourselves. Even rituals like manicures may feel like more of a chore than an actual beauty moment. Finding the balance between working and making time for yourself is critical to your mental health. To start, I wake up a half-hour earlier than I really need to, yes in part because of that call I love getting in the morning but also because it gives me the opportunity to do a little bit…
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Restaurant Review: September Surf Café
I am not a doctor – any views expressed here I have researched to the best of my ability but may not reflect your doctors advice or be the right thing for you When I got back from my outing with a friend to the September Surf Cafe in Montreal, I immediately noted how good the bone broth was, to which my mother shot back that I was a hipster (agree to disagree on that point) but it was true. Unfortunately, while it was too late in the day to get a full meal I did get a matcha latte and a bone broth. This place is very cool, think…
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A Beautiful Morning
A Beautiful Morning Good Morning beautiful people – as one of my favourite homesteading gals would say – I hope you slept well and are ready for a wonderful day. So you’ve probably seen a lot of different morning routines out there but I thought I’d share mine. The first step for me is to wake up, usually, this is actually done by my boyfriend who calls me before he goes to work each day around 7 am or so. I am not an early riser, though I’ve tried in the past to become one. He sees me with hair around my face, wandering towards the kitchen like some zombie…
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Restaurant Review: Restaurant Imperial
As a kid, I spent a lot of time in Montreal, summers were punctuated by trips from my small town to the big city to spend time with my grandparents sailing, biking, baking and making trips to Chinatown for Dim Sum. While I can’t say I remember the exact Dim Sum place I used to go as a child, I thought I would bring back the tradition. A quick google search of the best places for Dim Sum brought up a few results and I did look for the most photogenic places as well but eventually decided to go to the place with amazing reviews, an online version of the…
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New Year New You
The year is 2020, I have just graduated from University and in a mere nine days, I will be 26 which is honestly horrifying because I realize that every year that has gone by I have made a resolution and then 2 weeks later I have gone back to my normal routine. I recently stumbled upon my 2018 list which included things like “do yoga every day” and “become a bad*ss”, sorry 2020 Lauren but you still haven’t done either of those things. So this year I’m changing the narrative: I’m not making a resolution. Instead of an unattainable resolution, I will quite honestly never meet I have decided that…
