Artist Spolit: Emmanuelle Brisson.

I love Emmanuelle Brissons work. I mean, I love, love, love Brissons work. I enjoy the variety, the fuzziness, the simplicity and quietness of his work. It's just beautiful!








He also does series, my favourite one is where he has two pictures side by side. A portrait on the left and a landscape on the right.

Every single photo he has in his portfolio is just lovely and simple, some can be bizarre - in a good way! - but they all just have a quiet feel to them, it's like spending a rainy day with no technology and reading and drinking tea. That's how they make me feel!

If you havn't already, check Emmanuelle Brissons website out! Of course, the website is in a different language, so make sure to turn on your Google translate!

Cheers!
Rowan

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Recipe Finds: Dessert Edition

Today's recipe finds is desserts! Hmmm. I know I'm trying to be healthy and all, but I'm a sucker for sweets and desserts. Here are some recipes I'm droolings over:

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes


Baked Apples


Red velvet waffles with cream cheese icing


Mini blood orange meringe pies

I'm especially eyeing the mini blood orange meringe pies, or would they be cupcakes?

Peace,
Rowan

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DIY: Liquid Handsoap

I've been trying to make our apartment more environmentally friendly. First stop: homemade liquid hand soap!


I know what your probably thinking. "But Rowan, if we're making liquid hand soap, why are you showing us a picture of a bunch of soap bars?" Well, liquid hand soap can be made from soap bars - mine sure are!

What you will need:
- a 4 ounce bar of soap
-2 quarts of water
-a metal grater
-a large pot
-hand mixer or wisk
-1 container for dispensing
-1 container for storage of extra



1. Grate the soap into a fine pile.
2. Then heat the water and as the water begins to simmer, mix in the grated soap and mix well.
3. Remove from heat and let sit for 15 minutes. Mix it well again!
4. Let the mixture sit over night. Then stir it to test consistency, if it's too thick you can reheat and add more water, and if it's too think you can reheat and add more soap. Don't forget to keep mixing it well.
5. Pour it into you're lovely soap dispenser, and store the rest in an the container

It's cheap, easy, fun and eco friendly - I don't think you could beat that unless you robbed a Walmart.
Don't forget, you can get all kinds of colours and smells by buying the different types of soaps. Etsy has tons of handmade soaps that have all sorts of soaps. Turkish coffee soap is one that stands out to me.

Hint: Within the next few weeks i'll be posting a how to on making mason jar dispensers.

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Peace,
Rowan

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Traveler's Tree

Pendant from Traveler's Tree

My lovely business card design

Traveler's Tree is my business! I recently just began selling on Etsy, but before I had spent a few years selling at craft shows with my mother. Everything is handmade by me! I run the shop, design the pieces, ship the items, do the marketing and shop 'upkeep.'
I love everything about owning a business and doing everything involved with it by myself. Once it grows to the point where I'll need to hire help, i don't know what I'll do!

Bicycle Earrings from Traveler's Tree (These are my personal favourite!)

Find this Here

And here


And here!

I'm extremely proud of Traveler's Tree. It's just a tiny seedling, but I have lots of hope and lots of patience!
Currently I'm working on brick and mortar shops collaborations, so stay turned!

Rowan.

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Spring weather is almost here!

I know technically spring started quit a while ago, but it seems here that spring weather doesn't happen until  May. I don't know about you, but I hate winter. It seems from September 1st until May we just have crappy weather. Snow on the ground for much of that time and I am not a snow person. I know, I am a bad Canadian. Hating snow. But seriously, I live for the summer. Sadly we get about three months of solid summer weather, other then that I think everyone should just go into hibernation. 
But alas! Spring time is almost here, time to slowly stop wearing heavy coasts and hats, and time for actually going outside! Here are some spring inspirations off pinterest  
Pastel colours and raspberries!
                                                                             
I just love fresh berries, I live right by the farmers market so that means fresh berries every week!


Flowers! Flowers are one of my top five favourite things in life.


I nice lime green popsicle! Check out the link below for the recipe!


Grapefruit orange juice, hmmm. Check out the link below for instructions!

I love everything that comes with spring. Especially fashion! I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one whose fashion sense goes into hibernation during the cold winter weather.

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Love and flowers,
Rowan

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These wallpaper patterned rollers by The Painted House are wonderful. I can't even describe how excited they make me feel about painting my place!



They are only $25 each, plus the cost of paint! I very eco friendly alternative to wallpaper - and very cheap alternative too. I think painting one wall of a room with the rollers is a great idea - I'm definatly picking up one, or three, or them. The Painted House's website shows all sorts of ideas to use them with. Covering coffee tables, bunting, even cards and framed prints. 





All photos courtesy of The Painted House

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The perfect Alkaline food chart

Let's all just take a moment and thing about how absolutely perfect this chart is! If you're every wondering what's healthier and what to not eat every day, this is for you! I think everyone should print this off and hang it on their fridge with confetti around it.

Via Alkaline Sisters

So wonderful! I fell off the healthy bandwagon but I'm trying to get back on! And by the end of this year I will be a FULL VEGAN LIFESTYLE!  *throws confetti*

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 At first, today's weather wasn't too bad. A little rainier then I'd like, but overall it wasn't too crappy.

And then, it got crappy.

Really crappy, like Canadian crappy, but I guess this is Canada in March so I can't really complain.

"Welcome to Canada! Unless you enjoy snow sports, you probably shouldn't come here from October to May."  Don't worry, I am fully aware I am a bad Canadian.

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