October 22, 2010
via www.sailorjerry.com
Not for the dainty.
Shave & a Haircut
1 part rum
2 parts cola
3 parts stout
Combine the rum and cola and top off with the stout, serve in a highball glass.
Categories: happy hour.
October 22, 2010
There’s a birthday in the house today which has inspired me to post something a little more on the manly side. My level of interest in vehicles is not great *understatement*, but on rare occasion I see something that falls under my definition of eye candy. Just as my design aesthetic is a little more muscle car than mini-van, so is my taste in cars.
1970 Dodge Challenger via www.thebaycitymotorcompany.com | 2010 Dodge Challenger via www.challengertalk.com
Bonus double post today!
Check back for this afternoon’s manly “happy hour” recipe.
Categories: eye candy.
October 20, 2010
Too easy!
Stipple is a slick way to label and share the content of photos on your site or blog. When readers mouse-over your images, information from your labels pops up.
Welcome to Stipple from stipple on Vimeo.
Categories: bits & bytes.
October 18, 2010
via iPhone, inside Zambris | Distinguished Zambris business card - custom size
Zambris Restaurant opened in it’s new location in the Atrium Building at the beginning of the month. When I visited, the place was packed with young and old, creating a vibrancy on this downtown corner that I haven’t felt in Victoria. Floor to ceiling windows, chandeliers and retro glass globe fixtures are a huge improvement over their previously limiting locale.
Check out their menu, videos and details on their new private function room (booked until Jan 1st) on their much improved website. At 820 Yates Street, open 7 days a week 11:00 am to Midnight. Closed between 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm daily.
www.zambris.ca
Categories: locals only.
October 15, 2010
Beth Campbell Creative has been on a strict “no time to blog” diet. Which brings me to today’s Friday Happy Hour – no mixing required. Pastis, an anise-flavored liqueur and apéritif from France was first commercialized by Paul Ricard in 1932 and is still widely popular in France, especially in the south. Pastis is normally diluted with water before drinking which results in the liqueur’s appearance changing from dark transparent yellow to milky soft yellow, a phenomenon also present with absinthe and known as the “ouzo effect”. A beverage that understands the importance of colour. Santé!
One year ago today, Uruggne, France
Categories: happy hour.
October 7, 2010
Admiring the work of Sandra Sui, a fashion illustrator living in Barcelona with a husband, a baby and a greyhound.
via http://sandrasuy.com/
Categories: artsy.
October 5, 2010
Admiring this work from www.3advertising.com for New Day, whose mission is to “engage troubled youth and their families in charting a proactive life course that will help them become meaningful and productive members of our community.”
“Will he own a rap sheet? Or a skate shop?”
“Registered drug offender? Or registered nurse?”
“Will she struggle to feed herself? Or fight to end world hunger?”
Check out the New Day logo. Notice the ‘Y’ about to flip over? Nice.
via www.ndnm.org
Categories: it's graphic.
October 1, 2010
Don’t you just love it when your friends greet with you a cocktail that took more effort to prepare than opening a screw top?
French 75 – for one (for one? oh well, make more)
1 lemon
1 ounce gin
3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 cup ice cubes
dry sparkling wine
Slice peel from lemon in long, thin spiral. In cocktail shaker, combine gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Add ice and shake vigorously for 20 seconds. Strain into chilled Champagne flute and top with sparkling wine.
Categories: happy hour.
September 30, 2010
DIY from www.designsponge.com
Let’s re-think this for a second. Cats like privacy. People don’t like litter boxes. Combine a Besta shelf and Besta Holmbo door, cut a hole in the middle vertical panel, to allow cats to climb into their hidden bathroom. These owners added contact paper to protect the shelves’ particle boards, but the whole project won’t take much more time than your standard IKEA assembly.
via www.ikeahacker.blogspot.com
I can see making a wooden box, sinking in a planter about half way and adding a hinged door with a hole facing the wall. Or how about this classy white and black kitty with his ModKat?
left via www.petsbestproducts.com | right via www.modkat.com
Categories: in the house.