• Blog,  Lifestyle

    All black

    I’ve been wearing a lot of black lately. It could be the change of seasons, and that I’m mourning the six-month departure of summer in Ottawa. Or it could be that black is just the easiest to wear. These past few months have been amongst the weirdest time of my life. Being almost 25, done my Bachelors, but hanging in limbo between this weird post-undergrad funk and the next step in my education — takes a toll on you. It was one thing being fresh out of undergrad, surrounded by friends that didn’t have “real jobs” yet. But its totally new territory when everyone around you has aΒ career, are getting…

  • General,  Lifestyle

    the Great Gatsby invades Ottawa!

    On Wednesday night we attended the Great Gatsby Salon fundraiser, at the St Laurent Centre. If you’ve followed from our last post, we were asked to attend the event as their special guests and cook up a guest post for the STL blog. When we walked into the room, it was seriously like we had stepped out of a time machine, right into the Buchanan mansion. From the jazz playing in the background, to the servers in twenties garb, to the vintage decor – the atmosphere was so authentic. It was such a wonderful evening, especially because we were finally able to put faces to some names and meet the…