Where You Can Buy Urbanite Jewelry this Holiday Season!

Photo by Anne-Marie Bouchard of AMBPhoto

Shows
We will be at the following shows with tons of jewelry--including new and never-before-seen styles for you to shop from! Come say hello to us!

Urban Craft
Saturday, December 3, 2011
10am - 2pm
GCTC @ The corner of Holland & Wellington
Ottawa, Ontario

Shanghai Winter Craft Sale
Sunday, December 4, 2011
10am - 3pm
Shanghai Restaurant, 651 Somerset St. W.

Craftalicious
Saturday, December 10, 2011
10 am - 5 pm
St. Matthew's Anglican Church, 217 First Ave.

Stores
If you aren't local to the Ottawa area, or donèt have a chance to come out to the events above, our jewelry is now available in 13 stores across Canada (and one on St. Louis)! Pick up some jewelry and support your independent, locally owned store while you are at it!

CANADA
Workshop Studio & Boutique
242 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, ON

Flock Boutique
1275 Wellington Street W, Ottawa, ON

Steel Style Garage
21 King Street E, Gananoque, ON

Relish Vintage
6 Cannon Street E, Hamilton, ON

With Love Bridal Boutique
1501 Stittsville Main Street, Stittsville, ON

General 54
54 St. Viateur Ouest, Montreal, QC

twigg & hottie
3671 Main Street, Vancouver, BC

Frakas - Kelowna
#20 3155 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna, BC

Frakas - Saskatoon Downtown
#1 - 183 2nd Avenue S, Saskatoon, SK

Frakas - Saskatoon Erindale
#9 - 410 Ludlow Street, Saskatoon, SK

Dots & Loops
183 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg, NS

Love, Me Boutique
1539 Birmingham Street Halifax, NS


U.S.
Charm Boutique
7312 Manchester, Maplewood (STL), Missouri

A Weekend Away & A New Shop

{on the st. lawrence}
Over the August long weekend here in Canada, some lovely friends invited us down to their parent's home in Gananoque, Ontario. The city--and their incredible home--lies on the St. Lawrence River. In this part of the country, the St. Lawrence divides the U.S. from Canada, and is also home to the 1000 Islands area. The area, as you can imagine, is spotted with islands--over 1700 of them--and is so incredibly gorgeous.

{back yard}
We spent the weekend on the river on our friends boat and jet ski and it's safe to say that I am now hell-bent on owning a house on the river and a boat. Some day...some day.

{sunset}
On Saturday we had a chance to explore quaint downtown Gananoque. It was filled with old pubs, retro candy stores, and stores you didn't even know existed anymore. As we walked down toward Gananoque's marina, I said to my beau Robin that what the town really needed was a lovely, modern coffee shop and cute boutiques. No sooner than the words came out of my mouth that we stumbled upon the most amazing thing ever: an old building which had been renovated and converted into 3 spaces and now housed a BBQ joint, the most beautiful coffee shop ever and one of the best decorated and curated boutiques I've seen in a while! In doing some more research, I discovered the place, called Axleworks, has been designed to help transform their part of the city into a bustling arts and cultural area. My kind of place!

The smell of the BBQ wafting out of the restaurant and Pig Iron BBQ's neat sign (which I didn't get a chance to snap a pic of) are what drew us in and lead us down the rabbit hole. While we were really disappointed we didn't get a chance to eat at Pig Iron while in town, we had a chance to snap a pic of their menu which reminds me that we need to go back to Gananoque very. soon.

{BBQ}
As we wandered into the business next door, we came upon this gorgeousness:

{amazing coffee bar}
The Socialist Pig is seriously one of the loveliest cafe's I've come across. It included a bar built from books(!), tables made out of old suitcases(!), a huge communal table topped off with a full chalkboard wall featuring the cafe's menu and a lovely chandelier. Utterly swoon-worthy. We had to indulge, of course, and had a couple of infused iced teas and lemonades. They were as wonderful as the decor.

{adorably clever}
We then stumbled next door onto my favorite discovery of the weekend: Steel. One of the loveliest boutiques I've seen with the most eclectic yet refined decor and displays around. I was instantly smitten with this place and snapped a few quick pictures while I was there. The owner, Shannon, has done such a great job of curating the space both in terms of merchandise and displays.

{steel.}
I emailed the store immediately after we arrived home to ask if they would carry urbanite in their store. To my absolute delight, she said yes and we popped a package full of goodies in the mail to her yesterday. If you're ever in the area--or on the 401 somewhere between Toronto -or- Kingston and Ottawa--stop in to Gananoque and Axleworks. I think you'll love it as much as I did!

Allons à Montréal!

Hello friends! We're headed out to Montreal for an extra extended long weekend! This weekend is a three-day weekend for those of us in Canada (and in the U.S., too!), and both I and my beau are taking a couple extra days off. It's much needed after the truly crazy past few weeks that we've had!

Montreal is one of my very favorite cities, and we head down there every few months since we're lucky enough to live just a couple of hours away. I'll be back next week with new jewelry (at long last!) and a brand new blog column which I'm so excited to debut!