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Retail Therapy advocates shopping locally and from now until Christmas, we'll be dropping by different retailers around the GTA to get gift suggestions and find out what's in store. Today's visit? Saltridges, an independent shop in Burlington (at 389 Brant St.) that carries cool pyjamas, loungewear, upscale skin care brands, grooming essentials and niche perfume. Owner Nancy Salter tells us about what's popular at her Brant Street boutique this holiday season.
Greatest Hit:Gin Fizz ($165) from Parfums Lubin Paris, one of the oldest perfume houses in the world (it dates back to the Napoleonic era). That pedigree is not why Gin Fizz is flying off the shelf, however; it's that it is the sparkly white floral perfume created in 1955 for Grace Kelly by perfumer Henri Giboulet, a tribute to the Hollywood superstar's Oscar win for The Country Girl. It's named after the popular American-in-Paris cocktail of the day; the scent was revived by the house a few years ago. "I think people like the history of it – that there's a story being told." A bottle, paired with tickets to see the Grace Kelly exhibition at Bell Lightbox or a classic Alfred Hitchcock Kelly DVD, would make a romantic gift. I think there's so much junky, duty-free-shop kind of perfume that people who are really into perfume are trying to avoid that. They don't want to wear a Britney Spears or a Jennifer Aniston," she says. Similarly, Lubin's chypre scent Black Jade ($170) is inspired by Marie Antoinette's rose garden at Le Petit Trianon.
Niche perfume: In addition to Lubin, Saltridges stocks other hard-to-find perfume houses such as Tauer, Parfums d'Orsay, Claudie Pierlot, Juliette has a Gun and Ineke, the alphabetically-named brand of Canadian-born, San-Francisco based Ineke Rühland. "Perfume people love it, people love it like they collection wine. Mostly everything I have here is niche," Salter says. "Women want value – that's what I feel about trying to find product that is interesting. But," she adds, "just for the sake of a big price tag, just to say it's exclusive? I'm not into that."
Girlfriend Gift: A sample pack of Ineke fragrances ($30). "The set has one of each [perfume], so they can try them, and people often buy a gift certificate so that she can come back to buy a full size of the one she likes."
Sleeper Favourite: GlamGlow from L.A. ($78 for 50ml), created by a husband and wife team "who get people red-carpet ready." Salter says that the 10-minute anti-aging facial in a jar – a masque that has volcanic rock, French sea clay and green tea leaf pieces – is very active on the skin and that while results may be temporary, they are immediate. "My dad is 82 and can't see very well and he's sick and I was trying his product and sitting by his bedside and he told me my skin looked incredible!"
One for you, One for me: Salter's favourite item is the cult-following Rodin face oil, Olio Lusso ($160) or for the Canadian winters, the body oil ($115). Saltridges regularly ships orders of the Olio all over Canada.


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I was given the opportunity to review a stencil of my choice from Royal Design Studio! I said yep! Have I ever stenciled before? Nope.
Their website is full of gorgeous stencils. They have so many choices, it took me days to decide. But I kept coming back to the Chez Ali pattern.
Not having stenciled anything big before, I decided to stencil the ceiling in my powder room. Yes, the ceiling. 😉 It was a little challenging, given the fact that I only have two arms, and could have used some more. (I'm not very good at asking for help.)
My ceiling is an odd shape. I did my best to find the center, and started from there. Once the stencil was taped to the ceiling, the painting went fairly quick. Working over your head, when you are too stubborn to ask for help, does require frequent breaks though. 😉
Included with your stencil package, from Royal Design Studio, is a ceiling filler. This is a smaller stencil that allows you to get up close to the edge of your ceiling. Brilliant!
I used the paint sample I had from my bedroom. It was plenty! Not a lot of paint is needed. Actually less is more.
Once I was finished with the ceiling, I let it go for a day, then decided to use a "glaze" on the ceiling to soften the contrast. The glaze consisted of a little white semi-gloss paint, some water, and Valspar Translucent Iridescent Glazed. I stirred it all together and applied it with a rag in a circular motion. After two coats of the glaze, the color was softer and had an aged look to it.
Thank you Royal Design Studio! Now I'm walking around my house to see what else I can stencil. 😀
In a few days I will host a Royal Design Studio stencil giveaway. The winner will have the opportunity to choose a stencil of their choice… a $50.00 value!
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desert skateboaring is cool
i was checking tony hawk's website and i found this video and it seems super cool:
it seems very nice to skateboard in a desert.
music is good.
these shapes and the music and desert – seems so much like neen.
coldvoid.com by rafael rozendaal What We Know show, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago