Event: World Figure Skating Championships

March 11, 2013 | Leave a Reply

London, Ontario is home to this year’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the transformation of the downtown core as the city has prepped for this big event. There’s excitement and energy downtown and I just love being surrounded by it all!

So – here we go, a figure skating-themed post to mark today’s start of World’s!

Go Figure by Lori Doody, $25

via Sweet Montana

Marilyn Monroe

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (Go Canada!)

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via All the Beautiful Christmas

Welcome to all the skaters and visitors to London this week!

The Friday Five: Kitchens

March 8, 2013 | Leave a Reply

I don’t know about you but I spend many hours staring at photos of kitchens for no real good reason. The kitchen in my apartment is white (phew) so it’s not like I need to paint cabinets or renovate. And my NYC and Toronto family members all have white kitchens so when I visit them I always feel happy to be in their kitchens (It’s not like I’m against visiting colorful homes, I swear). But, still, I just love seeing stylish kitchen design.

So, speaking of gorgeous white kitchens, shall we drool over some this weekend? Yes, I think so.

kitchen in Denmark, via 79 ideas

via Flourish Design & Style

via AirBNB

via Desire to Inspire

kitchen of Lotta Agaton, via 79 Ideas

What are you cooking this weekend? Or, will you be painting cabinets white perhaps?

Stationery: Daniella Marie Stationery & Design

March 7, 2013 | 1 Commentary

Contrary to what some believe, invites, in my opinion, are one of the most important details of a wedding. They set the tone for the whole affair and they are the first thing to welcome your party guests. Canadian blogger and designer Daniella Marie recently opened up her stationery and design business and her wedding invite collection (it’s letterpress, of course!) is just beautiful.

Allure

Romantic

Demure

Monogram

Black Tie

Classic

Everything – like wording and colour – is customizable which gives couples the opportunity to have their invitations reflect their personalities and style.

Congratulations Daniella on your new venture!

All images courtesy of Daniella Marie Stationery & Design.

Foldable paper animal glow lamps

March 6, 2013 | 2 Commentaries

Aren’t these simply amazing? Leave it to Etsy to have the coolest, most unique stuff on the web.

Over here at White Cabana we do love our white animals. For about $50 CAD one of these lovelies by mostlikelyShop can be yours to fold and glow. Perfect for any room and making a very architectural and functional presence.

All images courtesy of mostlikelyShop where you can purchase a lamp (or two!)

20 Below: Planning a Cloth Napkin DIY

March 5, 2013 | 1 Commentary

Anyone who has eaten a meal at my place or has eaten lunch with me at work knows that I use cloth napkins for everyday – not just for “fancy” times. I switched to cloth napkins about five years ago and I have two main sets – both white (one set from my mom and one set from Johanne – they both know me so well!). I find cloth napkins really nice to use – why wipe your mouth with rough paper napkins when you can use cotton? I wash them often and I iron them sometimes.

I’m now inspired to make myself a new set of (mostly) mis-matched napkins like Elsie did from A Beautiful Mess. She bought her fabric from Etsy shop Stash Modern Fabric and so I obviously had to browse the shop to see what fabrics might suit me.

Painter’s Canvas

Summersville Spring Collection

Architextures Collection

Metro Living Circles

Prices for half a yard of each of these fabrics range from $4.50-$5.00 (USD).

I haven’t yet decided if I’m going to order fabric directly from this Etsy shop or from Fabricland but I do know that my new napkins will be black and white (surprise!). And if I’m feeling wild, I might just add some red. Woah.