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We Love Katia Leonardo
Born in Luanda, Angola, were she lived for 10 years, Katia Leonardo is a Portuguese World Music Singer and composer. Katia expresses her study of Jazz, Fado, African, Brazilian and Modern music. She holds a post bachelor degree in Jazz program at University of Music in Porto ( Escola Superiorde Musica e Artes dop Espectaculo) where she studied with Maria Joao.
She encourages authenticity connection, vocal expansion, self awareness as well as introducing concepts in sound healing.
Katia bought a very special skirt with a black cat on it when she visited the store. She also loved the black crinolines.
Meow, meow!
This beautiful vibrant woman brought so much to my life when she came to shop with me in the boutique during her visit to share with Montreal her singing talents, her projects and to teach. She told me my body is an instrument and compared me to a cello. It was such a new way to think about singing for me. It will never leave me. Always with you in my heart Katia. Abundance!
It is so good to have close friends who always have your back and want the best for you. It is so good to be living surrounded by the real truth that we are never alone, that we are strong in connection with others.
It is good to just know deep down to our toes that what we have that really has value is our friends, our family, the world around us that we love. Go ahead take away the car, the house, the long list of material possessions. Go ahead! What I want is to feel safe and loved and be able to share that with my daughter and the world.
Friends make us strong. They offer us the best embrace to fall into when life gets tough. There for you when things go wrong. They empower us to take more risks and listen to our selves more.
Thanks to all my good friends that I have had over the years that made me feel stronger about myself. It wasn’t always easy but I am who I am today in part because of you and you will always be with me in everything I do. And even if you’re far away you are still my heart.
There you are. You know me. I know you. I am me and you are you. You are part of me. When I grow more into myself you are happy for me. When you grow more into yourself I am happy for you. I love how you change and how you stay the same. I am lucky to know you. Thank you for sharing everything you do.
Thanks for all the fun we have together!
Welcome home Collette. It is great to have you back.
Come check out Collette’s knit vests and ponchos in custom colours as well as her unique knit necklaces (shown above). These necklaces are made with one continuous knit piece. They are a stylish addition to any wardrobe ( I know I have one in my own). They are especially great for new or expecting moms as the one piece nature of the necklace makes for a safer neck adornment for concerned mothers who don’t want their child potentially chewing off some hazardous beads while nuzzling your neck.
Sarah Jane Scouten was just in the store trying on outfits for her show tonight at Tavern Inspecter Epingle corner Duluth and Saint Hubert. Just back from Mauwi, and already dreaming of following love to Montreal, Sarah is deep in the liberation of transition. Her bleu grass style has a touch of country twang and some smart girl punch. Check her out tonight at 9:30 pm. The show is free.
Sometimes life gets too busy and we all start rushing towards our deadlines. Sometimes life, seems to be passing us by, on the side.
I have been needing to remind myself that life is not about work, or tasks, or getting things done, or making money, or paying your taxes, or showing up on time for every deadline….. this life of mine can be as fun as I want to make it.
So I am reminding all of you and myself….
Stop. Think for a moment. What would you do if you could do anything you want? Really.. Anything!
Now… realize that you can! You can. No. Now, …. don’t say why you can’t, because it probably isn’t true! Maybe you have to look at things differently to see that it is possible. Take a look at life with more “Yes” in your eyes.
Are you excited to wake up in the morning? Is tomorrow anther adventure worth getting out of bed for? If not what changes do you need to make for it to be so?
The first step to a life filled with fun is visioning it. It is easy to dream no? If you have been spending time wishing or longing you are already part way there. The next step is easy too if you tell yourself it is. The next step is the realization that you are entitled to your dreams! And your can make them happen.
Don’t wait for someone else to dream your dreams for you…. Your dreams are your own. Yes, people will tell you it will be hard. They will tell you it can’t happen. They are all telling themselves that they should not dream their own dreams. Don’t listen. It isn’t true. Go boldly forth and DREAM. Dream your dreams into reality.
Grab life and imbibe it.
Glass is beautiful, mysterious, magical. It is liquid captured, as it cools, into a solid. It is forever melting. Glass defies so much of what we take for granted about matter. It flows. It is transparent yet it can capture colour. And when it shatters it shivers. It inspires wonder.
Glass enchants. No wonder Cinderella danced on the magic spell of glass slippers.
Taking her ques from another fairy tale character, Emanuelle Doyon has named her company after Capitain Hook. I think there is a bit of the pirate in this princess. Emanuelle loves adventure, the sea and sand. Did you know that glass is made of sand?
She calls her company Kapitaine Krochet because it all began with a crochet hook…… What followed was a lot….a really lot, of hats.
Today, this crafty fairytale princess still makes hats, but only on special order. She has turned her enthusiasm to the heat of the flame she uses for melting glass.
Emanuelle loves to work with glass because it is, according to her, a material that is both playful and mysterious. Glass offers the artist interesting possibilities for control while still inspiring spontaneous creativity in the patterns that appear in the fusion process.
This beautiful Outremont girl plays with creative freedom and artistic control when practicing her craft. She aspires to one day be an art therapist so she can help others through art.
Emmanuelle creates earrings that she sells at boutique Katrin leblond. This lovely local artist loves Katrin Leblond’s designs for their originality and colour. She finds the parallels between her own work and that of Katrin’s in their playful use of colour and their love for creating unique and original pieces and a desire to inspire the woman who chooses to wear their pieces.
Emmanuel strives to create pieces that are fun, practical, colourful, light and original. Her works are designed with women of all ages in mind.
Wear her pieces to any occasion. Everyday, her earrings bring that little touch of unexpected spice to a relaxed style. Out on the town, or at a “soiree” with friends her earrings offer a little something original to let you stand out.
Emmanuelle also suggests wearing these with an ultra elegant ensemble for a surprisingly sophisticated touch.
Bring out your colourful personality.
Fall in love with Emmanuelle Doyon’s glass earrings.
julie andrews in the sound of music
I love the sound of music. I love Julie Andrews in the movie. I love that the movie hammers home the idea that kids need to be respected and that they will love you forever if you love them, listen to them, have fun with them and sing and dance. And that discipline can be achieved with playfulness and love easier than with strictness and punishment. I wish I could always parent like Julie’s character Maria.
this is a you tube “sound of music” video in a train station in Antrwirp Belgium. The surprised look on people’s faces is real. They didn’t know what was comeing. This is one of my all time favorite videos out there on the web. This video made a good number of the women on the Katrin Leblond team cry when they fist saw it. I won’t say who.
The sound of music reminds us to sing and dance every day and anywhere.
Julie Andrew’s sets style cues with her character in the movie. She was practical and yet still playful, feminine and fun. The Sound of Music was set in the 1930′s but filmed in 1965. Here are some 1950′s dresses we love that depart from but still somehow suggest a bit of frauline Maria’s style.
It was all about showing off a cinched waist and full skirt. This style in particular has a bubble hem which adds even more fullness. It is so blue and fabulous.
This simplicity pattern has a stand up collar, v-neck and tie at the waist wrap skirt with a perfect A-Line that ends just below the knee.
Ahhh... cuffed sleeves! Oh so really red vintage dress!
And NOW the update: here are some brand new contemporary dresses that we have in the store. Express your hip, sleek, professional and oh-so-fashion forward 1950′s flair. Perfect for the feminine urban working woman.
The Genia dress is made in Toronto.
Exclusively available in Montreal at Boutique Katrin Leblond. Available in denim and red . $168 sizes 6,8,10,12. Warning these sizes are smaller than their label suggests.
Tap Dogs is Australian Dein Perry’s gritty and inventive dance show set on the scaffolding of a construction sight. It is dangerous and exciting and full of fast footed surprises!
We LOVED dressing the Tap Dogs beautiful Stage Manager Sadie Wannamaker in a stunning pink Katrin Leblond Athena dress and some jazzy Elizabeth Johnston earrings. Everyone knows the stage manager makes everything run smoothy, managing the cues, the talent, the drama and the action. So we are so glad Sadie treated herself with a dress that was clearly made for her.
See you at the show!
show times:
Check them out this week, July 27-31st:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8pm
Saturday 4pm, 8pm
at Places des Arts
Aya and Kat designed a dress in one mornig for Aya’s “Bal en Blanc” (that means the white ball) for Aya’s graduation from Daycare Ceremony.
She was soooo proud of herself.
She asked me if I cried when I watched her do her Song and dance with the rest of the kids in her group.
I did.
Lovin’ the cowgirl style!
Here’s a new goddess dress that Kat designed for high summer August weddings and parties.
It has a layer of ivory silk chiffon over a soft jersey lining. The embellishments are all silk and beadwork and lace.
And of course some Bridal bibis…we love headpieces!
Summer heat is still here.
Now you are tanned.
This is the time to wear white and ivory and feel like a fairy queen.
Hand made in Montreal, Laura Fafard Bags.
Made from vintage recycled ties in eco friendly high fashion style.
Store your most precious valuables and tote them around town wherever you go. These bags are so hip in their deconstructed shaping. Crafty high art! I love the vintage button details.
I love the sentimentality of vintage prints. This bag is so sweet. I like it’s femininity. It would fit so nicely into a warm toned late summer, early fall, wardrobe. Carry it with you for a walk up the mountain or a trip out of town to pick some apples.
This one is bright and cheery and needs to go with you to a breakfast brunch “resto rendez vous” on the weekend.
Bags are my favorite accessories these days. You get lots of bang for your accessory money when you buy a bag. It takes up lots more space than some of the other finishing touches we reach for when completing our looks. Bags really impact your overall look and fashion expression when you are walking down the street.
Plus you can carry stuff in it. Bonus!
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