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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!
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.
We sold the Purple Triangles Quilt made by textile artist Rebekah Crown!
This spectacular quilt is all hand embellished and full of sequins, ribbon, silk and treasures. My favourite details are the Milagros from Mexico. The tin work done in Mexico is really spectacular and this is only a mini example. Outside churches they sell these small replicas of different parts of the body tied with a colourful ribbon. If you have an ailment you can buy a milagro for that part and bring it with your prayers for healing to the altar in the church.
Check out this two page colourful spread!
This is a new mag about Montreal and the creative people that fill this city.
Thank you M!
PS: Some of these styles are still available in the boutique.
Top left bending back (Bibi with red tulle $120, Red Pop Cardigan wool $74)
Bottom Left page (Poppy sexy dress XS only $99)
Top Right page (Katharina Dress XS, S, L, XL $149)
Right Page middle with butterfly hair clip (Goddess Dress $220)
Right Page bottom right (Party skirt cotton print $220, Silk Bustier $158)
I had to go when we drove down the highway and I saw those tents and the pretty lights on the Ferris wheel…I just had to go! Carivale de la Lune Bleue is in Bromont and is featuring the circus show La Vie, which stars our very own Mimi. (fashion week: roses in her hair balancing on top of two young shirtless men in my magician’s assistant costume…remember her now?)
I want you to see these paintings. These large canvases were all over the site and sometimes I forget that an artist was standing in front of a canvas with a paintbrush. Art isn’t always for walls. Art isn’t always expensive. Art can be advertising, decor, theater and in this case CIRCUS. The sky is the backdrop and the style is playful.
I love it.
I wore a red bibi with a red bird sitting in a golden flower (at the boutique $90).
I felt like I fit right in with the freaks and the fancy costumes.
Montreal’s own, Sandra Kadowaki will be playing with her drumming group at the Kahnawake Pow Wow.
Sandra is a member Arashi Daiko a Montreal Japanese drumming group open to everyone with a passion for beats. She nurtures her soul in the beats of her drum group where she met and drums with her husband. Sandra also makes beautiful Japanese paper and polymer clay earrings and pendants .
These styles are all available in store.
For more information about her drumming performances or to register to take classes check out www.arashidaiko.org .
Taiko or Daiko means “great wide Japanese stick percussion drum” and the art-form of ensemble taiko drumming.
One of the most memorable drums of many taiko ensembles is the odaiko. The odaiko is the largest drum in all of taiko if not the entire world. The largest odaiko are too big to move and permanently reside inside a temple or shrine. Made from a single piece of wood, hollowed out in it’s center, some odaiko come from trees that are hundreds of years old.
Her group will be performing tomorrow at the Kahnawake PowWow Sat July 10 at 6 pm. See you there!
Where dance and song and spirituality meet a really good party.
photo by Robin Edgar
Just delivered new Japanese paper and polymer clay earrings to the store.
There are SO many different elements to great style… confidence, comfort, and practicality to name only a few… makeup holding a huge part of how you can finish off an outfit and bring your personality/beauty together.
Now although the weather has been extremely hot (as of yesterday and what looks like today again), color is always welcome in the summer (and paired with KL ensembles… I mean, you gotta keep up with the vivid colors Kat constantly dreams up!).
From a full-blown multicolored eye look to a juicy lip tint in a bright hue, makeup can really add that third dimension to any given outfit!
So don’t be afraid to play with makeup, at the end of the day everything is eraseable and cosmetics are merely another art form…
Enjoy another scorcher!
Slap on some waterproof mascara, peach blush and bright pink gloss for an easy summer look on a day like today 
xox
YEAR 3 as Smirkus costume designer!
This years’ theme was Nature, the seasons, the elements. It was almost to broad a theme to start with. We tried different angles to approach Nature with a narrower filter. We settled on a Nature Rock-opera with a touch of Burning-man and a lot of KL style.
The Winters were purple, like when you see shadows on the snow. We added fun fur and icicle shapes. We put the emphasis on the feet because they are tight-rope walkers.
Here we have one of the Fire girls. This year’s goal was to make as many headpieces as possible. I find a head piece really frames and completes a costume. The fire girls are the contortionists.
Spring and summer expressed in flowers. One day I would love to do a whole show based on the birds and the bees…flowers, insects and foliage.
Autumn-Man, the superhero of leaves. This set of Fall foliage costumes required some hunting for sewable orange leaves. Green fake leaves are easy to come by, but yellows and oranges and reds required some searching. I finally found a supplier specialized in Retail decor. They also sold oversized fake ice cream cones.
Great work Katharina on the embellishments!
Our very Canadian looking lumberjacks. We just couldn’t help ourselves.
And here we have our rock-star unicyclists sporting some very extreme gear. I can’t wait to see these helmets light up under a spotlight. They were made with gem stone studs and a dis-assembled disco ball. Hanna made the power-ranger inspired gear.
These are the costumes for the Water girls. The wavy textures make these my favorite costumes. The girls also had headpieces made with blue hair extensions and purple hand-dyed yarn.
We did it again! This year my costume team consisted of:
Katharina Pitczuk and Hanna Broer (the two blue costumes above)
and Siobhan Martel (who is currently on tour with Smirkus).
Thank you Smirkus!
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