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Stickers on fruit and vegetables – can you decipher their codes?

LB — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:43:56 +0000

“Those stickers on fruits and veggies tell you quite a bit!
4 numbers mean they were conventionally grown.
5 numbers starting with number 8 means they are genetically modified (GMO).
5 numbers starting with 9 means they were organically grown.”

Saw this on Facebook thanks to Holly.

Berber rugs from the Beni Ouarain region

LB — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:44:51 +0000

The impulse in Berber rug-making to both interrupt and also loosely maintain a pattern seems unique in traditional textiles. If not unique, then it’s hard to name a tradition that equals Berber mastery of this particular tension.

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Bioéthique – certified in France but founded in my neighbourhood

LB — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:05:37 +0000

This is one of those “these are the people in my neighbourhood” things. I first met Claudine and Kieran when they were fighting to save the little historic Heatley Building on Vancouver’s infamous Hastings Street, near to where we all live.

Wood and paper lamps from Japan

LB — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:05:16 +0000

“Our lighting is hand-built in Japan from natural materials, including the hand-made paper (washi) of Eriko Horiki, the bent Japanese cedar of Toshiyuki Tani’s Wappa series, the coiled beech wood of the Bunaco Lacquer Ware Company, and the todomatsu pine slats of Takumi Kohgei.

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Nanopod in nanotopia

LB — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:43:58 +0000

I have one of these white heart pendant necklaces, and easily a hundred people have asked me about it. It’s by Toronto jeweller Tosca Teran, whose studio is alternately known as Nanotopia and Nanopod.

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“Raw blonde”

LB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:10:54 +0000

Supposedly raw blonde is a trend for 2009. I think that might be me, based on this definition. Warm but austere and at this point pretty pale.

This room somehow manages to be both sensual and monastic at the same time, so perhaps it represents the perfect refuge for a recession.

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