VARIETY STORE

Toronto pop up shop alert! Select S&C items (featured above) will be available at the Mutts & Co. Variety Store this July 4th to the 8th. Head over to the event page to find out more details and support our local Canadian designers...

HOME

I'm heading home for a week to visit friends and family! If you place an order over the next week it will be shipped on July 6th. You will receive a confirmation email when your item has been mailed.

FIRE

On our way up to a friends cottage we drove by the craziest car fire V and I have ever seen in real life.

INSPIRATION

Starting to think about the Fall collection. Better late than never...

FREE PEOPLE

Really excited to have select S&C scarves now available at Free People! 
(Images via Free People)

LIFE

Around these parts:
1) I attended a local Etsy event last week with Anabela and Geoff. Unfortunately I missed the seller interviews but it was great to catch up with friends and, of course, eat lots of cookies.
2) Updating our hangtags and business cards with a palm tree shot I took in Oaxaca.
3) Making flower crowns for a bio shot of me for an upcoming collaboration.
4) V found this granny cart the last time we went thrift store shopping. I hate it but it has saved my ass more than once when I needed to get to the post office and didn't have the car.
5) The flowers are so beautiful this time of year I get distracted while running errands.
6) Cacti for my garden waiting to be repotted.


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THRIFT

One of the leather shops we frequent is conveniently (or maybe inconveniently) located near two massive thrift shops. Yesterday we stopped in on our way home and I managed to scoop up a few things.


Did any of you guys have the LA GEAR key chain when you were young? I remember having this on my first 'adult' key chain and thinking it was, along with my LA GEAR sneakers, the coolest. thing. ever.


Which of course it was/is.

MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA

For a later-to-be-revealed project I've been trolling through my Mexico photo archives and stumbled into some inspiration from the Museo Nacional de Antropología.

THE ROAD IS HOME

I spent a most of last Sunday morning falling into the world of the amazingly talented Nirrimi Firebrace.


Her journey in her words :

'i was thirteen when my obsession for documenting beauty began. in the beginning it was my wild, six-year-old sister in our backyard, the ever-hot summer sun freckling her skin. then it was strangers in the streets, my unassuming youth allowing me to photograph the most honest of moments.

very soon i was filled with angsty teenage passion. drunkenly stumbling suburban streets with a camera in hand and friends mostly chosen for how well they photographed. the camera was a part of myself and i slept with it beside my pillow every night for years.

i obsessively documented life so much that when i reminisce now it is more a collection of images, films and diary entries than true memories.

at fourteen i fell deeply into an agonisingly passionate love with a boy photographer. he was on the other side of the country but we spoke most nights until sunrise. i would skip school to photograph in those days, so inspired and fueled by his own beautiful images and my need to impress him. i never told matt i loved him, but it laced my words so heavily you could taste it if you read them aloud. i thought if only i could have a single kiss i would die happily.

my first paid job was photographing strippers for sleazy ads at age fifteen. here i became unfazed by nudity and began to save for a flight to my feed my infatuation (which later was spent on repairing my camera after it’d been dropped by a drunk boy at a party). i lost all interest in school, ironically failing my photography class but passing everything else. i told my mother how unproductive and uninspired i felt, and she agreed i shouldn’t waste my life any longer. so i dropped out.

very soon after my sixteenth birthday, stirred on by lovesickness, i took my mother’s credit card from her purse in the middle of the night and booked a flight to melbourne (where matt was now living). i flew out the next day and my new life began.

we were inseparable from that day forth. that first week surpassing any of my most romantic daydreams- but that story is for another post. being homeless we slept wherever we could, mostly strangers houses, train stations and airports when we were in-between countries. in our gypsy times we have travelled france, italy, indonesia, new zealand, america, india & vietnam.

i won one international and two national photography awards. i used my winnings to buy equipment, flights and to pay for the bond for our first apartment. i became the youngest fashion photographer signed to an agency.

in the winter we left our studio apartment in melbourne city to fly to NYC to shoot an international diesel campaign. it was my first campaign and it was a crazy introduction to the industry. i started booking work as a fashion photographer. soon my images were on magazines, billboards in times square, trams & buses, airports, book covers and so on and so forth.

we grew weary of melbourne, sold all our belongings and became gypsies once more. i spent idyllic months in beverly hills, lake tahoe and new york, while matt worked in the red desert and travelled around south-east asia volunteering aid to those affected by the tsunamis in the mentawais and running from an erupting volcano in merapi. but adventuring apart was lonely and short-lived.

we moved to the blue mountains, where we’d always longed to live. we got a place on a hill with a fireplace, room for a veggie garden and a balcony where you could see the blue, hazy mountains all around. a quiet place where we can write, create and love.

shortly before leaving to europe to shoot a billabong campaign, we found out we were going to have a child. something i’d dreamt about for a long time. i spent my pregnancy travelling and shooting, impatiently imagining the day we’d meet our daughter. then in january 2012, in our living room we met the most amazing person in the universe. alba joy firebrace was born.

these are our adventures, this is our life.'

Found via Wildfox.

CEMETERY

One of our favourite things to do in Mexico is walk through their cemeteries. These photos are from a visit to the cemetery a few blocks from our little home in Puerto Vallarta.

INTERN NEEDED

I'm looking for a new intern (or two)! If you're interested (and live in the Toronto region) please send your CV and a cover letter to info@scoutandcatalogue.com. 


Details on the position:
* 3 month term
* unpaid
* starts 2nd week of July
* 4 hours a week
* you must be available in the work week during the day
* duties include : preparing materials for production (this is most of the job), sewing, packaging/shipping, light leather construction, dyeing materials, and general studio maintenance
* you must have sewing basics and have a strong eye for detail - formal design education a plus


I will be accepting applications until June 18th and will contact my shortlist in the week of the 18th for interviews.

DAY & NIGHT

It took me a long time to settle on a hairdresser after moving to Toronto but on a recommendation from a customer I found Chanel and have been loyal ever since. Lucky for me Chanel just opened her own studio (Day & Night) mere blocks from my house and lucky for all of us she's planning on using the salon as a mixed-use space. This summer along with cutting and colouring she'll be hosting special events, art exhibits, retail launches - general good times and merriment. If you're in the Toronto area make sure to stop in...
(all non-Instagram images from Blog TO)

COUNTRY LIVING

I spent an extended weekend at a friends country home up north. The weather was HORRIBLE but that didn't stop us from eating delicious food, building many a great fire and taking a much needed break from the craziness of the city. V and I have been talking off and on about moving to the country and this weekend definitely got me inspired. 
Thanks for the amazing 4 days Tamar! Love you!