Our awesome planet
.Anton and Rache Diaz of www.ourawesomeplanet.comLast week, we met up with Anton and Rache Diaz the lovely couple behind Our Awesome Planet. If you've been reading blogs for some time, I'm sure Our Awesome Planet is already on your bookmark. It is THE blog for everything about travel and food. Anton was

Art
.This is late. I went to Bo Concept's party last month. Meant to write about it but it got buried under my huge pile of to-do things. I used to love going to art shows but it got too stressful at one point. Or maybe I'm just getting lazy. I don't like having to get too dressed up just to see art. So I go to shows when no one else is around a few days after opening night. I'm glad I went to this one because they showed a great mix of conceptual art set up inside a furniture store ... not that I suggest buying art for the sake of filling out a space in your house. It was just nice

Christmas and stuff
.So I swore I wouldn't panic this Christmas. But I just found out agreed that Patrick and I will be hosting the annual Noche Buena of my Dad's family. Good Lord help me. This is a tradition I grew up with and sort of missed during my Canada years. Since I've been back, I've witnessed this Osena Noche Buena tradition grow, literally. Ofcourse with every year, there are new additions to the family. We also have a huge extended family. I've "succeeded" in participating my own little way every year. My contribution - and it's always a big hit - is the Belgian chocolate fruit fondue.

Accessory Lab
.Have you been to Accessory Lab lately? I was at the shop a couple of days ago to drop off some of my new necklaces and realized I could do all my Christmas shopping for the special girls in my life here. There are so many trinkets and lovely jewelry that are actually very affordable.Here are some that caught my eye:Lots of very long beads

Superga for the whole family
.I've been checking out a lot of the stores in Greenbelt 5 lately and I'm slowly checking off my Christmas list. There is Superga stand-alone store by one of the exits. Patrick, being the sneaker boy, always wanted to get a pair for each of our girls. Thing is, my girls are a lot like me. They aren't really into sneakers... yet. I only use sneakers when I'm travelling. I was intrigued by the Superga store because of all the different colours and styles they had.I'd been familiar with Superga in the 80's. Toronto had/has a huge population of Italians. And my Italian friends in high school pretty much wore Superga sneaks after schoo