Introducing Pigeon Toe Ceramics

It is with great pleasure that I welcome to the shop Pigeon Toe Ceramics.
Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2009, Pigeon Toe Ceramics is the brainchild of fine artist and designer Lisa Jones. Another phenomenal woman doing phenomenal things! These clean white, tactile vessels are perfect for Coriander Girl's natural looking, garden inspired bouquets. And, we're the only little shop in Canada carrying Pigeon Toe Ceramics! How thrilling is that!!!?



Ceramic cast kerr jar lanterns. These are so darling and illuminate beautifully with a tea light.


Cast pharmaceutical bottle. I know! Could it be any more perfect for this shop and for a posy?


Large ceramic bottom weighted vase. This vase might have to come home with me.


Cast science flasks. These are too cool- science flasks and botanicals? That's like Oreo cookies and milk.




Ceramic dent bud vase and small sprouting pot. Holy cuteness!

Oh guys! I am so ready for a Neutron Dance!
Click here and shake it with me!! Hold out for the chorus, it's worth it and you've got to get up outta your seat!! My cousin and I would dress up like The Pointer Sisters when we were little and dance around the living room for hours, imagine little five year old me, eyes shadowed and shoulder pads a plenty!
Dance mutha!
Alison : > xo

Stop and smell the daisies

Look who decided to show up for another girls day! It's Kya! You know, the little lady in the running to becoming Coriander Girl's next top doodle. This photo shoot is some of her best work.


So, daisies and daisies and more daisies!


I'd like to introduce all of you to my new friend Sarah Nixon of My Luscious Backyard. This woman is doing incredible things in the world and if you haven't heard about her yet, it won't be long until her name is one you recognize. Sarah, approaches people in the community who have sad little lawns and transforms them into beautiful gardens. For a tiny fee, she basically maintains your garden all summer long but owns the right to harvest the flowers. She thoughtfully considers bloom time, and other factors to ensure your garden looks its very best all season long. She is also a brilliant floral designer and will deliver gorgeous fresh flowers to your home or office from May to October. Sarah is a phenomenal woman doing phenomenal things for the community and the planet. Way to go warrior lady!


The daisies were ordered for a personal project of Sarah's and I was delighted that she asked for my help. We spent two days in daisies up to our eye balls and managed to reach that glorious point in a new friendship where silence lasts long enough to think, "hey, this is comfortable."


And more pictures of Kya because she's just such a noodle! I wanna eat her little face!


The last couple of weeks I've been feeling overwhelmed and I realized it's because I've been expecting too much from myself. So, in order to not burn myself out I've decided to stop and leave the shop floor unswept, leave the boxes- they can be broken down tomorrow. Leave the dishes in the sink and leave the new vases unpriced for one more day. What can you leave for another day to protect yourself from exhaustion? Give yourself a break little doodle and curl up somewhere like Kya is doing right now in my warm puffy coat.


Alison : >

12 more sleeps

It's only 12 more sleeps until Tyler and I are limbo-ing all over Central America! Now I'm picture us in a montage of limbo moments to the song Kokimo. I have a lot to accomplish before I get on that plane and I need to get it all done in order to feel like I've urned the right to leave for a week. I'm actually pretty good at turning work off and being in the now and once we're cruising the southern seas, I won't have much of a choice. I've compiled a list of "to do's" before we go and blogging them makes me a little bit more accountable. Drum roll please.

1. Finish writing a very important proposal
2. Clean the shop from top to toe, scrub every nook and cranny
3. Designate someone to water shop plants
4. Bikini wax (maybe this should be at the top of my list)
5. Think of more things that need to be added to the list of things that need accomplishing




And then Hadu showed up with her owner! She is clearly in the running to becoming Coriander Girl's next top doodle! Those eyes could sink a thousand ships. I mean launch! Ha!

I held out for a hero

I need to give a special shout out today to my partner in crime Mr. Tyler Hogan. This man is my rock. He listens to my deepest darkest worries about life and is always able to calm me down. He makes me laugh until the tears are rolling down my cheeks with his perfect Arnie impressions and he even crosses the street for me to get the good cookies and ladies, for Valentine's Day he made me chocolate covered strawberries. No, you don't understand, he made me chocolate covered strawberries, hand dipped them himself! I was so busy that week end that I forgot to mention just how lovely my love is. Sometimes we assume our people know how much they're cared for. I tell him and squeeze him and kiss him but sometimes you gotta shout it from the roof tops or the blog posts. This one's for you little doodle.
This lady said it best and if any of you need hair ideas, she can work a blow dryer like nobody else. Click here.


Couldn't you just spread him on a cracker?!!!
Alison xo

Sugar and spice

And everything nice. When I was three I had a picture hanging above my bed and it read, "Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of." I remember thinking, because I have a sweet tooth, how great it was that I was made of sugar. And now, if my sweat doesn't smell like brown sugar. I'm being completely serious. I only recently found this out, and now every time I sweat, Tyler confirms it, "Yep, brown sugar," he says. Anyone smell like candy when they bust a move? And P.S, I don't wear perfume and my deodorant is fragrance free. Weird. (Insert The Twilight Zone theme song here)


An arrangement I delivered this morning. That's right, I'm also the delivery girl.


More bottles!


Don't be ranunculus, you've had enough porn for the week! ; >
Last mention of this ever, but in my defense, it wasn't porn at all. It was from one of those 1970's love making books, you know the one your parents hid in their closet to keep the passion alive. I mean their doing it on aerobic mats for gosh sakes! I'm fully belly laughing over this in the shop and I hope you are too. It's hard to not keep bringing it up. That's what she said.
Click here for a laugh.
Alison xo

Quote of the day

"She turned her can'ts into cans and her dreams into plans."
Not sure who said this but I like it very much. I've got more cans to plan, how about you?
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Damage control

I removed the original photograph from my blog but will keep the censored version up for context. It makes me really sad to think anyone saw that and thought less of me. I honestly felt it was fine at the time but what I'm comfortable with someone else might not be. It's not so bad, I don't want to over dramatize this but if I've upset people with the photograph I want to apologize for it. My feelings remain the same however, maybe extreme, but I'd much prefer my kids(when I have some) see love making over people having their limbs blown off.
I will be more mindful of what I write in my blog. I know I'm free to write whatever I want but I should have thought that one through a little better. Perhaps I was a tad bit sleep deprived. This blog is public and I should consider my audience at all times.
I'm still me though, and I'll still post the occasional gangsta rap video but I'll do it with one eye on that very fine line.
Please accept my sincere apology.
Alison